This is a Python program for modeling the joint distribution of wind speed and direction.

The method is based on:

1. Harris, Cook, The parent wind speed distribution: Why Weibull?, http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0167610514001056

2. Gaussian Mixture Models, http://scikit-learn.org/stable/modules/mixture.html

Take Shanghai Hongqiao Intl as an example

Left: Empirical PDF, Right: Model PDF

Histogram vs. Model

Left: Histogram vs. Model, Right: Empirical vs. Model CDF

The above results are available at https://cdn.rawgit.com/cqcn1991/Wind-Speed-Analysis/master/output_HTML/hongqiao_intl.html , along with other analysis.

This model can be used to obtain the wind speed distribution, wind direction distribution and the joint distribution of wind speed and direction distribution with good accuracy.

Its potential applications include:

1. Wind energy evaluation, wind resource assessment (long term). For example, the optimization of wind farm layout.

2. Wind load analysis on structures, such as fatigue analysis. For example, the wind load on highrise buidings.

3. Pedestrian-level wind environment assessment.

Here is how the method applies to different places across the world. The Weibull distribution is listed as the traditional model for comparison.

You can use the code toggle button and sidebar to navigate these reports.

The model I'm using is Gaussian Mixture Model, or simply put, the sum of some normal distributions. The idea is very simple:

fi is the PDF of normal distribution component, pi is its weight.

The chief beauty of this model is its elegance (simplicity). You can use such a simple model (GMM) to describe wind, contrary to previous Weibull combination and others.

For a complete explanation of how GMM fit the joint distribution of wind speed and direction, you can read

Harris, Cook, The parent wind speed distribution: Why Weibull?, http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0167610514001056

And I'm also working on a paper about it, this is my Master Thesis. And if you have any interest (question, collaboration...) feel free to ask me. I open source the project is meant to help you try it.

Download at https://www.continuum.io/downloads

This repo use Python 3, so you should use the 3 as well.

After installing Anaconda, there are still some additional packages you need to install:

Just run these in your command line to install them

pip install -r requirements.txt

• You can start with barebone fitting with barebone_fitter.ipynb. It takes data in x, y format and output the GMM params directly.

• For complete analysis and fitting for GMM, use GMM.ipynb. It includes data analysis, fitting and validation with many plots.

• Example wind data can be find at https://github.com/cqcn1991/Wind-Speed-Analysis/tree/master/data , For additional data, you can find them at http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/ or http://ecmwf.int/

If you have any question, you could post it at issue, or mail me at 38306608#qq.com

The program now uses some R packages to fit von Mises mixture model. You can either delete related code, or install R and Rpy 2 to enable this feature. Specifically:

• Install R and R studio from https://cran.r-project.org/ and https://www.rstudio.com

• Install R packge movMF from https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/movMF/index.html, by running install.packages("movMF") in R studio

• Install Rpy2 for running R with Python

  • For Windows, see https://stackoverflow.com/questions/14882477/rpy2-install-on-windows-7

Install extentions from https://github.com/ipython-contrib/jupyter_contrib_nbextensions

pip install jupyter_contrib_nbextensions
jupyter contrib nbextension install --user --skip-running-check
jupyter nbextension enable toc2/main

This work would be impossible without the help from Cook and Harris. Thank you!