llWind Data

I have about 1500 seperate wind data records taken every hour on the hour for every hour that N'burg has been up for the past "x" days. If anyone is interested in sorting this data and/or using it for anything let me know, cause it kind of got away from me, and I don't have time to play catch up now :-/. This data includes what appear to be the highest and lowest recorded windspeeds in SL history. All I ask in return is that you make the sorted data avaliable to the public.

Thanks in advance,
Cid

I'm going to bump because this sounds neat and I hope someone can make something cool and graphical from it

The best way to visualize this is to do a recurrence plot: if the data are the set S then plotting (S1, S2) (S2, S3) (S3, S4)... gives a nice parametric view of the changes in the winds.

I did this sometime back although am pretty sure it got lost in the Great Forum Oopsie. As I was looking at feasibility of wind-carried hot air balloons, my sample time was around 10 seconds. Digging from memory, the winds shifted gradually (smooth recurrence map) but continually. I'd be a bit surprised if hourly observations didn't look like noise.

(And for those who would say "you measured every 10 seconds????" yes, in an unloaded sim, gathering the data up into 15 minute chunks for e-mail out).

As would I, but this isn't the real world, I'm not sure how they would look. And I would like to observe long term wind changes, not short term.

It appears there is indeed some long term (one SL day, 4 hours) correlation, Link