The geoid (the surface of equal gravitational potential of a hypothetical ocean at rest) serves as the classical reference ...

No audio available for this content. As high-precision GNSS horizontal and vertical data becomes less expensive to collect, greater attention must be paid when reconciling vertical datasets. In 2013, ...

For years, researchers have tried to pinpoint how an area deep in the Indian Ocean with lower gravitational pull came to be. A team in India may have figured it out. The area in question is called the ...

Figure 1: Relationship between the geoid and seismic tomography. The best-fitting model (Fig. 2a) was found by a systematic parameter search (Supplementary Figs 1–5). The eastern hemisphere geoid low ...

No audio available for this content. On Aug. 10, the National Geodetic Survey (NGS) released its latest experimental geoid model, xGeoid18. In early 2019, NGS is scheduled to release its next hybrid ...

Earth, in most renderings, is a smooth sphere with a glossy complexion—a blue marble, as pictures snapped from space have shown us. Earth scientists know that’s not exactly true. Earth, in fact, is an ...

The Earth’s geoid is the shape the planet would assume if its surface were made of water. Naturally, there’s little dispute over the shape of the geoid over the oceans, where it varies by only 100 ...

It is found in the depths of Indian Ocean and named as the gravity hole or Indian Ocean geoid low, an anomaly on earth where gravity is said to be weaker, and levels of sea dip by more than 328 feet ...