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The development of studies on estimating the accuracy of the Earth’s modern global gravity models in terms of the spherical harmonics of the geopotential in the problematic regions of the world is discussed. The comparative analysis of the results of reconstructing quasi-geoid heights and gravity anomalies from the different models is carried out for two polar regions selected within a radius of 1000 km from the North and South poles. The analysis covers nine recently developed models, including six high-resolution models and three lower order models, including the Russian GAOP2012 model. It is shown that the modern models determine the quasi-geoid heights and gravity anomalies in the polar regions with errors of 5 to 10 to a few dozen cm and from 3 to 5 to a few dozen mGal, respectively, depending on the resolution. The accuracy of the models in the Arctic is several times higher than in the Antarctic. This is associated with the peculiarities of gravity anomalies in every particular region and with the fact that the polar part of the Antarctic has been comparatively less explored by the gravity methods than the polar Arctic.
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Original Russian Text © V.N. Koneshov, V.B. Nepoklonov, 2018, published in Fizika Zemli, 2018, No. 3.
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Koneshov, V.N., Nepoklonov, V.B. Studying the Representation Accuracy of the Earth’s Gravity Field in the Polar Regions Based on the Global Geopotential Models. Izv., Phys. Solid Earth 54, 504–512 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1069351318030047
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