Model anomalies for the earth from crustal data

Crustal data of surface elevations and depth of Moho (and densities) can be utilized to form model-earth anomalies. These model-anomalies can closely approximate the free-air anomaly field of the earth, and could thus be used to predict the latter. A review of several such models is presented, with some elaboration on model developments, procedures, data analysis and accuracies. One of the models approaches a prediction accuracy of ±10 mgal for5°×5° mean free-air anomalies, whose r.m.s. value was about30% higher.