Enviroware

WindRose PRO is a Windows application for analyzing and plotting directional variables starting from raw data or from their frequencies. It can be used to represent wind roses, but it is also possible to represent any other directional variable. 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 summarized in a single plot.

Examples of plots generated with WindRose PRO3 are available here.

Download and evaluate WindRose PRO3 for free.

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Here are some features of WindRose PRO3:

Loads AERMOD surface meteorological files
Loads CALMET 5.8 and CALMET 6 surface meteorological files
Loads ISC3ST meteorological files
Loads TD-1440 meteorological files
Loads EnergyPlus Weather files
Loads Typical Meteorological Year files (TMY2 and TMY3)
Loads ASCII fields delimited files
Loads Microsoft Excel files (XLS and XLSX)
Loads NOAA ISH (Integrated Surface Hourly) or ISD (Integrated Surface Data)
Loads fixed-width format NOAA ISD Lite
Loads ASOS 1-minute data
Loads ASOS 5-minute data
Loads data as frequencies
Automatically creates different types of charts
Batch processing for creating hourly, three-hourly, seasonal and monthly wind roses
Saves plots and charts in many raster formats (BMP, JPG, PNG, GIF, and others)
Exports wind rose plots as DXF for CAD environments
Exports wind rose plots as SHP (ESRI shapefiles) for GIS environments
Exports wind rose plots as KML files for Google Earth
Exports numerical results in Microsoft Excel format (charts built inside)
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 Microsoft Excel file
Plots wind roses with up to 360 directions
Plots minimum/average/maximum values
Plots of raw data
Plots of raw data of for the third variable
Plots of rays
Allows to edit and save the features of wind turbines
Calculates circular statistics
Calculates the theoretical wind power distribution
Calculates the theoretical wind power distribution with a specific wind turbine
Calculates crosswind, headwind and tailwind, and evaluates the correct orientation of a runway
Calculates aeolian transport: drift potential, resultant drift potential, resultant drift direction
Calculates odor separation distances with the Austrian and German empirical equations
Calculates the wind erosion emission factors for PM30, PM15, PM10 and PM2.5
Automatically produces a text summary of the data
Allows to add the user’s logo on plot
Title, legend, notes and user logo positioned with mouse dragging
Personalised notes can be saved in Rich Text File (RTF) format

View how to create a wind rose starting from the example configuration file distributed with the installation package.

View how to create a wind rose starting from the AERMOD meteorological file.

View how to create a wind rose starting from the ISC3ST meteorological file, and how to export it as a KML file for Google Earth.