GPS meteorology: An investigation of ocean-based precipitable water estimates

2012 ◽  
Vol 117 (D17) ◽  
pp. n/a-n/a ◽  
Author(s):  
John Kealy ◽  
James Foster ◽  
Steven Businger
Keyword(s):  
Precipitable Water ◽  
Gps Meteorology

GPS Meteorology: Direct Estimation of the Absolute Value of Precipitable Water

1996 ◽  
Vol 35 (6) ◽  
pp. 830-838 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jingping Duan ◽  
Michael Bevis ◽  
Peng Fang ◽  
Yehuda Bock ◽  
Steven Chiswell ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Precipitable Water ◽  
Absolute Value ◽  
Direct Estimation ◽  
Gps Meteorology ◽  
The Absolute

Cooperation on GPS Meteorology between the United States and Cuba

2015 ◽  
Vol 96 (7) ◽  
pp. 1079-1088 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard Anthes ◽  
Alan Robock ◽  
Juan Carlos Antuña-Marrero ◽  
Oswaldo García ◽  
John J. Braun ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Precipitable Water ◽  
The United States ◽  
Gps Receiver ◽  
Fidel Castro ◽  
American Meteorological Society ◽  
Maryland College ◽  
Gps Meteorology ◽  
College Park ◽  
The University

Abstract In May 2014 a team of atmospheric and geodetic scientists from UNAVCO and the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR) sent and helped set up a global positioning system (GPS) receiver to measure atmospheric water vapor at the Grupo de Óptica Atmosférica de Camagüey (GOAC) at the Camagüey Meteorological Center in Camagüey, Cuba. The GPS receiver immediately began to produce observations of precipitable water, which are being shared with the international meteorological community. Obtaining permission from both sides to send a highly sensitive instrument from the United States to Cuba was not easy. This paper describes the series of events that led to this achievement, beginning with a North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) workshop in Rome, Italy, in 1994 in which Alan Robock met a young Cuban scientist named Juan Carlos Antuña and accepted him as a graduate student at the University of Maryland, College Park. The GPS meteorology connection began with a March 2007 visit of a delegation from the United States headed by then American Meteorological Society (AMS) President Richard Anthes to Havana, Cuba, at the invitation of the Cuban Meteorological Society president, Andrés Planas. These two threads led to this remarkable cooperation between Cuban and U.S. scientists. Several visits to Cuba beginning in 2010 by Robock, who met former President of Cuba Fidel Castro and the science advisor to the president of Cuba, played a significant role. This is another instance (the visit of the AMS delegation to China in 1974 was a prime example) of how communication and visits between meteorologists in countries that are at odds on many other issues can lead to lasting collaborations that benefit both countries as well as the international community.

scholarly journals GPS-meteorology: Impact of predicted orbits on precipitable water estimates

1999 ◽  
Vol 26 (14) ◽  
pp. 2045-2048 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lars Peter Kruse ◽  
Bernd Sierk ◽  
Tim Springer ◽  
Marc Cocard
Keyword(s):  
Precipitable Water ◽  
Gps Meteorology

GPS Meteorology: Mapping Zenith Wet Delays onto Precipitable Water

1994 ◽  
Vol 33 (3) ◽  
pp. 379-386 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Bevis ◽  
Steven Businger ◽  
Steven Chiswell ◽  
Thomas A. Herring ◽  
Richard A. Anthes ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Precipitable Water ◽  
Gps Meteorology

GPS Meteorology: Sliding-Window Analysis*

2005 ◽  
Vol 22 (6) ◽  
pp. 687-695 ◽  
Author(s):  
James Foster ◽  
Michael Bevis ◽  
Steven Businger
Keyword(s):  
Real Time ◽  
Time Window ◽  
Sliding Window ◽  
Precipitable Water ◽  
Fine Tuning ◽  
Window Analysis ◽  
Time Estimates ◽  
Gps Meteorology ◽  
Overlapping Data ◽  
Window Method

Abstract The sliding-window technique uses a moving time window to select GPS data for processing. This makes it possible to routinely incorporate the most recently collected data and generate estimates for atmospheric delay or precipitable water in (near) real time. As a consequence of the technique several estimates may be generated for each time epoch, and these multiple estimates can be used to explore and analyze the characteristics of the atmospheric estimates and the effect of the processing model and parameters. Examples of some of the analyses that can be undertaken are presented. Insights into the phenomenology of the atmospheric estimates provided by sliding-window analysis permit the fine-tuning of the GPS processing as well as the possibility of both improving the accuracy of the near-real-time estimates themselves and constraining the errors associated with them. The overlapping data windows and the multiple estimates that characterize the sliding-window method can lead to ambiguity in the meaning of many terms and expressions commonly used in GPS meteorology. In order to prevent confusion in discussions of sliding-window processing, a nomenclature is proposed that formalizes the meaning of the primary terms and defines the geometric and physical relationships between them.

