Anemometer constant torque and responded more quickly to gusts than the four-cup anemometer. The three-cup anemometer was further modified by the Australian Dr. Derek Weston in 1991 to measure both wind direction and wind speed. Weston added a tag to one cup, which causes the cupwheel speed to increase and decrease as the tag moves alternately with and against the wind. Wind direction is calculated from these cyclical changes in cupwheel speed, while wind speed is determined from the average cupwheel speed. Three-cup anemometers are currently used as the industry standard for wind resource assessment studies & practice. One of the
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)