;; EGM96 Model, as downloaded from U. Texas CSR FTP site (w/ zero tide HONKCR field) ;; $Id: egm96.desc,v 1.1 2004/01/06 00:36:44 craigm Exp $ { $ name: 'EGM96', $ ;; Title of the model type: 'GRAVITY', $ ;; Type of model 'GRAVITY' or 'BFIELD' filename: 'EGM96.GEO', $ ;; Model coefficient file name reference: 'Lemoine, F. G. et al. 1998, "The Development of the Joint NASA GSFC and NIMA Geopotential Model EGM96," NASA/TP-1998-206861, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland, 20771, USA', $ url: 'ftp://ftp.csr.utexas.edu/pub/grav/EGM96.GEO.Z', $ nmax: 360L, $ ;; Maximum order (inclusive) mmax: 360L, $ ;; Maximum degree (inclusive) normalized: 1, $ ;; Coefficients are normalized (1=yes, 0=no) mu: 398600.44150D+09, $ ;; GM for central body [m^3/s^2] a: 6378136.30d, $ ;; Mean equatorial radius [m] tide: 'ZERO', $ ;; Tide system (ZERO, FREE, or MEAN) epoch: 1986.0d, $ ;; Epoch of model coefficients (Julian year) C21: -.1869876359548955D-09,$ ;; C21 coefficient (IERS Conventions 1996) S21: .1195280120306540D-08,$ ;; S21 coefficient (IERS Conventions 1996) C20_dot: 1.16275534D-11,$ ;; C20 rate (unitless; yr^-1) C21_dot: -0.32d-11, $ ;; C21 rate (unitless; yr^-1) S21_dot: +1.62d-11, $ ;; S21 rate (unitless; yr^-1) rowstart: 4L, $ ;; Coefficient starting row (first row = 0) nrows: 65338L, $ ;; Number of coefficient rows in file ncolrange: [6,8], $ ;; Column range for degree (first col = 0) mcolrange: [9,11], $ ;; " " " order Ccolrange: [12,30], $ ;; " " " C coefficients Scolrange: [31,49], $ ;; " " " S coefficients dCcolrange: [50,62], $ ;; " " " C std deviation dScolrange: [63,75] $ ;; " " " S std deviation }