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STOKES in his “Collected Papers”, vol. 2, p. 168, gave a very elegant formula, giving elevation N of geoid above its reference spheroid in terms of g-anomalies. The formula is , where π being the angle between current point and the point at which rise has to be calculated. The formula has been neglected so far probably on account of paucity of (g-observations, as it requires for calculation of N at one place, the values of g-anomalies all over the globe. Recently, however, it has been brought into prominence by articles by V. Meinesz 1 and by W. D. Lambert.2
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GULATEE, B. Stokes's Formula in Geodesy. Nature 129, 279–280 (1932). https://doi.org/10.1038/129279a0
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