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Recovery of the Historical Polish Marine Gravity Data for the Baltic Sea Cover

Recovery of the Historical Polish Marine Gravity Data for the Baltic Sea

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|Apr 2026

Figures & Tables

Figure 1.

Historical marine gravity data along the Polish coast collected in 1971–1981

Figure 2.

Gravity difference between the USSR realization of IGSN71 and ITGRF for the Petrobaltic network (a) and a distribution of the gravity corrections applied to the Petrobaltic data (b)

Figure 3.

Differences between the depths measured and depths from the ETOPO 2022 15″ model for the Zaria (a), Jan Turlejski (b), Petrobaltic (c), and Ustka-Rozewie (d) campaigns

Figure 4.

Interpolation errors of free-air anomalies with respect to the size of grid cells

Figure 5.

Gridded free-air anomalies calculated from the measurements of the Zaria (a), Jan Turlejski (b), Petrobaltic (c), and Ustka-Rozewie (d) campaigns

Figure 6.

Gridded Bouguer anomalies calculated from the measurements of the Zaria (a), Jan Turlejski (b), Petrobaltic (c), and Ustka-Rozewie (d) campaigns

Figure 7.

Differences between the gridded free-air anomalies from the Zaria campaign and EGM2008 (a), EIGEN-6c4 (b), and GECO (c) models, respectively [mGals]

Figure 8.

Differences between the gridded free-air anomalies from the Jan Turlejski campaign and EGM2008 (a), EIGEN-6c4 (b), and GECO (c) models, respectively [mGals]

Figure 9.

Differences between the gridded free-air anomalies from the Petrobaltic campaign and EGM2008 (a), EIGEN-6c4 (b), and GECO (c) models, respectively [mGals]

Figure 10.

Differences between the gridded free-air anomalies from the Ustka-Rozewie campaign and EGM2008 (a), EIGEN-6c4 (b), and GECO (c) models, respectively [mGals]

Statistics of the differences between the recalculated Bouguer anomalies for the Polish historical gravimetric campaigns [mGal]

Gravimetric campaignNumber of crossoversMinMaxMeanStd. dev.
Zaria 1971 – Zaria 197242−11.27.0−1.13.8
Zaria 1971 – Jan Turlejski57−5.83.7−0.71.7
Zaria 1971 – Petrobaltic221−7.39.70.73.6
Zaria 1971 – Ustka-Rozewie47−3.94.3−1.02.0
Zaria 1972 – Jan Turlejski19−1.29.21.83.3
Zaria 1972 – Petrobaltic223−5.08.62.42.5
Zaria 1972 – Ustka-Rozewie13−5.15.4−0.92.9
Jan Turlejski – Petrobaltic144−9.61.4−2.01.9
Jan Turlejski – Ustka-Rozewie95−7.12.2−2.12.2
Petrobaltic – Ustka-Rozewie134−1.88.20.51.2

Statistics of the differences of depths measured during the Polish historical gravimetric campaigns and the respective ones obtained from the ETOPO 2022 model [m]

Gravimetric campaignNumber of pointsMinMaxMeanStd. dev.
Zaria1710−90.5107.42.914.6
Jan Turlejski409−79.434.8−34.526.3
Petrobaltic8382−20.010.20.21.4
Ustka-Rozewie717−29.34.9−0.71.4

Statistical summary of differences between gridded free-air anomalies calculated from the Polish historical marine gravity measurements and global geopotential models (GGM) [mGal]

GGMEGM2008EIGEN6c4GECO
Statistics/CampaignMinMaxMeanStd. dev.MinMaxMeanStd. dev.MinMaxMeanStd. dev.
Zaria−13.96.9−4.22.5−13.08.1−3.52.4−13.98.8−3.72.5
Jan Turlejski−9.8−2.0−5.31.3−9.6−0.8−4.61.5−9.9−1.7−5.91.4
Petrobaltic−6.25.8−1.71.2−7.66.3−1.01.2−7.45.4−1.31.4
Ustka-Rozewie−4.92.5−2.31.0−5.43.0−1.71.3−6.13.8−1.71.5
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/arsa-2026-0001 | Journal eISSN: 2083-6104 | Journal ISSN: 1509-3859
Language: English
Page range: 1 - 17
Submitted on: Nov 14, 2025
Accepted on: Mar 31, 2026
Published on: Apr 27, 2026
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Publication frequency: 4 issues per year

© 2026 Monika Wilde-Piórko, Tomasz Olszak, Małgorzata Szelachowska, Olga Rosowiecka, published by Polish Academy of Sciences, Space Research Centre
This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

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