Re: Units for wind speed

[Christian Meyer <christian meyer cs tum edu>]

On Mon, 2002-05-20 at 22:06, Manuel Borchers wrote:
> Am Mon, 2002-05-20 um 17.26 schrieb Christian Rose:
> > mån 2002-05-20 klockan 17.07 skrev Manuel Borchers:
> > > Am Mon, 2002-05-20 um 12.47 schrieb Christian Rose:
> > > > locale  unit  status
> > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > > > de_DE   m/s   ?
> > > 
> > > Today, I saw km/h on www.wetter.de and I also think that most people
> > > have a better "feeling" of km/h... 
> > > (http://www.sfdrs.ch/sendungen/meteo/lexikon/windgesc.html also says,
> > > that km/h is more common for most people, but m/s is the SI-Standard
> > > [for velocities in general])
> > 
> > Ok. wetter.de indeed seems to use km/h, but other sites (like
> > http://www.met.fu-berlin.de/de/wetter/) seem to use m/s. On
> > http://www.met.fu-berlin.de/de/help/#Windgeschwindigkeit is mentioned
> > that both m/s and km/h can be used.
> > 
> > I'd appreciate more background on this (especially an official
> > recommendation) if you can find one. Is there an official national
> > weather institute? In that case, maybe they have a recommendation
> > available on the web.
> 
> I just looked around a bit... We have the "Deutscher Wetterdienst"
> www.dwd.de (I don't know if it is something official, but nearly all
> forcasts in the TV use their data...) and there they use everything...
> it's quite chaotic... sometimes they give the velocity in km/h, m/s,
> knots and Beaufort but sometimes they use only one or two of them...
> 
> It seems as in Germany there is no standard or recommendation :(
> 
> My personal preference would be m/s, because it's the SI-Standard (but
> on the other hand, km/h is derived from m/s...)
> 
> I let the list know, if I find something "official". For now I would let
> m/s as mentioned by Christian...

I really prefer m/s over km/s. As you've already mentioned, km/h is
derived from m/s.
In the mountains (at least here in Bavaria) they messure(?!) the wind
speed in m/s.
Thus we should stick with with m/s. It's bad that there's no official
unit in Germany.

Greetings,
Christian