R: Col De La Roa wind direction

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## Col De La Roa wind direction

### Description

In a place named "Col de la Roa" in the Italian Alps there is a meteorological station that records via data-logger several parameters. Measures are made every 15 minutes, in this dataset we report the wind direction recorded every day from January 29, 2001 to March 31, 2001 from 3.00am to 4.00am included. Which means 5 observations every day for a total of 310 measures.

### Usage

    data(wind)

### Format

This data frame contains one variables (wind direction) in radians.

### Source

http://www.tesaf.unipd.it/SanVito/dati.htm

### References

C. Agostinelli (2007) Robust estimation for circular data, Computational Statistics and Data Analysis, 51(12), 5867-5875, doi = doi:10.1016/j.csda.2006.11.002

### Examples

      data(wind)
      wind <- circular(wind, template='geographics')
      par(mfcol=c(1,2))
      plot(wind)
      plot(density(wind, bw=40), main='')

[Package circular version 0.4-93 Index]