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LOG (V EL) 

 (ARBITRARY 

 UNITS) 



LEGEND 

 •■•••FREQUENCY RESPONSE FUNCTION 



o — TYPICAL WIND POWER SPECTRUM 



®- -COMPENSATED POWER SPECTRUM 



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200 400 600 800 1000 1200 



FREQUENCY (MILLICYCLES/SEC) 



Fig. 5- Typical power spectrum of wind speed measured over Buzzards Bay, Mass. 



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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 



The authors wish to acknowledge the contribu- 

 tion of Mr. Harlow G. Fanner, now of the Univer- 

 sity of Washington, Seattle, Washington, who 

 initiated the design and early development of 

 the anemometer. The developments reported in 



this paper were made possible by the Office of 

 Naval Research Contracts Nonr273^(oo) and 

 Nonr335l(oo). 



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