• Journal of Korean Society of Coastal and Ocean Engineers
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• v.20 no.6
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• pp.621-629
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• 2008

Procedures involved in the refinement of the regional geoid for the area encompassing the Korean peninsula and the East Sea are described, and the computational results are provided. A comparison between the geoid height data, the mean sea surface height and the final product of the refinement work is provided and analyzed. The regional marine geoid thus refined seems to have a better resolution, in terms of its correlation with the bathymetry, and shows the bottom features in a more detailed manner when compared with previously used procedures. The general pattern of the computed geoid profile matches reasonably well with the existing studies, where the correlations between the refined regional marine geoid and the bathymetry are (1) 0.44 for the area $117{\sim}142.5^{\circ}E/24{\sim}52^{\circ}N$ and (2) 0.47 for the area $127{\sim}142.5^{\circ}E/32{\sim}50^{\circ}N$ in the East Sea respectively.