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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 / 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]

Refining MODIS NIR atmospheric water vapor retrieval algorithm using GPS-derived water vapor data / Jia He in IEEE Transactions on geoscience and remote sensing, vol 59 n° 5 (May 2021)  

Public [article]  inIEEE Transactions on geoscience and remote sensing > vol 59 n° 5 (May 2021) . - pp 3682 - 3694 Titre : Refining MODIS NIR atmospheric water vapor retrieval algorithm using GPS-derived water vapor data Type de document : Article/Communication Auteurs : Jia He, Auteur ; Zhizhao Liu, Auteur Année de publication : 2021 Article en page(s) : pp 3682 - 3694 Note générale : Bibliographie Langues : Anglais (eng) Descripteur : [Vedettes matières IGN] Applications de télédétection [Termes IGN] Amérique du nord [Termes IGN] données météorologiques [Termes IGN] données spatiotemporelles [Termes IGN] image Terra-MODIS [Termes IGN] modèle de régression [Termes IGN] modèle de transfert radiatif [Termes IGN] précision des données [Termes IGN] station GPS [Termes IGN] vapeur d'eau Résumé : (Auteur) A new algorithm of retrieving atmospheric water vapor from MODIS near-infrared (IR) (NIR) data by using a regression fitting method based on Global Positioning System (GPS)-derived water vapor is developed in this work. The algorithm has been used to retrieve total column water vapor from Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) satellites both Terra and Aqua under cloud-free conditions from solar radiation in the NIR channels. Water vapor data estimated from GPS observations recorded from 2003 to 2017 by the SuomiNet GPS network over the western North America are used as ground truth references. The GPS stations were classified into six subsets based on the surface types adopted from MCD12Q1 IGBP legend. The differences in surface types are considered in the regression fitting procedure, thus different regression functions are trained for different surface types. Thus, the wet bias in the operational MODIS water vapor products has been significantly reduced. Water vapor retrieved from each of the three absorption channels and the weighted water vapor of combined three absorption channels are analyzed. Validation shows that the weighted water vapor performs better than the single-channel results. Compared to the MODIS/Terra water vapor products, the RMSE has been reduced by 50.78% to 2.229 mm using the two-channel ratio transmittance method and has been reduced by 53.06% to 2.126 mm using the three-channel ratio transmittance method. Compared to the MODIS/Aqua water vapor products, the RMSE has been reduced by 45.54% to 2.423 mm using the two-channel ratio transmittance method and has been reduced by 45.34% to 2.432 mm using the three-channel ratio transmittance method. Numéro de notice : A2021-338 Affiliation des auteurs : non IGN Thématique : IMAGERIE/POSITIONNEMENT Nature : Article nature-HAL : ArtAvecCL-RevueIntern DOI : 10.1109/TGRS.2020.3016655 date de publication en ligne : 24/08/2020 En ligne : https://doi.org/10.1109/TGRS.2020.3016655 Format de la ressource électronique : URL Article Permalink : https://documentation.ensg.eu/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=97569 [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 / 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 / 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]

Precipitable water vapor fusion based on a generalized regression neural network / Bao Zhang in Journal of geodesy, vol 95 n° 4 (April 2021)  

Public [article]  inJournal of geodesy > vol 95 n° 4 (April 2021) . - n° 36 Titre : Precipitable water vapor fusion based on a generalized regression neural network Type de document : Article/Communication Auteurs : Bao Zhang, Auteur ; Yibing Yao, Auteur Année de publication : 2021 Article en page(s) : n° 36 Note générale : bibliographie Langues : Anglais (eng) Descripteur : [Vedettes matières IGN] Applications de géodésie spatiale [Termes IGN] Amérique du nord [Termes IGN] coefficient d'étalonnage [Termes IGN] coefficient de corrélation [Termes IGN] données GNSS [Termes IGN] données météorologiques [Termes IGN] erreur systématique [Termes IGN] fusion de données [Termes IGN] image Aqua-MODIS [Termes IGN] image Terra-MODIS [Termes IGN] précipitation [Termes IGN] prévision météorologique [Termes IGN] régression [Termes IGN] réseau neuronal artificiel [Termes IGN] vapeur d'eau [Termes IGN] variation temporelle Résumé : (auteur) Water vapor plays an important role in Earth’s weather and climate processes and energy transfer. Plenty of techniques have developed to monitor precipitable water vapor (PWV), but joint use of different techniques has some problems, including systematic biases, different spatiotemporal coverages and resolutions among different datasets. To address the above problems and improve the data utilization, we propose to use a generalized regression neural network (GRNN) to fuse PWVs from Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS), Moderate-Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS), and European Centre for Medium‐Range Weather Forecasts Reanalysis 5 (ERA5). The core idea of this method is to use the high-quality GNSS PWV to calibrate and optimize the relatively low-quality MODIS and ERA5 PWV through the constructed GRNNs. Using the proposed method, we generated more than 400 PWV maps that combine GNSS, MODIS, and ERA5 PWVs in North America in 2018. Results show that the overall bias, standard deviation (STD), and root-mean-square (RMS) error are 0.0 mm, 2.1 mm, and 2.2 mm for the improved MODIS PWV, and 0.0 mm, 1.6 mm, and 1.6 mm for the improved ERA5 PWV. Compared to the original MODIS and ERA5 PWV, the total improvements are 37.1% and 15.8% in terms of RMS. The RMS improvements are mainly contributed from the calibration of bias for the MODIS PWV and optimization for the ERA5 PWV. It also demonstrates that the original MODIS PWV tends to be greater than the GNSS PWV while the ERA5 PWV has very small biases. After calibration and optimization, the correlation coefficients between the modified PWV and the GNSS PWV are 0.96 for the MODIS PWV and 0.98 for the ERA5 PWV. The proposed method also diminishes the temporal and spatial variations in accuracy, generating homogeneous PWV products. Since the biases among the three datasets are well removed and data accuracies are improved to the same level, they are thus easily fused and jointly used. Numéro de notice : A2021-259 Affiliation des auteurs : non IGN Thématique : POSITIONNEMENT Nature : Article nature-HAL : ArtAvecCL-RevueIntern DOI : 10.1007/s00190-021-01482-z date de publication en ligne : 01/03/2021 En ligne : https://doi.org/10.1007/s00190-021-01482-z Format de la ressource électronique : url article Permalink : https://documentation.ensg.eu/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=97299 [article]

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