windroos
Wind rose, or windroos in Dutch, is a graphical representation used to summarize how wind speed and direction are distributed at a location over a specific period. The plot is circular, oriented to the compass, and divided into directional sectors (commonly eight or sixteen). For each sector, the frequency or duration of winds from that direction is shown, often using petals or bars whose length or color corresponds to wind speed.
Data for a wind rose are obtained from weather stations or remote sensing, with measurements typically logged
Windroses are used in wind resource assessment for energy projects, in architectural and urban planning to
Construction involves selecting directions, grouping wind speeds into bins, calculating the share of time from each
Limitations include dependence on data quality and station location, the potential masking of temporal variability when