Saturday, October 23, 2010

Windrose


The Wind Rose shows the relative frequency of wind direction.  The chart is a 16 point compass with the directions of north, east, south and west falling in a clockwise direction.  It appears that each ring on this chart represents a frequency of 10% of the total.  The color bars represent the frequency of wind speed.  The length of the bars represents percentage of time of the particular the wind speeds (in knots) in the specific directions.