The average acceleration approach applied to gravity coefficients recovery based on GOCE orbits

The average acceleration approach was applied to recover a gravity field model Model_ACA from GOCE precise science orbits from September 2 to November 2, 2010, and furthermore a so called sequential least square adjustment was used. The model was compared with other gravity field models based on CHAMP, GRACE and GOCE. The result shows that the model is superior to gravity field based on CHAMP, and with higher accuracy than other international gravity field models based on only GOCE data before 80 degree. The degree geoid height of Model_ACA reaches 3 cm up to 90 degree and order.