Re: Oceanography: streamfunction?

Dennis Shea wrote:
> An oceanographer sent me the following [edited]:
> ---
> Assuming you are referring to the barotropic streamfunction. Computing
> this requires solving an elliptic equation, the details of which depend
> significantly on how one discretizes the differential operators that
> would be applied to u and v. If u and v are from a model, you would
> somehow need to inform the streamfunction solver of the model
> discretizations. I think it would be very challenging to write a general
> purpose tool for this task. (Our model computes this diagnostic online
> for the history files so that it doesn't have to be computed offline.)
> ----
>
>>> On 3/3/11 7:42 AM, Elodie Burrillon wrote:
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> NCL-team, do you plan to build a function that computes the
>>>> streamfunction from u and v ?
>>>>
Hi All

These days Google is the mother of invention.
Would this help?

http://www-pord.ucsd.edu/~matlab/stream.htm

And what Matlab can do, NCL can do as well, can't it? :)

Cheers,
Gus Correa

>>>> NCL-users, does anyone already built such a function or code?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks in advance,
>>>>
>>>> Elodie
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