Iran to Install 4 Sodar Wind Profilers at Airports
“Four meteorological sodar devices that were recently purchased and imported into Iran will be installed in four airports of the country,” said Farah Mohammadi, the technical vice-president of Iran’s National Meteorological Organization in the monitoring and crisis management department.
“The purchased sodars measure and present information on wind direction and speed and their changes in a certain range at airports up to 700 meters height by using sound waves,” he added.
“Using the information of this device, sudden changes in wind at different altitudes are identified and notified to the pilot to improve the safety of flights in terms of weather conditions, specially during landing and takeoff of airplanes,” Mohammadi said.
Sodar is a meteorological instrument used as a wind profiler to measure the scattering of sound waves by atmospheric turbulence.
Sodar systems are used to measure wind speed at various heights above the ground, and the thermodynamic structure of the lower layer of the atmosphere.
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