No audio available for this content. My April column addressed the vertical movement at the NOAA CORS Network (NCN). The values at the sites indicate the potential movement of marks in the area of the ...
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, ...
Somewhere south of India, the ocean surface dips by roughly 100 meters below the expected shape of the Earth, a gravitational ...
The Indian Ocean Geoid Low (IOGL), a significant gravitational anomaly, has puzzled scientists for decades. Research suggests it formed due to interactions between tectonic plates and mantle plumes ...
The alternative text for this image may have been generated using AI. The best-fitting model (Fig. 2a) was found by a systematic parameter search (Supplementary Figs 1–5). The eastern hemisphere geoid ...
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 ...
[UPDATE (April 5, 2011): It turns out some of the descriptions I used below to describe a geoid were not accurate. I refer you to this page at the University of Oklahoma for a good description. I’ve ...