Curvilinear Grids

Curvilinear Grids#

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Fig. 2 A curvilinear grid.#

Curvilinear grids look just like rectilinear grids, except that the arrangement of points does not follow straight lines anymore. This is often the effect of expressing the sampling points in a different projection.

Since the grid points don’t stay on the coordinate axes anymore, we need to store the coordinates as two 2D arrays.