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SHReadJPL

Read spherical harmonic coefficients from a JPL ascii-formatted file.

Usage

cilm, error, lmax, gm = pyshtools.SHReadJPL (filename, lmaxin, [formatstring])

Returns

cilm : float, dimension (2, lmaxin+1, lmaxin+1)
The spherical harmonic coefficients contained in filename.
error : float, dimension (2, lmaxin+1, lmaxin+1)
The uncertainties associated with the spherical harmonic coefficients contained in filename.
lmax : integer
The maximum spherical harmonic degree of cilm.
gm : float, dimension(2)
The mass-gravitational constant and error.

Parameters

filename : character(*)
The filename of the JPL ascii-formatted spherical harmonic coefficients.
lmaxin : integer
This spherical harmonic degree controls the dimension of the output array cilm. The coefficients between lmax+1 and lmaxin will be set to zero.
formatstring : character*6, optional, default = "E19.12"
The format string used to read the elements of cilm and error. The default is "E19.12".

Description

SHReadJPL will read spherical harmonic coefficients from a JPL ascii formatted file into an array cilm. The real numbers are assumed to be formated with the specifier E19.12, but this can be changed by specifiying the optional string formatstring.

The JPL ascii-formatted file is organized as follows:

See also

shread, shread2, shreadjpl

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