I am working on the development of absolute gravity model in Pakistan. There are some data gaps which I want to fill with absolute gravity values of a best global geopotential model.
The normal gravity at the earth surface was added to free air anomaly at the surface from EGM2008. The results are improved when compared with observed control point values by adding the RTM effects to above mentioned data of normal gravity and EGM2008 free air anomaly.
I usually use spherical harmonic method with EGM2008 coefficients up to degree and order 2190 to generate almost real data on the earth surface, i have checked these data with gravity observations and they had RMS around mGal in a not rocky region.