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Comprehensive study on the tropospheric wet delay and horizontal gradients during a severe weather event / Victoria Graffigna in Remote sensing, vol 14 n° 4 (February-2 2022)  

Public [article]  inRemote sensing > vol 14 n° 4 (February-2 2022) . - n° 888 Titre : Comprehensive study on the tropospheric wet delay and horizontal gradients during a severe weather event Type de document : Article/Communication Auteurs : Victoria Graffigna, Auteur ; Manuel Hernández-Pajares, Auteur ; Francisco Azpilicueta, Auteur ; et al., Auteur Année de publication : 2022 Article en page(s) : n° 888 Note générale : bibliographie Langues : Anglais (eng) Descripteur : [Vedettes matières IGN] Applications de géodésie spatiale [Termes IGN] données météorologiques [Termes IGN] gradient de troposphère [Termes IGN] phénomène climatique extrême [Termes IGN] positionnement ponctuel précis [Termes IGN] retard troposphérique zénithal [Termes IGN] station GNSS [Termes IGN] surveillance météorologique [Termes IGN] tempête [Termes IGN] Texas (Etats-Unis) [Termes IGN] vapeur d'eau Résumé : (auteur) GNSS meteorology is today one of the most growing technologies to monitor severe weather events. In this paper, we present the usage of 160 GPS reference stations over the period of 14 days to monitor and track Hurricane Harvey, which struck Texas in August 2017. We estimate the Zenith Wet Delay (ZWD) and the tropospheric gradients with 30 s interval using TOMION v2 software and carry out the processing in Precise Point Positioning (PPP) mode. We study the relationship of these parameters with atmospheric variables extracted from Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) satellite mission and climate reanalysis model ERA5. This research finds that the ZWD shows patterns related to the rainfall rate and to the location of the hurricane. We also find that the tropospheric gradients are correlated with water vapor gradients before and after the hurricane, and with the wind and the pressure gradients only after the hurricane. This study also shows a new finding regarding the spectral distribution of the gradients, with a clear diurnal period present, which is also found on the ZWD itself. This kind of study approaches the GNSS meteorology to the increasing requirements of meteorologist in terms of monitoring severe weather events. Numéro de notice : A2022-166 Affiliation des auteurs : non IGN Thématique : POSITIONNEMENT Nature : Article DOI : 10.3390/rs14040888 Date de publication en ligne : 12/02/2022 En ligne : https://doi.org/10.3390/rs14040888 Format de la ressource électronique : URL article Permalink : https://documentation.ensg.eu/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=99791 [article]

Troposphere delay modeling with horizontal gradients for satellite laser ranging / Mateusz Drożdżewski in Journal of geodesy, vol 93 n°10 (October 2019)  

