On the computation and approximation of ultra-high-degree spherical harmonic series

DOI10.1007/S00190-006-0123-ZzbMath1134.65333OpenAlexW2045248339MaRDI QIDQ2477787

Jong-Ki Lee, Christopher Jekeli, Jay H. Kwon

Publication date: 14 March 2008

Published in: Journal of Geodesy (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00190-006-0123-z

zbMATH Keywords

numerical examplesLegendre functionsrecursion formulasEarth's gravitational fieldspherical harmonic series

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Computation of special functions and constants, construction of tables (65D20) Computational methods for problems pertaining to geophysics (86-08) Other special orthogonal polynomials and functions (33C47) Potentials, prospecting (86A20) Numerical approximation and evaluation of special functions (33F05)

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