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High-resolution models of tropospheric delays and refractivity based on GNSS and numerical weather prediction data for alpine regions in Switzerland / Karina Wilgan in Journal of geodesy, vol 93 n°6 (June 2019)  

Public [article]  inJournal of geodesy > vol 93 n°6 (June 2019) . - pp 819 - 835 Titre : High-resolution models of tropospheric delays and refractivity based on GNSS and numerical weather prediction data for alpine regions in Switzerland Type de document : Article/Communication Auteurs : Karina Wilgan, Auteur ; Alain Geiger, Auteur Année de publication : 2019 Article en page(s) : pp 819 - 835 Note générale : bibliographie Langues : Anglais (eng) Descripteur : [Vedettes matières IGN] Applications de géodésie spatiale [Termes descripteurs IGN] Alpes [Termes descripteurs IGN] collocation par moindres carrés [Termes descripteurs IGN] correction troposphérique [Termes descripteurs IGN] données GNSS [Termes descripteurs IGN] données météorologiques [Termes descripteurs IGN] interféromètrie par radar à antenne synthétique [Termes descripteurs IGN] modèle mathématique [Termes descripteurs IGN] précision de l'estimation [Termes descripteurs IGN] prévision météorologique [Termes descripteurs IGN] réfraction [Termes descripteurs IGN] retard troposphérique [Termes descripteurs IGN] retard troposphérique zénithal [Termes descripteurs IGN] Suisse Résumé : (auteur) The tropospheric delay of a microwave signal affects all space geodetic techniques. One possibility of modeling the delay is by introducing tropospheric models from external data sources. In this study, we present high-resolution models of tropospheric total refractivity and zenith total delay (ZTD) for the alpine area in Switzerland. The troposphere models are based on different combinations of data sources, including numerical weather prediction (NWP) model COSMO-1 with high spatial resolution of 1.1 km × 1.1 km, GNSS data from permanent geodetic stations and GPS L1-only data from low-cost permanent stations. The tropospheric parameters are interpolated to the arbitrary locations by the least-squares collocation method using the in-house developed software package COMEDIE (Collocation of Meteorological Data for Interpretation and Estimation of Tropospheric Pathdelays). The first goal of this study is to validate the obtained models with the reference radiosonde and GNSS data to show the improvement w.r.t. the previous studies that used lower resolution input data. In case of total refractivity, the profiles reconstructed from COSMO-1 model show the best agreement with the reference radiosonde measurements, with an average bias of 1.1 ppm (0.6% of the total refractivity value along a vertical profile) and standard deviation of 2.6 ppm (1.6%) averaged from the whole profile. The radiosondes are assimilated into COSMO-1 model; thus, a high correlation is expected, and this comparison is not independent. In case of ZTD, the GNSS-based model shows the highest agreement with the reference GNSS data, with an average bias of 0.2 mm (0.01%) and standard deviation of 4.3 mm (0.2%). For COSMO-based model, the agreement is also very high, especially compared to our previous studies with lower resolution NWPs. The average bias is equal to − 2.5 mm (0.1%) with standard deviation of 9.2 mm (0.5%). The second goal of this study is to test the feasibility of calculating high-resolution troposphere models over a limited area from coarser data sets. We calculate the ZTD models with spatial resolution of 20 m for a test area in Matter Valley. We include the information from the low-cost GPS stations (X-Sense), to also assess the performance and future usability of such stations. We validate the models based on three data sources w.r.t. the reference GNSS data. For the station located inside the area of the study, the models have an agreement of few mm with the reference data. For stations located further away from the study area, the agreement for X-Sense is smaller, but the standard deviations of residuals are still below 15 mm. We consider also another factor of evaluating the high-resolution models, i.e., spatial variability of the data. For designing a GNSS network, also for the tropospheric estimates, the height variability of the network may be as important as the horizontal distribution. The GNSS-based models are built from the coarsest network; thus, their variability is the lowest. The variability of X-Sense-based stations is the highest; thus, such data may be suitable for building troposphere models for very high-resolution applications. Numéro de notice : A2019-350 Thématique : POSITIONNEMENT Nature : Article nature-HAL : ArtAvecCL-RevueIntern DOI : 10.1007/s00190-018-1203-6 date de publication en ligne : 01/10/2018 En ligne : https://doi.org/10.1007/s00190-018-1203-6 Format de la ressource électronique : URL article Permalink : https://documentation.ensg.eu/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=93394 [article]

