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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]

EUREC4A / Bjorn Stevens in Earth System Science Data, vol 13 n° 4 (April 2021)  

Public [article]  inEarth System Science Data > vol 13 n° 4 (April 2021) 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 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'observations [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-2021-18 date de publication en ligne : 28/01/2021 En ligne : https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-2021-18 Format de la ressource électronique : URL article Permalink : https://documentation.ensg.eu/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=97214 [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]

A new segmentation method for the homogenisation of GNSS-derived IWV time-series / Annarosa Quarello in Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series C Applied Statistics, vol inconnu ([01/01/2021])  

Public [article]  inJournal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series C Applied Statistics > vol inconnu [01/01/2021] Titre : A new segmentation method for the homogenisation of GNSS-derived IWV time-series Type de document : Article/Communication Auteurs : Annarosa Quarello , Auteur ; Olivier Bock , Auteur ; Emilie Lebarbier, Auteur Année de publication : 2021 Projets : VEGAN / Bock, Olivier Note générale : bibliographie https://arxiv.org/pdf/2005.04683.pdf Langues : Anglais (eng) Descripteur : [Vedettes matières IGN] Statistiques [Termes IGN] coordonnées GNSS [Termes IGN] erreur systématique [Termes IGN] programmation dynamique [Termes IGN] R (langage) [Termes IGN] segmentation [Termes IGN] série temporelle [Termes IGN] station permanente [Termes IGN] teneur intégrée en vapeur d'eau [Termes IGN] variance [Termes IGN] variation saisonnière Résumé : (auteur) Homogenization is an important and crucial step to improve the usage of observational data for climate analysis. This work is motivated by the analysis of long series of GNSS Integrated Water Vapour (IWV) data which have not yet been used in this context. This paper proposes a novel segmentation method that integrates a periodic bias and a heterogeneous, monthly varying, variance. The method consists in estimating first the variance using a robust estimator and then estimating the segmentation and periodic bias iteratively. This strategy allows for the use of the dynamic programming algorithm that remains the most efficient exact algorithm to estimate the change-point positions. The statistical performance of the method is assessed through numerical experiments. An application to a real data set of 120 global GNSS stations is presented. The method is implemented in the R package GNSSseg that will be available on the CRAN. Numéro de notice : A2021-061 Affiliation des auteurs : UMR IPGP-Géod+Ext (2020- ) Autre URL associée : vers HAL Thématique : MATHEMATIQUE/POSITIONNEMENT Nature : Article nature-HAL : ArtAvecCL-RevueIntern En ligne : https://arxiv.org/pdf/2005.04683.pdf Format de la ressource électronique : URL article Permalink : https://documentation.ensg.eu/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=96617 [article]

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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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Development of new homogenisation methods for GNSS atmospheric data. Application to the analysis of climate trends and variability / Annarosa Quarello (2020)  

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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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