Sorry, please put my last post aside.
I mis-read your question.

I agree with Jim's comments.









On Sun, May 17, 2020 at 9:52 PM Abby Spurdle <spurdl...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Stefano,
>
> I don't have any specific suggestions, but...
>
> If you could convert your (character) direction vector into a
> (numeric) time-ordered direction vector giving radians or degrees, and
> provide the corresponding speed vector...
> (i.e. North -> 90 degrees).
>
> I'd be happy to try and plot the data in a variety of ways...
> ...and see if there's any obvious relationships, or anything else useful.
>
>
> On Sat, May 16, 2020 at 10:23 PM Stefano Sofia
> <stefano.so...@regione.marche.it> wrote:
> >
> > Dear Jim and Jeff,
> > thank you for your comments. You are right, it is quite difficult to detect 
> > this process through a single observation point, I am awre of it.
> > I need to set up an automatic algorithm to filter 20 years of data, and I 
> > have to find an easy way to do it.
> > I know quite well my automatic stations, the wind direction is very stable 
> > during these situations, and therefore I would like to start from it. (I 
> > should use also wind speed, relative humidity and temperature, but I will 
> > introduce them only once I will be able to manage the direction).
> > In the case of the example below reported, I know that the directions of 
> > this particular automatic station must be only SW or WSW.
> >
> > My biggest problem, obviously, is to find the beginning and the end of each 
> > event, when there is a change in the main direction.
> > Thinking about categorical data in general, is there a way to detect 
> > periods when one particular category is more frequent?
> >
> > Here I reproduce a real example 24 hours long, where these Foehn condition 
> > start between 09 and 10 and finish after 19:
> >
> > first_day_POSIX <- as.POSIXct("2020-02-19-00-00", format="%Y-%m-%d-%H-%M")
> > last_day_POSIX <- as.POSIXct("2020-02-20-00-00", format="%Y-%m-%d-%H-%M")
> > mydf <- data.frame(data_POSIX=seq(first_day_POSIX, last_day_POSIX, by="10 
> > min"))
> >
> > mydf$main_dir <- c(WSW, WSW, SW, SW, W, WSW, WSW, WSW, W, W, SW, WSW, SSW, 
> > S, SW, SW, WSW, WNW, W, WSW, WSW, SE, SE, SE, NW, NNE, ENE, SE, NNW, NW, 
> > NW, NW, NW, NW, NW, NE, NW, NW, NW, NW, NW, N, WNW, NW, NNW, NNW, NW, NW, 
> > NW, WNW, ESE, W, WSW, SW, SW, SW, WSW, SW, S, S, SSW, SW, WSW, WSW, WSW, 
> > WSW, WSW, WSW, WSW, SW, WSW, WSW, WSW, WSW, SW, SW, WSW, WSW, WSW, WSW, 
> > WSW, SW, SW, SW, SW, SW, SW, SW, SW, SW, WSW, WSW, WSW, WSW, SW, SW, SW, 
> > SW, WSW, SW, SW, SW, SW, SW, WSW, SW, SW, W, WSW, WSW, SSW, S, WNW, SW, W, 
> > WSW, WSW, SE, SE, SE, NW, NNE, ENE, SE, NNW, NW, NW, NW, NW, NW, NW, NE, 
> > NW, NW, NW, NW, NW, N, WNW, NW, NNW, NNW, NW, NW, NW)
> >
> > mydf$max_speed <- c(4.60, 4.60, 3.40, 3.10, 4.80, 4.20, 4.10, 4.50, 4.70, 
> > 4.30, 2.40, 2.30, 2.20, 2.10, 2.90, 2.80, 1.80, 2.70, 4.30, 3.30, 2.30, 
> > 2.30, 3.20, 3.20, 2.90, 2.30, 1.50, 1.80, 2.90, 2.40, 1.80, 2.40, 2.30, 
> > 2.60, 1.80, 2.30, 1.90, 2.20, 2.80, 2.40, 1.00, 1.10, 1.60, 2.30, 2.50, 
> > 3.30, 3.40, 3.20, 4.50, 3.90, 3.10, 2.40, 6.00, 7.80, 6.30, 7.80, 8.10, 
> > 6.10, 7.40, 9.50, 8.90, 9.10, 10.10, 10.50, 11.10, 10.10, 10.90, 11.30, 
