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=== Indiana State Climate Office ===
 
=== Indiana State Climate Office ===
 
* http://shadow.agry.purdue.edu/sc.hly-faq.html#q11
 
* http://shadow.agry.purdue.edu/sc.hly-faq.html#q11
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* Measures once every second, averaged every 5 seconds. The 5 second averages are used in the 2-minute average.
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=== Federal Meteorological Handbook ===
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* http://www.ofcm.gov/fmh-1/fmh1.htm
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* [[http://www.ofcm.gov/fmh-1/pdf/E-CH5.pdf Wind]]
  
 
=== Calculations ===
 
=== Calculations ===

Revision as of 11:52, 3 April 2006

Colin will look into how to do damping of the direction and speed readimg.

Placement

  • The international standard for anemometer height above the ground is 10 meters (33 feet) with no obstructions. [2]

Keeping Records

Sampling Standards

  • Mean Wind Speed and Direction: 2-minute mean of speed and direction sampled [2]
  • Wind direction is recorded in degrees from true north [1 19][2 ].

Data Sampling

NWS Spaceflight Meterology Group

Farmland

Indiana State Climate Office

Federal Meteorological Handbook

Calculations

  • The mode is consisidered the prevailing wind direction. [1 19]
  • Dividing each recording into a north-south and east-west vector, averaging them, and then reassembling the vectors. [1 19]

Sampling Standards

  • Mean Wind Speed and Direction: 2-minute mean of speed and direction sampled before the observation valid time sampled from high-resoluation data (minimum: 5 second instrument polling).
  • Gust: Maximum 'instantaneous' wind value observed in the 10 minutes before the observation time.

External Links

Data Sets