wm4: Windmill data with direction information and four reference sites
Description
Windspeed data collected at a test site for a windmill, and also at four 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 are missing.
Format
A data frame with 1114 observations on the following 14 variables.
- Date
- A text variable with values like "2002/1/2/6" meaning the reading at 6AM on
January 2, 2002
- CSpd
- Wind speed (m/s) at candidate site
- Spd1
- Wind speed (m/s) at reference site 1
- Spd2
- Wind speed (m/s) at reference site 2
- Spd3
- Wind speed (m/s) at reference site 3
- Spd4
- Wind speed (m/s) at reference site 4
- Spd1Lag1
- Lag 1 Wind speed (m/s) at reference site 1
- Spd2Lag1
- Lag 1 Wind speed (m/s) at reference site 2
- Spd3Lag1
- Lag 1 Wind speed (m/s) at reference site 3
- Spd4Lag1
- Lag 1 Wind speed (m/s) at reference site 4
- Spd1sin1
- Spd times sin(direction) at site 1
- Spd1cos1
- Spd times cos(direction) at site 1
- bin1
- Wind direction bin for site 1
- Dir1
- Wind direction for site 1, in degrees
Source
Mark Ahlstrom and Rolf Miller, WindLogics, Inc.References
Weisberg, S. (2005). Applied Linear Regression, 3rd edition. New York: Wiley, Section 10.4.1.