A new global grid model for the determination of atmospheric weighted mean temperature in GPS precipitable water vapor / Liangke Huang in Journal of geodesy, vol 93 n° 2 (February 2019)  

Public [article]  inJournal of geodesy > vol 93 n° 2 (February 2019) . - pp 159 - 176 Titre : A new global grid model for the determination of atmospheric weighted mean temperature in GPS precipitable water vapor Type de document : Article/Communication Auteurs : Liangke Huang, Auteur ; Weiping Jiang, Auteur ; Lilong Liu, Auteur ; Hua Chen, Auteur ; Shirong Ye, Auteur Année de publication : 2019 Article en page(s) : pp 159 - 176 Note générale : bibliographie Langues : Anglais (eng) Descripteur : [Vedettes matières IGN] Applications de géodésie spatiale [Termes descripteurs IGN] coordonnées GPS [Termes descripteurs IGN] données météorologiques [Termes descripteurs IGN] erreur moyenne quadratique [Termes descripteurs IGN] Global Geodetic Observing System [Termes descripteurs IGN] modèle de géopotentiel [Termes descripteurs IGN] prévision météorologique [Termes descripteurs IGN] radiosondage [Termes descripteurs IGN] régression linéaire [Termes descripteurs IGN] retard troposphérique zénithal [Termes descripteurs IGN] vapeur d'eau Résumé : (auteur) In ground-based global positioning system (GPS) meteorology, atmospheric weighted mean temperature, Tm, plays a very important role in the progress of retrieving precipitable water vapor (PWV) from the zenith wet delay of the GPS. Generally, most of the existing Tm models only take either latitude or altitude into account in modeling. However, a great number of studies have shown that Tm is highly correlated with both latitude and altitude. In this study, a new global grid empirical Tm model, named as GGTm, was established by a sliding window algorithm using global gridded Tm data over an 8-year period from 2007 to 2014 provided by TU Vienna, where both latitude and altitude variations are considered in modeling. And the performance of GGTm was assessed by comparing with the Bevis formula and the GPT2w model, where the high-precision global gridded Tm data as provided by TU Vienna and the radiosonde data from 2015 are used as reference values. The results show the significant performance of the new GGTm model against other models when compared with gridded Tm data and radiosonde data, especially in the areas with great undulating terrain. Additionally, GGTm has the global mean RMSPWV and RMSPWV/PWV values of 0.26 mm and 1.28%, respectively. The GGTm model, fed only by the day of the year and the station coordinates, could provide a reliable and accurate Tm value, which shows the possible potential application in real-time GPS meteorology, especially for the application of low-latitude areas and western China. Numéro de notice : A2019-077 Thématique : POSITIONNEMENT Nature : Article nature-HAL : ArtAvecCL-RevueIntern DOI : 10.1007/s00190-018-1148-9 date de publication en ligne : 15/05/2018 En ligne : https://doi.org/10.1007/s00190-018-1148-9 Format de la ressource électronique : URL article Permalink : https://documentation.ensg.eu/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=92191 [article]

Optimum stochastic modeling for GNSS tropospheric delay estimation in real-time / Tomasz Hadas in GPS solutions, vol 21 n° 3 (July 2017)  

Public [article]  inGPS solutions > vol 21 n° 3 (July 2017) . - pp 1069 – 1081 Titre : Optimum stochastic modeling for GNSS tropospheric delay estimation in real-time Type de document : Article/Communication Auteurs : Tomasz Hadas, Auteur ; Felix Norman Teferle, Auteur ; Mathieu Kazmierski, Auteur ; et al., Auteur Année de publication : 2017 Article en page(s) : pp 1069 – 1081 Note générale : bibliographie Langues : Anglais (eng) Descripteur : [Vedettes matières IGN] Traitement du signal [Termes descripteurs IGN] données GNSS [Termes descripteurs IGN] optimisation spatiale [Termes descripteurs IGN] prévision météorologique [Termes descripteurs IGN] retard troposphérique [Termes descripteurs IGN] retard troposphérique zénithal [Termes descripteurs IGN] station GNSS Résumé : (auteur) In GNSS data processing, the station height, receiver clock and tropospheric delay (ZTD) are highly correlated to each other. Although the zenith hydrostatic delay of the troposphere can be provided with sufficient accuracy, zenith wet delay (ZWD) has to be estimated, which is usually done in a random walk process. Since ZWD temporal variation depends on the water vapor content in the atmosphere, it seems to be reasonable that ZWD constraints in GNSS processing should be geographically and/or time dependent. We propose to take benefit from numerical weather prediction models to define optimum random walk process noise. In the first approach, we used archived VMF1-G data to calculate a grid of yearly and monthly means of the difference of ZWD between two consecutive epochs divided by the root square of the time lapsed, which can be considered as a random walk process noise. Alternatively, we used the Global Forecast System model from National Centres for Environmental Prediction to calculate random walk process noise dynamically in real-time. We performed two representative experimental campaigns with 20 globally distributed International GNSS Service (IGS) stations and compared real-time ZTD estimates with the official ZTD product from the IGS. With both our approaches, we obtained an improvement of up to 10% in accuracy of the ZTD estimates compared to any uniformly fixed random walk process noise applied for all stations. Numéro de notice : A2017-443 Thématique : POSITIONNEMENT Nature : Article DOI : 10.1007/s10291-016-0595-0 En ligne : https://doi.org/10.1007/s10291-016-0595-0 Format de la ressource électronique : URL article Permalink : https://documentation.ensg.eu/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=86365 [article]

