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4.1.3 Rotated Grids: S (X) Equals 1 If X 0, and 0 Otherwise
4.1.3 Rotated Grids: S (X) Equals 1 If X 0, and 0 Otherwise
PHYSICAL MODEL
Implementation
The type of horizontal grid is selected with the switch iopt grid htype:
1: uniform rectangular
2: non-uniform rectangular
3: fully curvilinear
where S(x) is the Sign function1 . The backward transformation formulae are
h i
φ = arcsin sin φp sin φ0 + cos φp cos φ0 cos λ0 (4.12)
h sin φ cos φ0 cos λ0 − cos φ sin φ0 i
p p
λ = S(sin λ0 ) arccos + λp − S(λp )π
cos φ
(4.13)
The coordinates of the grid nodes in the new coordinate grid are deter-
mined by (4.9) with (λ, φ, ∆λ, ∆φ) replaced by (λ0 , φ0 , ∆λ0 , ∆φ0 ). The loca-
tion of the new North pole is obtained by defining two additional parameters
• The first is the grid rotation angle α defined as the angle between the
geographical and new equator. It is easily seen that α = 900 − φp . Note
that 0 < α < 1800 .
1
S(x) equals 1 if x ≥ 0, and 0 otherwise.