gravity

Last updated Sun Sep 19 11:54:18 1999

Gravity as a function of latitude and pressure

1. SYNOPSIS

g = gravity(p, lat)

2. DESCRIPTION

Calculates the Earth gravity as a function of pressure and latitude. Coding is inspired from the CODAS C-source file ocean/grav.c.

3. PARAMETERS



p

Pressure in dbar.

lat

Latitude in degrees.

4. RETURNS



p

Gravity in m/s^2.

5. AUTHOR

Pierre Jaccard, Geophysical Institute, University of Bergen, 1999.