Public [article]  inJournal of geodesy > vol 93 n°10 (October 2019) Titre : Troposphere delay modeling with horizontal gradients for satellite laser ranging Type de document : Article/Communication Auteurs : Mateusz Drożdżewski, Auteur ; Krzysztof Sosnica, Auteur ; Florian Zus, Auteur ; Kyriakos Balidakis, Auteur Année de publication : 2019 Note générale : bibliographie Langues : Anglais (eng) Descripteur : [Vedettes matières IGN] Géodésie spatiale [Termes IGN] angle vertical [Termes IGN] coordonnées polaires [Termes IGN] dissymétrie [Termes IGN] erreur systématique [Termes IGN] géocentre [Termes IGN] gradient de troposphère [Termes IGN] interférométrie à très grande base [Termes IGN] Lageos [Termes IGN] retard troposphérique [Termes IGN] Sentinel-3 [Termes IGN] station TLS (télémétrie) [Termes IGN] télémètre laser sur satellite Résumé : (auteur) Satellite laser ranging (SLR) constitutes a fundamental space geodetic technique providing global geodetic parameters, such as geocenter coordinates, Earth rotation parameters, and low-degree gravity field coefficients. The tropospheric delay correction is one of the crucial corrections that have to be taken into account when processing SLR data. Current conventional models of the troposphere delays assume a full symmetry of the atmosphere above SLR stations. Neglecting horizontal gradients in SLR solutions introduces a systematic error in SLR products, especially for the observations at low elevation angles, and leads to a deterioration of the consistency between SLR and other space geodetic techniques, such as global navigational satellite systems and very-long-baseline interferometry. We derive new mapping function coefficients, as well as first- and second-order horizontal gradients, all of which are based on numerical weather models, in order to properly consider the azimuthal asymmetry in SLR solutions. We test the enhanced mapping function and horizontal gradients on the solutions based on 11 years of SLR observations to LAGEOS-1/2 satellites and 1 year of SLR observations to Sentinel-3A. The consideration of azimuthal asymmetry of the atmosphere above the SLR stations has a systematic effect on SLR-derived products, such as station and geocenter coordinates and pole coordinates. Horizontal gradients in SLR solutions improve the consistency between SLR-derived pole coordinates and the combined IERS-C04 series by means of reducing the offset for the X and Y pole coordinates by 20 μas. The second-order horizontal gradients are negligible in SLR solutions; thus, including first-order gradients is sufficient for SLR solutions. Numéro de notice : A2019-607 Affiliation des auteurs : non IGN Thématique : POSITIONNEMENT Nature : Article nature-HAL : ArtAvecCL-RevueIntern DOI : 10.1007/s00190-019-01287-1 Date de publication en ligne : 22/08/2019 En ligne : https://doi.org/10.1007/s00190-019-01287-1 Format de la ressource électronique : url article Permalink : https://documentation.ensg.eu/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=94790 [article]

Sensitivity of GPS tropospheric estimates to mesoscale convective systems in West Africa / Samuel Nahmani in Atmospheric chemistry and physics, vol 19 n° 14 (July 2019)  

Public [article]  inAtmospheric chemistry and physics > vol 19 n° 14 (July 2019) . - pp 9541 - 9561 Titre : Sensitivity of GPS tropospheric estimates to mesoscale convective systems in West Africa Type de document : Article/Communication Auteurs : Samuel Nahmani , Auteur ; Olivier Bock , Auteur ; Françoise Guichard, Auteur Année de publication : 2019 Projets : VEGAN / Bock, Olivier, TOSCA / Bock, Olivier Article en page(s) : pp 9541 - 9561 Note générale : Bibliographie Langues : Anglais (eng) Descripteur : [Vedettes matières IGN] Géodésie spatiale [Termes IGN] Afrique occidentale [Termes IGN] analyse de sensibilité [Termes IGN] bande C [Termes IGN] convection [Termes IGN] données GPS [Termes IGN] GAMIT [Termes IGN] GIPSY-OASIS [Termes IGN] gradient de troposphère [Termes IGN] meso échelle [Termes IGN] modèle atmosphérique [Termes IGN] Niger [Termes IGN] propagation troposphérique [Termes IGN] résidu [Termes IGN] retard troposphérique zénithal [Termes IGN] signal GPS Résumé : (Auteur) This study analyzes the characteristics of GPS tropospheric estimates (zenith wet delays – ZWDs, gradients, and post-fit phase residuals) during the passage of mesoscale convective systems (MCSs) and evaluates their sensitivity to the research-level GPS data processing strategy implemented. Here, we focus on MCS events observed during the monsoon season of West Africa. This region is particularly well suited for the study of these events due to the high frequency of MCS occurrences in the contrasting climatic environments between the Guinean coast and the Sahel. This contrast is well sampled with data generated by six African Monsoon Multidisciplinary Analysis (AMMA) GPS stations. Tropospheric estimates for a 3-year period (2006–2008), processed with both the GAMIT and GIPSY-OASIS software packages, were analyzed and intercompared. First, the case of a MCS that passed over Niamey, Niger, on 11 August 2006 demonstrates a strong impact of the MCS on GPS estimates and post-fit residuals when the GPS signals propagate through the convective cells as detected on reflectivity maps from the MIT C-band Doppler radar. The estimates are also capable of detecting changes in the structure and dynamics of the MCS. However, the sensitivity is different depending on the tropospheric modeling approach adopted in the software. With GIPSY-OASIS, the high temporal sampling (5 min) of ZWDs and gradients is well suited for detecting the small-scale, short-lived, convective cells, while the post-fit residuals remain quite small. With GAMIT, the lower temporal sampling of the estimated parameters (hourly for ZWDs and daily for gradients) is not sufficient to capture the rapid delay variations associated with the passage of the MCS, but the post-fit phase residuals clearly reflect the presence of a strong refractivity anomaly. The results are generalized with a composite analysis of 414 MCS events observed over the 3-year period at the six GPS stations with the GIPSY-OASIS estimates. A systematic peak is found in the ZWDs coincident with the cold pool crossing time associated with the MCSs. The tropospheric gradients reflect the path of the MCS propagation (generally from east to west). This study concludes that ZWDs, gradients, and post-fit phase residuals provide relevant and complementary information on MCSs passing over or in the vicinity of a GPS station. Numéro de notice : A2019-572 Affiliation des auteurs : Géodésie+Ext (mi2018-2019) Thématique : POSITIONNEMENT Nature : Article nature-HAL : ArtAvecCL-RevueIntern DOI : 10.5194/acp-19-9541-2019 Date de publication en ligne : 29/07/2019 En ligne : https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-19-9541-2019 Format de la ressource électronique : URL Article Permalink : https://documentation.ensg.eu/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=94444 [article]

