As I pointed out in an earlier note, at the moment I am fairly busy trying to get some Solid Earth Tide data generation computer programs organized. And I have only been occasionally taking a quick look at the list of notes being posted here without reading many of them. When things are better organized within a few days (I hope) I plan to try to answer some of the posted questions and also post a note regarding this subject matter both here and to some Internet Newsgroups.

What is presently slowing things down is the fact that this effort appears to be much more successful than I anticipated. I had a plan in place for how to proceed with it. And I am now having to completely redraw that plan and set new goals. The old ones look like they may have been achieved. This has certainly come as a surprise to me. I had been thinking that it might take years to reach those goals if that were even possible.

In the mean time:

Redirecting the output of one of the slow computer programs I am running so that it goes to a computer data file instead of to the computer screen does not appear to be easily done because its output is apparently in a graphics form instead of a text form. And for the time being it appears easier to simply read the data off the screen rather than to try to decode that graphics material. Some other programs are running slow because they were compiled with 486, 386, and perhaps even 286 processor instructions. I even discovered that my virus software was drastically slowing the output of one of the programs. And that virus software now gets deactivated when necessary.

If there are any people posting notes here who are experts on the following subject matter then it might be helpful if they would post a note here explaining what the following terms mean. I understand what some of them mean and will probably eventually go searching for information on the others. But that particular effort is not scheduled for any time soon. It probably helps if you have some formal training in the subject matter when you work with Solid Earth Tide or solar and planetary types of data.

vertical and horizontal tidal displacement in mm
vertical tidal acceleration (gravity tide) in nm/s**2
horizontal tidal acceleration (tidal tilt) in mas = arc sec/1000
vertical, horizontal , areal, shear, and volume tidal strain in nstr
tidal potential in m**2/s**2
ellipsoidal latitude and longitude in degrees
ellipsoidal height in meters
azimuth
declination