6.14 Windrose Graph

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Summary

Windrose graphs are used to present wind speed data and wind direction data collected over time at a particular location. This tutorial will demonstrate how to create windrose graphs from both raw and indexed data:

Two Windrose Plot.png

What will you learn

This tutorial will show you how to:

Steps

This tutorial is associated with <Origin EXE Folder>\Samples\Tutorial Data.opj.
Also, you can refer to this graph in Learning Center. (Select Help: Learning Center menu or press F11 key , and then open Graph Sample: Specialized Graphs)

Part 1: Create a Windrose Graph from Binned Data

  1. Open Tutorial Data.opj and browse to the Wind Rose folder in Project Explorer (PE).
    (If you don't have the project file, please import the sample data from here).
  2. Activate the Book6E workbook. Highlight all worksheet columns and click the Wind Rose - Binned Data button on the 2D Graphs toolbar as shown below or select Plot: Specialized: Wind Rose-Binned Data from the main menu.
    Windrose button.png
  3. Double-click on the radial axis on the polar to open the Axis dialog. With Radial - Inner 1 selected, go to Show tab, uncheck Show check box to turn off the inner radial axis.
    Windrose Graph inner axis01.png
    Select Radial - Outer 2 in the left panel, check Show check box to turn on the outer axis.
    Windrose Graph inner axis02.png
    Click OK button to just show the radial axis at left-lower position.
    Windrose Graph inner axis03.png
  4. Click on any bar in the graph, and in the popup mini toolbar, click the Fill Color button Popup Fill Color.png under the Group tab Popup Group Tab.png to expand the Color Chooser. In the Color Chooser, under the By Plots sub-tab, select or click the color list or color palette in the you desired to apply the bar colors. Windrose Graph FillColor.png
  5. Click on the Text Tool button Button Text Tool.png to add a Text object as graph title. And enter Sample of Wind Rose (Binned Data) in that Text object.
    Windrose Graph 2.png

Part 2: Create a Windrose from Raw Data

  1. Go to the project folder Statistical and Specialized Graphs: Specialized: Wind Rose and activate the Book7E workbook, Raw Data worksheet. (If you don't have the project file, please import the sample data from here).
  2. Highlight columns A & B. Click the Wind Rose - Raw Data button on the 2D Graphs toolbar as shown below or select Plot: Specialized: WindRose - Raw Data from the main menu.
    Windrose Raw Data Button.png
    In the dialog opened, do the settings below and click OK button to create the wind rose graph:
    Windrose Raw Data Settings.png
  3. Do the same operations as the step 3 in the Part 1 to move the radial axis to the left-bottom. And, go to Tick Labels tab for Radial Outer 2 to remove the Suffix "%" for the radial axis tick labels.
  4. Do the same operations as the step 4 in the Part 1 to change the fill color for the stacked bars.
    The final graph should resemble the image shown below:
    Wind Rose Example Raw Data.png

Sample Data

Binned Data

To import Binned Data to a worksheet, copy the Binned Data 1 (including the heading) and select File: Import Wizard. Select the Clipboard checkbox in the DataSource group and click the Finish button to import the data into Origin.
Import Wizard Clipboard.png

Direction 0-4 4-8 8-12 12-16 16-20
22.5 3.125 3.125 3.125 6.25 0
45 0 3.125 3.125 0 0
67.5 0 6.25 0 0 0
90 0 0 0 0 3.125
112.5 0 0 0 0 0
135 3.125 0 0 0 3.125
157.5 0 0 9.375 3.125 0
180 3.125 3.125 0 3.125 3.125
202.5 0 0 0 0 0
225 0 0 3.125 0 0
247.5 0 3.125 0 3.125 3.125
270 0 0 0 0 3.125
292.5 0 6.25 3.125 0 0
315 0 0 3.125 3.125 0
337.5 0 0 0 0 0
360 0 6.25 0 0 0
382.5 0 0 0 0 0

Raw Data

To import Raw Data to worksheet, you can copy the Raw Data (including the heading) and then select File: Import Wizard. Select the Clipboard checkbox in DataSource group and then click Finish button to import the data into Origin.

Import Wizard Clipboard.png

Direction Speed
311.5 12.75
142.7 11.18
161.6 5.9
277.3 8.24
155.3 13.46
40.8 8.57
43.4 4.38
1.3 10.91
78.8 18.72
237.8 16.22
114.6 0.88
2.1 12.05
290.5 4.6
174.1 3.29
267.6 16.64
8 5.6
213.9 8.04
134.8 17.26
137.6 11.87
46.1 5.48
4.5 13.47
311.2 10.17
154.4 11.17
176.2 18.91
348.1 4.11
225.2 6.65
236.4 12.87
11.7 1.07
278.9 4.36
356.5 5.01
58.9 7.3
161.8 15.6