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Marine Gravity and Geoid from Satellite Altimetry

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Two thirds of the globe is covered with water, and large parts of the ocean are not covered with marine gravity observations. In large parts of the Southern Pacific Ocean the distance between surveys lines are several hundred kilometres thus only resolving signals of twice that distance. Satellite altimetry can provide information of the height of the oceans over nearly 60% of the Earth surface.

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Appendix A Data Resources

Appendix A Data Resources

1.1 A.1 Altimetry Data

Some of the major distributors of satellite altimetry are the following:

Radar Altimetry Database system (RADS)

http://rads.tudelft.nl

Archiving Validation, interpretation of satellite data (AVISO)

www.aviso.oceanobs.com/en/altimetry/index.html

National Ocean and Atmosphere Administration (NOAA)

http://ibis.grdl.noaa.gov/SAT/ocean_links.html

Jet Propulsion Lab (JPL-PODAAC)

http://podaac.jpl.nasa.gov/DATA_CATALOG/index.html

International Altimeter Service (IAS):

http://ias.dgfi.badw.de/IAS

1.2 A.2 Altimetric Gravity Field Resources

DTU Space (DNSC, DTU gravity field models)

http://space.dtu.dk (data and models)

University of California, San Diego (Sandwell and Smith gravity field models)

http://topex.ucsd.edu/marine_grav/mar_grav.html

NCTU National Chaotung University (Taiwan)

The NCTU1 global marine gravity field model is available on request from

Cheinway Hwang at hwang@geodesy.cv.nctu.edu.tw

Arctic Gravity Field Project (ArcGP)

Arctic gravity field grid

http://earth-info.nga.mil/GandG/wgs84/agp/readme_new.html

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Andersen, O.B. (2013). Marine Gravity and Geoid from Satellite Altimetry. In: Sansò, F., Sideris, M. (eds) Geoid Determination. Lecture Notes in Earth System Sciences, vol 110. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-74700-0_9

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