> > 13.40, 13.50, 12.80, 11.50, 13.10, 13.50, 11.10, 10.50, 8.50, 10.10, 10.70, 
> > 13.60, 11.90, 14.90, 10.90, 10.90, 12.80, 12.10, 9.10, 8.30, 8.80, 7.40, 
> > 8.40, 10.30, 10.00, 7.00, 8.50, 8.40, 8.60, 6.70, 7.30, 6.20, 5.90, 5.90, 
> > 5.10, 5.80, 5.60, 6.50, 6.60, 11.70, 11.30, 8.70, 7.10, 6.90, 4.30, 3.80, 
> > 4.30, 3.30, 2.30, 2.30, 3.20, 3.20, 2.90, 2.30, 1.50, 1.80, 2.90, 2.40, 
> > 1.80, 2.40, 2.30, 2.60, 1.80, 2.30, 1.90, 2.20, 2.80, 2.40, 1.00, 1.10, 
> > 1.60, 2.30, 2.50, 3.30, 3.40, 3.20, 4.50)
> >
> >
> > Thank you for your attention
> > Stefano
> >
> >
> >          (oo)
> > --oOO--( )--OOo----------------
> > Stefano Sofia PhD
> > Civil Protection - Marche Region
> > Meteo Section
> > Snow Section
> > Via del Colle Ameno 5
> > 60126 Torrette di Ancona, Ancona
> > Uff: 071 806 7743
> > E-mail: stefano.so...@regione.marche.it
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> >
> > ________________________________________
> > Da: Jim Lemon [drjimle...@gmail.com]
> > Inviato: mercoledì 13 maggio 2020 11.01
> > A: Stefano Sofia; r-help mailing list
> > Oggetto: Re: [R] Classification of wind events
> >
> > Hi Stefano,
> > Given only one observation point you will find it difficult. If your
> > automatic weather station is in the low area where the foehn wind is
> > felt, it can only be distinguished from a dry katabatic wind if the
> > upwind conditions are known. There is a similar but milder version of
> > this in eastern Australia, but it is usually of the latter sort. There
> > may be a way to measure turbulence above the peak of the high ground
> > with radar or something, but I'm not familiar with that.
> >
> > Jim
> >
> > On Tue, May 12, 2020 at 6:13 PM Stefano Sofia
> > <stefano.so...@regione.marche.it> wrote:
> > >
> > > Dear R list users,
> > > I am aware that this question is not strictly related, at the present 
> > > moment, to R code and it is more general. Please forgive me, but I need 
> > > to share my thoughts with you.
> > >
> > > Foehn conditions on the southern slope of Alps happen with strong 
> > > northerly flows that impact perpendicularly over the Apls. This situation 
> > > triggers strong northerly leeward winds.
> > > Given a single automatic weather station, I would like to identify these 
> > > periods starting from wind direction and wind intensity data. Frequency 
> > > of data is quarter of hour.
> > > I would really find difficult to detect the moving windows of these 
> > > events:
> > > - I can't analyse data day by day;
> > > - at the beginning and at the end of each event, when the process is not 
> > > at full speed yet, the rotation is not always perfectly identifiable;
> > > - I cannot claim in principle that the direction of each consecutive 
> > > observation is costantly and strictly from the chosen direction.
> > >
> > > Does anybody have a clue on how to start to build this process in the 
> > > right way?
> > >
> > > Thank you for your attention and your help
> > > Stefano
> > >
> > >          (oo)
> > > --oOO--( )--OOo----------------
> > > Stefano Sofia PhD
> > > Civil Protection - Marche Region
> > > Meteo Section
> > > Snow Section
> > > Via del Colle Ameno 5
> > > 60126 Torrette di Ancona, Ancona
> > > Uff: 071 806 7743
> > > E-mail: stefano.so...@regione.marche.it
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