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Inversion of gravity and topography data for the crust thickness of China and its adjacent region 总被引:1,自引:0,他引:1
Introduction Since the middle of the century, gravitational isostasy has been a fundamental hypothesis for inverting the gravity data to find the crust thickness. Geophysicists have done a lot of researches on using gravity data to investigate the depth of Moho discontinuity. Since 1980, the International Lithosphere Program emphasized the importance of investigating the Moho depth variation. Thereafter a lot of results have been published in the world (Braitenberg et al, 2000; Kaban et al,… 相似文献
2.
The paper presents a high-resolution global gravity field modelling by the boundary element method (BEM). A direct BEM formulation
for the Laplace equation is applied to get a numerical solution of the linearized fixed gravimetric boundary-value problem.
The numerical scheme uses the collocation method with linear basis functions. It involves a discretization of the complicated
Earth’s surface, which is considered as a fixed boundary. Here 3D positions of collocation points are simulated from the DNSC08
mean sea surface at oceans and from the SRTM30PLUS_V5.0 global topography model added to EGM96 on lands. High-performance
computations together with an elimination of the far zones’ interactions allow a very refined integration over the all Earth’s
surface with a resolution up to 0.1 deg. Inaccuracy of the approximate coarse solutions used for the elimination of the far
zones’ interactions leads to a long-wavelength error surface included in the obtained numerical solution. This paper introduces
an iterative procedure how to reduce such long-wavelength error surface. Surface gravity disturbances as oblique derivative
boundary conditions are generated from the EGM2008 geopotential model. Numerical experiments demonstrate how the iterative
procedure tends to the final numerical solutions that are converging to EGM2008. Finally the input surface gravity disturbances
at oceans are replaced by real data obtained from the DNSC08 altimetryderived gravity data. The ITG-GRACE03S satellite geopotential
model up to degree 180 is used to eliminate far zones’ interactions. The final high-resolution global gravity field model
with the resolution 0.1 deg is compared with EGM2008. 相似文献
3.
Far-zone gravity field contributions corrected for the effect of topography by means of molodensky’s truncation coefficients 总被引:1,自引:0,他引:1
Robert Tenzer Pavel Novák Peter Vajda Artu Ellmann Ahmed Abdalla 《Studia Geophysica et Geodaetica》2011,55(1):55-71
A spectral representation of the topographic corrections to gravity field quantities is formulated in terms of spherical height
functions. When computing the far-zone contributions to the topographic corrections, various types of the truncation coefficients
are applied to a spectral representation of Newton’s integral. In this study we utilise Molodensky’s truncation coefficients
in deriving the expressions for the far-zone contributions to topographic corrections. The expressions for computing the far-zone
gravity field contributions corrected for the effect of topography are then obtained by combining the expressions for the
far-zone contributions to the gravity field quantities and to the respective topographic corrections, both expressed in terms
of Molodensky’s truncation coefficients. The numerical examples of the far-zone contributions to the topographic corrections
and to the topography-corrected gravity field quantities are given over the study area situated in the Canadian Rocky Mountains
with adjacent planes. Coefficients of the global elevation and geopotential models are used as the input data. 相似文献
4.
Global ellipsoid-referenced topographic,bathymetric and stripping corrections to gravity disturbance
This paper revisits several aspects of defining and computing the anomalous gravity data for purposes of gravimetric inversion/interpretation.
Attention is paid to evaluation of a refined global topographic correction to the gravity disturbance based on the reference
ellipsoid (RE) and constant reference density for solid topography onshore and sea water density for liquid topography offshore.
The global bathymetric correction is discussed. Two issues associated with compilation and inversion of bathymetrically and
topographically corrected gravity disturbances in regions of negative ellipsoidal (geodetic) heights are pointed out: the
evaluation of normal gravity and the harmonic continuation of the gravity data. Stripping, the removal of an effect of a known
density contrast, is considered also for additional geological elements such as lakes, glaciers, sedimentary basins, isostatic
mountain roots, etc. The stripping corrections are discussed in the context of the gravimetric inverse problem. 相似文献
5.
We derive expressions for computing the gravitational field (potential and its radial derivative) generated by an arbitrary
homogeneous or laterally varying density contrast layer with a variable depth and thickness based on methods for a spherical
harmonic analysis and synthesis of gravity field. The newly derived expressions are utilised in the gravimetric forward modelling
of major known density structures within the Earth’s crust (excluding the ocean density contrast) beneath the geoid surface.
