The effects of frequency resolution in FFT on the frequency spectrum
What may explain why your spectrum is noisy is that you are computing it using a single burst of data. You will have to smooth it by averaging successive spectrums applied on your measurements. The number of samples that shall be used for the averaging have to be tuned depending on the speed of variation of your phenomena. After having done this, the other questions can be addressed more easily.
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