[wxqc] Calibrating anemometers

[Victor Engel]

I realize that. He is using different software than I am. Given your
argument, though, if the period of time varied, then one station's gust at
time x would be another station's gust at time y. His maximum gusts,
however, are invariably higher than mine. That could be possible if his
software has more samples than mine. I think that's possible since his is a
wired system and mine is wireless: I think he gets more samples during the
day than I do.

On 7/9/06, spamfree at pensom.org <spamfree at pensom.org> wrote:
>
>  When comparing wind gust data, be sure you are comparing apples to
> apples. The wind sensor only reports the windspeed. The definition of wind
> gust however depends upon the software being used, because wind gust is
> simply the highest wind speed reading over some period of time. What that
> period of time is can vary with the software being used. For instance, if
> his software was using a 10 minute period for gusts, and yours was using a 5
> minute period, his would have higher gust speeds on average than yours.
>
> Steve
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