Spherical cap harmonics revisited and their relationship to ordinary spherical harmonics

Physics and Chemistry of the Earth, Part A: Solid Earth and Geodesy

Volumn 24, Issue 11-12, 1999, Pages 935-941

  De Santis, A ^a   Torta, J M ^b   Lowes, F J ^c  

^a ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI GEOFISICA E VULCANOLOGIA   (Italy)

^b CSIC URL Observatorio de Fisica Cosmica del Ebro OE   (Spain)

^c NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GEOMAGNETIC FIELD; SPHERICAL HARMONICS;

EID: 0033387882     PISSN: 14641895     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1464-1895(99)00138-6     Document Type: Article

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