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Re: wind rose?
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Ben Abbott |
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Re: wind rose? |
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Sat, 29 May 2010 20:25:50 -0400 |
On May 29, 2010, at 5:52 PM, Vergil Weatherford wrote:
> Does anyone know of a way to plot a polar wind rose using octave/gnuplot? I
> have hourly wind speed and direction data.
>
> Thanks,
> Vergil
I wasn't familiar with Wind Rose plots, so I looked it up.
http://www.novalynx.com/reference-wind-rose.html
As Octave's doesn't handle polar plots in a nice way, I don't think there
exists a convenient method to produce such plots.
To use Octave for this purpose, you'll have to draw the polar axes and use
patch objects to produce the Wind Rose.
Ben