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@ARTICLE{Buchholz:188472,
author = {Buchholz, B. and Afchine, Armin and Ebert, V.},
title = {{R}apid, optical measurement of the atmospheric pressure on
a fast research aircraft using open-path {TDLAS}},
journal = {Atmospheric measurement techniques},
volume = {7},
issn = {1867-1381},
address = {Katlenburg-Lindau},
publisher = {Copernicus},
reportid = {FZJ-2015-01847},
pages = {3653-3666},
year = {2014},
abstract = {Because of the high travel speed, the complex flow dynamics
around an aircraft, and the complex dependency of the fluid
dynamics on numerous airborne parameters, it is quite
difficult to obtain accurate pressure values at a specific
instrument location of an aircraft's fuselage. Complex
simulations using computational fluid dynamics (CFD) models
can in theory computationally "transfer" pressure values
from one location to another. However, for long flight
patterns, this process is inconvenient and cumbersome.
Furthermore, these CFD transfer models require a local
experimental validation, which is rarely available.In this
paper, we describe an integrated approach for a
spectroscopic, calibration-free, in-flight pressure
determination in an open-path White cell on an aircraft
fuselage using ambient, atmospheric water vapour as the
"sensor species". The presented measurements are realised
with the HAI (Hygrometer for Atmospheric Investigations)
instrument, built for multiphase water detection via
calibration-free TDLAS (tunable diode laser absorption
spectroscopy). The pressure determination is based on raw
data used for H2O concentration measurement, but with a
different post-flight evaluation method, and can therefore
be conducted at deferred time intervals on any desired
flight track.The spectroscopic pressure is compared
in-flight with the static ambient pressure of the aircraft
avionic system and a micro-mechanical pressure sensor,
located next to the open-path cell, over a pressure range
from 150 to 800 hPa, and a water vapour concentration range
of more than 3 orders of magnitude. The correlation between
the micro-mechanical pressure sensor measurements and the
spectroscopic pressure measurements shows an average
deviation from linearity of only $0.14\%$ and a small offset
of 9.5 hPa. For the spectroscopic pressure evaluation we
derive measurement uncertainties under laboratory conditions
of 3.2 and $5.1\%$ during in-flight operation on the HALO
airplane. Under certain flight conditions we quantified, for
the first time, stalling-induced, dynamic pressure
deviations of up to $30\%$ (at 200 hPa) between the avionic
sensor and the optical and mechanical pressure sensors
integrated in HAI. Such severe local pressure deviations
from the typically used avionic pressure are important to
take into account for other airborne sensors employed on
such fast flying platforms as the HALO aircraft.},
cin = {IEK-7},
ddc = {550},
cid = {I:(DE-Juel1)IEK-7-20101013},
pnm = {234 - Composition and Dynamics of the Upper Troposphere and
Stratosphere (POF2-234)},
pid = {G:(DE-HGF)POF2-234},
typ = {PUB:(DE-HGF)16},
UT = {WOS:000345781000003},
doi = {10.5194/amt-7-3653-2014},
url = {https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/188472},
}