Tuesday, July 16, 2013

Windrose

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wind_rose


A windrose is a graph tool that is commonly used by meteorologist to graph wind speed, and its direction for a specific location. The windrose measures the frequency of wind blowing from a certain direction over time. Each spoke that is represented above displays the wind speed for LaGuardia Airport in 2008. This graph shows the wind direction that had the greatest frequency was the Southern direction.

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