Real-time precise point positioning augmented with high-resolution numerical weather prediction model / Karina Wilgan in GPS solutions, vol 21 n° 3 (July 2017)  

Public [article]  inGPS solutions > vol 21 n° 3 (July 2017) . - pp 1341 – 1353 Titre : Real-time precise point positioning augmented with high-resolution numerical weather prediction model Type de document : Article/Communication Auteurs : Karina Wilgan, Auteur ; Tomasz Hadas, Auteur ; Pawel Hordyniec, Auteur ; Jaroslaw Bosy, Auteur Année de publication : 2017 Article en page(s) : pp 1341 – 1353 Note générale : bibliographie Langues : Anglais (eng) Descripteur : [Vedettes matières IGN] Applications de géodésie spatiale [Termes descripteurs IGN] analyse diachronique [Termes descripteurs IGN] Pologne [Termes descripteurs IGN] positionnement ponctuel précis [Termes descripteurs IGN] prévision météorologique [Termes descripteurs IGN] propagation troposphérique [Termes descripteurs IGN] réseau permanent EUREF [Termes descripteurs IGN] retard troposphérique [Termes descripteurs IGN] retard troposphérique zénithal [Termes descripteurs IGN] station GNSS [Termes descripteurs IGN] temps réel Résumé : (auteur) The tropospheric delay is one of the major error sources in precise point positioning (PPP), affecting the accuracy and precision of estimated coordinates and convergence time, which raises demand for a reliable tropospheric model, suitable to support PPP. In this study, we investigate the impact of three tropospheric models and mapping functions regarding position accuracy and convergence time. We propose a routine to constrain the tropospheric estimates, which we implemented in the in-house developed real-time PPP software. We take advantage of the high spatial resolution (4 × 4 km2) numerical weather prediction Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) model and near real-time GNSS data combined by the least-squares collocation estimation to reconstruct the tropospheric delays. We also present mapping functions calculated from the WRF model using the ray-tracing technique. The performance tests are conducted on 14 Polish EUREF Permanent Network (EPN) stations during 3 weeks of different tropospheric conditions: calm, standard and severe. We consider six GNSS data processing variants, including two commonly used variants using a priori ZTD and mapping functions from UNB3m and VMF1-FC models, one with a priori ZTD and mapping functions calculated directly from WRF model and three variants using the aforementioned mapping functions but with ZTD model based on GNSS and WRF data used as a priori troposphere and to constrain tropospheric estimates. The application of a high-resolution GNSS/WRF-based ZTD model and mapping functions results in the best agreement with the official EPN coordinates. In both static and kinematic modes, this approach results in an average reduction of 3D bias by 20 and 10 mm, respectively, but an increase of 3D SDs by 1.5 and 4 mm, respectively. The application of high-resolution tropospheric model also shortens the convergence time, for example, for a 10 cm convergence level, from 67 to 58 min for the horizontal components and from 79 to 63 min for the vertical component. Numéro de notice : A2017-444 Thématique : POSITIONNEMENT Nature : Article DOI : 10.1007/s10291-017-0617-6 En ligne : https://doi.org/10.1007/s10291-017-0617-6 Format de la ressource électronique : URL article Permalink : https://documentation.ensg.eu/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=86368 [article]

