Anemometer have accurate wind data under all conditions, including freezing precipitation. Anemometry is also required in monitoring and controlling the operation of wind turbines, which in cold environments are prone to in-cloud icing. Icing alters the aerodynamics of an anemometer and may entirely block it from operating. Therefore, anemometers used in these applications must be internally heated. Both cup anemometers and sonic anemometers are presently available with heated versions. In order for wind speeds to be comparable from location to location, the effect of the terrain needs to be considered, especially in regard to height. Other considerations are the presence of
Gibbs measure property. Measures with this property are sometimes called Markov random fields. More strongly, the converse is also true: "any" positive probability distribution (nonzero density everywhere) having the Markov property can be represented as a Gibbs measure for an appropriate energy function. This is the Hammersley–Clifford theorem. What follows is a formal definition for the special case of a random field on a lattice. The idea of a Gibbs measure is, however, much more general than this. The definition of a Gibbs random field on a lattice requires some terminology: We interpret as the contribution to the total energy (the Hamiltonian)