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NAME
grdredpol - Compute the Continuous Reduction To the Pole, AKA differential RTP.
SYNOPSIS
grdredpol anom_grd -Grtp_grd [ -Cdec/dip] [ -Eiinc_grd] [ -Eddec_grd] [ -F<m/n>] [ -Mm|r] [ -N ] [
-Wwin_width] [ -V[level] ] [ -Tyear ] [ -Zfiltergrd ] [ -V[level] ] [ -nflags ]
Note: No space is allowed between the option flag and the associated arguments.
DESCRIPTION
grdredpol will take a .nc file with a magnetic anomaly and compute the reduction to the pole (RTP)
anomaly. This anomaly is the one that would have been produce if the bodies were magnetized vertically
and the anomalies were observed at the geomagnetic pole. Standard RTP procedure assumes the direction of
magnetization to be uniform throughout the causative body, and the geomagnetic field to be uniform in
direction throughout the study region. Although these assumptions are reasonable for small areas, they do
not hold for large areas.
In the method used here computations are carried out in both the frequency and the space domains. The
idea is that a large area may be decomposed in small size windows where both the ambient field and the
magnetization vector change by a very small amount. Inside each of those windows, or bins, a set of
filter coefficients are calculate and reconstruct for each individual point the component filter using a
first order Taylor series expansion.
REQUIRED ARGUMENTS
anom_grd
The anomaly grid to be converted.
-Grtp_grd
is the filename for output grdfile with the RTP solution
OPTIONAL ARGUMENTS
-Cdec/dip
Use this (constant) declination and inclination angles for both field and magnetization. This
option consists in the classical RTP procedure.
-Eiinc_grd -Eddec_grd
Get magnetization INCLINATION and DECLINATION from these grids [default: use IGRF for each of the
above parameters not provided via grid]. Note that these two grids do not need to have the same
resolution as the anomaly grid. They can be coarser.
-Fm/n The filter window size in terms of row/columns. The default value is 25x25.
-Mm|r Set boundary conditions. m|r stands for mirror or replicate edges (Default is zero padding).
-N Do NOT use Taylor expansion.
-Rwest/east/south/north
defines the Region of the output points. [Default: Same as input.]
-Tyear Decimal year used by the IGRF routine to compute the declination and inclination at each point
[default: 2000]
-Wwidth
The size of the moving window in degrees [5].
-Zfilter_grd
Write the filter file to disk.
-V[level] (more …)
Select verbosity level [c].
-n[b|c|l|n][+a][+bBC][+c][+tthreshold] (more …)
Select interpolation mode for grids.
CONSEQUENCES OF GRID RESAMPLING
Resample or sampling of grids will use various algorithms (see -n) that may lead to possible distortions
or unexpected results in the resampled values. One expected effect of resampling with splines is the
tendency for the new resampled values to slightly exceed the global min/max limits of the original grid.
If this is unacceptable, you can impose clipping of the resampled values values so they do not exceed the
input min/max values by adding +c to your -n option.
EXAMPLES
Suppose that anom.grd is a file with the magnetic anomaly reduced to the 2010 epoch and that the dec.grd
and dip.grd contain the magnetization declination and inclination respectively for an area that encloses
that of the anom.grd, compute the RTP using bins of 2 degrees and a filter of 45 coefficients.
gmt grdredpol anom.grd -Grtp.grd -W2 -F45/45 -T2010 -Edec.grd/dip.grd -V
To compute the same RTP but now with the field and magnetization vectors collinear and computed from IGRF
:
gmt grdredpol anom.grd -Grtp.grd -W2 -F45/45 -T2010 -V
REFERENCE
Luis, J.L. and Miranda, J.M. (2008), Reevaluation of magnetic chrons in the North Atlantic between 35N
and 47N: Implications for the formation of the Azores Triple Junction and associated plateau. JGR, VOL.
113, B10105, doi:10.1029/2007JB005573
COPYRIGHT
2018, P. Wessel, W. H. F. Smith, R. Scharroo, J. Luis, and F. Wobbe