Troposphere delays from space geodetic techniques, water vapor radiometers, and numerical weather models over a series of continuous VLBI campaigns
Artikel i vetenskaplig tidskrift, 2013

Continuous, very long baseline interferometry (VLBI) campaigns over 2 weeks have been carried out repeatedly, i.e., CONT02 in October 2002, CONT05 in September 2005, CONT08 in August 2008, and CONT11 in September 2011, to demonstrate the highest accuracy the current VLBI was capable at that time. In this study, we have compared zenith total delays (ZTD) and troposphere gradients as consistently estimated from the observations of VLBI, Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS), and Doppler Orbitography and Radiopositioning Integrated by Satellite (DORIS) at VLBI sites participating in the CONT campaigns. We analyzed the CONT campaigns using the state-of-the-art software following common processing strategies as closely as possible. In parallel, ZTD and gradients were derived from numerical weather models, i.e., from the global European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF) analysis fields, the High Resolution Limited Area Model (European sites), the Japan Meteorological Agency-Operational Meso-Analysis Field (MANAL, over Japan), and the Cloud Resolving Storm Simulator (Tsukuba, Japan). Finally, zenith wet delays were estimated from the observations of water vapor radiometers (WVR) at sites where the WVR observables are available during the CONT sessions. The best ZTD agreement, interpreted as the smallest standard deviation, was found between GNSS and VLBI techniques to be about 5-6 mm at most of the co-located sites and CONT campaigns. We did not detect any significant improvement in the ZTD agreement between various techniques over time, except for DORIS and MANAL. On the other hand, the agreement and thus the accuracy of the troposphere parameters mainly depend on the amount of humidity in the atmosphere. © 2013 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg.

Water vapor radiometers

Troposphere delays

Space geodetic techniques

Numerical weather models

Författare

K. Teke

Hacettepe Üniversitesi

Technische Universität Wien

T. Nilsson

Deutsches GeoForschungsZentrum (GFZ)

Johannes Böhm

Technische Universität Wien

Thomas Hobiger

Japan National Institute of Information and Communications Technology

P. Steigenberger

Technische Universität München

Susana García Espada

Chalmers, Rymd- och geovetenskap, Rymdgeodesi och geodynamik

Rüdiger Haas

Chalmers, Rymd- och geovetenskap, Rymdgeodesi och geodynamik

P. Willis

Institut National de l'Information Géographique et Forestière

Université Paris Diderot

Journal of Geodesy

0949-7714 (ISSN) 1432-1394 (eISSN)

Vol. 87 10-12 981-1001

Drivkrafter

Hållbar utveckling

Fundament

Grundläggande vetenskaper

Infrastruktur

Onsala rymdobservatorium

Ämneskategorier

Geovetenskap och miljövetenskap

Geofysik

DOI

10.1007/s00190-013-0662-z

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