wm2: Windmill data with direction information
Description
Windspeed data collected at a test site for a windmill, and also at a nearby long-term weather
site, in Northern South Dakota.
Data collected every six hours for all of 2002, except that all of the month
of May and a few other observations missing.
Format
A data frame with 1116 observations on the following 5 variables.
- Date
- A text variable with values like "2002/1/2/6" meaning the reading at 6AM on
January 2, 2002
- CSpd
- Windspeed in m/s at the candidate site
- RSpd
- Windspeed for the reference site
- RDir
- Wind direction, in degrees, at the reference site
- Bin
- Wind direction binned into 16 equal width bins
Source
Mark Ahlstrom and Rolf Miller, WindLogics, Inc.References
Weisberg, S. (2005). Applied Linear Regression, 3rd edition. New York: Wiley, Problem 6.8.