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The geoid surface is irregular... the total variation in the geoid is less than 200 m... In reality the geoid does not have a physical meaning under the continents... the geoid is by definition a surface to which the force of gravity is everywhere perpendicular... the local vertical is always perpendicular to the geoid and the local horizon... The geoid is a particular... describing details in the global geoid as small as 55 km... geoid and Space Mission GGSM2004... Geoid tutorial from Li and Gotze... Geoid tutorial at GRACE website... Geoid Modelling in Egypt... Precise Geoid Determination Based on the Least...

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Map of the undulations of the geoid, in meters (based on the EGM96 gravity model and the WGS84 reference ellipsoid). | | EGM96 | WGS84 | equipotential surface | C.F. Gauss | gravitational | geodesy | geophysics | P. Vaníček | figure of the Earth | reference ellipsoid | 1. Ocean 2. Ellipsoid 3. Local plumb 4. Continent 5. Geoid | | reference ellipsoids | Mount Everest | Mariana Trench | geodesists | spirit leveling | equipotential surface | tangential component | GPS | satellites | Three-dimensional visualization of geoid undulations, using units of gravity. | | units of gravity | Spherical harmonics | EGM96 | NIMA | Legendre functions | potential | equipotential | GRACE | Vaníček | Stokesian | accuracy | computation | order-of-magnitude | Physical geodesy | Geodesy | Categories | Geophysics | Gravitation |
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