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Wind Rose and Radial Graph
Wind Rose and Radial Graph
Wind Rose and Radial Graph
RADIAL GRAPH
Wind rose graphs are simply called as rose graphs, Wind rose
graph is the most common type of Radial Graph. (See later slides
to know about radial graph).
Wind rose graph is used to record the direction of the wind. The
graph consists of a central octagon from which 8 bars sprout out
showing the direction.
The length of each bar represents the time in days of how long the
wind blew in the direction.
The 8 bars represent the direction of the wind, that is
ABOUT North
North-east
East
South-east
South
South west
West
North-west
The 8 directs are displayed by bars respectively
EXAMPLE
North
North East
West East
DIRECTIONS
South
RADIAL Radial graphs are graph that wraps any kind of data in a circle or
around a circle. Wind rose graph is a example of radial graph. So Is
GRAPH pie chart as it includes data being plotted inside a circle