Impact of GPS antenna phase center models on zenith wet delay and tropospheric gradients / Yohannes Getachew Ejigu in GPS solutions, vol 23 n° 1 (January 2019)  

Public [article]  inGPS solutions > vol 23 n° 1 (January 2019) Titre : Impact of GPS antenna phase center models on zenith wet delay and tropospheric gradients Type de document : Article/Communication Auteurs : Yohannes Getachew Ejigu, Auteur ; Addisu Hunegnaw, Auteur ; Kibrom Ebuy Abraha, Auteur ; et al., Auteur Année de publication : 2019 Note générale : Bibliographie Langues : Anglais (eng) Descripteur : [Termes IGN] antenne GPS [Termes IGN] centre de phase [Termes IGN] données GPS [Termes IGN] gradient de troposphère [Termes IGN] retard troposphérique zénithal [Termes IGN] teneur intégrée en vapeur d'eau [Vedettes matières IGN] Traitement de données GNSS Résumé : (Auteur) Today Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) tropospheric products, such as zenith total delays (ZTD) and zenith wet delays (ZWD), are widely used as complementary data sets in numerical weather prediction models. In particular, the wet delays are treated as unknown parameters in GNSS processing and are estimated with other parameters such as station coordinates. In this study, we investigate the effects of Phase Center Correction (PCC) models on ZWD, integrated water vapor (IWV) and horizontal gradients derived from Global Positioning System (GPS) observations. Two solutions were generated using the GAMIT software over the European Reference Frame (EUREF) Permanent GNSS Network (EPN). The first (reference) solution was derived by applying the International GNSS Service (IGS) type-mean PCC models, while for the second solution PCC models from individual calibrations were used. The solutions were generated identically, except for the PCC model differences. The tropospheric products from the two solutions were then compared, with the assumption that common signals would be differenced out. The comparison of the two solutions clearly shows a bias in all tropospheric products, which can be attributed to PCC model deficiencies. Overall, mean biases of 1.8, 0.3, 0.14 and 0.19 mm are evident in ZWD, IWV, North–South and East–West gradients, respectively. Moreover, the differences between the two solutions show seasonal variations. For all antenna types, the ZWD and IWV differences are dominated by white plus power-law noise, with the latter characterizing the low-frequency spectrum. On the other hand, the horizontal gradients exhibit a white plus first-order autoregressive noise characteristic with less than 1% white noise. The individual PCC model provides a better fit to an external independent model in terms of gradient estimates and also provides up to 3% more carrier phase integer ambiguity resolution. Numéro de notice : A2019-056 Affiliation des auteurs : non IGN Thématique : POSITIONNEMENT Nature : Article nature-HAL : ArtAvecCL-RevueIntern DOI : 10.1007/s10291-018-0796-9 Date de publication en ligne : 25/10/2018 En ligne : https://doi.org/10.1007/s10291-018-0796-9 Format de la ressource électronique : URL Article Permalink : https://documentation.ensg.eu/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=92085 [article]

