PARANAL 1998-2000 Wind at 10m above ground (m/s) Nighttime (0-11UT) Statistics on 20mn bins (2s resolution) ---------------------------- Month Average Maximum Rms ---------------------------- 1 5.8 8.4 0.62 2 5.5 8.0 0.63 3 6.6 8.8 0.63 4 8.9 12.2 0.72 5 8.7 11.6 0.68 6 6.0 8.4 0.60 7 10.6 14.0 0.74 8 8.6 11.5 0.67 9 7.3 10.1 0.63 10 6.6 9.3 0.66 11 5.3 7.9 0.61 12 5.3 7.9 0.63 ---------------------------- Total 7.0 9.8 0.64 PARANAL 2001-2003 Wind at 10m above ground (m/s) Nighttime (0-11UT) Statistics on 20mn bins (2s resolution) ---------------------------- Month Average Maximum Rms ---------------------------- 1 4.8 5.7 0.45 2 4.9 6.5 0.45 3 5.4 7.1 0.46 4 7.3 9.4 0.48 5 8.2 10.5 0.56 6 6.6 8.5 0.46 7 7.0 8.8 0.48 8 7.0 9.0 0.50 9 6.2 7.9 0.45 10 5.4 7.2 0.47 11 5.0 6.6 0.44 12 5.2 6.8 0.44 ---------------------------- Total 6.1 7.9 0.47