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Free-air gravity anomaly

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In geophysics, the free-air gravity anomaly, often simply called the free-air anomaly, is the measured gravity anomaly after a free-air correction is applied to correct for the elevation at which a measurement is made. The free-air correction does so by adjusting these measurements of gravity to what would have been measured at a reference level. For Earth, this reference level is commonly taken as the mean sea level.^[1]

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The free-air gravity anomaly is given by the equation:^[1]

Here, is the free-air gravity anomaly, is observed gravity, is the correction for latitude (because planetary bodies are not perfect spheres), and is the free-air correction.

Gravitational acceleration decreases as an inverse square law with the distance at which the measurement is made from the mass. The free air correction is calculated from Newton's Law, as a rate of change of gravity with distance:^[2]

At 45° latitude, mGal/m.^[3]

The free-air correction is the amount that must be added to a measurement at height to correct it to the reference level:

Here we have assumed that measurements are made relatively close to the surface so that R does not vary significantly. The value of the free-air correction is positive when measured above the datum, and negative when measured below the datum. Also, there is an assumption that no mass exists between the observation point and the reference level. The Bouguer anomaly and terrain correction are used to account for this.

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1. ^¹{{cite book|first=C.M.R.|last=Fowler|authorlink=Mary Fowler|title=The Solid Earth: An Introduction to Global Geophysics|year=2005|edition=2|publisher=Cambridge University Press|location=Cambridge, UK|isbn=978-0-521-89307-7|pages=205–206}}
2. ^{{cite book|first=R.J.|last=Lillie|title=Whole Earth Geophysics: An Introductory Textbook for Geologists and Geophysicists|year=1998|publisher=Prentice Hall|isbn=978-0-13-490517-4}}
3. ^{{cite book | title=Applied Geophysics (2nd edition) | publisher=Cambridge University Press | first=W.M. | last=Telford | first2=L.P. | last2=Geldart | first3=R.E. | last3=Sheriff | year=1990 | location=Cambridge | pages=11–12 | isbn=978-0-521-32693-3}}

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