[Proj] triaxial ellipsoid

Charles Karney charles.karney at sri.com
Fri Oct 19 14:28:55 EST 2012


I'm not sure why Y[3,2] comes into the triaxial axes.  This is
determined by the Y[2,2] component.  Perhaps you're saying that
the phases of these terms happen to agree?  But that is then a
question of looking at the data.

On 2012-10-19 15:15, Aleksander Yanovskiy wrote:
> Thank you Charles for the suggestions, could you please say whether I'm right stating that "there is no difference in longitude of principal axes orientation between the triaxial Earth ellipsoid and the (3,2) (third degree second order zonal harmonics) Earth figure (triaxial + pear shaped) ?"

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