CANONICAL MARINE PARAMETER
Wind direction
Direction from which the wind is blowing, measured clockwise from true north.
- Canonical key
wind_direction_from- Parameter family
- Marine atmosphere
- Scientific category
- Atmosphere
- Canonical unit
- degree
- CF standard name / vocabulary
- wind_from_direction
- Vertical domain
- atmosphere near surface
- Required qualifiers
- direction_convention=from; true/magnetic north
- Merge policy
- MERGE
- Mapped sources
- 7
Marine observation sources
The following registered sources have indexed metadata mappings for this parameter. Consult the registry details for each mapping's verification and review status.
- NOAA National Data Buoy Center (NDBC) NOAA NDBC
- GTMBA: TAO/TRITON + PIRATA + RAMA NOAA PMEL and international partners
- OceanSITES OceanSITES / GDACs
- ICOADS NOAA NCEI + international partners
- Copernicus Marine Global In-Situ Copernicus Marine Service
- PANGAEA Alfred Wegener Institute / MARUM
- NOAA CoastWatch NOAA NESDIS / CoastWatch