GreatCircleDistanceFromLongLat: Great circle distance from a set of coordinates

In laurasoul/dispeRse: Models For Paleobiogeography

Description

Returns great circle distance in kilometres from a two longitude-latitude points

Usage

GreatCircleDistanceFromLongLat(
  long1,
  lat1,
  long2,
  lat2,
  EarthRad = 6367.4447,
  Warn = TRUE
)

Arguments

long1	Decimalised longitude for first point.
lat1	Decimalised latitude for first point.
long2	Decimalised longitude for second point.
lat2	Decimalised latitude for second point.
EarthRad	Radius of the Earth in kilometres.
Warn	Whether or not to print warnings.

Details

Nothing yet.

Value

Great circle distance in kilometres.

Author(s)

Graeme T. Lloyd [e-mail]

Examples

# Return one-degree of latitude (approximately 111 kilometres):
GreatCircleDistanceFromLongLat(0, 0, 0, 1)

laurasoul/dispeRse documentation built on May 25, 2021, 4:50 a.m.