Combination methods of tropospheric time series

Advances in Space Research

Volumn 47, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 323-335

  Pacione, R ^a   Pace, B ^a   Vedel, H ^b   De Haan, S ^c   Lanotte, R ^a   Vespe, F ^d  

^a E GEOS SpA   (Italy)

^b DANISH METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Denmark)

^c ROYAL NETHERLANDS METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE KNMI   (Netherlands)

^d ITALIAN SPACE AGENCY   (Italy)

Author keywords

Generalized least square; GNSS meteorology; Intra technique combination; Kalman filter; Near Real Time; Troposphere delays

Indexed keywords

ERRORS; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; KALMAN FILTERS; METEOROLOGY; RADIO ASTRONOMY; RADIOSONDES; TIME SERIES; TROPOSPHERE; WEATHER FORECASTING;

GENERALIZED LEAST SQUARE; GLOBAL NAVIGATION SATELLITE SYSTEMS; INTRA-TECHNIQUE COMBINATION; NEAR-REAL TIME; NUMERICAL WEATHER PREDICTION; NUMERICAL WEATHER PREDICTION MODELS; TROPOSPHERE DELAY; VERY LONG BASELINE INTERFEROMETRY;

DATA HANDLING;

EID: 78650689226     PISSN: 02731177     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.asr.2010.07.021     Document Type: Article

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