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Outliers and uncertainties in GNSS ZTD estimates from double-difference processing and precise point positioning / Katarzyna Stępniak in GPS solutions, vol 26 n° 3 (July 2022)  

Public [article]  inGPS solutions > vol 26 n° 3 (July 2022) . - n° 74 Titre : Outliers and uncertainties in GNSS ZTD estimates from double-difference processing and precise point positioning Type de document : Article/Communication Auteurs : Katarzyna Stępniak, Auteur ; Olivier Bock , Auteur ; Pierre Bosser , Auteur ; Pawel Wielgosz, Auteur Année de publication : 2022 Projets : VEGAN / Bock, Olivier Article en page(s) : n° 74 Note générale : bibliographie Langues : Anglais (eng) Descripteur : [Termes IGN] données GNSS [Termes IGN] double différence [Termes IGN] ERA5 [Termes IGN] incertitude des données [Termes IGN] positionnement ponctuel précis [Termes IGN] retard troposphérique zénithal [Termes IGN] valeur aberrante [Vedettes matières IGN] Traitement de données GNSS Résumé : (auteur) Double-difference (DD) analysis and precise point positioning (PPP) are two widely used processing approaches to analyze ground-based GNSS measurements. We investigate the quality of the zenith tropospheric delay (ZTD) estimates produced from both processing approaches for a regional network over 1 year and show that DD solutions contain more numerous and larger ZTD outliers. The accuracy of both DD and PPP solutions strongly depends on the data processing procedure and models. We analyze the impact of mapping functions, satellite orbit and clock products and ambiguity resolution (fixed vs. float) on ZTD estimates. The results are assessed from station position repeatability and ZTD differences with respect to the ERA5 reanalysis. As expected, mapping functions have the strongest impact, with VMF1 being more accurate than GMF. Surprisingly, the impact of the ambiguity resolution and satellite products is rather weak in the PPP solution. We speculate that this results from the fact that final satellite products have reached a high level of accuracy and that other error sources now dominate static PPP solutions. A time and frequency analysis reveal unprecedented spurious sub-daily signals in the ZTD time series, which occur at the frequency of the GPS satellite repeat period and its harmonics. This suggests that sub-daily GPS ZTD estimates contain a significant part of the residual modeling errors due to satellite orbits, tidal models, mapping functions and multipath, which still need to be improved. Numéro de notice : A2022-359 Affiliation des auteurs : UMR IPGP-Géod+Ext (2020- ) Thématique : POSITIONNEMENT Nature : Article nature-HAL : ArtAvecCL-RevueIntern DOI : 10.1007/s10291-022-01261-z Date de publication en ligne : 29/04/2022 En ligne : https://doi.org/10.1007/s10291-022-01261-z Format de la ressource électronique : URL article Permalink : https://documentation.ensg.eu/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=100578 [article]

An improved vertical correction method for the inter-comparison and inter-validation of Integrated Water Vapour measurements [under review] / Olivier Bock in Atmospheric measurement techniques, vol 15 n° 19 ([01/04/2022])  

Public [article]  inAtmospheric measurement techniques > vol 15 n° 19 [01/04/2022] . - pp 5643 - 5665 Titre : An improved vertical correction method for the inter-comparison and inter-validation of Integrated Water Vapour measurements [under review] Type de document : Article/Communication Auteurs : Olivier Bock , Auteur ; Pierre Bosser , Auteur ; Carl Mears, Auteur Année de publication : 2022 Projets : VEGAN / Bock, Olivier Article en page(s) : pp 5643 - 5665 Note générale : bibliographie Langues : Anglais (eng) Descripteur : [Vedettes matières IGN] Applications de géodésie spatiale [Termes IGN] analyse comparative [Termes IGN] correction des altitudes [Termes IGN] données GPS [Termes IGN] données météorologiques [Termes IGN] erreur systématique [Termes IGN] montagne [Termes IGN] régression multiple [Termes IGN] teneur intégrée en vapeur d'eau [Termes IGN] zone intertropicale Résumé : (auteur) Integrated Water Vapour (IWV) measurements from similar or different techniques are often inter-compared for calibration and validation purposes. Results are usually assessed in terms of bias (difference of the means), standard deviation of the differences, and linear fit slope and offset (intercept) estimates. When the instruments are located at different elevations, a correction must be applied to account for the vertical displacement between the sites. Empirical formulations are traditionally used for this correction. In this paper, we show that the widely-used correction model based on a standard, exponential, profile for water vapour cannot properly correct the bias, slope, and offset parameters simultaneously. Correcting the bias with this model degrades the slope and offset estimates, and vice-versa. This paper proposes an improved correction model which overcomes these limitations. The model uses a multi-linear regression of slope and offset parameters from a radiosonde climatology. It is able to predict monthly parameters with a root-mean-square error smaller than 0.5 kg m-2 for height differences up to 500 m. The method is applied to the inter-comparison of GPS IWV data in a tropical mountainous area and to the inter-validation of GPS and satellite microwave radiometer data. This paper also emphasizes the need for using a slope and offset regression method that accounts for errors in both variables and for correctly specifying these errors. Numéro de notice : A2022-327 Affiliation des auteurs : UMR IPGP-Géod+Ext (2020- ) Thématique : POSITIONNEMENT Nature : Article nature-HAL : ArtAvecCL-RevueIntern DOI : 10.5194/amt-15-5643-2022 Date de publication en ligne : 21/04/2022 En ligne : https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-15-5643-2022 Format de la ressource électronique : URL article Permalink : https://documentation.ensg.eu/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=100492 [article]

