Uh, Scientists Have Significantly Miscalculated Earth’s Sea Levels

After analyzing 385 studies related to coastal areas and sea level rise, scientists found a significant discrepancy between ...
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Earth’s strongest gravity anomaly hides under Antarctica, not where scientists thought

For decades, textbooks and science articles have pointed to the Indian Ocean as home to Earth’s deepest geoid low, the term scientists use for depressions in the planet’s gravity field. Pull up a ...
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Earth Has a Hidden “Dent” Under the Sea—And It’s Unlike Anything Else on the Planet

For over seventy years, a mysterious gravitational depression beneath the Indian Ocean has baffled scientists. Known as the Indian Ocean Geoid Low (IOGL), it marks the deepest point in Earth’s gravity ...
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U.S.-German Gravity Probes Return Best Map Yet of Earth's Geoid

AMAZING GRACE Data collected by the twin Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (Grace) satellites have produced the most accurate map yet of Earth's geoid, or gravity field, even before the ...
Nature

Gravity Field Modeling and Geoid Determination

Gravity field modeling and geoid determination are critical tasks in geodesy and Earth sciences, providing insights into the Earth’s mass distribution and its gravitational potential. Researchers ...
Times-Standard

Lori Dengler | The sea is not level

The ocean surface is definitely not flat. It is constantly changing as wind, waves and swells produce surface undulations, daily tidal fluctuations raise and lower the average height. It changes ...