Wednesday, April 15, 2009

WIND ROSE


A wind rose is more of a graphic insturment commonly used by meteorologists to give a compact display of how direction and wind speed are usually allocated at a particular location. This image depicts wind speed measured by knots. The various colors of speed are expalined in the map legend.



Map url:http://www.climate.washington.edu/windrose/Seattle-WindRose.jpg

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