Anemometerhöhen

English translation: anemometer elevation

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German term or phrase:Anemometerhöhe
English translation:anemometer elevation
Entered by: Erik Freitag

20:48 Jan 21, 2011
German to English translations [PRO]
Tech/Engineering - Energy / Power Generation
German term or phrase: Anemometerhöhen
Hello everyone. I'm having a heck of a time with this sentence, mostly because it deals with an aspect of power generation (air pollution dispersion calculations etc.) with which I am unfamiliar. Here's the full sentence:

Die zur korrekten Ableitung eines Windprofils erforderliche Rauigkeitsbewertung der Windmessdaten erfolgt über die Angabe der 9 Anemometerhöhen, die der Rauigkeitsklasse der TA- Luft zugeordnet sind (s Dateikopfformat AKTerm-Formate des DWD und Handbuch AUSTAL2000 , Version 2.2.11, Kapitel 6 Rechnen mit Zeitreihen ).

I'm having trouble with "erfolgt...Anemometerhöhen." Anybody have any experience with this? Thanks in advance!!

Here's what I've worked out in rough: The roughness assessment of the wind measurement data necessary for the proper deduction of a wind profile is done by...

-Daniel
Daniel Tucker (X)
Canada
Local time: 15:17
anemometer elevation
Explanation:
The text is talking about anemometer elevations.

The main clause is: "Die ... Bewertung ... erfolgt über die Angabe der Anemometerhöhen".

In the context of your suggestion: "The roughness assessment of the wind measurement data necessary for the proper deduction of a wind profile is done by means of the 9 anemometer elevation values", but mind that this is not my language direction.


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Note added at 1 Tag13 Stunden (2011-01-23 10:06:01 GMT)
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Phillee's suggestion raised doubts regarding "elevation". However, this text is about exactly the same subject (air pollution dispersion calculations), and here it's clearly not altitude, but elevation/height:

http://www.bmwfj.gv.at/Unternehmen/gewerbetechnik/Documents/...
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Local time: 20:17
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anemometer height
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Anemometer altitude


Explanation:
If this is about installation height above sea level, altitude might be the least ambiguous term.

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Anemometerhöhe
anemometer elevation


Explanation:
The text is talking about anemometer elevations.

The main clause is: "Die ... Bewertung ... erfolgt über die Angabe der Anemometerhöhen".

In the context of your suggestion: "The roughness assessment of the wind measurement data necessary for the proper deduction of a wind profile is done by means of the 9 anemometer elevation values", but mind that this is not my language direction.


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Note added at 1 Tag13 Stunden (2011-01-23 10:06:01 GMT)
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Phillee's suggestion raised doubts regarding "elevation". However, this text is about exactly the same subject (air pollution dispersion calculations), and here it's clearly not altitude, but elevation/height:

http://www.bmwfj.gv.at/Unternehmen/gewerbetechnik/Documents/...

Erik Freitag
Germany
Local time: 20:17
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Native speaker of: Native in GermanGerman
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agree  sci-trans: elevation or height (-> Fig. Vertical Distance Comparison in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elevation)
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Reference: anemometer height

Reference information:
http://www.weblakes.com/kb/FreewareKB/index.php?action=artik...

Johanna Timm, PhD
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