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Eko Susilo
Eko Susilo

Reputation: 250

calculate atan2 from two raster object in R?

I have to raster object (u and v) download here . I want to calculate the direction of the velocity based on this equation below

u <- brick('D:/uv.nc', varname = 'U')
v <- brick('D:/uv.nc', varname = 'V')
ws <- sqrt(u^2+v^2)
wd <- (180/pi)*(atan2(u,v))

Unfortunately, I get an error message below:

Error in atan2(y, x) : Non-numeric argument to mathematical function

Then, I refer to atan2 {raster} and create a simple raster object below and work fine..

r1 <- r2 <- raster(nrow=10, ncol=10)
r1[] <- (runif(ncell(r1))-0.5) * 10
r2[] <- (runif(ncell(r1))-0.5) * 10
atan2(r1, r2)

Upvotes: 1

Views: 244

Answers (1)

Robert Hijmans
Robert Hijmans

Reputation: 47091

raster::atan2 is only implemented for RasterLayer objects, not for a RasterBrick. I have rectified that in version 2.5-5 (under development on R-Forge). With the current version you need to use a loop:

assuming that nlayers(u) == nlayers(v)

a <- list()
for (i in 1:nlayers(u)) {
   a[[i]] <- atan2(u[[i]],v[[i]])
}
a <- stack(a)

wd <- (180/pi) * a

Upvotes: 1

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