New analytical and numerical approaches for geopotential modeling |
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Authors: | M. S. Petrovskaya A. N. Vershkov N. K. Pavlis |
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Affiliation: | (1) Central Astronomical (Pulkovo) Observatory of Russian Academy of Sciences, Pulkovskoe Shosse 65, St. Petersburg, 196140, Russia e-mail: petrovsk@gao.spb.ru; Tel.: +7-812-1-234-252; Fax: +7-812-1-234-922, RU;(2) Raytheon ITSS Corporation, 4400 Forbes Boulevard, Lanham, MD 20706, USA e-mail: npavlis@geodesy2.gsfc.nasa.gov; Tel.: +1-301-794-5446; Fax: +1-301-794-5470, US |
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Abstract: | The standard analytical approach which is applied for constructing geopotential models OSU86 and earlier ones, is based on reducing the boundary value equation to a sphere enveloping the Earth and then solving it directly with respect to the potential coefficients n,m . In an alternative procedure, developed by Jekeli and used for constructing the models OSU91 and EGM96, at first an ellipsoidal harmonic series is developed for the geopotential and then its coefficients n,m e are transformed to the unknown n,m . The second solution is more exact, but much more complicated. The standard procedure is modified and a new simple integral formula is derived for evaluating the potential coefficients. The efficiency of the standard and new procedures is studied numerically. In these solutions the same input data are used as for constructing high-degree parts of the EGM96 models. From two sets of n,m (n≤360,|m|≤n), derived by the standard and new approaches, different spectral characteristics of the gravity anomaly and the geoid undulation are estimated and then compared with similar characteristics evaluated by Jekeli's approach (`etalon' solution). The new solution appears to be very close to Jekeli's, as opposed to the standard solution. The discrepancies between all the characteristics of the new and `etalon' solutions are smaller than the corresponding discrepancies between two versions of the final geopotential model EGM96, one of them (HDM190) constructed by the block-diagonal least squares (LS) adjustment and the other one (V068) by using Jekeli's approach. On the basis of the derived analytical solution a new simple mathematical model is developed to apply the LS technique for evaluating geopotential coefficients. Received: 12 December 2000 / Accepted: 21 June 2001 |
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Keywords: | : Geopotential models – Analytical solutions – Least-squares solutions – Boundary value problems |
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