wind_direction#
- metpy.calc.wind_direction(u, v, convention='from')#
Compute the wind direction from u and v-components.
- Parameters
u (
pint.Quantity
) – Wind component in the X (East-West) directionv (
pint.Quantity
) – Wind component in the Y (North-South) directionconvention (str) – Convention to return direction; ‘from’ returns the direction the wind is coming from (meteorological convention), ‘to’ returns the direction the wind is going towards (oceanographic convention), default is ‘from’.
- Returns
direction (
pint.Quantity
) – The direction of the wind in intervals [0, 360] degrees, with 360 being North, direction defined by the convention kwarg.
See also
Notes
In the case of calm winds (where u and v are zero), this function returns a direction of 0.