Conservation of mass in tidal loading computations |
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| Authors: | Duncan Carr Agnew |
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| Institution: | Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics, A-025, University of California, San Diego, California 92093, USA |
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| Abstract: | Summary. A re-examination of methods for including mass conservation in tidal loading shows that the spherical harmonic correction of Farrell is incorrect. The effect of unconserved mass for a nearly ocean-covered earth shows that the proper spherical harmonic expansion of the Newtonian Green function is the average of the internal and external expansions. |
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