NASA JPL Physical Oceanography Distributed Active Archive Center

nasa-podaac-tellus_2_deg_coef

TELLUS DEGREE 2 SPHERICAL HARMONIC COEFFICIENTS

This dataset contains the degree 2 spherical harmonic coefficients (2,0), (2,1), (2,2) vs time. These estimates are obtained from the analysis of Satellite Laser Ranging (SLR) data to five geodetic satellites: LAGEOS-1 and 2, Starlette, Stella and Ajisai. The background gravity model used in the SLR analysis is consistent with GRACE Release-04 or Release-05 processing, including the use of the same Atmosphere-Ocean De-aliasing (AOD) dataset as the corresponding GRACE release. However, the monthly mean of the AOD model (included in the file) has been restored, so that the coefficients represent the full month's signal. For the same reason, no rate models have been applied. These data are housed at the Center for Space Research at University of Texas Austin.

podaac.jpl.nasa.gov

http://podaac.jpl.nasa.gov/dataset/TELLUS_2_DEG_COEF

Identified by : TELLUS_2_DEG_COEF

This dataset was released on April 01, 2011.

The time range for this dataset starts at January 15, 2002.

This dataset uses data from an instance of the grace-instrument instrument on the gravity-recovery-and-climate-experiment platform.

Also known as :

• datasetId PODAAC-TE2DE-COE01 (podaac lexicon)
• dataset TELLUS_2_DEG_COEF (podaac lexicon)