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The information provided by potential theory is critical to all sciences that contribute to the study of a planetary body such as the Earth, including gravitation, magnetism, seismology, topography, solid geophysics, oceanography, to name several. In addition, there is a growing awareness with respect to environmental problems, such as global sea-level changes and the CO2-question, where accurate knowledge of the Earth’s gravitational potential and its equipotential surfaces has become an important issue.
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Freeden, W., Michel, V. (2004). Introduction. In: Multiscale Potential Theory. Applied and Numerical Harmonic Analysis. Birkhäuser Boston. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-2048-0_1
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