Wind Rose

Graph and table for Direction-Intensity data

https://dpereira.asempyme.com/windrose/

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Cite As

Daniel Pereira (2026). Wind Rose (https://ch.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/47248-wind-rose), MATLAB Central File Exchange. Retrieved .

Acknowledgements

Inspired by: Wind_rose

General Information

MATLAB Release Compatibility

  • Compatible with any release

Platform Compatibility

  • Windows
  • macOS
  • Linux
Version Published Release Notes Action
2.1.0

Normalization, Logarithmic scale and more.

See full Changelog in project's web page:
https://dpereira.asempyme.com/windrose/

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2.0.1

Documentation added for Legend position and orientation.
See Changelog in project's web page:
https://dpereira.asempyme.com/windrose/

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2.0.0

See Changelog in project's web page:

https://dpereira.asempyme.com/windrose/

Thanks to all the users and special thanks to José Miguel Jaúregui, Naxya and Clive Holden from Oceanographic Field Services, for their support.

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1.7.0

Changed description

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1.7.0-1

Changed description

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1.7.0-0

Added option to show frequencies as in a ruler (thanks to Jacqueline Freire Rigatto for the idea)
Added a space below the title string so it does not interfere with the upper label
Added the variable name into legend type 1 (colorbar)

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1.6.0

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1.6.0-2

Added reference to Matlab blogs

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1.6.0-1

Documentation updated

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1.6.0-0

Added option to plot the windrose in the desired position (X,Y) in a plot, combined with scalefactor.
Wind rose radius is now ALWAYS equal to the 'scalefactor' value.
See attached PDF for more information.

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1.5.0

Updated Image to fit preview size

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1.5.0-2

Updated image

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1.5.0-1

Corrected the issue with scale factor, which displayed wrong frequency values and wrong radial grid lines.

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1.5.0-0

Changed the way in which labels are read. The order now should be 'North','East','South','West'.
Added options for grid line styles (color, line style and transparency/alpha) both for radial and circular grids.
Added option for variable adial divisio

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1.3.1

Corrected histogram count inside function "PivotTableCount", which didn't consider always values greater than the max(vwinds) value.

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1.3.0

Added option to create the wind rose graph in specified axes (subplot or previously created axes).
Added script showing how to import data from Excel and exporting results (table + figure) to Excel.
Updated documentation (with links to paragraphs).

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1.2.0

Some functionalities addes (specifying the speed ranges in a vector, scaling the wind rose inside the figure, different legends, titles, texts).

Documentation inside submission.

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1.1.0

Options to hide/show figure menubar and toolbar
User can specify speed bins colors
Order of the speeds can be reverted
Speed bins can be explicitly defined
Corrected colorbar bug
Options can be passed as cell or structure

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1.0.0

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