Sensing integrated water vapor along GPS ray paths

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 417-420

  Ware, Randolph ^a   Alber, Chris ^a   Rocken, Christian ^a   Solheim, Fredrick ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY CORPORATION FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OMNIDIRECTIONAL ANTENNAS; ORBITS; SPACE-BASED RADAR; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; TRACKING (POSITION); WATER VAPOR; ANTENNAS; ATOMIC CLOCKS; FADING (RADIO); GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; RADIO RECEIVERS; RADIOMETERS; VAPORS;

DOUBLE DIFFERENCES; GPS RECEIVERS; INTEGRATED WATER VAPORS; ORBIT DETERMINATION; REGIONAL WEATHER; RING ANTENNAS; SATELLITE CLOCK ERRORS; SLANT WET DELAY;

GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; METEOROLOGY;

DOUBLE DIFFERENCING; SLANT PATH WATER VAPOR (SWV); WATER VAPOR SENSING;

EID: 0031074790     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/97GL00080     Document Type: Article

References (25)

1. Alber, C., Millimeter Precision GPS Surveying and GPS Sensing of Slant Path Water Vapor, Ph.D. Thesis, Univ. Colorado, Dec. 1996.
2. Anderson, K., Tropospheric Refractivity Profiles Inferred from Low-Elevation Angle Measurements of Global Positioning System Signals, AGARD-CP-576-2, 1994.
3. Beutler, G., E. Brockman, S. Funkhauser, W. Gurtner, J. Johnson, L. Mervart, M. Rothacher, S. Schaer, T. Springer, and R. Weber, Bernese GPS Software Version 4.0, Univ. Berne, September, 1996.
4. Bevis, M., S. Businger, T. Herring, C. Rocken, R. Anthes, and R. Ware, GPS Meteorology: Remote Sensing of Atmospheric Water Vapor using the Global Positioning System, J. Geophys. Res., 97, 15,787-15,801, 1992.
5. Bevis, M., S. Businger, S. Chiswell, T. Herring, R. Anthes, C. Rocken, and R. Ware, GPS Meteorology: Mapping Zenith Wet Delays onto Precipitable Water, J. Appl. Meteorol., 33, 379-386, 1994.
6. Businger, S., S. Chiswell, M. Bevis, J. Duan, R. Anthes, C. Rocken, R. Ware, T. Van Hove, and F. Solheim, The Promise of GPS in Atmospheric Monitoring, Bull. Am. Meteorol. Soc., 77, 5-18, 1996.
7. Campen, C., R. Cunningham, and V. Plank, Electromagnetic wave propagation in the lower atmosphere, Handbook of Geophysics, New York, Macmillan, ch. 13, 5-11, 1961.
8. Davis, J., G. Elgered, A. Niell, and C. Kuehn, Ground-based measurement of gradients in the "wet" radio refractivity of air, Rad. Sci., 28, 1003-1018, 1993.
9. Dixon, T., An Introduction to the Global Positioning System and some geological applications, Rev. Geophys., 29, 249-276, 1991.
10. Hogg, D., F. Guiraud, and M. Decker, Measurement of Excess Radio Transmission Length on Earth-Space Paths, Astron. Astrophys., 95, 304-307, 1981.
11. Hemng, T., The Global Positioning System, Sci. Am., 44-50, Feb., 1996.
12. Konrad, T., The dynamics of convective process in clear air as seen by radar, J. Atmos. Sci., 27, 1138, 1970.
13. Kuo, Y.-H., X. Zou, and Y.-R. Guo, Variational Assimilation of Precipitable Water Using a Nonhydostatic Mesoscale Adjoint Model, Mon. Weather Rev., 124, 122-147, 1996.
14. Meade, C. and D. Sandwell, Synthetic Aperture Radar for Geodesy, Science, 273, 1181-1182, 1996.
15. Meehan, T., E. Kursinski, G. Hajj, J. Srinivasan, and S. DiNardo, Analysis of Global Positioning System Signals Occulted by the Atmosphere as Tracked From Mauna Kea, Eos Trans. AGU, 72, 372, 1991.
16. Melbourne, W., E. Davis, C. Duncan, G. Hajj, K. Hardy, E. Kursinski, T. Meehan, L. Young, and T. Yunck, The Application of Spaceborne GPS to Atmospheric Limb Sounding and Global Change Monitoring, JPL Pub. 94-18, 1994.
17. Neilan, R., The Evolution of the IGS Global Network, Current Status and Future Prospects, International GPS Service for Geodynamics, 199-4 Annual Report, JPL Pub. 95-18, 25-34, 1995.
18. Rocken, C., J. Johnson, R. Neilan, M. Cerezo, J. Jordan, M. Falls, L. Nelson, R. Ware, and M. Hayes, The Measurement of Atmospheric Water Vapor: Radiometer Comparison and Spatial Variations. IEEE Trans. Geosci. & Remote Sensing, 29, 3 - 8, 1991a.
19. Rocken, C., and C. Meertens, Monitoring selective availability dither frequencies and their effect on GPS data, Bull. Geodesique, 162-169, 1991b.
20. Rocken, C., R. Ware, T. Van Hove, F. Solheim, C. Alber, and J. Johnson, Sensing Atmospheric Water Vapor with the Global Positioning System, Geophys. Res. Lett., 20, 2631-2634, 1993.
21. Solheim, F., C. Alber, R. Ware, and C. Rocken, Pointed Radiometry for Coordinate and Orbit Accuracy, Augmenting GPS Infrastructure for Geoscience Applications, Nat. Acad. Press (in press), 1996.
22. Solheim, F., Use of Pointed Water Vapor Radiometers to Improve GPS Surveying Accuracy, Ph.D. Thesis, Univ. Colorado, Dec. 1993.
23. Ware, R., C. Rocken, F. Solheim, T. Van Hove, C. Alber, and J. Johnson, Pointed Water Vapor Radiometer Corrections for Accurate GPS Surveying, Geophys. Res. Lett., 20, 2635-2638, 1993.
24. Ware, R., M. Exner, D. Feng, M. Gorbunov, K. Hardy, B. Herman, H. K. Kuo, T. Meehan, W. Melbourne, C. Rocken, W. Schreiner, S. Sokolovskiy, F. Solheim, X. Zou, R. Anthes, S. Businger, and K. Trenberth, GPS Sounding the Atmosphere from Low Earth Orbil, Preliminary Results, Bull Am. Meteorol. Soc., 77, 5-18, 1996.
25. Yuan, L., R. Anthes, R. Ware, C. Rocken, W. Bonner, M. Bevis, and S. Businger, Sensing Climate Change Using the Global Positioning System, J. Geophys. Res., 98, 14,925-14,937, 1993.