How to caculate wind speed at 10m using U and V in CCSM4

[lixia@lzb_ac_cn]

Hi，I want to use the wind speed data at 10m in CCSM4. The only existing datasets are U and V with many levels. How could I caculate wind speed at 10m using U and V?Thank you very much. Lixia

 

[1155082897@link_cuhk_edu_hk]

Hi lixia,From what I know, u wind an v wind are the zonal and meridonal winds. In order to derive the magnitude of the wind speed (and lose its direction), you just need to write a code to find the root mean square speed of both the u and v wind at every data point, which is as follows:sqroot(v^2+u^2)RStudio will be a good program to use.