Spectral analysis using orthonormal functions with a case study on the sea surface topography

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Spherical harmonics are orthonormalized using the Gram-Schmidt process in a function space. The problem of linear dependence of spherical harmonics over the oceans is studied using the Gram matrices and consequently three sets of orthonormal (ON) functions have been constructed. For the process an efficient formula for computing inner products of spherical harmonics has been developed. Important spectral properties of the ON functions are addressed. The ON functions may be used for representing the sea surface topography (SST) in the analysis of satellite altimeter data. The geoid error can be transformed to a representation by the ON functions and hence the comparison of powers of the geoid error and the SST signal only over the oceans is possible, leading to a better way of determining the cut-off frequency of the SST in the simultaneous solution using satellite altimeter data. As a case study, the modified Levitus SST is expanded into the ON functions. The results show that 99.90 per cent of that signal's energy is contained within degree 24 of the orthonormal functions. Such expansions also render better spectral behaviour of oceanic signals as compared to that from spherical harmonic expansions. The study shows that these generalized Fourier functions are suitable for spectral analyses of oceanic signals and they can be applied to future altimetric mission where the geoid and the SST are to be recovered.     

等频大地水准面的概念及应用

阐述了等频大地水准面的概念及其理论基础，讨论了等频大地水准面与经典大地水准面的关系，提出了测定位差和高程差的新方法──引力或重力频移法，探讨了利用频移观测法解边值问题求定地球外部重力位的途径。     

松辽盆地南部深部含气性预测研究

预测松辽盆地南部深部的含油气层,应采用"两部分离法",首先根据测井响应特征,对地震资料进行自然伽马、电阻率、中子孔隙度、密度及波阻抗等属性体反演,确定出地层中的砂岩层,然后,针对这些砂岩层,利用声波测井和中子测井合成ACNL曲线等,并与GR曲线交汇的油气水层识别等技术,准确地识别出含油气砂岩层。     

Geoid determination using one-step integration

A residual (high-frequency) gravimetric geoid is usually computed from geographically limited ground, sea and/or airborne gravimetric data. The mathematical model for its determination from ground gravity is based on the transformation of observed discrete values of gravity into gravity potential related to either the international ellipsoid or the geoid. The two reference surfaces are used depending on height information that accompanies ground gravity data: traditionally orthometric heights determined by geodetic levelling were used while GPS positioning nowadays allows for estimation of geodetic (ellipsoidal) heights. This transformation is usually performed in two steps: (1) observed values of gravity are downward continued to the ellipsoid or the geoid, and (2) gravity at the ellipsoid or the geoid is transformed into the corresponding potential. Each of these two steps represents the solution of one geodetic boundary-value problem of potential theory, namely the first and second or third problem. Thus two different geodetic boundary-value problems must be formulated and solved, which requires numerical evaluation of two surface integrals. In this contribution, a mathematical model in the form of a single Fredholm integral equation of the first kind is presented and numerically investigated. This model combines the solution of the first and second/third boundary-value problems and transforms ground gravity disturbances or anomalies into the harmonically downward continued disturbing potential at the ellipsoid or the geoid directly. Numerical tests show that the new approach offers an efficient and stable solution for the determination of the residual geoid from ground gravity data.     

Asymptotic theory for calculating deformations caused by dislocations buried in a spherical earth: geoid change

An asymptotic theory is presented for calculating co-seismic potential and geoid changes, as an approximation of the dislocation theory for a spherical Earth. This theory is given by a closed-form mathematical expression, so that it is mathematically simple and can be applied easily. Moreover, since the asymptotic theory includes sphericity and vertical structure effects, it is physically more reasonable than the flat-Earth theory. A comparison between results calculated by three dislocation theories (the flat-Earth theory, the theory for a spherical Earth and its asymptotic solution) shows that the true co-seismic geoid changes are approximated better by the asymptotic results than by those of a flat Earth. Numerical results indicate that the sphericity effect is obvious large, especially for a tensile source on a vertical fault plane. AcknowledgementsThe author is grateful to Dr S. Okubo for his helpful suggestions and discussions. Comments by anonymous reviewers are also greatly acknowledged. This research was financially supported by JSPS research grants (C13640420) and Basic design and feasibility studies for the future missions for monitoring Earths environment.     

Far-Zone Contributions to Topographical Effects in the Stokes-Helmert Method of the Geoid Determination

In the evaluation of the geoid done according to the Stokes-Helmert method, the following topographical effects have to be computed: the direct topographical effect, the primary indirect topographical effect and the secondary indirect topographical effect. These effects have to be computed through integration over the surface of the earth. The integration is usually split into integration over an area immediately adjacent to the point of interest, called the near zone, and the integration over the rest of the world, called the far zone. It has been shown in the papers by Martinec and Vaníek (1994), and by Novák et al. (1999) that the far-zone contributions to the topographical effects are, even for quite extensive near zones, not negligible.Various numerical approaches can be applied to compute the far-zone contributions to topographical effects. A spectral form of solution was employed in the paper by Novák et al. (2001). In the paper by Smith (2002), the one-dimensional Fast Fourier Transform was introduced to solve the problem in the spatial domain. In this paper we use two-dimensional numerical integration. The expressions for the far-zone contributions to topographical effects on potential and on gravitational attraction are described, and numerical values encountered over the territory of Canada are shown in this paper.     

A local geoid determination based on ellipsoid approximation in Western China

A new methodology for precise geoid determination with finest local details based on ellipsoidal approximation is presented.This methodology is formulated through the “fixed-free two-boundary value problem“ based on the observable of the type modulus of gravity intensity,gravity acceleration and gravity potential at the GPS positioned stations,with support of the known geoid‘s potential value,W0.