direction and speed

Dear all members,

I am working in ship board adcp program. I calculated the speed and direction from the u,v values.But my doubt is how i  will analyze  currents  from these  two values.Please send me suggestions about my problem. 

In general, it is difficult to perform any form of analyses on speed and direction values.  I am not quite sure why, but one problem of course is that they are non-linear values.

Best regards, Atle Lohrmann

Thank you for given reply.How to analyze the currents in the ocean.What are the parameters require for the analyzing the currents.If you have any papers

about this topic please send to this mail.

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with regards ,srinivas

Previously Atle Lohrmann wrote:

In general, it is difficult to perform any form of analyses on speed and direction values.  I am not quite sure why, but one problem of course is that they are non-linear values.

Best regards, Atle Lohrmann

Dear Srinivas

It really depends on what you aim to accomplish. My suggestion is to search a place like amazon.com for books on oceanography and ocean currents.  They have the litterature you may be looking for.

Best regards, Atle Lohrmann