Radial deformation of the earth by oceanic tidal loading

A high-degree spherical harmonic series is used to compute the radial deformation of the Earth by oceanic tidal loading. By exploiting fast numerical transforms, this approach is found to be much more efficient, but no less accurate, than the traditional Green's function approach. The method is used to derive an atlas of load tide maps for 10 constitutents of the NSWC ocean tide model.