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Global wind patterns, visualised

Friday, 20 December 2013

Earth is an interactive web-based visualisation of global wind conditions, based on readings and supercomputer forecasts of current and future weather conditions. Not only does it render this data live within the browser; it also allows for the interactive display of multiple height readings, overlays, and cartographic projection types.

By Cameron Beccario, it’s a staggering example of the insights that interactive visualisation can give. What’s more, the code used for the data analysis and visualisation is all available on Github.

a beautiful interactive map of wind flow across the USA http://t.co/OjSIE9rA (via @_jbag @sebemina)

Thursday, 29 March 2012

wind (2008), a sound sculpture that responds to wind patterns in the viewer’s visual field, by @damian0815 http://t.co/yYUsNMcV

Sunday, 18 March 2012

windswept (2012), a wind-driven kinetic façade indicating the direction of windflow over the surface of a building http://t.co/76hs5PHt

Wednesday, 14 March 2012

weather station (norbert schnell & robin minard, 1995) uses climate sensors and 310 piezos for weather-reactive sonics http://t.co/bJlglbBr

Tuesday, 21 February 2012

Wind Knitting Factory

Tuesday, 7 June 2011

Here in our headquarters inside the Variable 4 windmill, we keep an ear to the ground for innovative and engaging weather-related artworks. We’re putting together a collection to publish shortly, but in the meantime, we couldn’t resist mentioning this piece. Merel Karhof’s Wind Knitting Factory is a mechanical device which harnesses wind power to produce a neverending scarf, which is occasionally harvested to produce wearable garments.

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In a charming touch, the product is linked to the process with a label indicating the date and time taken to knit each garment.

WKM

future city senario

The group’s blog includes a collection of images of urban windmills, and an adaptation of the idea into wearable brooches which convey the air movement created when the wearer moves around.

Merel Karhof
Platform Two (RCA)

Weather data #3: Wind direction through May 2009

Friday, 7 May 2010

Thanks once again to the impressive archival of Romney Marsh Weather, here’s a third plot of wind direction data: this time, on a 5-minutely basis, through the entirety of May 2009.

All of these plots have been created with the invaluable R toolkit, with ggplot2 and circstats for polar plots.

Weather data #2: Wind direction

Thursday, 6 May 2010

As a followup to our earlier post on weather data from Romney Marsh, here’s a quick circle plot of the wind direction over the same time period (30 April – 6 May 2010).

It seems to tally pretty closely with the Met Office commentary on southern wind patterns: prevailing south-westerlies from the passing Atlantic depressions, alongside seasonal winds from the north-east due to high pressure over Scandinavia.