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windRose: Traditional wind rose plot and pollution rose variation

Description

The traditional wind rose plot that plots wind speed and wind direction by different intervals. The pollution rose applies the same plot structure but substitutes other measurements, most commonly a pollutant time series, for wind speed.

Usage

windRose(mydata, ws = "ws", wd = "wd", ws2 = NA, wd2 = NA,
ws.int = 2, angle = 30, type = "default", bias.corr = TRUE, cols = "default",
grid.line = NULL, width = 1, seg = NULL, auto.text = TRUE, breaks
= 4, offset = 10, max.freq = NULL, paddle = TRUE, key.header =
NULL, key.footer = "(m/s)", key.position = "bottom", key = TRUE,
dig.lab = 5, statistic = "prop.count", pollutant = NULL, annotate
= TRUE, border = NA, ...)

pollutionRose(mydata, pollutant = "nox", key.footer = pollutant, key.position = "right", key = TRUE, breaks = 6, paddle = FALSE, seg = 0.9, ...)

Arguments

mydata
A data frame containing fields ws and wd
ws
Name of the column representing wind speed.
wd
Name of the column representing wind direction.
ws2
The user can supply a second set of wind speed and wind direction values with which the first can be compared. See details below for full explanation.
wd2
see ws2.
ws.int
The Wind speed interval. Default is 2 m/s but for low met masts with low mean wind speeds a value of 1 or 0.5 m/s may be better. Note, this argument is superseded in pollutionRose. See breaks below.
angle
Default angle of spokes is 30. Other potentially useful angles are 45 and 10. Note that the width of the wind speed interval may need adjusting using width.
type
type determines how the data are split i.e. conditioned, and then plotted. The default is will produce a single plot using the entire data. Type can be one of the built-in types as detailed in cutData e.g. season
bias.corr
When angle does not divide exactly into 360 a bias is introduced in the frequencies when the wind direction is already supplied rounded to the nearest 10 degrees, as is often the case. For example, if angle = 22.5, N, E, S, W wil
cols
Colours to be used for plotting. Options include default, increment, heat, jet, hue and user defined. For user defined the user can supply a list of colour names recognis
grid.line
Grid line interval to use. If NULL, as in default, this is assigned by windRose based on the available data range. However, it can also be forced to a specific value, e.g. grid.line = 10.
width
For paddle = TRUE, the adjustment factor for width of wind speed intervals. For example, width = 1.5 will make the paddle width 1.5 times wider.
seg
For pollutionRose seg determines with width of the segments. For example, seg = 0.5 will produce segments 0.5 * angle.
auto.text
Either TRUE (default) or FALSE. If TRUE titles and axis labels will automatically try and format pollutant names and units properly e.g. by subscripting the 2 in NO2.
breaks
Most commonly, the number of break points for wind speed in windRose or pollutant in pollutionRose. For windRose and the ws.int default of 2 m/s, the default, 4, generates the break points 2, 4, 6, 8 m/s
offset
The size of the 'hole' in the middle of the plot, expressed as a percentage of the polar axis scale, default 10.
max.freq
Controls the scaling used by setting the maximum value for the radial limits. This is useful to ensure several plots use the same radial limits.
paddle
Either TRUE (default) or FALSE. If TRUE plots rose using `paddle' style spokes. If FALSE plots rose using `wedge' style spokes.
key.header
Adds additional text/labels above and/or below the scale key, respectively. For example, passing windRose(mydata, key.header = "ws") adds the addition text as a scale header. Note: This argument is passed to drawOpenKey via
key.footer
see key.footer.
key.position
Location where the scale key is to plotted. Allowed arguments currently include top, right, bottom and left.
key
Fine control of the scale key via drawOpenKey. See drawOpenKey for further details.
dig.lab
The number of signficant figures at which scientific number formatting is used in break point and key labelling. Default 5.
statistic
The statistic to be applied to each data bin in the plot. Options currently include prop.count, prop.mean and abs.count. The default prop.count sizes bins according to the pr
pollutant
Alternative data series to be sampled instead of wind speed. The windRose default NULL is equivalent to pollutant = "ws".
annotate
If TRUE then the percentage calm and mean values are printed in each panel.
border
Border colour for shaded areas. Default is no border.
...
For pollutionRose other parameters that are passed on to windRose. For windRose other parameters that are passed on to drawOpenKey, lattice:xyplot and cutData. Axis and title la

