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This concept has been deprecated.

Preferred term

direction_of_wind_wave_velocity  

Definition

  • Wind waves are waves on the ocean surface. Wind is defined as a two-dimensional (horizontal) air velocity vector, with no vertical component. (Vertical motion in the atmosphere has the standard name upward_air_velocity.) 'to_direction' is used in the construction X_to_direction and indicates the direction towards which the velocity vector of X is headed.

Note

  • deprecated

URI

https://vocab.met.no/CFSTDN/direction_of_wind_wave_velocity

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