US 11,754,749 B2
Atmospheric turbulence detection method and atmospheric turbulence detection device
Sheng-Hsiang Wang, Taoyuan (TW); Kun-Hsu Wu, Taichung (TW); and Sheng-Fu Hu, Taoyuan (TW)
Assigned to National Central University, Taoyuan (TW)
Filed by National Central University, Taoyuan (TW)
Filed on Sep. 3, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/465,860.
Claims priority of application No. 110126535 (TW), filed on Jul. 20, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2023/0027031 A1, Jan. 26, 2023
Int. Cl. G01W 1/06 (2006.01); G01K 7/04 (2006.01); G01K 3/14 (2006.01); G01K 3/08 (2006.01); G01W 1/00 (2006.01)
CPC G01W 1/06 (2013.01) [G01K 3/14 (2013.01); G01K 7/04 (2013.01); G01K 3/08 (2013.01); G01K 2219/00 (2013.01); G01W 2001/003 (2013.01); G01W 2203/00 (2013.01)] 12 Claims
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1. An atmospheric turbulence detection method, comprising:
providing a temperature difference measuring device, wherein the temperature difference measuring device comprises a single thermocouple element with two sensing probes, there is an ambient distance between the two sensing probes of the thermocouple element, and the ambient distance is between 1 and 2 meters;
placing the temperature difference measuring device in an atmospheric environment, wherein the thermocouple element generates an electromotive force by a temperature difference between the two sensing probes of the thermocouple element; and
analyzing the electromotive force, wherein the electromotive force is converted into an ambient temperature difference of an environment where the two sensing probes of the thermocouple element are located, an atmospheric refractive index structure constant is calculated according to the ambient temperature difference and the ambient distance, and a value of the atmospheric refractive index structure constant corresponds to an ambient disturbance of an atmospheric turbulence.