March 11, 2019

THe latest version of the V27 grid has a better masking of raw altimeter data at
the coastline. This removes a few coastal gravity artifacts.

October 4, 2018

This directory contains the V27 gravity and vertical gravity gradient grids. The
main improvement of V27 with respect to V26 is 12 months of retracked Jason-2 data
were added as well as 2 more months of AltiKa data.

June 21, 2018

This directory contains the V26 gravity and vertical gravity gradient grids. The
main improvement of V26 with respect to V25 is 6 more months of CryoSat-2 LRM data
and 6 more months of Altika data. In addition, there is about 2 X more Cryosat SAR
data than previous versions which helps in the Arctic.

November 11, 2017

This directory contains the V25 gravity and vertical gravity gradient grids. The
main improvement of V25 with respect to V24 is 12 more months of CryoSat-2 LRM data
were added. More important 31 additional months of CryoSat-2 SAR data were used and
this verions now includes 13 months of Altika data.

June 23, 2016

This directory contains the V24 gravity and vertical gravity gradient grids. The
main improvement of V24 with respect to V23 is 12 more months of CryoSat-2 data
were added.

May 3, 2014

This directory contains the V23 gravity and vertical gravity gradient grids. The
VGG file has the same format as the gravity. The units are eotvos units times 10.
The main improvement of V23 with respect to V22 is 9 more months of CryoSat-2 data
were added.

November 3, 2013

This directory now contains the final version of the V22 gravity grid. There are
two
changes with respect to the September 30, beta version.

1) The low-pass filter that is applied to the gravity depends on depth as follows.

# depth filter filename

# 0 13km grav0.img
# 1 14 grav1.img
# 2 15 grav2.img
# 3 16 grav3.img
# 4 17 grav4.img
# 5 18 grav5.img
# 6 20 grav6.img

2) A slope correction was applied to the altimeter profiles to account for the
offset of the footprint away from NADIR due to a high geoid slope.

September 30, 2013 David T. Sandwell

Note these are beta versions of V22 as presented in the IAG meeting in Potsdam.

Global gravity grids. The V21 gravity models as published in:

http://topex.ucsd.edu/sandwell/publications/142.pdf
http://topex.ucsd.edu/sandwell/publications/144.pdf

HOW TO ACCESS THE GRID WITH GMT

If you are a GMT user there are two programs that enable you to access these files.

1) img2grd - this one reads the special Mercator format and dumps a subgrid.
#
# script to cut a small area and make a straight lon/lat grid
#
img2grd grav.img.23.1 -R-5/5/-10/10 -Ggrav.grd -D -T1 -m1 -E -S0.1 -V
img2grd curv.img.23.1 -R-5/5/-10/10 -Gcurv.grd -D -T1 -m1 -E -S0.1 -V
M
2) The other really important, but cryptic, program will interpolate the Mercator
grid at any desired point. So if you have a file of ship data and want to add a
column of gravity or predicted depth with no interpolation errors try the
following.

grdtrack -Ggrav.img.23.1,.1,0,80.738 < rc2507.xyg > rc2507.xygs