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Journal of Zhejiang University-SCIENCE A (Applied Physics & Engineering)  2017, Vol. 18 Issue (1): 33-48    DOI: 10.1631/jzus.A1500310
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Wind characteristics near the ground during typhoon Meari
Xu Wang, Peng Huang, Xian-feng Yu, Xin-rong Wang, Hai-ming Liu
State Key Laboratory Breeding Base of Mountain Bridge and Tunnel Engineering, Chongqing Jiaotong University, Chongqing 400074, China; State Key Laboratory of Disaster Reduction in Civil Engineering, Tongji University, Shanghai 200092, China; State Key Laboratory of Subtropical Building Science, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou 510640, China
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Abstract  Wind speed and direction data during typhoon Meari were obtained from eight anemometers installed at heights of 10, 20, 30, and 40 m on a 40-m tower built in the Pudong area of Shanghai. Wind-turbulence characteristics, including wind-speed profile, turbulence integral scale, power spectra, correlations, and coherences were analyzed. Wind-speed profiles varied with time during the passage of Meari. Measured wind-speed profiles could be expressed well by both a power law and a log law. Turbulence integral scales for u, v, and w components all increased with wind speed. The ratios of the turbulence scales among the turbulence components averaged for all 10-min data were 1׃0.69׃0.08 at 10 m, 1׃0.61׃0.09 at 20 m, and 1׃0.65׃0.13 at 40 m. The turbulence integral scales for the u and v components increased with average gust time, but the turbulence integral scale for the w component remained almost constant when the gust duration was greater than 10 min. The decay factor of the coherence function increased slightly with wind speed, with average values for longitudinal and lateral dimensions of 14.3 and 11.3, respectively. The slope rates of the turbulence spectra in the inertial range were less than −5/3 at first, but gradually satisfied the Kolmogorov 5/3 law. The longitudinal wind-power fluctuation spectrum roughly fitted the von Karman spectrum, but slight deviations occurred in the high-frequency band for lateral and vertical wind-power fluctuation spectra.

Key wordsTyphoon Meari      Field measurement      Turbulence integral scale      Decay factor      Power spectra     
Received: 22 November 2015      Published: 03 January 2017
CLC:  TU317.2  
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Xu Wang, Peng Huang, Xian-feng Yu, Xin-rong Wang, Hai-ming Liu. Wind characteristics near the ground during typhoon Meari. Journal of Zhejiang University-SCIENCE A (Applied Physics & Engineering), 2017, 18(1): 33-48.

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