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The research results show that: (1) the deepest Moho of Tibet, approximately 70 km, is located at the western Kunlun area, where it corresponds well to that of previous publications; (2) clear Moho folds can be observed from the inverted Moho topography, whose direction presents a clockwise pattern and is in good agreement with that of Global Positioning System; (3) compared with the CRUST 1.0, our inverted Moho model has a better spatial resolution and reveals more details for tectonic structure; (4) the poor density model of the crust in Tibet may be the main reason for the differences between the obtained gravity Moho model and seismic Moho model; (5) by comparing our inverted Moho with those from previous publications, our method is correct and effective. This work provides a new method for the study of Moho topography and the interior structure of the Earth.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/rs11131567","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2019,7,2]],"date-time":"2019-07-02T12:11:17Z","timestamp":1562069477000},"page":"1567","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":11,"title":["An Approach to Moho Topography Recovery Using the On-Orbit GOCE Gravity Gradients and Its Applications in Tibet"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"11","author":[{"given":"Jiakuan","family":"Wan","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"MOE Key Laboratory of Fundamental Physical Quantities Measurement &amp; Hubei Key Laboratory of Gravitation and Quantum Physics, PGMF and School of Physics, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430074, China"},{"name":"Institute of Geophysics and PGMF, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430074, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-8223-3021","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Chuang","family":"Xu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Surveying Engineering, School of Civil and Transportation Engineering, Guangdong University of Technology, Guangzhou 510006, China"},{"name":"State Key Laboratory of Geodesy and Earth\u2019s Dynamics, Institute of Geodesy and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan 430077, China"},{"name":"State Key Laboratory of Information Engineering in Surveying, Mapping and Remote Sensing, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430079, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Zhicai","family":"Luo","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"MOE Key Laboratory of Fundamental Physical Quantities Measurement &amp; Hubei Key Laboratory of Gravitation and Quantum Physics, PGMF and School of Physics, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430074, China"},{"name":"Institute of Geophysics and PGMF, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430074, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Yihao","family":"Wu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"State Key Laboratory of Geodesy and Earth\u2019s Dynamics, Institute of Geodesy and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan 430077, China"},{"name":"School of Earth Science and Engineering, Hohai University, Nanjing 210098, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Boyang","family":"Zhou","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Surveying Engineering, School of Civil and Transportation Engineering, Guangdong University of Technology, Guangzhou 510006, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Jianguo","family":"Yan","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"State Key Laboratory of Information Engineering in Surveying, Mapping and Remote Sensing, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430079, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2019,7,2]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","first-page":"761","article-title":"The Moho depth of Qinghai-Tibet Plateau revealed by seismic detection","volume":"30","author":"Gao","year":"2009","journal-title":"Acta Geosci. 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