A refined method of recovering potential coefficients from surface gravity data |
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| Authors: | Zdeněk Martinec |
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| Institution: | (1) Department of Geophysics, Faculty of Math. and Phys., Charles University, Prague |
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| Abstract: | Summary A new method for computing the potential coefficients of the Earth's external gravity field is presented. The gravimetric
boundary-value problem with a free boundary is reduced to the problem with a fixed known telluroid. The main idea of the derivation
consists in a continuation of the quantities from the physical surface to the telluroid by means of Taylor's series expansion
in such a way that the terms whose magnitudes are comparable with the accuracy of today's gravity measurements are retained.
Thus not only linear, but also non-linear terms are taken into account. Explicitly, the terms up to the order of the third
power of the Earth's flattening are retained. The non-linear boundary-value problem on the telluroid is solved by an iteration
procedure with successive approximations. In each iteration step the solution of the non-linear problem is estimated by the
solutions of two linear problems utilizing the fact that the non-linear boundary condition may be split into two parts; the
linear spherical approximation of the gravity anomaly whose magnitude is significantly greater than the others and the non-linear
ellipsoidal corrections. Finally, in order to solve the problem in terms of spherical harmonics, the transform method composed
of the fast Fourier transform and Gauss Legendre quadrature is theoretically outlined. Immediate data processing of gravity
data measured on the physical Earth's surface without any continuation of gravity measurements to a reference level surface
belongs to the main advantage of the presented method. This implies that no preliminary data handling is needed and that the
error data propagation is, consequently, maximally suppressed. |
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