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One of the key activities in Geodesy 2010, the Swedish strategic plan for geodetic activities during the period 2011–2020, is the restoration of the gravity network and data in order to improve the accuracy of the national quasigeoid model. One weak point has been that very few gravity observations have been available over Lake Vänern, Sweden’s largest lake. During the extremely cold winters 2010 and 2011, the ice became sufficiently thick to make ice observation of gravity. The main purpose of this paper is to present the 2011 ice gravity campaign, summarise the experiences made and investigate how much the new ice observations improve the computed quasigeoid model in the area. This is investigated under the assumption that a modern Earth Gravitational Model based on GRACE and GOCE is used. It is found that new ice measurements improve the quasigeoid with a RMS of about 2–3 cm in and around the lake with a maximum improvement of 7 cm.
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Ågren, J., Engberg, L.E., Alm, L., Dahlström, F., Engfeldt, A., Lidberg, M. (2014). Improving the Swedish Quasigeoid by Gravity Observations on the Ice of Lake Vänern. In: Marti, U. (eds) Gravity, Geoid and Height Systems. International Association of Geodesy Symposia, vol 141. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-10837-7_22
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