Open AccessWind Rose Bias Correction
Author(s) -
Scott Applequist
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
journal of applied meteorology and climatology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.079
H-Index - 134
eISSN - 1558-8432
pISSN - 1558-8424
DOI - 10.1175/jamc-d-11-0193.1
Subject(s) - rose (mathematics) , meteorology , environmental science , wind speed , remote sensing , computer science , geology , mathematics , physics , geometry
Wind rose summaries, which provide a basis for understanding and evaluating the climatological behavior of local wind, have a directional bias if a conventional method is used in their generation. Three techniques used to remove this bias are described and are compared for theoretical and observed wind distributions. All three techniques successfully remove the bias, with the simplest of the three performing as well as the more-complex techniques.