The gravitational field quantities due to the sediments and crust components density contrasts, shown in numerical examples,
are computed using the 2 × 2 arc-deg discrete data from the global crustal model CRUST2.0. These density contrasts are defined
relative to the adopted value of the reference crustal density of 2670 kgm−3. All computations are realised globally on a 1 × 1 arc-deg geographical grid at the Earth’s surface. The maxima of the gravitational
signal due to the sediments density contrast are mainly along continental shelf regions with the largest sedimentary deposits.
The corresponding maxima due to the consolidated crust components density contrast are over areas of the largest continental
crustal thickness with variable geological structure. 相似文献
6.
Compilation of the bathymetrically and topographically corrected gravity disturbance, the so called BT disturbance, for the
purpose of gravity interpretation/inversion, is investigated from the numerical point of view, with special emphasis on regions
of negative heights. In regions of negative ellipsoidal (geodetic) heights, such as the Dead Sea region onshore or offshore
areas of negative geoidal heights, two issues complicate the compilation and subsequently the inversion of the BT disturbance.
The first is associated with the evaluation of normal gravity below the surface of the reference ellipsoid (RE). The latter
is tied to the legitimacy of the harmonic continuation of the BT disturbance in these regions. These two issues are proposed
to be resolved by the so called reference quasi-ellipsoid (RQE) approach. New bathymetric and topographic corrections are
derived based on the RQE and the inverse problem is formulated based on the RQE. The RQE approach enables the computation
of normal gravity by means of the international gravity formula, and makes the harmonic continuation in the regions of negative
heights of gravity stations legitimate. The gravimetric inversion is then transformed from the RQE approach back to the RE
approach, following the now legitimate harmonic upward continuation of the gravity data to stations on or above the RE. Stripping,
the removal of an effect of a known density contrast, is considered in the context of the RQE approach. A numerical case study
is presented for the RQE approach in a region of NW Canada. 相似文献
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M. Burša S. Kenyon J. Kouba Z. Šíma V. Vatrt V. Vítek M. Vojtíšková 《Studia Geophysica et Geodaetica》2006,50(4):509-524
The long-term variations in the second degree sectorial Stokes parameters of the geopotential have been determined from TOPEX-POSEIDON
(T/P) satellite altimeter data, covering the period of January 1, 1993 to January 3, 2001 (T/P cycles 11-305). It is the first
attempt to determine the variations in the second sectorial harmonics in the Earth’s inertia tensor due to the ocean dynamics.
The variations amount to about 1 × 10−10 (J
2
(2)
≈ 1.6 × 10−6 and S
2
(2)
≈ −0.9 × 10−6). The variations are about 5% of the tidal effect. This corresponds to variations in the directions of the equatorial axes
of the Earth’s inertia ellipsoid of up to 10 arc-seconds. Consequently, the annual and semi-annual variations of the Earth’s
equatorial flattening is about 10−9; i.e. it corresponds to a change of 8 units of its denominator of 91 030. (The equatorial flattening ≈ 1/91 030).
Since the coverage of the Earth’s ocean surface is not worldwide, and the inclination of T/P is i = 66°, it is only 58.2%
(min. depth of the ocean 2 000 m) of the Earth’s surface which is processed, the torque, resulting from the seasonal transfer
of masses within a sea surface layer, is not zero. It amounts up to 1016 kg m2s−2, which is comparable to the total indirect tidal torque due to the Moon and the Sun, ∼ 3.9 × 1016 kg m2s−2. However, the above estimate strongly depends on the adopted thickness of the sea surface layer, ΔR = 50 m. For a larger
thickness of ΔR = 100 m, the seasonal torque amounts to about ∼ 2.3 × 1016 kg m2s−2. 相似文献
8.
The Mohorovičić discontinuity is the boundary between the Earth’s crust and mantle. Several isostatic hypotheses exist for
estimating the crustal thickness and density variation of the Earth’s crust from gravity anomalies. 相似文献
9.
