Pixel size iteration for loop
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I'm trying to calculate the area of a pixel (1 deg x 1 deg) on a spherical figure (earth) based on the equation
Aring = 2πR^2|sin(lat1) − sin(lat2)| (R=6371 km^2)
for latitudes between -90 and 90. I think I need to implement some sort of for loop such as below. I think my lack of knowledge on the use of for loops is causing me error when implementing this code. I'm trying to output a matrix that has the area for a ring around the earth between every degree of latitude (180x360). Can anyone help point me in the right direction?
for ii = -90:90
AreaArray(ii,:) = 2*pi*(6371^2)*abs(sin(ii*pi/180)-sin((ii-1)*pi/180))
end
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Walter Roberson
le 2 Oct 2016
There is nothing obviously wrong with that loop.
If you have not initialized AreaArray before you start the for loop, then because the right hand side is a scalar, you would end up creating a column vector of values.
If you initialize AreaArray to have multiple columns, then each iteration of the for loop will set all of those columns for a row to be copies of the same value, as many copies as you have columns. As the formula appears to be independent of longitude that should be fine.
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Walter Roberson
le 3 Oct 2016
iivals = -90:90;
for idx = 1 : length(iivals)
ii = iivals(idx);
AreaArray(idx,:) = 2*pi*(6371^2)*abs(sin(ii*pi/180)-sin((ii-1)*pi/180));
end
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