Integrated water vapour observations in the Caribbean arc from a network of ground-based GNSS receivers during EUREC4A / Olivier Bock in Earth System Science Data, vol 13 n° 5 (May 2021)  

Public [article]  inEarth System Science Data > vol 13 n° 5 (May 2021) . - pp 2407 - 2436 Titre : Integrated water vapour observations in the Caribbean arc from a network of ground-based GNSS receivers during EUREC4A Type de document : Article/Communication Auteurs : Olivier Bock , Auteur ; Pierre Bosser , Auteur ; Cyrille Flamant, Auteur ; Erik Doerflinger, Auteur ; Friedhelm Jansen, Auteur ; Romain Fagès , Auteur ; Sandrine Bony, Auteur ; Sabrina Schnitt, Auteur Année de publication : 2021 Projets : VEGAN / Bock, Olivier, EUREC4A / Bock, Olivier Article en page(s) : pp 2407 - 2436 Note générale : bibliographie This work was supported by the CNRS program LEFE/INSU through the project VEGAN. The EUREC4A project was supported by the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (grant agreement no. 694768). Langues : Anglais (eng) Descripteur : [Vedettes matières IGN] Applications de géodésie spatiale [Termes IGN] Caraïbes [Termes IGN] données auxiliaires [Termes IGN] données GNSS [Termes IGN] données météorologiques [Termes IGN] erreur systématique [Termes IGN] humidité de l'air [Termes IGN] retard troposphérique zénithal [Termes IGN] teneur intégrée en vapeur d'eau Résumé : (auteur) Ground-based Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) measurements from nearly fifty stations distributed over the Caribbean Arc have been analysed for the period 1 January–29 February 2020 in the framework of the EUREC4A (Elucidate the Couplings Between Clouds, Convection and Circulation) field campaign. The aim of this effort is to deliver high-quality Integrated Water Vapour (IWV) estimates to investigate the moisture environment of mesoscale cloud patterns in the Tradewinds and their feedback on the large-scale circulation and energy budget. This paper describes the GNSS data processing procedures and assesses the quality of the GNSS IWV retrievals from four operational streams and one reprocessed research stream which is the main data set used for offline scientific applications. The uncertainties associated with each of the data sets, including the zenith tropospheric delay (ZTD) to IWV conversion methods and auxiliary data, are quantified and discussed. The IWV estimates from the reprocessed data set are compared to the Vaisala RS41 radiosonde measurements operated from the Barbados Cloud Observatory (BCO) and to the measurements from the operational radiosonde station at Grantley Adams international airport (GAIA). A significant dry bias is found in the GAIA humidity observations with respect to the BCO sondes (−2.9 kg m−2) and the GNSS results (−1.2 kg m−2). A systematic bias between the BCO sondes and GNSS is also observed (1.7 kg m−2) where the Vaisala RS41 measurements are moister than the GNSS retrievals. The IWV estimates from a colocated microwave radiometer agree with the BCO soundings after an instrumental update on 27 January, while they exhibit a dry bias compared to the soundings and to GNSS before that date. IWV estimates from the ECMWF fifth generation reanalysis (ERA5) are overall close to the GAIA observations, probably due to the assimilation of these observations in the reanalysis. However, during several events where strong peaks in IWV occurred, ERA5 is shown to significantly underestimate the GNSS derived IWV peaks. Two successive peaks are observed on 22 January and 23/24 January which were associated with heavy rain and deep moist layers extending from the surface up to altitudes of 3.5 and 5 km, respectively. ERA5 significantly underestimates the moisture content in the upper part of these layers. The origins of the various moisture biases are currently being investigated. We classified the cloud organisation for five representative GNSS stations across the Caribbean Arc and found that the environment of Fish cloud patterns to be moister than that of Flowers cloud patterns which, in turn, is moister than the environment of Gravel cloud patterns. The differences in the IWV means between Fish and Gravel were assessed to be significant. Finally, the Gravel moisture environment was found to be similar to that of clear, cloud-free conditions. The moisture environment associated with the Sugar cloud pattern has not been assessed because it was hardly observed during the first two months of 2020. The reprocessed ZTD and IWV data set from 49 GNSS stations used in this study are available from the AERIS data center (https://doi.org/10.25326/79; Bock (2020b)). Numéro de notice : A2021-172 Affiliation des auteurs : UMR IPGP-Géod+Ext (2020- ) Thématique : POSITIONNEMENT Nature : Article nature-HAL : ArtAvecCL-RevueIntern DOI : 10.5194/essd-13-2407-2021 Date de publication en ligne : 24/02/2021 En ligne : http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/essd-13-2407-2021 Format de la ressource électronique : URL article Permalink : https://documentation.ensg.eu/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=97213 [article]

