how to convert wind direction to degrees?
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Hi all, I am working with wind speed and direction but the last is in form of compass, thus it required to convert it to degrees. could anyone kindly help me?
thank you in advance.
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Robert
on 24 Aug 2016
You could store the names and values in arrays and look up the angle corresponding to the matching name.
directionValues = 0:22.5:337.5
directionNames = {'N','NNE','NE','ENE','E','ESE','SE','SSE','S','SSW','SW','WSW','W','WNW','NW','NNW'};
directionValues(strcmp(directionNames,'NNW'))
Better yet, put that in an anonymous function
compass2degree = @(dirName) directionValues(strcmp(directionNames,dirName));
compass2degree('ESE')
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Thorsten
on 24 Aug 2016
Edited: Thorsten
on 24 Aug 2016
Set up a list of compass wind directions and corresponding angles in deg:
D = {'N'; 'E'; 'S'; 'W'}; Ddeg = [0; 90; 180; 270];
If you need more compass wind directions, just add them to D and Ddeg.
Create a table with compass wind directions as row names, and one column containing the corresponding angles in deg:
T = table(Ddeg);
T.Properties.RowNames = D;
T.Properties.VariableNames = {'deg'};
So you have
>> T
T =
deg
___
N 0
E 90
S 180
W 270
Now if you have a cell of different compass wind directions
myD = {'N' 'N' 'E' 'W' 'S'}
you can use this array as index into your table to get the corresponding angles in deg:
T(myD,:).deg
ans =
0
0
90
270
180
Robert Daly
on 30 Nov 2023
Updated answer using the dictionary data type added since R2022b. Intro to dictionaries blog
Dictionaries are vectorised so you can input a cell array of cardinal directions and it will return and array of corresponding wind angles in degrees.
Degrees = [0,0:22.5:337.5]'
Direction = {'','N','NNE','NE','ENE','E','ESE','SE','SSE','S','SSW','SW','WSW','W','WNW','NW','NNW'}';
Cardinal = dictionary(Direction,Degrees)
WindDir = {'NNE','N','SSE','S','SSW','NE','ENE'}
WindDeg = Cardinal(Wind)
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