Tropospheric refractivity and zenith path delays from least-squares collocation of meteorological and GNSS data / Karina Wilgan in Journal of geodesy, vol 91 n° 2 (February 2017)  

Public [article]  inJournal of geodesy > vol 91 n° 2 (February 2017) . - pp 117 - 134 Titre : Tropospheric refractivity and zenith path delays from least-squares collocation of meteorological and GNSS data Type de document : Article/Communication Auteurs : Karina Wilgan, Auteur ; Fabian Peter Hurter, Auteur ; Alain Geiger, Auteur ; et al., Auteur Année de publication : 2017 Article en page(s) : pp 117 - 134 Note générale : Bibliographie Langues : Anglais (eng) Descripteur : [Vedettes matières IGN] Applications de géodésie spatiale [Termes descripteurs IGN] collocation par moindres carrés [Termes descripteurs IGN] données GNSS [Termes descripteurs IGN] données météorologiques [Termes descripteurs IGN] modèle atmosphérique [Termes descripteurs IGN] prévision météorologique [Termes descripteurs IGN] propagation troposphérique [Termes descripteurs IGN] réfringence [Termes descripteurs IGN] retard troposphérique zénithal Résumé : (Auteur) Precise positioning requires an accurate a priori troposphere model to enhance the solution quality. Several empirical models are available, but they may not properly characterize the state of troposphere, especially in severe weather conditions. Another possible solution is to use regional troposphere models based on real-time or near-real time measurements. In this study, we present the total refractivity and zenith total delay (ZTD) models based on a numerical weather prediction (NWP) model, Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) data and ground-based meteorological observations. We reconstruct the total refractivity profiles over the western part of Switzerland and the total refractivity profiles as well as ZTDs over Poland using the least-squares collocation software COMEDIE (Collocation of Meteorological Data for Interpretation and Estimation of Tropospheric Pathdelays) developed at ETH Zürich. In these two case studies, profiles of the total refractivity and ZTDs are calculated from different data sets. For Switzerland, the data set with the best agreement with the reference radiosonde (RS) measurements is the combination of ground-based meteorological observations and GNSS ZTDs. Introducing the horizontal gradients does not improve the vertical interpolation, and results in slightly larger biases and standard deviations. For Poland, the data set based on meteorological parameters from the NWP Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) model and from a combination of the NWP model and GNSS ZTDs shows the best agreement with the reference RS data. In terms of ZTD, the combined NWP-GNSS observations and GNSS-only data set exhibit the best accuracy with an average bias (from all stations) of 3.7 mm and average standard deviations of 17.0 mm w.r.t. the reference GNSS stations. Numéro de notice : A2017-062 Thématique : POSITIONNEMENT Nature : Article nature-HAL : ArtAvecCL-RevueIntern En ligne : http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00190-016-0942-5 Format de la ressource électronique : URL article Permalink : https://documentation.ensg.eu/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=84275 [article]

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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A multi-instrument and multi-model assessment of atmospheric moisture variability over the Western Mediterranean during HyMeX / Patrick Chazette in Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, vol 142 n° S1 (August 2016)  

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A synergy method to improve ensemble weather predictions and differential SAR interferograms / Franz-Georg Ulmer in ISPRS Journal of photogrammetry and remote sensing, vol 109 (November 2015)    

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Real-time GPS precise point positioning-based precipitable water vapor estimation for rainfall monitoring and forecasting / Junbo Shi in IEEE Transactions on geoscience and remote sensing, vol 53 n° 6 (June 2015)

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La simulation comme outil d’anticipation des crues rapides dans les petits bassins versants en Seine-Maritime / Johnny Douvinet in Revue internationale de géomatique, vol 25 n° 1 (mars - mai 2015)  

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A high-quality, homogenized, global, long-term (1993–2008) DORIS precipitable water data set for climate monitoring and model verification / Olivier Bock in Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, vol 119 n° 12 (2014)  

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The next level in storm preparedness with GIS / Danny Petrecca in GEO: Geoconnexion international, vol 12 n° 10 (november – december 2013)

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Potential use of surface-sensitive microwave observations over land in numerical weather prediction / E. Gerard in IEEE Transactions on geoscience and remote sensing, vol 49 n° 4 (April 2011)  

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Operational meteorology in West Africa : observational networks, weather analysis and forecasting / Andreas H. Fink in Atmospheric Science Letters, vol 12 n° 1 (January - March 2011)  

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