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Influence of the equilibrium ocean pole tide on the gravity field CHEN Xiaodong1, 2, DUCARME Bernard3, SUN Heping1 Key Laboratory of Dynamical Geodesy, Institute of Geodesy and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xudong Street 340, Wuhan, China, 430077; Graduate School of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Yuquan Road 19A, Beijing, China, 100049 Research Associate NFSR, Royal Observatory of Belgium, Av. Circulaire 3, B-1180, Brussels, Belgium Summary : Although there is a lot of investigations on the ocean pole tide, there are not so many publications of its contribution to the gravity field. One of the reasons may be that both the ocean pole tide and the gravity pole tide are not easily determined by observations, as they are weak and, being close to the annual period, disturbed seriously by other geophysical phenomena, such as atmospheric and oceanic global circulation. With the development of the observation techniques, these two kinds of signals can be determined now. Results from the TOPEX/Poseidon (T/P) satellite altimetry for detecting the ocean pole tide confirm that the long-wavelength component of the geocentric pole tide deformations due to the Chandler wobble is consistent with the self-consistent equilibrium response model and the classical equilibrium one can only explain 70% of the variations. In addition, the superconduting gravimeters (SG) are now able to record and determine the gravity effect caused by polar motion. It is due to their high precision (as high as 10-11 m.s-2) and very low drift (only at the level of 10 nm.s-2 per year). Thus it is meaningful to estimate the contribution of the ocean pole tide to the gravity field now. On the assumption that the ocean pole tide is in equilibrium, the loading gravity effects of both the classical and the self-consistent ocean pole tide are calculated at each of the 9 SG stations where gravity pole tide has been determined by Ducarme al. [2006]. Then, after introducing a well-chosen phase lag, the a