Evaluation of the impact of atmospheric pressure loading modeling on GNSS data analysis

Journal of Geodesy

Volumn 85, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 75-91

  Dach, Rolf ^a   Böhm, Johannes ^b   Lutz, Simon ^a   Steigenberger, Peter ^c   Beutler, Gerhard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^c TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Atmospheric pressure loading; GNSS processing; Model validation; Terrestrial reference frame

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; COORDINATE; DATA PROCESSING; GEODETIC NETWORK; GNSS; MODEL VALIDATION;

EID: 79251599387     PISSN: 09497714     EISSN: 14321394     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00190-010-0417-z     Document Type: Article

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