Source code for geoid_toolkit.gravity_disturbance

#!/usr/bin/env python
u"""
gravity_disturbance.py
Written by Tyler Sutterley (04/2022)
Calculates the gravity disturbance at a given latitude and longitude

CALLING SEQUENCE:
    geoid = gravity_disturbance(lat, lon, h, 'WGS84', clm, slm, lmax, R, GM)

INPUT:
    latitude: latitude in degrees
    longitude: latitude in degrees
    h: ellipsoidal height
    refell: reference ellipsoid specified in ref_ellipsoid.py
        CLK66 = Clarke 1866
        GRS67 = Geodetic Reference System 1967
        GRS80 = Geodetic Reference System 1980
        WGS72 = World Geodetic System 1972
        WGS84 = World Geodetic System 1984
        ATS77 = Quasi-earth centred ellipsoid for ATS77
        NAD27 = North American Datum 1927
        NAD83 = North American Datum 1983
        INTER = International
        KRASS = Krassovsky (USSR)
        MAIRY = Modified Airy (Ireland 1965/1975)
        TOPEX = TOPEX/POSEIDON ellipsoid
        EGM96 = EGM 1996 gravity model
    clm: cosine spherical harmonics for a gravity model
    slm: sine spherical harmonics for a gravity model
    lmax: maximum spherical harmonic degree
    R: average radius used in gravity model
    GM: geocentric gravitational constant used in gravity model

OUTPUT:
    gravity disturbance for a given ellipsoid in meters

OPTIONS:
    GAUSS: Gaussian Smoothing Radius in km (default is no filtering)

PYTHON DEPENDENCIES:
    numpy: Scientific Computing Tools For Python
        https://numpy.org
        https://numpy.org/doc/stable/user/numpy-for-matlab-users.html

PROGRAM DEPENDENCIES:
    real_potential.py: real potential at a latitude and height for gravity model
    norm_potential.py: normal potential of an ellipsoid at a latitude and height
    ref_ellipsoid.py: Computes parameters for a reference ellipsoid
    gauss_weights.py: Computes Gaussian weights as a function of degree

REFERENCE:
    Hofmann-Wellenhof and Moritz, "Physical Geodesy" (2005)
        http://www.springerlink.com/content/978-3-211-33544-4
    Barthelmes, "Definition of Functionals of the Geopotential and Their
        Calculation from Spherical Harmonic Models", STR09/02 (2009)
        http://icgem.gfz-potsdam.de/str-0902-revised.pdf
    Moazezi and Zomorrodian, "GGMCalc a software for calculation of the geoid
        undulation and the height anomaly using the iteration method, and
        classical gravity anomaly", Earth Science Informatics (2012)
        https://doi.org/10.1007/s12145-012-0102-2

UPDATE HISTORY:
    Updated 04/2022: updated docstrings to numpy documentation format
    Updated 01/2021: added function docstrings
    Updated 07/2017: added Gaussian smoothing with option GAUSS
    Written 07/2017
"""
from geoid_toolkit.real_potential import real_potential
from geoid_toolkit.norm_potential import norm_potential

[docs] def gravity_disturbance(lat,lon,h,refell,clm,slm,lmax,R,GM,GAUSS=0): """ Calculates the gravity disturbance following :cite:t:`Barthelmes:2013fy,HofmannWellenhof:2006hy,Moazezi:2012fb,Molodensky:1958jv` Parameters ---------- lat: float latitude in degrees lon: float longitude in degrees h: float ellipsoidal height in meters refell: str Reference ellipsoid name - ``'CLK66'``: Clarke 1866 - ``'GRS67'``: Geodetic Reference System 1967 - ``'GRS80'``: Geodetic Reference System 1980 - ``'HGH80'``: Hughes 1980 Ellipsoid - ``'WGS72'``: World Geodetic System 1972 - ``'WGS84'``: World Geodetic System 1984 - ``'ATS77'``: Quasi-earth centred ellipsoid for ATS77 - ``'NAD27'``: North American Datum 1927 - ``'NAD83'``: North American Datum 1983 - ``'INTER'``: International - ``'KRASS'``: Krassovsky (USSR) - ``'MAIRY'``: Modified Airy (Ireland 1965/1975) - ``'TOPEX'``: TOPEX/POSEIDON ellipsoid - ``'EGM96'``: EGM 1996 gravity model clm: float cosine spherical harmonics for a gravity model slm: float sine spherical harmonics for a gravity model lmax: int maximum spherical harmonic degree R: float average radius used in gravity model GM: float geocentric gravitational constant used in gravity model GAUSS: float, default 0 Gaussian Smoothing Radius in km Returns ------- delta_g_h: float gravity disturbance for a given ellipsoid in meters """ # calculate the real and normal potentials at a given height W,dWdr = real_potential(lat,lon,h,refell,clm,slm,lmax,R,GM,GAUSS=GAUSS) U,dUdr,dUdt = norm_potential(lat,lon,h,refell,lmax) delta_g_h = -(dWdr - dUdr) return delta_g_h