Integrated water vapour content retrievals from ship-borne GNSS receivers during EUREC4A / Pierre Bosser in Earth System Science Data, vol 13 n° 4 (April 2021)  

Public [article]  inEarth System Science Data > vol 13 n° 4 (April 2021) . - pp 1499 - 1517 Titre : Integrated water vapour content retrievals from ship-borne GNSS receivers during EUREC4A Type de document : Article/Communication Auteurs : Pierre Bosser , Auteur ; Olivier Bock , Auteur ; Cyrille Flamant, Auteur ; Sandrine Bony, Auteur ; Sabrina Speich, Auteur Année de publication : 2021 Projets : GEMMOC / Bosser, Pierre, VEGAN / Bock, Olivier, EUREC4A / Bock, Olivier Article en page(s) : pp 1499 - 1517 Note générale : bibliographie projets GEMMOC and VEGAN du CNRS program LEFE/INSU Both the raw GNSS measurements and the IWV estimates are available through the AERIS data center (https://en.aeris-data.fr/). The digital object identifiers (DOIs) for R/V Atalante IWV and raw datasets are https://doi.org/10.25326/71 (Bosser et al., 2020a) and https://doi.org/10.25326/74 (Bosser et al., 2020d), respectively. The DOIs for the R/V Maria S. Merian IWV and raw datasets are https://doi.org/10.25326/72 (Bosser et al., 2020b) and https://doi.org/10.25326/75 (Bosser et al., 2020e), respectively. The DOIs for the R/V Meteor IWV and raw datasets are https://doi.org/10.25326/73 (Bosser et al., 2020c) and https://doi.org/10.25326/76 (Bosser et al., 2020f), respectively. Langues : Anglais (eng) Descripteur : [Vedettes matières IGN] Applications de géodésie spatiale [Termes IGN] analyse comparative [Termes IGN] coordonnées GNSS [Termes IGN] données météorologiques [Termes IGN] erreur systématique [Termes IGN] navire [Termes IGN] station permanente [Termes IGN] teneur intégrée en vapeur d'eau Résumé : (auteur) In the framework of the EUREC4A (Elucidating the role of clouds-circulation coupling in climate) campaign that took place in January and February 2020, integrated water vapour (IWV) contents were retrieved over the open Tropical Atlantic Ocean using Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) data acquired from three research vessels (R/Vs): R/V Atalante, R/V Maria S. Merian, and R/V Meteor. This paper describes the GNSS processing method and compares the GNSS IWV retrievals with IWV estimates from the European Center for Medium-range Weather Forecast (ECMWF) fifth ReAnalysis (ERA5), from the Moderate-Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) infra-red products, and from terrestrial GNSS stations located along the tracks of the ships. The ship-borne GNSS IWVs retrievals from R/V Atalante and R/V Meteor compare well with ERA5, with small biases (−1.62 kg m−2 for R/V Atalante and +0.65 kg m−2 for R/V Meteor) and a root mean square (RMS) difference about 2.3 kg m−2. The results for the R/V Maria S. Merian are found to be of poorer quality, with RMS difference of 6 kg m−2 which are very likely due to the location of the GNSS antenna on this R/V prone to multipath effects. The comparisons with ground-based GNSS data confirm these results. The comparisons of all three R/V IWV retrievals with MODIS infrared product show large RMS differences of 5–7 kg m−2, reflecting the enhanced uncertainties of this satellite product in the tropics. These ship-borne IWV retrievals are intended to be used for the description and understanding of meteorological phenomena that occurred during the campaign, east of Barbados, Guyana and northern Brazil. Numéro de notice : A2021-064 Affiliation des auteurs : UMR IPGP-Géod+Ext (2020- ) Thématique : POSITIONNEMENT Nature : Article nature-HAL : ArtAvecCL-RevueIntern DOI : 10.5194/essd-13-1499-2021 En ligne : https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-13-1499-2021 Format de la ressource électronique : URL article Permalink : https://documentation.ensg.eu/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=96840 [article]

