Tropospheric delay gradients from numerical weather prediction models: Effects on GPS estimated parameters

GPS Solutions

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 281-291

  Ghoddousi Fard, Reza ^a   Dare, Peter ^a   Langley, Richard B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW BRUNSWICK   (Canada)

Author keywords

Gradients; Neutral atmosphere; NWP; Troposphere

Indexed keywords

APRIORI; ESTIMATED PARAMETER; GNSS SIGNALS; GRADIENTS; HIGH PRECISION; HYDROSTATIC GRADIENTS; IN-PHASE; LONG TERM; MAPPING FUNCTIONS; METEOROLOGICAL SERVICE OF CANADA; NEUTRAL ATMOSPHERE; NUMERICAL WEATHER PREDICTION MODELS; NWP MODEL; OBSERVATION EQUATION; PRECISE POINT POSITIONING; PROCESSING SOFTWARE; STRONG CORRELATION; TERRESTRIAL REFERENCE FRAME; TROPOSPHERIC DELAYS; WEATHER MODELS; ZENITH DELAY; ZENITH TOTAL DELAYS;

ATMOSPHERICS; CLIMATOLOGY; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; TROPOSPHERE;

THREE DIMENSIONAL;

ALGORITHM; CLIMATE MODELING; GEODYNAMICS; GPS; HYDROSTATICS; METEOROLOGY; NUMERICAL MODEL; PARAMETERIZATION; SOFTWARE; TROPOSPHERE; WEATHER FORECASTING;

CANADA;

EID: 77951298752     PISSN: 10805370     EISSN: 15211886     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10291-009-0121-8     Document Type: Article

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