Atmospheric temperature and humidity fields as well as information on other meteorological parameters are nowadays retrieved from radiance measurements recorded by operational meteorological satellites. Up to now, the inversion procedures used only take into account crude information on the topography of the Earth’s surface. However, the applied radiative transfer codes have to consider the Earth’s surface as the lower boundary of the atmospheric model and, therefore, need a more precise mean elevation and a classification of the roughness of the Earth’s surface. The influence of the topography of the Earth surface on retrieved temperature profiles is studied by using a physico-statistical inversion method. An objective analysis is made of the more precise mean elevation and derivation of roughness parameters using a new high-resolution digital elevation model (DEM) with a resolution of 500 m×500 m. By means of a geomorphological process and a newly developed topography rejection test, areas with a high surface roughness are localized and singled out. The influence of topography on the retrieved temperature profiles is illustrated by case studies. Changes are found predominantly in areas with a high variation of topography. Using the new high-resolution DEM and the topography rejection test, the geographical position of the calculated temperature profiles tends to be shifted towards areas with a small vertical variation of topography. The mean elevation determined by the new elevation model better characterizes the area observed. Hence, the temperature profiles can be calculated down to lower atmospheric levels. Furthermore, a guess profile better describing the atmospheric situation is selected by the more precise elevation. In addition, the temperature profiles obtained near the coast are improved considerably by the more precise determination of the surface property ‘sea’ and ‘land,’ respectively. Integration of an independent physical information such as topography leads, on average, to a slight improvement of the results of the physico-statistical inversion procedure. In some cases, however, significant improvements have been achieved regarding the desired accuracy of temperature profiles of the order of 1 K. In future, the spatial resolution of new high-resolution sounding instrumentation on the next generation of operational meteorological satellites will be increased. To exploit the resolving power of this new instrumentation, the different variation of the topography of the Earth surface, especially in regions with a high variation of topography, can be taken into account more precisely by using a high-resolution DEM. 相似文献
10.
Yu. O. Kuzmin 《Izvestiya Physics of the Solid Earth》2009,45(11):973-986
Important problems of tectonophysical analysis of observational results in recent geodynamics are considered. The paradox
of low rates of recent horizontal deformations of the Earth’s surface is formulated. This paradox states that, according to
GPS measurements, the annual mean rates of relative deformations are 10−9–10−10 per year, whereas, according to ground-based geodetic and deformographic observations, the rates of recent horizontal deformations
of the Earth’s surface are on the order of 10−5–10−6 per year. This paradox is shown to appear as a result of the application of the procedure of averaging to the displacements
obtained on large measuring bases with a low degree of details of the time of observations.
It is established that, according to multiyear (over 40 years) data, the annual mean rate of deformation processes in the
Kopet Dagh seismically active region is 4 × 10−8 per annum along the vertical and 3.2 × 10−8 per year along the horizontal. 相似文献
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We present formulas for direct closed-form transformation between geodetic coordinates (φ, λ, h) and ellipsoidal coordinates
(β, λ, u) for any oblate ellipsoid of revolution. These will be useful for those dealing with ellipsoidal representations
of the Earth’s gravity field or other oblate ellipsoidal figures. The numerical stability of the transformations for near-polar
and near-equatorial regions is also considered. 相似文献
12.
The event of March 12–19, 2009, when a moderately high-speed solar wind stream flew around the Earth’s magnetosphere and carried
millihertz ultralow-frequency (ULF) waves, has been analyzed. The stream caused a weak magnetic storm (D
st min = −28 nT). Since March 13, fluxes of energetic (up to relativistic) electrons started increasing in the magnetosphere. Comparison
of the spectra of ULF oscillations observed in the solar wind and magnetosphere and on the Earth’s surface indicated that
a stable common spectral peak was present at frequencies of 3–4 mHz. This fact is interpreted as evidence that waves penetrated
directly from the solar wind into the magnetosphere. Possible scenarios describing the participation of oscillations in the
acceleration of medium-energy (E > 0.6 MeV) and high-energy (E > 2.0 MeV) electrons in the radiation belt are discussed. Based on comparing the event with the moderate magnetic storm of
January 21–22, 2005, we concluded that favorable conditions for analyzing the interaction between the solar wind and the magnetosphere
are formed during a deep minimum of solar activity. 相似文献
13.
The elasto-gravitational deformation response of the Earth’s solid parts to the perturbations of the pressure and gravity
on the core-mantle boundary (CMB) and the solid inner core boundary (ICB), due to the dynamical behaviors of the fluid outer
core (FOC), is discussed. The internal load Love numbers, which are formulized in a general form in this study, are employed
to describe the Earth’s deformation. The preliminary reference Earth model (PREM) is used as an example to calculate the internal
load Love numbers on the Earth’s surface, CMB and ICB, respectively. The characteristics of the Earth’s deformation variation
with the depth and the perturbation periods on the boundaries of the FOC are also investigated. The numerical results indicate
that the internal load Love numbers decrease quickly with the increasing degree of the spherical harmonics of the displacement
and depend strongly on the perturbation frequencies, especially on the high frequencies. The results, obtained in this work,
can be used to construct the boundary conditions for the core dynamics of the long-period oscillations of the Earth’s fluid
outer core.
