ABSTRACT
F. E. Jones has treated calibration data for turbine flowmeters, devices that are similar in structure and function to anemometers with rotating mechanisms, and has demonstrated the effects of taking the ratio of the dependent variable to the independent variable. Correcting for the nonzero intercept resulted in an extended range of linearity of the calibration function, and thus in an apparent significant improvement in the linearity of the device. Estimates of the values of a and b are made by linear least-squares fitting of the experimental values of I and S. It is then necessary to estimate the limits of the linear region of the working range of the anemometer. There are several algorithms that can be used to estimate the limits of the linear range of the anemometer. The linear analysis has been applied to experimental data for a variety of anemometer types.
