The TEG-3 Geopotential Model
| Autor: | S. V. Bettadpur, John C Ries, Byron D. Tapley, Bob E. Schutz, S. R. Poole, C. K. Shum, Hyung-Jin Rim, Richard J. Eanes, P. A. M. Abusali, M. C. Kim |
|---|---|
| Rok vydání: | 1997 |
| Předmět: | |
| Zdroj: | International Association of Geodesy Symposia ISBN: 9783642083280 International Association of Geodesy Symposia |
| DOI: | 10.1007/978-3-662-03482-8_61 |
| Popis: | A new solution for the static geopotential, TEG-3, complete to 70×70 in spherical harmonics, has been obtained. The solution represents one of the latest efforts to improve the Earth’s gravity model. The solution was obtained by combining inhomogeneous satellite and in situ data sets, and by simultaneously estimating the relative weights for individual satellite data sets. Data from over 20 satellites and terrestrial surface gravity data were used in the latest solution. The satellite data include groundbased satellite laser and radiometric (Doris and Tranet) tracking data, spaceborne GPS, and radar altimeter measurements. Analysis indicates that TEG-3 provides an incremental improvement in overall satellite orbit determination when compared with recent models, including JGM-3, GRIM4C4, and EGM96. In particular, notable improvement has been achieved for TEG-3 in reducing geographically-correlated gravity errors for orbit determination of altimetric satellites (Geosat and ERS-1). Error analysis indicates that there is no notable improvement in marine geoid accuracy in TEG-3 as compared to JGM-3, while the EGM-96 model represents an improvement in the marine geoid accuracy as indicated by comparing with ground-truth measurements (Levitus 94 hydrography) and mean topography from numerical ocean circulation model simulations (POCM_4B). |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
| Externí odkaz: |
|