Foundation item: State Natural Science Foundation of China (40174022 and 49925411) and the Projects from Chinese Academy of Sciences (KZCX2-106
and KZ952-J1-411). 相似文献
14.
Pavel Novák 《Surveys in Geophysics》2010,31(1):1-21
During the General Assembly of the European Geosciences Union in April 2008, the new Earth Gravitational Model 2008 (EGM08)
was released with fully-normalized coefficients in the spherical harmonic expansion of the Earth’s gravitational potential
complete to degree and order 2159 (for selected degrees up to 2190). EGM08 was derived through combination of a satellite-based
geopotential model and 5 arcmin mean ground gravity data. Spherical harmonic coefficients of the global height function, that
describes the surface of the solid Earth with the same angular resolution as EGM08, became available at the same time. This
global topographical model can be used for estimation of selected constituents of EGM08, namely the gravitational potentials
of the Earth’s atmosphere, ocean water (fluid masses below the geoid) and topographical masses (solid masses above the geoid),
which can be evaluated numerically through spherical harmonic expansions. The spectral properties of the respective potential
coefficients are studied in terms of power spectra and their relation to the EGM08 potential coefficients is analyzed by using
correlation coefficients. The power spectra of the topographical and sea water potentials exceed the power of the EGM08 potential
over substantial parts of the considered spectrum indicating large effects of global isostasy. The correlation analysis reveals
significant correlations of all three potentials with the EGM08 potential. The potential constituents (namely their functionals
such as directional derivatives) can be used for a step known in geodesy and geophysics as the gravity field reduction or
stripping. Removing from EGM08 known constituents will help to analyze the internal structure of the Earth (geophysics) as
well as to derive the Earth’s gravitational field harmonic outside the geoid (geodesy). 相似文献
15.
The role of the gravitational potential of the lithosphere in the formation of a global stress field
The global stress field appearing in the Earth’s lithosphere under the action of forces caused by the difference of gravitational
potential is calculated. An original algorithm is proposed and the operational Earth Stresses program code is developed. The
data on the topography, thickness, and density of the Earth’s crust and the upper mantle, as well as the gravitational anomalies
and thermal conditions in the lithosphere were taken into account in the calculations. A comparison of the calculation results
and the observed data makes it possible to conclude that the action of the forces of the difference of the gravitational potential
alone is sufficient to explain the features of the first order of the stress field in the Earth’s lithosphere. 相似文献
16.
Robert Tenzer Pavel Novák Ilya Prutkin Artu Ellmann Peter Vajda 《Studia Geophysica et Geodaetica》2009,53(2):157-167
To reduce the numerical complexity of inverse solutions to large systems of discretised integral equations in gravimetric
geoid/quasigeoid modelling, the surface domain of Green’s integrals is subdivided into the near-zone and far-zone integration
sub-domains. The inversion is performed for the near zone using regional detailed gravity data. The farzone contributions
to the gravity field quantities are estimated from an available global geopotential model using techniques for a spherical
harmonic analysis of the gravity field. For computing the far-zone contributions by means of Green’s integrals, truncation
coefficients are applied. Different forms of truncation coefficients have been derived depending on a type of integrals in
solving various geodetic boundary-value problems. In this study, we utilise Molodensky’s truncation coefficients to Green’s
integrals for computing the far-zone contributions to the disturbing potential, the gravity disturbance, and the gravity anomaly.
We also demonstrate that Molodensky’s truncation coefficients can be uniformly applied to all types of Green’s integrals used
in solving the boundaryvalue problems. The numerical example of the far-zone contributions to the gravity field quantities
is given over the area of study which comprises the Canadian Rocky Mountains. The coefficients of a global geopotential model
and a detailed digital terrain model are used as input data. 相似文献
17.
