WindRose PRO is a complex application that will allow users to create various wind roses.
It can be used to represent wind roses, but it is also possible to represent roses of any other variable of interest. A wind rose is a chart which gives a view of how wind speed and wind direction are distributed at a particular location over a specific period of time.
It is a very useful representation because a large quantity of data can be summarised in a single plot. WindRose PRO loads different file formats: Microsoft Excel files (XLS and XLSX); ASCII files with fields separated by specific delimiters; EnergyPlus Weather files; AERMOD surface files; ISC3ST files; NMEA0183 files; Frequencies.
Wind roses and other charts are saved in raster formats (PNG, JPG, GIF, TIF, BMP). Wind roses can be exported as KML for Google Earth, SHP for GIS systems and DXF for CAD systems.
Numerical results can be exported as ASCII files, Rich Text Format (RTF) and Microsoft Excel format (this last with charts inside). Beside the classical wind roses, other plots can be generated: the rose of minimum/average/maximum values, raw data and rays. Raw data plot allows to represent a third variable when data are loaded as Microsoft Excel files.
Wind turbines features, including power curves, can be specified and saved. They are used to calculate the wind power potential of a location and the operativity of a specific wind turbine.
The user can create its onw database of wind turbines. Crosswind and tailwind calculations for airports runways are carried out by the software. Many options can be defined for each plot and saved in a configuration file.
Data can be filtered according to their values and to dates and times (month, day of the week, hour of the day, day/night hours). Each user can add its own logo over the wind rose chart. Wind rose charts elements (title, legend, notes and user logo) are positioned by clicking and dragging operations.
NOTE: Users need to register with their e-mail addresses in order to obtain an evaluation license key.
Here are some key features of "WindRose PRO":
· Loads AERMOD surface meteorological files
· Loads ISC3ST meteorological files
· Loads EnergyPlus Weather files
· Loads raw data as CSV or MS Excel files
· Loads data as frequencies
· Saves plots as BMP, grayscale BMP, JPG and PNG
· Exports wind rose plots as DXF for CAD environments
· Exports wind rose plots as ESRI shapefiles for GIS environments
· Exports wind rose plots as KML files for Google Earth (view examples)
· Exports numerical results in MS Excel format
· Automatically creates charts in MS Excel
· Typical day is calculated when date and time are loaded
· Date/time filtering according to year, month, day of the week, hour of the day or day/night hours
· Possibility to read a third variable within the MS Excel file
· Plots minimum/average/maximum values
· Plots of raw data
· Plots of raw data of for the third variable
· Plots of rays
· Calculates the theoretical wind power distribution
· Calculates crosswind, headwind and tailwind, and evaluates the correct orientation of a runway
· Calculates the wind erosion emission factors for PM30, PM15, PM10 and PM2.5
· Automatically produces a text summary of the data
· Automatically creates charts in MS Excel
· Typical day is calculated when date and time are load
· User’s logo on/off on plot
Requirements:
· .NET framework 3.5
Limitations:
· Watermarks or annotations are plotted on the chart
· Images cannot be copied and saved
What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]
· Selection of the worksheet from which Excel data must be loaded
· Date/time filtering of the data according to
· Years
· Months
· Days of the week
· Hours of the day OR day/night hours
· Charts are automatically built in the output Excel file
· Possibility to read a third variable within the Excel file
· Raw data plot of the third variable can be produced
· Typical day is calculated when date and time are loaded
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