Indian Climate - Wind Pattern in Karloo

Wind Pattern in Karloo

Windrose of Karloo shows that dominant wind blow from the SW much of the time - about 18.69% of all hourly wind directions. Approximately 5.53% (max) of the time the wind blows from the SW at speeds are more than 5 m/s. Further, at Karloo much of the time winds blow at speeds between 2 and 10.22 m/s - which is 36.04% of the time. About 1.21% of time winds were CALM i.e. wind speeds less then 0.5m/s.

SW[18.7%]

Dominant Direction

2-10.22m/s

Speed Range

3.1m/s

average speed

1.21%

calm

The annual wind rose below showing how wind speed and direction are typically distributed in Karloo.

This table shows the frequency and speed of wind blowing from each direction in Karloo.

Table of Frequencies (%)

Table of Frequencies (%)
Direction < 0.5 0.5-1.0 1.0-2.0 2.0-3.0 3.0-4.0 4.0-5.0 > 5.0 Total
N 0.05 0.05 0.87 1.64 1.28 0.18 0.00 4.07
NNE 0.00 0.05 0.91 2.24 1.42 0.14 0.00 4.76
NE 0.09 0.05 1.00 2.47 1.46 0.14 0.14 5.35
ENE 0.14 0.14 0.82 2.92 1.23 0.00 0.09 5.34
E 0.23 0.27 0.96 2.97 1.00 0.14 0.05 5.62
ESE 0.09 0.27 1.42 2.56 1.05 0.32 0.05 5.76
SE 0.09 0.32 1.51 2.65 0.68 0.18 0.05 5.48
SSE 0.09 0.32 0.96 1.51 0.32 0.09 0.00 3.29
S 0.05 0.32 0.91 2.15 0.91 0.14 0.05 4.53
SSW 0.05 0.23 1.23 2.60 2.15 1.87 1.00 9.13
SW 0.00 0.32 1.46 3.61 4.25 3.52 5.53 18.69
WSW 0.05 0.18 1.28 3.33 3.74 2.42 3.06 14.06
W 0.14 0.23 0.73 1.60 1.69 0.78 0.46 5.63
WNW 0.05 0.05 0.59 1.19 0.78 0.05 0.00 2.71
NW 0.09 0.09 0.64 1.55 0.50 0.09 0.05 3.01
NNW 0.00 0.27 0.46 1.05 0.68 0.18 0.00 2.64
Total 1.21 3.16 15.75 36.04 23.14 10.24 10.53 100

The graph below shows the minimum, maximum and average wind speed, m/s over the year in Karloo.