One of the GOCE satellite mission goals is to study the Earth's interior structure including its crustal thickness. A gravimetric-isostatic Moho model, based on the Vening Meinesz-Moritz (VMM) theory and GOCE gradiomet-ric data, is determined beneath Iran's continental shelf and surrounding seas. The terrestrial gravimetric data of Iran are also used in a nonlinear inversion for a recovering-Moho model applying the VMM model. The newly-computed Moho models are compared with the Moho data taken from CRUST2.0. The root-mean-square (RMS) of differences between the CRUST2.0 Moho model and the recovered model from GOCE and that from the terrestrial gravimetric data are 3.8 km and 4.6 km, respectively. Copyright © The Society of Geomagnetism and Earth, Planetary and Space Sciences (SGEPSS).
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Bagherbandi, M., & Eshagh, M. (2012). Crustal thickness recovery using an isostatic model and GOCE data. Earth, Planets and Space, 64(11), 1053–1057. https://doi.org/10.5047/eps.2012.04.009
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