Assessment of time-series of troposphere zenith delays derived from the Global Data Assimilation System numerical weather model |
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| Authors: | Constantin-Octavian Andrei Ruizhi Chen |
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| Institution: | (1) Department of Navigation and Positioning, Finnish Geodetic Institute, Geodeetinrinne 2, Masala, Finland |
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| Abstract: | Troposphere zenith path delays derived from the Global Data Assimilation System (GDAS) numerical weather model (NWM) are compared
with those of the International GNSS Service (IGS) solutions over a 1.5-year period at 18 globally distributed IGS stations.
Meteorological parameters can be interpolated from the NWM model at any location and at any time after December 2004. The
meteorological parameters extracted from the NWM model agree with in situ direct measurements at some IGS stations within
1 mbar for pressure, 3° for temperature and 13% for relative humidity. The hydrostatic and wet components of the zenith path
delay (ZPD) are computed using the meteorological parameters extracted from the NWM model. The total ZPDs derived from the
GDAS NWM agree with the IGS ZPD solutions at 3.0 cm RMS level with biases of up to 4.5 cm, which can be attributed to the
wet ZPDs estimates from the NWM model, considering the less accurate interpolated relative humidity parameter. Based on this
study, it is suggested that the availability and the precision of the GDAS NWM ZPD should be sufficient for nearly all GPS
navigation solutions.
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| Keywords: | Tropospheric delay Numerical weather model |
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