Multi-Level Wind Model

[christophfroehlich]

As described in the Wiki , the current wind speed + direction is calculated at the current altitude by using a linear interpolation separately in North/East direction.

Considering changing directions of different wind layers, is the cartesian component-wise interpolation the best choice? If the wind changes directions by 180°, is there zero wind in between?

• Should we use polar coordinates for interpolation, i.e., wind speed and direction? How does one solve the correct 2-pi interpolation?
• Is there a more elaborate theory on how the wind can change with altitude?

[christophfroehlich]

We should have a look at this, which seems to be some great stuff:
https://docs.rocketpy.org/en/latest/notebooks/environment_class_usage.html#Using-Weather-Forecasts-and-Reanalysis

[christophfroehlich]

I added rocketpy to the wiki for downloading environmental data.
Rocketpy also interpolates u/v components individually like we do
https://github.com/Projeto-Jupiter/RocketPy/blob/1dcc42d055c1976843eae1587e209db65ffb3a06/rocketpy/Environment.py#L1361-L1364
--> our interpolation seems to make sense and we have to rely on a sufficiently low spacing of the wind model entries