KORELASI MUSIMAN ANTARA ZENITH WET DELAY (ZWD) DAN DEBIT SUNGAI DI DAS CIKAPUNDUNG HULU, KAWASAN BANDUNG UTARA, JAWA BARAT

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 ◽  
pp. 741
Author(s):  
Wedyanto Kuntjoro ◽  
Z.A.J. Tanuwijaya ◽  
A. Pramansyah ◽  
Dudy D. Wijaya
Keyword(s):  
Water Vapor ◽  
Precipitable Water ◽  
Precipitable Water Vapor ◽  
Zenith Wet Delay

Kandungan total uap air troposfer (precipitable water vapor) di suatu tempat dapat diestimasi berdasarkan karakteristik bias gelombang elektromagnetik dari satelit navigasi GPS, berupa zenith wet delay (ZWD). Pola musiman deret waktu ZWD sangat penting dalam studi siklus hidrologi khususnya yang terkait dengan kejadian-kejadian banjir. Artikel ini menganalisis korelasi musiman antara ZWD dan debit sungai Cikapundung di wilayah Bandung Utara berdasarkan estimasi rataan pola musimannya. Berdasarkan rekonstruksi sejumlah komponen harmonik ditemukan bahwa pola musiman ZWD memiliki kemiripan dan korelasi yang kuat dengan pola musiman debit sungai. Pola musiman ZWD dan debit sungai dipengaruhi secara kuat oleh fenomena pertukaran Monsun Asia dan Monsun Australia. Korelasi linier di antara keduanya menunjukkan hasil yang sangat kuat, dimana hampir 90% fluktuasi debit sungai dipengaruhi oleh kandungan uap air di troposfer dengan level signifikansi 95%. Berdasarkan spektrum amplitudo silang dan koherensi, kedua kuantitas ini nampak didominasi oleh siklus monsun satu tahunan disertai indikasi adanya pengaruh siklus tengah tahunan dan 4 bulanan.

Variability of radiosonde-observed precipitable water in the Baltic region*

2005 ◽  
Vol 36 (4-5) ◽  
pp. 423-433 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. Jakobson ◽  
H. Ohvril ◽  
O. Okulov ◽  
N. Laulainen
Keyword(s):  
Water Vapour ◽  
Precipitable Water ◽  
Linear Functions ◽  
Water Vapour Pressure ◽  
Baltic Region ◽  
Geographical Latitude ◽  
Linear Formula ◽  
Annual Means ◽  
The Baltic ◽  
Two Parameters

The total mass of columnar water vapour (precipitable water, W) is an important parameter of atmospheric thermodynamic and radiative models. In this work more than 60 000 radiosonde observations from 17 aerological stations in the Baltic region over 14 years, 1989–2002, were used to examine the variability of precipitable water. A table of monthly and annual means of W for the stations is given. Seasonal means of W are expressed as linear functions of the geographical latitude degree. A linear formula is also derived for parametrisation of precipitable water as a function of two parameters – geographical latitude and surface water vapour pressure.

scholarly journals HGPT2: An ERA5-Based Global Model to Estimate Relative Humidity

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (11) ◽  
pp. 2179
Author(s):  
Pedro Mateus ◽  
Virgílio B. Mendes ◽  
Sandra M. Plecha
Keyword(s):  
Water Vapor ◽  
Relative Humidity ◽  
Real Time ◽  
Prediction Models ◽  
Weather Prediction ◽  
Precipitable Water ◽  
Precipitable Water Vapor ◽  
Global Navigation Satellite Systems ◽  
International Gnss Service ◽  
Weighted Mean Temperature

The neutral atmospheric delay is one of the major error sources in Space Geodesy techniques such as Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS), and its modeling for high accuracy applications can be challenging. Improving the modeling of the atmospheric delays (hydrostatic and non-hydrostatic) also leads to a more accurate and precise precipitable water vapor estimation (PWV), mostly in real-time applications, where models play an important role, since numerical weather prediction models cannot be used for real-time processing or forecasting. This study developed an improved version of the Hourly Global Pressure and Temperature (HGPT) model, the HGPT2. It is based on 20 years of ERA5 reanalysis data at full spatial (0.25° × 0.25°) and temporal resolution (1-h). Apart from surface air temperature, surface pressure, zenith hydrostatic delay, and weighted mean temperature, the updated model also provides information regarding the relative humidity, zenith non-hydrostatic delay, and precipitable water vapor. The HGPT2 is based on the time-segmentation concept and uses the annual, semi-annual, and quarterly periodicities to calculate the relative humidity anywhere on the Earth’s surface. Data from 282 moisture sensors located close to GNSS stations during 1 year (2020) were used to assess the model coefficients. The HGPT2 meteorological parameters were used to process 35 GNSS sites belonging to the International GNSS Service (IGS) using the GAMIT/GLOBK software package. Results show a decreased root-mean-square error (RMSE) and bias values relative to the most used zenith delay models, with a significant impact on the height component. The HGPT2 was developed to be applied in the most diverse areas that can significantly benefit from an ERA5 full-resolution model.

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