HIP:wind

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Standards

  • Three types recorded: speed, direction, and gusts.
  • Instantaneous velocities are sampled every 30 seconds.
  • Wind direction is recorded in degrees from true north [5.5.1].
  • Average wind direction and speed is determined by averaging the values over a 2-minute period [5.4].
  • Wind gusts are the maximum instantaneous speed in the past 10 minutes [5.5.4].

Documents

Federal Meteorological Handbook

Indiana State Climate Office

Databases

Indiana Climate Data Access

Farmland

Calculations

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

METAR

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