Rotational velocity (angular velocity). Often used to describe the rate of a turn of a vehicle or glider.
Units can vary but are degrees per unit time such as degrees per minute or degrees per second.
Dataset | PI-Supplied Description | PI-Supplied Name |
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Subsurface data from ABLE deployments in the upwelling region of the west coast of northern California from 2016-2018 | angular velocity in x direction (0) | Ang_VelX |
Subsurface data from ABLE deployments in the upwelling region of the west coast of northern California from 2016-2018 | angular velocity in y direction (0) | Ang_VelY |
Subsurface data from ABLE deployments in the upwelling region of the west coast of northern California from 2016-2018 | angular velocity in z direction (0) | Ang_VelZ |
Honey Badger (Wave Glider) tracking data from the Automatic Identification Sensor (AIS) collected in the North Pacific gyre in 2015 (MAGI project) | Rotational velocity (rate of turn) | rot |