UV2LATLON is the jOceans module of jLab.

 UV2LATLON  Integrates horizontal velocity to give latitude and longitude.
 
    [LAT,LON]=UV2LATLON(NUM,U,V,LATO,LONO) where NUM is the data in DATENUM
    format, integates velocities U and V from intial location (LATO,LONO)
    to form a trajectory on the earth described by LAT and LON.  
 
    LATO and LONO are an initial latitude and longitude in degrees,
    and U and V are eastward and northward velocity components in cm/s. 
 
    NUM, U, and V may be column vectors, in which case LATO and LONO are 
    both scalars.  Alternatively U and V may be matrices with time oriented
    in rows.  NUM is then either an array of length SIZE(U,1), or a matrix
    of the same size as U and V, while LATO and LONO are either scalars or 
    arrays of length SIZE(U,2). 
 
    [LAT,LON]=UV2LATLON(NUM,CV,LATO,LONO), where CV is the complex-valued
    velocity CV=U+SQRT(-1)*V, also works.
 
    UV2LATLON is inverted by LATLON2UV.  
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    Cell array input / output
 
    UV2LATLON returns cell array output given cell array input.  
 
    That is, if NUM, U, and V, are all cell arrays of length K, containing
    K different numerical arrays, then the output will also be cell arrays
    of length K.  
 
    In this case LATO and LONO are either scalars, or arrays of length K.
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    Algorithm
 
    UV2LATLON works by converting the velocity at the current point into 
    a vector in 3D Cartesian coordinates, using SPHERE2UVW, finding the new
    location in 3D space, and then converting this back into latitude 
    and longitude using XYZ2LATLON, and then interating for the next point.
 
    By default, UV2LATLON uses a forward integration from an initial point. 
    This inverts LATLON2UV(...,'forward') to a high degree of precision for
    typical drifter and float velocity values and sampling intervals.
 
    UV2LATLON(NUM,CV,LATF,LONF,'backward') instead uses a *backward* 
    integration, and LATF and LONF are now the *final* points rather than 
    the initial points.  This inverts LATLON2UV(...,'backward'). 
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    See also XY2LATLON, LATLON2XY, LATLON2UV.
 
    'uv2latlon --t' runs a test.
 
    Usage: [lat,lon]=uv2latlon(num,u,v,lato,lono);
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    This is part of JLAB --- type 'help jlab' for more information
    (C) 2014 J.M. Lilly --- type 'help jlab_license' for details

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