seismic_monthly_harmonics.py

Reads monthly gravity changes due to earthquakes and converts to spherical harmonic coefficients [13, 29]

Calling Sequence

usage: seismic_monthly_harmonics.py [-h] [--directory DIRECTORY] [--lmax LMAX]
                                    [--mmax MMAX] [--love {0,1,2,3,4}]
                                    [--reference {CF,CM,CE}]
                                    [--format {ascii,netCDF4,HDF5}]
                                    [--verbose] [--mode MODE]
                                    MODEL [MODEL ...]

Positional Arguments

MODEL

Possible choices: SHdegree40_M3_microGal, SHdegree40_M5_microGal, SHdegree60_M3_microGal, SHdegree60_M5_microGal

Seismic Model

Named Arguments

--directory, -D

Working data directory

--lmax, -l

Maximum spherical harmonic degree

--mmax, -m

Maximum spherical harmonic order

--love, -n

Possible choices: 0, 1, 2, 3, 4

Treatment of the Load Love numbers

0: Han and Wahr (1995) values from PREM [8]
1: Gegout (2005) values from PREM [6]
2: Wang et al. (2012) values from PREM [30]
3: Wang et al. (2012) values from PREM with hard sediment [30]
4: Wang et al. (2012) values from PREM with soft sediment [30]

--reference

Possible choices: CF, CM, CE

Reference frame for load Love numbers

'CF': Center of Surface Figure
'CM': Center of Mass of Earth System
'CE': Center of Mass of Solid Earth

--format, -F

Possible choices: ascii, netCDF4, HDF5

Input and output data format

--verbose, -V

Verbose output of processing run

--mode, -M

Permission mode of directories and files