EOF's can be done in Octave as well RE: SAVE in EOF analysis

[Lev Tarasov <lev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, 28 Sep 2003, Billy Kessler wrote:
..
> Another possibility is that such techniques may be
> available in Matlab, which is very good with this
> kind of thing. Much as I value Ferret, there are some
> calculations, especially matrix manipulation, for which
> Matlab is inherently better. The routines in the Ferret

Octave is an open-source partial clone of Matlab, and I
use it to complement ferret for things like non-standard
EOFs (eg to orthogonalize inter-model variance) which are
very easy to do in Octave (and Matlab).

cheers

Lev