oceanspy.compute.horizontal_divergence_velocity
- oceanspy.compute.horizontal_divergence_velocity(od)[source]
Compute horizontal divergence of the velocity field.
\[\nabla_{H} \cdot {\bf u} = \frac{\partial u}{\partial x} +\frac{\partial v}{\partial y}\]- Parameters:
- od: OceanDataset
oceandataset used to compute.
- Returns:
- ds: xarray.Dataset
- hor_div_vel: horizontal divergence of the velocity field
See also
References
Numerical Method: https://mitgcm.readthedocs.io/en/latest/algorithm/algorithm.html#horizontal-divergence