Ask yourself a question: if there was no wind power industry, and we had to start one from scratch today, what would it look like? How would we do things differently? With all the tools now available to us, which of our established procedures would turn out to be matters of consistency rather than correctness? Which objectives do we pursue through habit rather than relevance?

Wind is a complicated phenomenon, describing the advection of air in accordance with atmospheric physics, terrain conditions, fluid dynamics, and so on, a vector field varying in time and space.