% MATLAB script: coriolis.m (uses function traje.m) % Script to compute constant angular momentum trajectories in spherical % coordinates % black diamond on plot marks initial position of particle close all disp('Initial longitude is zero. Specify latitude and speed when asked.') init_lat = input('Specify an initial latitude in degrees '); u0 = input('Specify a zonal wind in m/s ' ); v0 = input('Specify a meridional wind in m/s '); rad= 6.37e6; omega=7.292e-5; lat0 = pi*init_lat/180.; runtime = input('Specify integration time in days '); time = runtime*24.*3600.; options = odeset('RelTol', 1.e-6); [t,x] = ode45('traje',[0 time],[u0 v0 0 lat0],options,rad,omega); long = x(:,3)*180/pi; %converts longitude to degrees lat = x(:,4)*180./pi; %converts latitude to degrees A1 = -1+min(long); A2 =1+max(long); A3 = -1+min(lat); A4 = 1+max(lat); figure(1) plot(long,lat) axis([A1 A2 A3 A4]) xlabel ('longitude') ylabel ('latitude') title('Trajectory') hold on plot(long(1),lat(1),'kd')