New values for geopotential harmonic coefficients of order 30 and even degree
Abstract
A recent analysis of the orbit of the satellite 1967-102B as it passed through 15th-order resonance has yielded new and more accurate values of lumped 30th-order harmonics in the geopotential. These values have been used, together with eleven sets of values previously available, to derive improved values for geopotential harmonics of order 30 and degree 30, 32, 34,…, 40 : their average standard deviation is equivalent to an error in geoid height of 1.2 cm.
- Publication:
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Planetary and Space Science
- Pub Date:
- March 1990
- DOI:
- 10.1016/0032-0633(90)90106-Z
- Bibcode:
- 1990P&SS...38..407K
- Keywords:
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- Geopotential;
- Harmonics;
- Satellite Orbits;
- Geoids;
- Gravitational Fields;
- Geophysics