Journal
GPS SOLUTIONS
Volume 18, Issue 1, Pages 123-131Publisher
SPRINGER HEIDELBERG
DOI: 10.1007/s10291-013-0316-x
Keywords
Tropospheric propagation delay; Standard atmosphere; Zenith total delay; Tropospheric correction model
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- European Union [287162]
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TropGrid2 is a new version of a tropospheric model that is based on climatology and provides tropospheric propagation delay corrections for standard positioning users without temperature, pressure and humidity measurements. Zenith hydrostatic and wet delays are modeled as special harmonic functions taking seasonal and diurnal variations into consideration. The grid-point values are height-reduced and can be interpolated horizontally to the user position. The database used to derive this model consists of more than 9 years of 3D numerical weather fields of the NOAA NCEP GDAS weather model. We validated this standard model using 10 years of GPS-derived zenith path delays at 290 International GPS service reference stations. The gridded version is accurate at a level of 3.8 cm (root mean square in zenith direction) on global average; the average long-term bias is -0.3 cm. The standard deviations computed by the model turn out to be slightly too pessimistic for almost all stations under investigation, in contrast to the site-specific version, which is only marginally (1 mm) more accurate on global scale.
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