sea_surface_wind_wave_to_direction

The phrase "to_direction" is used in the construction X_to_direction and indicates the direction towards which the velocity vector of X is headed. The direction is a bearing in the usual geographical sense, measured positive clockwise from due north. Wind waves are waves on the ocean surface and are the high frequency portion of a bimodal wave frequency spectrum.

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Proposal: Roy Lowry / Elodie Fernandez [Wave Direction, Energy and Steepness Sub]

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direction_of_wind_wave_velocity

"direction_of_X" means direction of a vector, a bearing. A velocity is a vector quantity. 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.)

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