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

Journal of Geodesy

Volumn 81, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 603-615

  Jekeli, Christopher ^a   Lee, Jong Ki ^a   Kwon, Jay H ^b  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b University of Seoul   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Legendre functions; Recursion formulas; Spherical harmonic series

Indexed keywords

EARTH ROTATION; GEODESY; GRAVITY FIELD; SPHERICAL HARMONICS;

EID: 34548250991     PISSN: 09497714     EISSN: 14321394     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00190-006-0123-z     Document Type: Article

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