Wind calculations - AWS810

AWS810 System Description

Document code
M212417EN
Revision
H
ft:locale
en-US
Product
AWS810
Document type
Technical description

Wind calculation takes wind speed and wind direction observations as input, and calculates 3‑second averages of them once every second. The 3‑second wind speed and wind direction averages are then used as source data for further wind calculations.

Wind calculation outputs
Output Description
DIR Latest wind direction value
SPD Latest wind speed value
WD Latest 3‑second wind direction average
WS Latest 3‑second wind speed average
WDAVG1, WDAVG2 Wind direction average for each wind period
WDMIN1, WDMIN2 Wind direction minimum for each wind period
WDMAX1, WDMAX2 Wind direction maximum for each wind period
WSAVG1, WSAVG2 Wind speed average for each wind period
WSMIN1, WSMIN2 Wind speed minimum for each wind period
WSMAX1, WSMAX2 Wind speed maximum for each wind period
WGD1, WGD2 Wind gust direction for each wind period

Wind calculation outputs wind direction and speed at 0 degrees when the wind speed is less than the configured calm limit (typically 0.5 m/s).

When the wind speed is greater than the calm limit and the wind is from North, the output is 360 degrees.