geopotential_from_geometric_height

geopotential_from_geometric_height(h)

New in Metview version 5.23.0

Compute the geopotential from geometric height.

Parameters

h – geometric height (m)

Return type

same type as h

The computation of geopotential is based on the following formula:

\[z = \frac{h R g}{R + h}\]

where:

  • R is the radius of the Earth (6378388 m)

  • g is the gravitational acceleration (9.81 m/s2)

When a Fieldset returned the ecCodes paramIds of the resulting fields are set to 129 (geopotential).

Note

See also geometric_height_from_geopotential().