ncl_css2c - Man Page

convert from Cartesian to lat/lon coordinates

Synopsis

CALL CSS2C (N, RLAT, RLON, X, Y, Z)

Description

N

(integer, input) The number of coordinates to convert.

RLAT

(real, input) The latitudes of the input coordinates, in degrees.

RLON

(real, input) The longitudes of the input coordinates, in degrees.

X,Y,Z

(real, output) The Cartesian coordinates of the output points.

Usage

CSS2C is called to find equivalent Cartesian coordinates on the unit sphere to latitude and  longitude coordinates. The coordinate 0. degrees latitude and 0. degrees longitude  is mapped to the Cartesian coordinate (1., 0.,0.).

Access

To use CSS2C, load the NCAR Graphics library ngmath.

See Also

css_overview, cssgrid, csc2s.

Complete documentation for Cssgrid is available at URL
http://ngwww.ucar.edu/ngdoc/ng/ngmath/cssgrid/csshome.html

Info

May 2000 UNIX NCAR GRAPHICS