Measurement tower

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A measurement tower is a free standing tower or a removed mast, which carries measuring instruments with meteorological instruments such as thermometers and wind velocity measurers. Measuring towers are an essential component of rocket launching sites, since one must know exact wind conditions for an execution of a rocket start. Also in the proximity of some nuclear power stations (as in Grafenrheinfeld, Germany) there are measuring towers.

Beside measurement towers, which are equipped with meteorological measuring instruments, there are also measuring towers for measuring the radiation pattern of antennas. Such towers are frequently implemented as metal-free timber constructions for the avoidance of disturbance of the radiation pattern, as the measuring towers of the antenna measuring position in bridge.

Examples

Meteorology

• Obninsk Meteorological tower, Obninsk, Russia
• Zotino Tall Tower Observation Facility, Zotino, Russia
• KNMI-mast Cabauw, Cabauw, Netherlands
• Meteorological tower of Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe
• KFU-Tower Gundremmingen, Gundremmingen, Germany
• KFU-Mast Grafenrheinfeld, Grafenrheinfeld, Germany
• Mast of Richard Assmann Observatory, Falkenberg, Germany
• Mast of Asbach near Obrigheim, Germany (dismantled)
• Mast of Obrigheim Nuclear Power Plant, Obrigheim, Germany

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Other measurement towers

• Aerial test facility Brück, Brück, Germany
• BREN-Tower, Nevada Test Side, USA

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