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This concept has been deprecated.

Preferred term

grid_northward_wind  

Is replaced by

Definition

  • 'y' indicates a vector component along the grid y-axis, when this is not true latitude, positive with increasing y. 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.)

Note

  • deprecated

URI

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

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