Project: Norwegian Wind Atlas Customer: NVE/ENOVA Revision: 2.0.0
Scenario: Climatology User: VECTOR AS Date: 28.04.01 17:15
+ Climatology Lista
Averaging periods
The wind climate displays large seasonal variations. The climatology is presented for different averaging periods.
Averaging period: Autumn Year Spring Summer Autumn Winter
Key climatology data
The wind climatology is presented graphically as a wind rose, giving the average wind speed distribution according to velocity intervals and wind directions. The velocity intervals are divided in 9 bins, where every occurrence of wind speeds above 18 m/s has been lumped in the last bin. Incoming wind directions are divided in 12 sectors, where the first sector is centred around north.
site name Lista
measurement period 1975 - 1996
x - position longitude 6.5683
y - position latitude 58.1100
co-ordinate system 2
anemometer height 10.0
number of sectors 12
number of bins 12
total records -
average wind speed 7.1
Fig 1. Wind rose Lista.
Averaging period: Autumn
The wind climatology presented in the below table, gives the accumulated frequency of occurrence and the average wind speed for each sector.
. N NNE ENE E ESE SSE S SSW WSW W WNW NNW
freq 0.041 0.033 0.072 0.147 0.157 0.041 0.044 0.052 0.072 0.081 0.179 0.075
mean 3.3 3.4 4.9 6.1 6.8 7.6 7.9 8.7 9.0 9.4 8.2 6.9
Table 2. Frequency (-) and average wind speed (m/s) versus sector.