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  • Comparative analysis of estimators for wind direction standard deviation

  • P. S. Farrugia, A. Micallef
  • Journal:
    Meteorological Applications / Volume 13 / Issue 1 / March 2006
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    22 February 2006, pp. 29-41
    Print publication:
    March 2006

  • Wind direction is a circular variable. This makes the algorithms used to find its standard deviation different from that of the linear variables. In particular, the requirement for storing all the data points before the standard deviation can be computed limits the storage capacity and puts great strain on remote data acquisition systems. Various algorithms have therefore been developed to estimate the standard deviation in order to reduce the number of terms stored. The following work consists of a comparative analysis of such estimators together with the parameters used. It emerges that some of the assumptions adopted to produce the equations being analysed do not hold in practice, even though this does not affect significantly the performance of the estimators that depend on them. On the other hand, the parameter that has the best trend with the algorithm adopted is the magnitude of the vector to the centre of gravity of the system. However, such a result gives rise to some concerns since it does not account for the ‘vectorial’ nature of the angle being treated.