W0: an estimate in the Finnish Height Datum N60, epoch 1993.4, from twenty-five GPS points of the Baltic Sea Level Project |
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| Authors: | E W Grafarend A A Ardalan |
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| Institution: | (1) Department of Geodetic Science, Stuttgart University, Geschwister-Scholl-Str. 24 D, D-70174 Stuttgart, Germany Tel: +49 7 11 1 21 33 90; fax: +49 7 11 1 21 32 85, DE |
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| Abstract: | Based upon a data set of 25 points of the Baltic Sea Level Project, second campaign 1993.4, which are close to mareographic
stations, described by (1) GPS derived Cartesian coordinates in the World Geodetic Reference System 1984 and (2) orthometric
heights in the Finnish Height Datum N60, epoch 1993.4, we have computed the primary geodetic parameter W
0(1993.4) for the epoch 1993.4 according to the following model. The Cartesian coordinates of the GPS stations have been converted
into spheroidal coordinates. The gravity potential as the additive decomposition of the gravitational potential and the centrifugal
potential has been computed for any GPS station in spheroidal coordinates, namely for a global spheroidal model of the gravitational
potential field. For a global set of spheroidal harmonic coefficients a transformation of spherical harmonic coefficients
into spheroidal harmonic coefficients has been implemented and applied to the global spherical model OSU 91A up to degree/order
360/360. The gravity potential with respect to a global spheroidal model of degree/order 360/360 has been finally transformed
by means of the orthometric heights of the GPS stations with respect to the Finnish Height Datum N60, epoch 1993.4, in terms
of the spheroidal “free-air” potential reduction in order to produce the spheroidal W
0(1993.4) value. As a mean of those 25 W
0(1993.4) data as well as a root mean square error estimation we computed W
0(1993.4)=(6 263 685.58 ± 0.36) kgal × m. Finally a comparison of different W
0 data with respect to a spherical harmonic global model and spheroidal harmonic global model of Somigliana-Pizetti type (level
ellipsoid as a reference, degree/order 2/0) according to The Geodesist's Handbook 1992 has been made.
Received: 7 November 1996 / Accepted: 27 March 1997 |
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| Keywords: | , Gauge of geoid,Geoid datum,Gravitational potential,Spheroidal harmonics,Spheroidal coordinates |
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