Contents

• 1 Introduction
• 2 Prerequisites
• 3 Geoid Height, Step by Step
  • 3.1 Preliminaries
  • 3.2 Local ellipsoidal radius
  • 3.3 Coordinates: geocentric versus geographic
  • 3.4 Normal gravity
  • 3.5 Permanent tide system
  • 3.6 Reference ellipsoid
  • 3.7 Fully normalized associated Legendre functions
  • 3.8 Putting it all together
  
  
• 4 Nota Bene
• 5 Notation
• Bibliography
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