matrix multiplication question

From: Sam McClatchie (NOAA Federal) <sam.mcclatchie_at_nyahnyahspammersnyahnyah>
Date: Fri Jun 21 2013 - 14:17:00 MDT

Colleagues

I am being a bit thick about how to code a matrix multiplication (#),
and request your help.

I have an array with three coordinate variables: time, latitude, and
longitude

ncl 14> print(dimsizes(curl))
(0) 557
(1) 31
(2) 26

I want to multiply each of the curl values at each unique latitude by
1/(rho * f(i))
where:
rho = 1024 ; kg m^-3
f = 2 * omega * sin(latitude) ; Coriolis parameter
and omega = 7.27*10^-5 ; units = s^-1

ncl 15> print(dimsizes(f))
(0) 31

The temptation is to use a do loop and then stack the matrices by time
steps, but I know there is a better way using vectorization.

Thanks, Sam

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