Implementation and testing of the gridded Vienna Mapping Function 1 (VMF1) |
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| Authors: | J Kouba |
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| Institution: | (1) Geodetic Survey Division, Natural Resources Canada (NRCan), 615 Booth Street, Ottawa, ON, Canada, K1A 0E9 |
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| Abstract: | The new gridded Vienna Mapping Function (VMF1) was implemented and compared to the well-established site-dependent VMF1, directly
and by using precise point positioning (PPP) with International GNSS Service (IGS) Final orbits/clocks for a 1.5-year GPS
data set of 11 globally distributed IGS stations. The gridded VMF1 data can be interpolated for any location and for any time
after 1994, whereas the site-dependent VMF1 data are only available at selected IGS stations and only after 2004. Both gridded
and site-dependent VMF1 PPP solutions agree within 1 and 2 mm for the horizontal and vertical position components, respectively,
provided that respective VMF1 hydrostatic zenith path delays (ZPD) are used for hydrostatic ZPD mapping to slant delays. The
total ZPD of the gridded and site-dependent VMF1 data agree with PPP ZPD solutions with RMS of 1.5 and 1.8 cm, respectively.
Such precise total ZPDs could provide useful initial a priori ZPD estimates for kinematic PPP and regional static GPS solutions.
The hydrostatic ZPDs of the gridded VMF1 compare with the site-dependent VMF1 ZPDs with RMS of 0.3 cm, subject to some biases
and discontinuities of up to 4 cm, which are likely due to different strategies used in the generation of the site-dependent
VMF1 data. The precision of gridded hydrostatic ZPD should be sufficient for accurate a priori hydrostatic ZPD mapping in
all precise GPS and very long baseline interferometry (VLBI) solutions. Conversely, precise and globally distributed geodetic
solutions of total ZPDs, which need to be linked to VLBI to control biases and stability, should also provide a consistent
and stable reference frame for long-term and state-of-the-art numerical weather modeling. |
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| Keywords: | Troposphere mapping function Tropospheric propagation delay estimation Precise point positioning (PPP) GPS and VLBI |
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