determination of a gravimetric geoid solution for andalusia (south spain)决心的重力大地水准面解安达卢西亚(西班牙).pdfVIP

Engineering, 2010, 2, 160-165 doi:10.4236/eng.2010.23022 Published Online March 2010 (http://www.SciRP.org/journal/eng/) Determination of a Gravimetric Geoid Solution for Andalusia (South Spain) 1 1 2,3 1 Francisco Manzano , Victor Corchete , Mimoun Chourak , Gil Manzano 1 Higher Polytechnic School, University of Almeria, Almeria, Spain 2Faculté Polidisciplinaire dErrachidia, University of Moulay Ismaïl, B.P. Boutalamine, Morocco 3NASG (North Africa Seismological Group), Gelderland, The Netherlands Email : fmanzano@ual.es Received November 24, 2009; revised December 20, 2009; accepted December 22, 2009 Abstract The orthometric heights can be obtained without levelling by means of the ellipsoidal and geoidal heights. For engineering purposes, these orthometric heights must be determined with high accuracy. For this reason, the determination of a high-resolution geoid is necessary. In Andalusia (South Spain) a new geopotential model (EIGEN-GL04C) has been available since the publication of a more recent regional geoid. As a con- sequence, these new data bring about improvements that ought to be included in a new regional geoid of Andalusia. With this aim in mind, a new gravimetric geoid determination has been carried out, in which these new data have been included. Thus, a new geoid is provided as a data grid distributed for the South Spain area from 36 to 39 degrees of latitude and –7 to – 1 degrees of longitude (extending to 3 × 6 degrees), in a 120 × 240 regular grid with a mesh size of 1.5’ × 1.5’ and 28800