The differences in structure of the gravity field and the figure of the earth in the northern and southern hemispheres

Summary It was shown in [5] that the flattening of parallel sections of the geoid (ϕ=const.) differs in the northern and southern hemispheres. This leads up to the idea of studying further the size and shape of the Earth and the structure of the gravity field separately for the northern and for the southern hemispheres. In this paper attention is devoted especially to the mean values of the radius-vectors, to the best fitting ellipsoid parameters and to the mean values of gravity for the whole hemispheres, on the one hand, and for their ϕ=const. sections, on the other. The symbols used are the same as in [5,6]. Address: Politickych vězňů 12, Praha 1-Nové Město.