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Evaluation of pre-CHAMP Gravity Models "GRIM5-S1" and "GRIM5-C1" with Satellite Crossover Altimetry

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Klokočnik,  Jaroslav
External Organizations;
Gravity Field and Gravimetry -2009, Geoengineering Centres, GFZ Publication Database, Deutsches GeoForschungsZentrum;
Scientific Technical Report STR, Deutsches GeoForschungsZentrum;

Reigber,  Christoph
Gravity Field and Gravimetry -2009, Geoengineering Centres, GFZ Publication Database, Deutsches GeoForschungsZentrum;
Scientific Technical Report STR, Deutsches GeoForschungsZentrum;

Schwintzer,  Peter
Gravity Field and Gravimetry -2009, Geoengineering Centres, GFZ Publication Database, Deutsches GeoForschungsZentrum;
Scientific Technical Report STR, Deutsches GeoForschungsZentrum;

Wagner,  Carl A.
External Organizations;
Gravity Field and Gravimetry -2009, Geoengineering Centres, GFZ Publication Database, Deutsches GeoForschungsZentrum;

Kostelecký,  Jan
External Organizations;
Gravity Field and Gravimetry -2009, Geoengineering Centres, GFZ Publication Database, Deutsches GeoForschungsZentrum;

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Klokočnik, J., Reigber, C., Schwintzer, P., Wagner, C. A., Kostelecký, J. (2000): Evaluation of pre-CHAMP Gravity Models "GRIM5-S1" and "GRIM5-C1" with Satellite Crossover Altimetry, (Scientific Technical Report STR ; 00/22), Potsdam : GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, 44 p.
https://doi.org/10.2312/GFZ.b103-00228


Cite as: https://gfzpublic.gfz-potsdam.de/pubman/item/item_227978
Abstract
The new GFZ/GRGS gravity field models GRIM5-S1 and Cl, current initial models for the CHAMP mission, have been compared with other recent models (JGM 3, EGM 96) for radial accuracy (by means of latitude lumped coefficients) in computations on altimetry satellite orbits. The basis for accuracy judgements are extensive (multi-year) averages of crossover sea height differences from Geosat and ERS 1/2 missions. These data are fully independent of the data used to develop these gravity models. We tested how well these observed differences in all the world's oceans agree with projections of the same errors from the scaled covariance matrix of their harmonic geopotential coefficients. It was found that the tentative (model) scale factor of 5 for the formal standard deviations of the harmonic coefficients of the new GRIM fields is justified, i.e. the accuracy estimates, provided together with the geopotential coefficients, are realistic.