Measuring tower
A measuring tower is a free-standing tower or guyed mast that carries measuring instruments with meteorological instruments such as thermometers and wind speed meters . Measurement towers are an essential part of rocket launch sites, as you need to know the exact wind conditions in order to carry out a rocket launch. There are also measuring towers near some nuclear power plants . They are used here to monitor air radioactivity. Whether such a tower is necessary or not depends on official requirements.
There are also measuring towers for basic meteorological research. Often, however, suitable transmission masts or transmission towers are used for this, mostly for reasons of cost.
In addition to measuring towers that are equipped with meteorological measuring devices, there are also measuring towers for measuring the radiation diagram of antennas . Such towers are often designed as metal-free wooden structures to avoid interference with the radiation pattern, like the measuring towers at the antenna measuring station in Brück .
A unique research tower for nuclear measurements was the BREN Tower in Nevada.
In the wind energy industry, wind measurement masts are used to determine the wind speeds at different heights above the ground and to determine the real wind conditions over a certain period of time at the location before the construction of wind energy plants.
Examples of dedicated measuring towers
Measuring towers for meteorological applications
- Atto Tower , Vila de Balbina, Brazil
- IAP measuring mast Beijing , Beijing , China
- Measurement mast Obninsk , Obninsk, Russia
- Zotino Tall Tower Observation Facility , Zotino, Russia
- KNMI measuring mast Cabauw , Cabauw, Netherlands
- Measurement mast Jaslovské Bohunice , Jaslovské Bohunice, Slovakia
- Measurement mast of the Karlsruhe Research Center , Karlsruhe, Germany
- Wind measurement mast at Rödeser Berg , Wolfhagen, Germany
- Measurement mast Košetice, Košetice , Czech Republic
- Measurement mast near Rheinau (dismantled), Germany
- Measurement mast near Wyhl (dismantled), Germany
- Measurement mast of the NDR and KlimaCampus of the University of Hamburg , Hamburg, Germany
- Measurement mast of the Grafenrheinfeld nuclear power plant , Grafenrheinfeld, Germany
- Measuring tower of the Gundremmingen nuclear power plant , Gundremmingen, Germany (reinforced concrete tower )
- Wind measurement mast Beratzhausen, Beratzhausen , Germany
- Measuring mast of the Research Center Jülich , Jülich , Germany
- Measurement mast of the Richard Assmann Observatory , Tauche- Falkenberg, Germany
- Measurement mast near Asbach (dismantled), Germany
- Measurement mast of the Obrigheim nuclear power plant , Obrigheim , Germany
- Measurement mast of the Dukovany nuclear power plant , Slavětice , Czech Republic
- Gussenstadt wind farm measuring mast, Gussenstadt, Germany
- Oskar von Miller Tower in Garching, Technical University of Munich, Germany
- Meteorological measuring tower of the University of Hanover , Hanover , Germany
photos
65 meter high measuring mast in the Gussenstadt wind farm
Measuring tower of the University of Hanover
Oskar von Miller tower (height: 62 m) on the TUM campus Garching
Oskar von Miller tower before attaching the plexiglass cover (2009)
