INSTALLATION OF MONITORING STATIONS - Wind Resource Assessment: A Practical Guide to Developing a Wind Project - page 70

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Prevailing wind direction

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Lightning brush
83-m Lattice tower
Anemometer
Wind vane
Anemometer
Temperature probe

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Date logger

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Note: Distances taken from the ground to the sensors (not booms).

Figure 5-6. A typical recommended mounting configuration for an 83-m guyed lattice meteo-
rological tower. Source: AWS Truepower.

The following two sections show how these guidelines may be implemented for
tubular and lattice towers.

Tubular Towers. The instrument heights on tubular towers are flexible but usu-
ally chosen to minimize the influence of guy wires and guy rings. For example, for