Besides generating seismic waves, which eventually dissipate, an earthquake also generates a static displacement field everywhere within the Earth. This global displacement field rearranges the Earth’s mass thereby causing the Earth’s rotation and gravitational field to change. The size of this change depends upon the magnitude, focal mechanism, and location of the earthquake. The Sumatran earthquake of December 26, 2004 is the largest earthquake to have occurred since the 1960 Chilean earthquake. Using a spherical, layered Earth model, the coseismic effect of the Sumatran earthquake upon the Earth’s length-of-day, polar motion, and low-degree harmonic coefficients of the gravitational field are computed. Using a model of the earthquake source that is composed of five subevents having a total moment-magnitude M
w
of 9.3, it is found that this earthquake should have caused the length-of-day to decrease by 6.8 microseconds, the position of the Earth’s generalized figure axis to shift 2.32 milliarcseconds towards 127° E longitude, the Earth’s oblateness J
2 to decrease by 2.37 × 10−11 and the Earth’s pear-shapedness J
3 to decrease by 0.63 × 10−11. The predicted change in the length-of-day, position of the generalized figure axis, and J
3 are probably not detectable by current measurement systems. But the predicted change in oblateness is perhaps detectable if other effects, such as those of the atmosphere, oceans, and continental water storage, can be adequately removed from the observations. 相似文献
18.
O. V. Kozyreva I. N. Myagkova E. E. Antonova N. G. Kleimenova 《Geomagnetism and Aeronomy》2009,49(6):741-749
Precipitation of electrons with energies of 0.3–1.5 MeV has been analyzed based on the CORONAL-F satellite data at polar latitudes
of the Northern Hemisphere on December 13, 2003. The instants of electron precipitation have been compared with the ground-based
observations of geomagnetic disturbances and auroras near the satellite orbit projection. It has been indicated that precipitation
of energetic electrons in the high-latitude nightside sector is accompanied by the simultaneous development of bay-like magnetic
field disturbances on the Earth’s surface and the appearance of riometer absorption bursts and Pi3 geomagnetic pulsations,
and auroras. 相似文献
19.
The International Geomagnetic Reference Field models (IGRF) for 1900–2000 are used to calculate the geomagnetic field distribution
in the Earth’ interior from the ground surface to the core-mantle boundary (CMB) under the assumption of insulated mantle.
Four reversed polarity patches, as one of the most important features of the CMB field, are revealed. Two patches with +Z
polarity (downward) at the southern African and the southern American regions stand out against the background of ™Z polarity
(upward) in the southern hemisphere, and two patches of ™Z polarity at the North Polar and the northern Pacific regions stand
out against the +Z background in the northern hemisphere. During the 1900–2000 period the southern African (SAF) patch has
quickly drifted westward at a speed of 0.20–.3° /a; meanwhile its area has expanded 5 times, and the magnetic flux crossing
the area has intensified 30 times. On the other hand, other three patches show little if any change during this 100-year period.
Extending upward, each of the reversed polarity patches at the CMB forms a chimney-shaped “reversed polarity column” in the
mantle with the bottom at the CMB. The height of the SAF column has grown rapidly from 200km in 1900 to 900km in 2000. If
the column grows steadily at the same rate in the future, its top will reach to the ground surface in 600–700 years. And then
a reversed polarity patch will be observed at the Earth’s surface, which will be an indicator of the beginning of a magnetic
field reversal. On the basis of this study, one can describe the process of a geomagnetic polarity reversal, the polarity
reversal may be observed firstly in one or several local regions; then the areas of these regions expand, and at the same
time, other new reversed polarity regions may appear. Thus several poles may exist during a polarity reversal. 相似文献
20.
We study the changes in the rate of seismotectonic strains in the Earth’s crust in two of the most seismically active Central
Asian areas, the Garm region in Tadjikistan and the Northern Tien Shan, which are excited by high energy pulsed electromagnetic
irradiation. It is shown that in both areas the average rates of strain release increase by a factor of 10–20. The increment
of the seismotectonic strains initiated during the entire period of electromagnetic treatment is 1.3 × 10−6–6.3 × 10−6, which is comparable with the value of crustal strains observed during the preparation of strong earthquakes and amounts
to 3–13% of the ultimate strains for rocks. Such a contribution to the process of quasi-plastic strains of the crust results
in the additional relaxation of elastic stresses by 0.4–1.67 bar, which corresponds to approximately 1–17% of the stress released
in the sources of strong earthquakes. The spatial variations in the changes of the strain rate during electromagnetic treatment
are studied, and their correlation with the level of stresses in the Earth’s crust is revealed. It is shown that the change
in the strain rate during the electromagnetic excitation can be used as the criterion for active monitoring of the stress
state of the medium for the purposes of predicting the location, time, and magnitude of strong earthquakes. 相似文献