Generalized Discrete Spherical Harmonic Transforms

Journal of Computational Physics

Volumn 159, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 213-230

  Swarztrauber, Paul N ^a   Spotz, William F ^a  

^a NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HARMONIC ANALYSIS; ORTHOGONAL FUNCTIONS;

ARBITRARY DISTRIBUTION; ASSOCIATED LEGENDRE FUNCTIONS; DISCRETE FUNCTIONS; GAUSSIANS; GENERALISATION; GEOPHYSICAL PHENOMENA; ROUND-OFF ERRORS; SPECTRAL SPACES; SPHERICAL HARMONIC TRANSFORMS; WEIGHTED INNER PRODUCTS;

LEAST SQUARES APPROXIMATIONS;

EID: 0038347892     PISSN: 00219991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jcph.2000.6431     Document Type: Article

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