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How is the bathymetry of the ocean floor accounted for in the sea surface topography?

April 26, 2017accounted bathymetry floor ocean sea topography

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How is the bathymetry of the ocean floor accounted for in the sea surface topography?

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The bathymetry effects are removed by removing the geoid. The bathymetry (mass concentrations/holes) cause different gravity signals at the ocean surface, which cause a permanent deformation in the sea surface that is part of the geoid signal.