read_topography_harmonics
Reads the coefficients for a given topographic model file
Calling Sequence
from geoid_toolkit.read_topography_harmonics import read_topography_harmonics
Ylms = read_topography_harmonics(model_file)
- geoid_toolkit.read_topography_harmonics(model_file)[source]
Reads Earth 2014 topography harmonics from Rexer et al. [10]
- Parameters:
- model_file: str
full path to file with spherical harmonic coefficients
- Returns:
- l: int
spherical harmonic degree of model
- m: int
spherical harmonic order to maximum degree of model
- clm: float
cosine spherical harmonics of topographic data
- slm: float
sine spherical harmonics of topographic data
- modelname: str
name of the topography model
- density: float
density of the Earth for the topography model