A comparison of recent Earth gravitational models with emphasis on their contribution in refining the gravity and geoid at continental or regional scale.

Dimitrios Arabelos; Carl Christian Tscherning

doi:10.1007/s00190-010-0397-z

A comparison of recent Earth gravitational models with emphasis on their contribution in refining the gravity and geoid at continental or regional scale.

Dimitrios Arabelos, Carl Christian Tscherning

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Since the publication of the Earth gravitational model (EGM)96 considerable improvements in the observation techniques resulted in the development of new improved models. The improvements are due to the availability of data from dedicated gravity mapping missions (CHAMP, GRACE) and to the use of 5′ × 5′ terrestrial and altimetry derived gravity anomalies. It is expected that the use of new EGMs will further contribute to the improvement of the resolution and accuracy of the gravity and geoid modeling in continental and regional scale. To prove this numerically, three representative Earth gravitational models are used for the reduction of several kinds of data related to the gravity field in different places of the Earth. The results of the reduction are discussed regarding the corresponding covariance functions which might be used for modeling using the least squares collocation method. The contribution of the EIGEN-GL04C model in most cases is comparable to that of EGM96. However, the big difference is shown in the case of EGM2008, due not only to its quality but obviously to its high degree of expansion. Almost in all cases the variance and the correlation length of the covariance functions of data reduced to this model up to its maximum degree are only a few percentages of corresponding quantities of the same data reduced up to degree 360. Furthermore, the mean value and the standard deviation of the reduced gravity anomalies in extended areas of the Earth such as Australia, Arctic region, Scandinavia or the Canadian plains, vary between -1 and +1 and between 5 and 10 × 10^-5 ms^-2, respectively, reflecting the homogenization of the gravity field on a regional scale. This is very important in using least squares collocation for regional applications. However, the distance to the first zero-value was in several cases much longer than warranted by the high degree of the expansion. This is attributed to errors of medium wavelengths stemming from the lack of, e. g., high-quality data in some area.

Original language	English
Journal	Journal of Geodesy
Volume	84
Issue number	11
Pages (from-to)	643-660
Number of pages	17
ISSN	0949-7714
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/s00190-010-0397-z
Publication status	Published - 1 Mar 2010

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