Assessment of time-series of troposphere zenith delays derived from the global data assimilation system numerical weather model

GPS Solutions

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 109-117

  Andrei, Constantin Octavian ^a   Chen, Ruizhi ^a  

^a FINNISH GEODETIC INSTITUTE   (Finland)

Author keywords

Numerical weather model; Tropospheric delay

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; ATMOSPHERICS; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; MOISTURE; TIME SERIES; TROPOSPHERE;

DIRECT MEASUREMENTS; GLOBAL DATA ASSIMILATION SYSTEMS; GPS NAVIGATIONS; IN-SITU; METEOROLOGICAL PARAMETERS; NUMERICAL WEATHER MODEL; PATH DELAYS; RELATIVE HUMIDITIES; TROPOSPHERIC DELAY; ZENITH DELAYS;

MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

ASSESSMENT METHOD; DATA ASSIMILATION; NUMERICAL MODEL; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; TROPOSPHERE; WEATHER; ZENITH ANGLE;

EID: 62949111909     PISSN: 10805370     EISSN: 15211886     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10291-008-0104-1     Document Type: Article

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