Facilities
The Texas Tech campus hosts the center's administrative offices as well as the Boundary Layer Wind Tunnel and Wind Library. The Boundary Layer Wind Tunnel is a closed wind tunnel offering a 1.8 metres (5.9 ft) by 1.2 metres (3.9 ft) test section that is capable of producing up winds speeds of up to 45 metre per second (100 mph). The facility also hosts a tornado vortex simulator and a Pulsed Jet Wind tunnel, which is used to simulate thunderstorm downbursts. The WISE center's Wind Library boasts one of the largest collections of wind related material in the world. The collection includes Ted Fujita's papers, reports and photographs, which were donated by the Fujita family and the University of Chicago. The library also includes documentation of more than 100 wind storms.
The WISE center also occupies 56,000 square feet (5,200 m2) of indoor laboratory space and has large field test site at the Reese Technology Center. Some of the facilities housed at the Reese Center include a 200 meter data acquisition tower, used to measure and record atmospheric conditions at ten levels, the Debris Impact Facility, the Great Plains Wind Power Test Facility, and a weather balloon facility. The Reese Center is also home to several Radar systems including a SODAR, Low Level Profiler, and the SMART-R Mobile Radar.
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