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Re: Overlaying gridded winds on satellite data [message #44909 is a reply to message #44816]

Fri, 22 July 2005 00:31

Chris Lee
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Registered: August 2003

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In article <DFODe.15$ce4.7452@news.uswest.net>, "R.G. Stockwell"
<no@email.please> wrote:

> "Christopher Lee" <cl@127.0.0.1> wrote in message
> news:20050721.082817.1875335928.19310@buckley.atm.ox.ac.uk.. .
>> Wind barbs point in the direction the wind is coming FROM. Hence the
>> terms westward (winds coming from the west) and eastward (winds coming
>> from the east) etc.
> You forgot to include the minus sign out front. :) Eastward blows
> towards the east. Eastward = Westerly (out of the West). Colin Hines,
> the great Canadian Physicist, had a great line about the confusion
> between this terminology. I don't remember what it was, so I'll make
> one up.
>

Yeah, uh, oops. I meant eastertly and westerly...obviously :) I'm sure
the first `draft' was worded differently.

Chris.

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		Overlaying gridded winds on satellite data By: Chris[3] on Tue, 19 July 2005 21:17
		Re: Overlaying gridded winds on satellite data By: K. Bowman on Fri, 22 July 2005 09:56
		Re: Overlaying gridded winds on satellite data By: Chris Lee on Fri, 22 July 2005 00:33
		Re: Overlaying gridded winds on satellite data By: Chris Lee on Fri, 22 July 2005 00:31
		Re: Overlaying gridded winds on satellite data By: Mark Hadfield on Thu, 21 July 2005 16:00
		Re: Overlaying gridded winds on satellite data By: David Fanning on Thu, 21 July 2005 08:03
		Re: Overlaying gridded winds on satellite data By: R.G. Stockwell on Thu, 21 July 2005 07:53
		Re: Overlaying gridded winds on satellite data By: Chris Lee on Thu, 21 July 2005 00:28
		Re: Overlaying gridded winds on satellite data By: Chris[3] on Wed, 20 July 2005 14:52
		Re: Overlaying gridded winds on satellite data By: David Fanning on Wed, 20 July 2005 14:44

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