How to Calculate Wind Direction from Wind Components?

This video explains how to calculate wind direction if we know two wind components. The wind components are zonal (eastward positive) and meridional (northward positive). The relationship between wind direction and polar coordinate angle (azimuth) is also provided. We also calculate wind magnitude from wind components using the Pythagorean theorem.

Chapters:
0:00 Goals
1:07 Rad to deg & deg to rad
2:41 Wind components in Cartesian and polar coordinates
4:50 Wind magnitude from wind components
5:37 Wind direction from wind components
10:11 Table with examples
12:33 You must!

Thumbnail: modifed image by Sasin Tipchai from Pixabay.

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[elaine_qqliu]

What a great video. Thank you a lot for creating the content!

[primoagoeng]

thanks for the video! so if i have this clear, u 1 and v 1 = 225 degree, thus the wind coming from SW and wind going to NE

[sarahroffe]

Such a helpful video. Thanks! A question... If you're working with wind vector anomalies, is it correct to first calculate the u and v wind anomalies to then calculate the anomalous wind vector?