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GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS
Volume 40, Issue 16, Pages 4279-4283Publisher
AMER GEOPHYSICAL UNION
DOI: 10.1002/grl.50838
Keywords
Earth's gravity field; gravity; quasi-geoid; vertical deflections; ultrahigh resolution
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- Australian Research Council [DP120102441]
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We provide an unprecedented ultrahigh resolution picture of Earth's gravity over all continents and numerous islands within 60 degrees latitude. This is achieved through augmentation of new satellite and terrestrial gravity with topography data and use of massive parallel computation techniques, delivering local detail at 200 m spatial resolution. As such, our work is the first-of-its-kind to model gravity at unprecedented fine scales yet with near-global coverage. The new picture of Earth's gravity encompasses a suite of gridded estimates of gravity accelerations, radial and horizontal field components, and quasi-geoid heights at over 3 billion points covering 80% of Earth's land masses. We identify new candidate locations of extreme gravity signals, suggesting that the Committee on Data for Science and Technology standard for peak-to-peak variations in free-fall gravity is too low by about 40%. The new models are beneficial for a wide range of scientific and engineering applications and freely available to the public.
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