Value

  • As well as generating the plot itself, windRose and pollutionRose also return an object of class openair. The object includes three main components: call, the command used to generate the plot; data, the data frame of summarised information used to make the plot; and plot, the plot itself. If retained, e.g. using output <- windRose(mydata), this output can be used to recover the data, reproduce or rework the original plot or undertake further analysis.

    An openair output can be manipulated using a number of generic operations, including print, plot and summarise.

    Summarised proportions can also be extracted directly using the $data operator, e.g. object$data for output <- windRose(mydata). This returns a data frame with three set columns: cond, conditioning based on type; wd, the wind direction; and calm, the statistic for the proportion of data unattributed to any specific wind direction because it was collected under calm conditions; and then several (one for each range binned for the plot) columns giving proportions of measurements associated with each ws or pollutant range plotted as a discrete panel.

Details

For windRose data are summarised by direction, typically by 45 or 30 (or 10) degrees and by different wind speed categories. Typically, wind speeds are represented by different width "paddles". The plots show the proportion (here represented as a percentage) of time that the wind is from a certain angle and wind speed range.

By default windRose will plot a windRose in using "paddle" style segments and placing the scale key below the plot.

The argument pollutant uses the same plotting structure but substitutes another data series, defined by pollutant, for wind speed.

The option statistic = "prop.mean" provides a measure of the relative contribution of each bin to the panel mean, and is intended for use with pollutionRose.

pollutionRose is a windRose wrapper which brings pollutant forward in the argument list, and attempts to sensibly rescale break points based on the pollutant data range by by-passing ws.int.

By default, pollutionRose will plot a pollution rose of nox using "wedge" style segments and placing the scale key to the right of the plot.

It is possible to compare two wind speed-direction data sets using pollutionRose. There are many reasons for doing so e.g. to see how one site compares with another or for meteorological model evaluation. In this case, ws and wd are considered to the the reference data sets with which a second set of wind speed and wind directions are to be compared (ws2 and wd2). The first set of values is subtracted from the second and the differences compared. If for example, wd2 was biased positive compared with wd then pollutionRose will show the bias in polar coordinates. In its default use, wind direction bias is colour-coded to show negative bias in one colour and positive bias in another.

References

Applequist, S, 2012: Wind Rose Bias Correction. J. Appl. Meteor. Climatol., 51, 1305-1309.

This paper seems to be the original?

Droppo, J.G. and B.A. Napier (2008) Wind Direction Bias in Generating Wind Roses and Conducting Sector-Based Air Dispersion Modeling, Journal of the Air & Waste Management Association, 58:7, 913-918.

See Also

See drawOpenKey for fine control of the scale key.

See polarFreq for a more flexible version that considers other statistics and pollutant concentrations.

Examples

Run this code
# load example data from package data(mydata)

# basic plot
windRose(mydata)

# one windRose for each year
windRose(mydata,type = "year")

# windRose in 10 degree intervals with gridlines and width adjusted
windRose(mydata, angle = 10, width = 0.2, grid.line = 1)

# pollutionRose of nox
pollutionRose(mydata, pollutant = "nox")

## source apportionment plot - contribution to mean
pollutionRose(mydata, pollutant = "pm10", type = "year", statistic = "prop.mean")

## example of comparing 2 met sites
## first we will make some new ws/wd data with a postive bias
mydata$ws2 = mydata$ws + 2 * rnorm(nrow(mydata)) + 1
mydata$wd2 = mydata$wd + 30 * rnorm(nrow(mydata)) + 30

## need to correct negative wd
id <- which(mydata$wd2 < 0)
mydata$wd2[id] <- mydata$wd2[id] + 360

## results show postive bias in wd and ws
pollutionRose(mydata, ws = "ws", wd = "wd", ws2 = "ws2", wd2 = "wd2")

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