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The paper presents the method of fundamental solutions (MFS) applied for global gravity field modelling. MFS as an inherent mesh-free method is used to derive the geopotential and its first derivatives from the second derivatives observed by the GOCE satellite mission, namely from the radial components of the gravity tensor. Unknown coefficients of the approximate solution by MFS are determined at the source points located directly on the Earth’s surface. Afterwards, the disturbing potential or gravity disturbance can be evaluated at any point above the Earth’s surface. To get their values on the Earth’s surface, singularities of the fundamental solutions need to be overcome. In this paper two strategies are used: (1) the source points are located on a fictitious boundary (FB), which is situated below the Earth’s surface, or (2) ideas of the singular boundary method that isolate the singularities are implemented. The paper studies how a depth of FB influences accuracy of the MFS solutions. All particular solutions are compared with the GOCO03S satellite-only geopotential model. In all cases mean values of the residuals are smaller than 0.04 m2s−2 (∼4 mm). The best agreement in terms of the standard deviation of residuals is for the FB depth of 20 km. Finally, the geopotential on the DTU10 mean sea surface is evaluated from the MFS solutions resulting in the W 0 estimates. The obtained W 0 values differ from ones based on GOCO03S or EGM2008 by less than 0.1 m2s−2 (∼1 cm).
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The work has been supported by the grant VEGA 1/1063/11 and the project APVV-0072-11
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Čunderlík, R. (2015). Determination of W0 from the GOCE Measurements Using the Method of Fundamental Solutions. In: Sneeuw, N., Novák, P., Crespi, M., Sansò, F. (eds) VIII Hotine-Marussi Symposium on Mathematical Geodesy. International Association of Geodesy Symposia, vol 142. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/1345_2015_39
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