wind: Wind direction data

windR Documentation

Wind direction data

Description

This dataset consists of hourly observations of wind direction measured at a weather station in Texas from May 20 to July 31, 2003 inclusive.

Usage

data(wind)

Format

wind is a data frame with observations on three variables: data, hour and wind direction (in radians).

Source

The data, which correspons to the weather station designated as C28_1, are part of a larger data set taken from the Codiac data archive, available at https://data.eol.ucar.edu/dataset/85.034. The full data set contains hourly resolution surface meteorological data from the Texas Natural Resources Conservation Commission Air Quality Monitoring Network, from May 20 to July 31, 2003 inclusive. These data are provided by NCAR/EOL under the sponsorship of the National Science Foundation.

References

Kato, S. and Jones, M. C. (2010) A family of distributions on the circle with links to, and applications arising from, M?bius transformation. Journal of the American Statistical Association, 105, 249–262.

Di Marzio, M., Panzera A. and Taylor, C. C. (2012) Non–parametric regression for circular responses. Scandinavian Journal of Statistics, 40, 228–255.

Examples

data(wind)

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