IWV retrieval from ground GNSS receivers during NAWDEX / Pierre Bosser in Advances in geosciences, vol 55 ([01/02/2021])  

Public [article]  inAdvances in geosciences > vol 55 [01/02/2021] . - pp 13 - 22 Titre : IWV retrieval from ground GNSS receivers during NAWDEX Type de document : Article/Communication Auteurs : Pierre Bosser , Auteur ; Olivier Bock , Auteur Année de publication : 2021 Projets : DIP-NAWDEX / Rivière, Gwendal Article en page(s) : pp 13 - 22 Note générale : bibliographie Langues : Anglais (eng) Descripteur : [Vedettes matières IGN] Applications de géodésie spatiale [Termes IGN] Atlantique Nord [Termes IGN] données GNSS [Termes IGN] données météorologiques [Termes IGN] erreur systématique [Termes IGN] GIPSY-OASIS [Termes IGN] retard troposphérique zénithal [Termes IGN] teneur intégrée en vapeur d'eau Résumé : (auteur) A ground-based network of more than 1200 Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) Continuously Operating Reference Stations (CORS) was analysed using GIPSY-OASIS II software package for the documentation of time and space variations of water vapor in atmosphere during the North Atlantic Waveguide and Downstream impact EXperiment (NAWDEX) during fall 2016. The network extends throughout the North Atlantic, from the Caribbeans to Morocco through Greenland. This paper presents the methodology used for GNSS data processing, screening, and conversion of Zenith Tropospheric Delay (ZTD) estimates to Integrated Water Vapor content (IWV) using surface parameters from reanalysis. The retrieved IWV are used to evaluate the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF) reanalyses ERAI and ERA5. ERA5 shows an overall improvement over ERAI in representing the spatial and temporal variability of IWV over the study area. The mean bias is decreased from 0.31±0.63 to 0.19±0.56 kg m−2 (mean ±1σ over all stations) and the standard deviation reduced from 2.17±0.67 to 1.64±0.53 kg m−2 combined with a slight improvement in correlation coefficient from 0.95 to 0.97. At regional scale, both reanalyses show a general wet bias at mid and northern latitudes but a dry bias in the Caribbeans. We hypothesize this results from the different nature of data being assimilated over the tropical oceans. This GNSS IWV data set is intended to be used for a better description of the high impact weather events that occurred during the NAWDEX experiment. Numéro de notice : A2021-174 Affiliation des auteurs : UMR IPGP-Géod+Ext (2020- ) Thématique : POSITIONNEMENT Nature : Article nature-HAL : ArtAvecCL-RevueIntern DOI : 10.5194/adgeo-55-13-2021 Date de publication en ligne : 01/02/2021 En ligne : https://doi.org/10.5194/adgeo-55-13-2021 Format de la ressource électronique : URL article Permalink : https://documentation.ensg.eu/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=97223 [article]

IWV retrieval from ground and shipborne GPS receivers during NAWDEX [diaporama] / Pierre Bosser (2020)  

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IWV retrieval from shipborne GPS receiver on hydrographic ship Borda [diaporama] / Olivier Bock (2020)  

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The AROME-WMED reanalyses of the first special observation period of the Hydrological cycle in the Mediterranean experiment (HyMeX) / Nadia Fourrié in Geoscientific Model Development, vol 12 n° 7 (July 2019)  

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Analyse du bilan d’erreur appliquée aux systèmes de levés hydrographiques de surface et sous-marin / Geraud Naankeu-Wati in XYZ, n° 152 (septembre - novembre 2017) 

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Study and mitigation of calibration factor instabilities in a water vapor Raman lidar / Leslie David in Atmospheric measurement techniques, vol 10 n° 7 (July 2017)  

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Lightweight UAV with on-board photogrammetry and single-frequency GPS positioning for metrology applications / Mehdi Daakir in ISPRS Journal of photogrammetry and remote sensing, vol 127 (May 2017)  

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Evaluation d'une solution de positionnement ponctuel précis temps réel / Pierre Bosser in XYZ, n° 148 (septembre - novembre 2016) 

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A high-quality reprocessed ground-based GPS dataset for atmospheric process studies, radiosonde and model evaluation, and reanalysis of HyMeX Special Observing Period / Olivier Bock in Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, vol 142 n° S1 (August 2016)  

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Study of lever-arm effect using embedded photogrammetry and on-board GPS receiver on UAV for metrological mapping purpose and proposal of a free ground measurements calibration procedure / Mehdi Daakir (2016)  

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UAV onboard photogrammetry and GPS positioning for earthworks / Mehdi Daakir (2015)  

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