The Gradiometric-Geodynamic Boundary Value Problem

The role of gravity gradients is investigated in the framework of geodetic-geodynamic boundary value problems. The time variation of the Eötvös tensor can be separated into three parts. The first part is a surface movement term, the second is the time variation of the gravity field in the original point, and the third is a coupling term. The first and third terms can be computed by a third order derivative tensor of the gravity potential. These terms can be formulated in spherical and planar approximation.