The gains of small circular,square and rectangular filters for surface waves on a sphere |
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Authors: | Donald H. Eckhardt |
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Affiliation: | 1. Air Force Geophysics Laboratory, Hanscom AFB, 01731, Bedford, MA
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Abstract: | Meissl has derived weighting functions for converting point gravity anomaly degree variances into mean anomaly variances over a circular cap on a sphere. If the cap is sufficiently small so that the cap on a sphere degenerates into a circle on a plane, the problem may be considered that of the gain of a circular filter for a surface wave whose wave number depends on the spherical harmonic degree. The Meissl weights then become replaced by diffraction integrals of optical physics. The expected gain for a square filter for waves coming from random directions is derived and shown to be close to the gain of a circular filter with the same area. The expected gains and cross-gains for rectangular filters are also derived. When weighted by an anomaly degree variance model, these gains and cross-gains can be used to determine rectangular anomaly variances and covariances for arbitrary bandwidths. Using the Tscherning-Rapp model, analytic gravity anomaly variances and covariances are calculated for 1°×1° blocks. |
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