Re: Lat lon points representing a great circle.

From: Dennis Shea (shea AT cgd.ucar.edu)
Date: Wed Aug 18 2004 - 14:51:44 MDT


>I have been playing around with plotting tracks on a map and have had great
>success thanks to help from this list but I was wondering if there was a way
>to get lat lon points that correspond to a great circle path between two
>points.
>
>I would like to not only plot the map but also plot some of the lat lon
>points along the track.

http://ngwww.ucar.edu/ngdoc/ng/ref/ncl/functions/gc_latlon.html

This function calculates the great circle distance between two points on the
surface of the globe. It also calculates the latitudes and longitudes of points
on this great circle route.

You can specify the number of lat/lon pts

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