SPHEREDIST is the jSphere module of jLab.

 SPHEREDIST  Computes great circle distances on a sphere.
 
    D=SPHEREDIST(LAT1,LON1,LAT2,LON2) computes arc length in kilometers 
    along a great circle on the earth from the point with latitude and
    longitude coordinates LAT1 and LON1 to the point LAT2 and LON2. 
   
    All input arguments should be arrays of the same size, or else either
    LAT1,LON1 or LAT2,LON2 should be scalars.
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    Cumulative distance
 
    With two input arguments, SPHEREDIST instead returns the cumulative
    distance from the first point in each column.
 
    D=SPHEREDIST(LAT,LON) where LAT and LON are 2D arrays of the same size,
    computes the cumulative great circle distance along each row.
 
    The great circle distance between adjacent LAT/LON points are cumputed,
    and these are then cumsummed to generate the cumulative distance D.
 
    In this case, SPHEREDIST can accommodate NaNs at the top of each row,
    and will begin with the first non-NaN value.  Any interior NaNs however
    will cause all subsequent output values in that row to also be NaNs.
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    The Earth is approximated as a sphere of radius RADEARTH.
 
    D=SPHEREDIST(...,R) instead uses a sphere of radius R, in kilometers.
 
    'spheredist --t' runs a test.
 
    Usage:  d=spheredist(lat,lon,lato,lono); 
            d=spheredist(lat,lon); 
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