Anemometer trees, and both natural canyons and artificial canyons (urban buildings). The standard anemometer height in open rural terrain is 10 meters. Anemometer An anemometer is a device used for measuring wind speed, and is also a common weather station instrument. The term is derived from the Greek word "anemos", which means wind, and is used to describe any wind speed instrument used in meteorology. The first known description of an anemometer was given by Leon Battista Alberti in 1450. The anemometer has changed little since its development in the 15th century. Leon Battista Alberti (1404–1472) is said to have invented
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)