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Spherical harmonic models are formulated in geocentric (or
ellipsoidal) coordinates as opposed to geographic (or geodetic)
coordinates. The longitude is the same for both geographic and
geocentric coordinates. But you have to convert your geographic (or
geodetic) latitude into geocentric latitude
. The formula for this is (Torge, 1991)
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