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Validation of Global Gravitational Field Models in Norway

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In this article, the spectral enhancement method is applied to overcome the spectral inconsistency between the GOCE satellite gravitational models and the terrestrial data, and three terrestrial datasets indicate comparable performance with respect to EGM2008 up to degree and order 220 in the studied local area.
Abstract
Numerous global gravitational field models have been derived from the GOCE satellite gravitational gradiometry mission. They differ by the harmonic analysis approach and the time span covered by the measurements. The quality of individual solutions is assessed by validating the global gravitational field models with respect to independent datasets. Global gravitational field models based on the time-wise and the direct approach are validated in this contribution. All five releases are compared to height anomalies, free-air gravity anomalies, and deflections of the vertical over the continental part of Norway. The spectral enhancement method is applied to overcome the spectral inconsistency between the gravitational models and the terrestrial data. The three terrestrial datasets indicate comparable performance of the latest GOCE models with respect to EGM2008 up to degree and order 220 in the studied local area.

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The development and evaluation of the Earth Gravitational Model 2008 (EGM2008)

TL;DR: EGM2008 as mentioned in this paper is a spherical harmonic model of the Earth's gravitational potential, developed by a least squares combination of the ITG-GRACE03S gravitational model and its associated error covariance matrix, with the gravitational information obtained from a global set of area-mean free-air gravity anomalies defined on a 5 arc-minute equiangular grid.
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First GOCE gravity field models derived by three different approaches

TL;DR: In this article, three gravity field models, parameterized in terms of spherical harmonic coefficients, have been computed from 71 days of GOCE (Gravity field and steady-state Ocean Circulation Explorer) orbit and gradiometer data by applying independent gravity field processing methods.
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A unified approach to the Clenshaw summation and the recursive computation of very high degree and order normalised associated Legendre functions

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