A historical review of gravimetric observations in Norway

• Published in: History of Geo- and Space Sciences
• Main Author: Pettersen, Bjørn Ragnvald
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Copernicus Publications 2016
• Subjects: article; Verlagsveröffentlichung; Arctic; Arctic Ocean; Kater; Norway; Sterneck; Svalbard; Climate change; Fennoscandia; Hammerfest
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5194/hgss-7-79-2016; https://noa.gwlb.de/receive/cop_mods_00011300; https://noa.gwlb.de/servlets/MCRFileNodeServlet/cop_derivate_00011257/hgss-7-79-2016.pdf; https://hgss.copernicus.org/articles/7/79/2016/hgss-7-79-2016.pdf

The first gravity determinations in Norway were made by Edward Sabine in 1823 with a pendulum instrument by Henry Kater. Seventy years later a Sterneck pendulum was acquired by the Norwegian Commission for the International Arc Measurements. It improved the precision and eventually reduced the bias...