Geoid Determination through Ellipsoidal Stokes Boundary-Value Problem

ISSN： 0039-3169

Source： Studia Geophysica et Geodaetica, Vol.44, Iss.3, 2000-07, pp. : 353-363

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Abstract

Martinec and Grafarend (1997) have shown how the construction of Green's function in the Stokes boundary-value problem with gravity data distributed on an ellipsoid of revolution is approached in the O hbox{it (thinspace } e_0^2 hbox{it thinspace )}-approximation. They have also expressed the ellipsoidal Stokes function describing the effect of ellipticity of the boundary as a finite sum of elementary functions. We present an effective method of avoiding the singularity of spherical and the ellipsoidal Stokes functions, and also an analytical expression for the ellipsoidal Stokes integral around the computational point suitable for numerical solution. We give the numerical results of solving the ellipsoidal Stokes boundary-value problem and their difference with respect to the spherical Stoke boundary-value problem.