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What does the Wind Speed Distribution Tool provide?
For your selected location and hub height, this tool provides the distribution of wind speeds throughout the year. To determine this distribution, hourly wind speeds are sorted into 1 m/s ranges. For example .5 m/s to 1.5 m/s would be one range. The vertical height of the curve represents the frequency with which wind speeds occur in each range. For example, a vertical height centered at 5 m/s reaching up to 10% means that wind speeds are between 4.5 m/s and 5.5 ms for 10% of the time.
A narrow distribution of wind speeds indicates that the wind speed is very consistent at your location. A wide distribution means that the wind speed varies greatly. In wind resource assessment, the vertical heights are often approximated using a statistical distribution called the Weibull distribution. This distribution is characterized by the shape parameter A and the scale parameter k. The solid line on the graph shows the Weibull distribution that best fits the wind speed values. The corresponding A and k values are shown in the upper left-hand corner of the tool.
More Wind Online Tools Questions
- Which Wind Time Series dataset should I choose?
- How do I enter a location?
- How do I interpret the graph provided by the Monthly Mean Wind Speed Tool?
- What does the Annual Mean Wind Speed Tool provide?
- How do I interpret the wind rose provided by the Annual Mean Wind Rose Tool?
- Why do we show a +/- next to the annual value?
- What wind speeds are shown on the map?
- How can I compare sites side-by-side?
- What affects wind at a given site?
- What is a hub height?
- How do I change locations for individual tools?
- What makes a good wind resource?
- What do the colors on the map mean?
- What is the source of the information?
- How accurate are the Wind Prospecting Tools?
- Why does the map disappear?
- How was the 5 km global wind dataset created?
- Does 3TIER incorporate observational data?
- What were 3TIER's data validation procedures for the 5 km global wind dataset?
- What happened to 3TIER’s Reference Wind Time Series Product?
- Why do all the various datasets have different start and end times?
- Doesn’t horizontal resolution matter? What about downscaling with weather models like WRF and MM5?
- Why are the long-term mean values of each data set so similar and why don’t they match the values I get when I download these data directly from the various global modeling centers?
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