Fix S40RTS spherical harmonic normalization #966
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When I did a robustness comparison among current global tomography models, I found that S40RTS actually doesn't use the normalization after Dahlen and Tromp, 1986, Appendix B.6, but SAVANI actually used this normalization. There is a sqrt(2) prefactor difference. To confirm this, I attach the comparison maps below:
The first map is the Vs anomaly of S40RTS at depth 175km directly from the S40RTS website data:
Here the Vs anomaly plotted from current ASPECT temperature postprocess:
Here is the Vs anomaly plotted from ASPECT temperature postprocess after remove the sqrt(2) prefactor, same as the one from S40RTS website: