Physics – Geophysics
Scientific paper
Apr 2003
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EGS - AGU - EUG Joint Assembly, Abstracts from the meeting held in Nice, France, 6 - 11 April 2003, abstract #3553
Physics
Geophysics
Scientific paper
GOCE, to be launched in 2006, is the first core mission of ESA’s Living Planet Programme. Its purpose is to measure the stationary gravity field of the Earth with highest possible precision and resolution (below 10-5m\cdots-2 and 1 cm in terms of gravity and geoid precision, respectively, with resolved length scales of 100 km). The core instrument of GOCE is a three dimensional, electro-static gravity gradiometer. This instrument, together with geodetic GPS satellite-to-satellite tracking and active angular and drag free control will permit to derive the three diagonal gravity gradient components independently, undisturbed and with well defined position and spatial orientation. Solid Earth physics, physical oceanography, geodesy and sea level research will be the main users of this mission. For geophysics GOCE will provide a much more detailed and consistent look into the lithosphere and upper mantle, for oceanography the detailed and very precise geoid surface together with altimetry will allow to derive dynamic topography (and consequently surface circulation) with greatest level of refinement. Geodetic height systems can be globally unified at cm-level after GOCE and GPS ellipsoidal heights be directly transformed to sea level heights. All these elements together will help the understanding of the dynamics of sea level variations and the separations of the various contributions to sea level change.
Balmino Georges
Rummel Reiner
Sünkel H.
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