wind {circular}

Col De La Roa wind direction

Description

In a place named "Col de la Roa" in the Italian Alps there is a meteorological station that records via data-logger several parameters. Measures are made every 15 minutes, in this dataset we report the wind direction recorded every day from January 29, 2001 to March 31, 2001 from 3.00am to 4.00am included. Which means 5 observations every day for a total of 310 measures.

Usage

data(wind)

Format

This data frame contains one variables (wind direction) in radians.

Source

http://www.tesaf.unipd.it/SanVito/dati.htm

References

C. Agostinelli (2007) Robust estimation for circular data, Computational Statistics and Data Analysis, 51(12), 5867-5875, doi = doi:10.1016/j.csda.2006.11.002

Examples

  data(wind)
  wind <- circular(wind, template='geographics')
  par(mfcol=c(1,2))
  plot(wind)
  plot(density(wind, bw=40), main='')