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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 / Olivier Bock in Atmospheric measurement techniques, vol 15 n° inconnu ([01/04/2022])  

Public [article]  inAtmospheric measurement techniques > vol 15 n° inconnu [01/04/2022] Titre : An improved vertical correction method for the inter-comparison and inter-validation of Integrated Water Vapour measurements Type de document : Article/Communication Auteurs : Olivier Bock , Auteur ; Pierre Bosser , Auteur ; Carl Mears, Auteur Année de publication : 2022 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-2022-40 Date de publication en ligne : 21/04/2022 En ligne : https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-2022-40 Format de la ressource électronique : URL article Permalink : https://documentation.ensg.eu/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=100492 [article]

Sensitivity of change-point detection and trend estimates to GNSS IWV time series properties / Khanh Ninh Nguyen in Atmosphere, vol 12 n° 9 (September 2021)  

Public [article]  inAtmosphere > vol 12 n° 9 (September 2021) . - n° 1102 Titre : Sensitivity of change-point detection and trend estimates to GNSS IWV time series properties Type de document : Article/Communication Auteurs : Khanh Ninh Nguyen, Auteur ; Annarosa Quarello , Auteur ; Olivier Bock , Auteur ; Emilie Lebarbier, Auteur Année de publication : 2021 Projets : VEGAN / Bock, Olivier Article en page(s) : n° 1102 Note générale : bibliographie Langues : Anglais (eng) Descripteur : [Vedettes matières IGN] Applications de géodésie spatiale [Termes IGN] analyse de sensibilité [Termes IGN] coordonnées GNSS [Termes IGN] données météorologiques [Termes IGN] incertitude géométrique [Termes IGN] segmentation [Termes IGN] série temporelle [Termes IGN] teneur intégrée en vapeur d'eau Résumé : (auteur) This study investigates the sensitivity of the GNSSseg segmentation method to change in: GNSS data processing method, length of time series (17 to 25 years), auxiliary data used in the integrated water vapor (IWV) conversion, and reference time series used in the segmentation (ERA-Interim versus ERA5). Two GNSS data sets (IGS repro1 and CODE REPRO2015), representative of the first and second IGS reprocessing, were compared. Significant differences were found in the number and positions of detected change-points due to different a priori ZHD models, antenna/radome calibrations, and mapping functions. The more recent models used in the CODE solution have reduced noise and allow the segmentation to detect smaller offsets. Similarly, the more recent reanalysis ERA5 has reduced representativeness errors, improved quality compared to ERA-Interim, and achieves higher sensitivity of the segmentation. Only 45–50% of the detected change-points are similar between the two GNSS data sets or between the two reanalyses, compared to 70–80% when the length of the time series or the auxiliary data are changed. About 35% of the change-points are validated with respect to metadata. The uncertainty in the homogenized trends is estimated to be around 0.01–0.02 kg m−2 year−1. Numéro de notice : A2021-791 Affiliation des auteurs : UMR IPGP-Géod+Ext (2020- ) Thématique : POSITIONNEMENT Nature : Article nature-HAL : ArtAvecCL-RevueIntern DOI : 10.3390/atmos12091102 En ligne : https://doi.org/10.3390/atmos12091102 Format de la ressource électronique : URL article Permalink : https://documentation.ensg.eu/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=98993 [article]

EUREC4A / Bjorn Stevens in Earth System Science Data, vol 13 n° 8 (August 2021)  

Public [article]  inEarth System Science Data > vol 13 n° 8 (August 2021) . - pp 4067 - 4119 Titre : EUREC4A Type de document : Article/Communication Auteurs : Bjorn Stevens, Auteur ; Sandrine Bony, Auteur ; David Farrell, Auteur ; Felix Ament, Auteur ; Alan Blyth, Auteur ; Christopher Fairall, Auteur ; et al., Auteur ; Olivier Bock , Auteur Année de publication : 2021 Projets : EUREC4A / Bock, Olivier Article en page(s) : pp 4067 - 4119 Note générale : bibliographie ERC Advanced Grant EUREC4A (grant agreement No 694768) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (H2020), with additional support from CNES (the French space agency) through the EECLAT proposal, Meteo-France, the CONSTRAIN H2020 project (grant agreement No 820829), and the French AERIS Research Infrastructure. Langues : Anglais (eng) Descripteur : [Vedettes matières IGN] Applications de géodésie spatiale [Termes IGN] campagne d'expérimentation [Termes IGN] circulation atmosphérique [Termes IGN] données GNSS [Termes IGN] données météorologiques [Termes IGN] nuage [Termes IGN] précipitation Résumé : (auteur) The science guiding the EUREC4A campaign and its measurements are presented. EUREC4A comprised roughly five weeks of measurements in the downstream winter trades of the North Atlantic – eastward and south-eastward of Barbados. Through its ability to characterize processes operating across a wide range of scales, EUREC4A marked a turning point in our ability to observationally study factors influencing clouds in the trades, how they will respond to warming, and their link to other components of the earth system, such as upper-ocean processes or, or the life-cycle of particulate matter. This characterization was made possible by thousands (2500) of sondes distributed to measure circulations on meso (200 km) and larger (500 km) scales, roughly four hundred hours of flight time by four heavily instrumented research aircraft, four global-ocean class research vessels, an advanced ground-based cloud observatory, a flotilla of autonomous or tethered measurement devices operating in the upper ocean (nearly 10000 profiles), lower atmosphere (continuous profiling), and along the air-sea interface, a network of water stable isotopologue measurements, complemented by special programmes of satellite remote sensing and modeling with a new generation of weather/climate models. In addition to providing an outline of the novel measurements and their composition into a unified and coordinated campaign, the six distinct scientific facets that EUREC4A explored – from Brazil Ring Current Eddies to turbulence induced clustering of cloud droplets and its influence on warm-rain formation – are presented along with an overview EUREC4A's outreach activities, environmental impact, and guidelines for scientific practice. Numéro de notice : A2021-173 Affiliation des auteurs : UMR IPGP-Géod+Ext (2020- ) Thématique : POSITIONNEMENT Nature : Article nature-HAL : ArtAvecCL-RevueIntern DOI : 10.5194/essd-13-4067-2021 Date de publication en ligne : 28/01/2021 En ligne : http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/essd-13-4067-2021 Format de la ressource électronique : URL article Permalink : https://documentation.ensg.eu/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=97214 [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)  

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

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A new segmentation method for the homogenisation of GNSS-derived IWV time-series / Annarosa Quarello (2021)  

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Precipitation frequency in MED and EURO-CORDEX ensembles from 0.44° to convective permitting resolution: what explains the differences? / Minh Ha-Truong (2021)  

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Sensitivity of segmentation of GNSS IWV time series and trend estimates to data properties / Khanh Ninh Nguyen (2021)  

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Global Climate [in “State of the Climate in 2019"] / A. Ades in Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, vol 101 n° 8 (August 2020)  

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Homogenizing GPS integrated water vapor time series: Benchmarking break detection methods on synthetic data sets / Roeland Van Malderen in Earth and space science, vol 7 n° 5 (May 2020)  

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A breakpoint detection in the mean model with heterogeneous variance on fixed time-intervals / Olivier Bock in Statistics and Computing, vol 29 n° 1 (February 2020)  

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Advanced GNSS tropospheric products for monitoring severe weather events and climate, ch. 5. Use of GNSS Tropospheric Products for Climate Monitoring (Working Group 3) / Olivier Bock (2020)  

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Advanced GNSS tropospheric products for monitoring severe weather events and climate / Jonathan Jones (2020)  

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