Detailed gravimetric geoid for the North Atlantic |
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Authors: | M Albuisson J M Monget G Balmino B Moynot Ch Reigber |
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Institution: | 1. Laboratoire de Ressources Terrestres, Ecole Supérieure des Mines de Paris, Fontainebleau, France 2. Groupe de Recherches de Géodésie Spatiale, Centre National d’Etudes Spatiales, Toulouse, France 3. Lehrstuhl für Astronomische und Physikalische Geod?sie, Technische Universit?t München, Sonderforschungsbereich 78, F.R.G.
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Abstract: | A detailed gravimetric geoid in the North Atlantic Ocean, named DGGNA-77, has been computed, based on a satellite and gravimetry
derived earth potential model (consisting in spherical harmonic coefficients up to degree and order 30) and mean free air
surface gravity anomalies (35180 1°×1° mean values and 245000 4′×4′ mean values). The long wavelength undulations were computed
from the spherical harmonics of the reference potential model and the details were obtained by integrating the residual gravity
anomalies through the Stokes formula: from 0 to 5° with the 4′×4′ data, and from 5° to 20° with the 1°×1° data. For computer
time reasons the final grid was computed with half a degree spacing only. This grid extends from the Gulf of Mexico to the
European and African coasts.
Comparisons have been made with Geos 3 altimetry derived geoid heights and with the 5′×5′ gravimetric geoid derived byMarsh andChang 8] in the northwestern part of the Atlantic Ocean, which show a good agreement in most places apart from some tilts which
porbably come from the satellite orbit recovery. |
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