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

DOI10.1007/S00190-006-0123-ZMaRDI QIDQ2477787zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Christopher Jekeli, Jong-Ki Lee, 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

Earth's gravitational fieldLegendre functionsnumerical examplesrecursion formulasspherical harmonic series

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

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• On computing ellipsoidal harmonics using Jekeli's renormalization
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