ABSOLUTE GRAVITY MEASUREMENT AT SYOWA STATION, ANTARCTICA

• Main Authors: フジワラ, サトシ, ワタナベ, カズオ, フクダ, ヨウイチ, FUJIWARA, Satoshi, WATANABE, Kazuo, FUKUDA, Yoichi
• Language: English
• Published: National Institute of Polar Research 1993
• Subjects: Antarctic; Syowa Station; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: https://nipr.repo.nii.ac.jp/record/2726/files/KJ00002368356.pdf; https://doi.org/10.15094/00002726; https://nipr.repo.nii.ac.jp/records/2726

P(論文) An absolute gravity measurement was carried out for the first time at the class A absolute gravity station of International Absolute Gravity Basestation Network (IAGBN) in Syowa Station by the 33rd Japanese Antarctic Research Expedition (JARE-33). A transportable absolute gravimeter, which adopts a symmetrical free rise-and-fall method (called Sakuma-type gravimeter) was used. In 1962,JARE-6 carried out a gravity measurement at Syowa Station using a pendulum-type gravimeter. The gravity value which was obtained has been used as the reference gravity value at Syowa Station (69.0°S, 39.6°E). However, the pendulum measurement is not an absolute gravity measurement and the precision does not meet recent geodetic and geophysical standards. Moreover, the International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics/International Association of Geodesy (IUGG/IAG) meeting has selected Syowa Station as one of the IAGBN stations. This station is going to be the reference point for relative gravity measurements around Syowa Station, and secular change of gravity will be detected by repeated absolute gravity measurements. Our absolute gravity measurement was carried out on the IAGBN station in the gravity observation hut which had been built by JARE-32 (February 1991). The total number of measuring days was 15 during the period from January 4 to January 28,1992. The adopted corrections for the data processing were as follows; (1) Earth tides reduction : The observed tidal parameters (OGAWA et al. : J. Geod. Soc. Jpn., 37,13,1991) were used. (2) Response to air pressure : The actual observed air pressure variations were used. (3) Earth rotation changes : The polar motion reduction (INTERNATIONAL GRAVITY COMMISION-WORKING GROUP II : Bureau Gravimetrique International Bull. D'information, 63,51,1988) was used. (4) Gravity gradient : The observed gravity gradient (dg/dz) by four LaCoste & Romberg gravimeters was used (G515,G583,G590 and D73). The obtained results were : Number of measurements : 834 Gravity value : ...