A two-stage tropospheric correction model combining data from GNSS and numerical weather model / Jan Douša in GPS solutions, vol 22 n° 3 (July 2018)  

Public [article]  inGPS solutions > vol 22 n° 3 (July 2018) Titre : A two-stage tropospheric correction model combining data from GNSS and numerical weather model Type de document : Article/Communication Auteurs : Jan Douša, Auteur ; Michal Elias, Auteur ; Pavel Vaclavovic, Auteur ; Krystof Eben, Auteur ; Pavel Krč, Auteur Année de publication : 2018 Note générale : Bibliographie Langues : Anglais (eng) Descripteur : [Vedettes matières IGN] Applications de géodésie spatiale [Termes IGN] correction troposphérique [Termes IGN] données GNSS [Termes IGN] données météorologiques [Termes IGN] gradient de troposphère [Termes IGN] modèle météorologique [Termes IGN] retard hydrostatique [Termes IGN] retard troposphérique zénithal [Termes IGN] station permanente Résumé : (Auteur) We have developed a new concept for providing tropospheric augmentation corrections. The two-stage correction model combines data from a Numerical Weather Model (NWM) and precise ZTDs estimated from Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) permanent stations in regional networks. The first-stage correction is generated using the background NWM forecast only. The second-stage correction results from an optimal combination of the background model data and GNSS (near) real-time tropospheric products. The optimum correction is achieved when using NWM for the hydrostatic delay modeling and for vertical scaling, while GNSS products are used for correcting the non-hydrostatic delay. The method is assessed in several variants including study of the combination of NWM and GNSS data, spatial densification of the original NWM grid, and GNSS ZTD densification using tropospheric linear horizontal gradients. The first-stage correction can be characterized by overall accuracy of about 10 mm for ZTD (1-sigma). The second-stage correction supported with GNSS tropospheric products improved the first-stage correction by a factor of 2–4 in terms of the ZTD accuracy and by a factor of 2.5 in terms of its spatio-temporal stability. Numéro de notice : A2018-373 Affiliation des auteurs : non IGN Thématique : POSITIONNEMENT Nature : Article nature-HAL : ArtAvecCL-RevueIntern DOI : 10.1007/s10291-018-0742-x Date de publication en ligne : 29/05/2018 En ligne : https://doi.org/10.1007/s10291-018-0742-x Format de la ressource électronique : URL article Permalink : https://documentation.ensg.eu/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=90767 [article]

Improving the modeling of the atmospheric delay in the data analysis of the Intensive VLBI sessions and the impact on the UT1 estimates / Tobias Nilsson in Journal of geodesy, vol 91 n° 7 (July 2017)  

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Optimal GPS/GALILEO GBAS methodologies with an application to troposphere / Alize Guilbert (2016)  

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Validity and behaviour of tropospheric gradients estimated by GPS in Corsica / Laurent Morel in Advances in space research, vol 55 n° 1 ([01/01/2015])  

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DORIS tropospheric estimation at IGN : Current strategies, GPS intercomparisons and perspectives / Pascal Willis (2014)  

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Troposphere delays from space geodetic techniques, water vapor radiometers, and numerical weather models over a series of continuous VLBI campaigns / Kamil Teke in Journal of geodesy, vol 87 n° 10-12 (October - December 2013)  

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Estimating horizontal tropospheric gradients in DORIS data processing: preliminary results / Pascal Willis (2012)  

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Multi-technique comparison of troposphere zenith delays and gradients during CONT08 / Kamil Teke in Journal of geodesy, vol 85 n° 7 (July 2011)  

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Impact of a priori gradients on VLBI-derived terrestrial reference frames / Johannes Böhm (2011) 

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