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Re: [Phys-l] 9.80 vs. 9.81

I wrote:
I must be missing something here. What are the units of the gravity data at the GeoNet sites?
For our location in the northwestern part of Virginia, US, I find values of 3881.42 with no
units or explanation. The Getting Started guide says the values will be in cm/s^2, but that is not the case.

Well, I answered my own question. I had searched for other sites and found a different URL for the same data:
http://paces.geo.utep.edu/gdrp/Search.aspx
This site helped me to know what format I was to enter the data, but the heading for the observed value in the web interface does not say "ObsGrvLess976000mg" as the text file format of the site John Denker first gave. When I went back to that site with my correct lat/long data, then it worked and I saw the heading.

Richard Bowman
Bridgewater College
Bridgewater, VA, USA
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