The spherical Slepian basis as a means to obtain spectral consistency between mean sea level and the geoid

Journal of Geodesy

Volumn 86, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 609-628

  Slobbe, D C ^a   Simons, F J ^b   Klees, R ^a  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Filtering; Geoid; Gram Schmidt; Mean dynamic topography; Mean sea level; Orthogonal basis functions; Slepian basis; Spectral consistency

Indexed keywords

DATA SET; GEOID; GRAVIMETRY; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; SPECTRAL ANALYSIS; SPHERICAL HARMONICS; TOPOGRAPHY;

EID: 84864371762     PISSN: 09497714     EISSN: 14321394     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00190-012-0543-x     Document Type: Article

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