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The new dual-sphere superconducting gravimeter (SG) OSG-073 was installed at Metsähovi Geodetic Fundamental Station in Southern Finland in February 2014. Its two gravity sensors (N6 and N7) are side by side, not one on top of the other as in other earlier dual-sensor installations. The old SG T020 has been recording continuously since 1994–2016. This instrument is situated in the same room at a distance of 3 m from the dual-sphere SG. T020 observed simultaneously for 1 year with N6 and for 15 months with N7. The gravity signals observed by N6 and N7 are very similar, except for the initial exponential drift. We have calculated the power spectral density to compare the noise level of these instruments with other low noise SGs. In this paper we present the observed differences in the gravity time series of T020 and OSG-073, induced by local hydrology. We have observed a clear 10–20 nms-2 difference in the seasonal gravity variations of OSG- 073 and T020. We have found clear gravity differences due to transient effect of heavy precipitation. In addition, we compare the remote effect on gravity due to variations in the Baltic Sea level and total water storage in Finland to the observed gravity signal. We also present modeling results of gravity variations due to local hydrology.
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Virtanen, H., Raja-Halli, A. (2019). Parallel Observations with Three Superconducting Gravity Sensors During 2014–2015 at Metsähovi Geodetic Research Station, Finland. In: Braitenberg, C., Rossi, G., Geodynamics and Earth Tides Editor group (eds) Geodynamics and Earth Tides Observations from Global to Micro Scale. Pageoph Topical Volumes. Birkhäuser, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-96277-1_8
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