Unidata / MetPy

MetPy is a collection of tools in Python for reading, visualizing and performing calculations with weather data.
https://unidata.github.io/MetPy/
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Add Vector helper #537

Open dopplershift opened 7 years ago

dopplershift commented 7 years ago

After seeing some of the complexities in implementing storm motion and shear, it seems like we need a Vector container to make it simpler to group vector components.

dopplershift commented 6 years ago

Thought I might need this for gradient, but I see that it doesn't really make sense since the semantics for the order of components of gradient can't be reliably tied to x,y,z (yet at least), so I think it's better to just return them as a tuple. Punting this from the milestone...