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Title: Constructing a precipitable water vapor map from regional GNSS network observations without collocated meteorological data for weather forecasting
Authors: Chen, B
Dai, W
Liu, Z 
Wu, L
Kuang, C
Ao, M
Issue Date: 2018
Source: Atmospheric measurement techniques, 2018, v. 11, no. 9, p. 5153-5166
Abstract: Surface pressure (Ps/ and weighted mean temperature (Tm/ are two necessary variables for the accurate retrieval of precipitable water vapor (PWV) from Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) zenith total delay (ZTD) estimates. The lack of Ps or Tm information is a concern for those GNSS sites that are not collocated with meteorological sensors. This paper investigates an alternative method of inferring accurate Ps and Tm at the GNSS station using nearby synoptic observations. Ps and Tm obtained at the nearby synoptic sites are interpolated onto the location of the GNSS station by performing both vertical and horizontal adjustments, in which the parameters involved in Ps and Tm calculation are estimated from ERA-Interim reanalysis profiles. In addition, we present a method of constructing high-quality PWV maps through vertical reduction and horizontal interpolation of the retrieved GNSS PWVs. To evaluate the performances of the Ps and Tm retrieval, and the PWV map construction, GNSS data collected from 58 stations of the Hunan GNSS network and synoptic observations from 20 nearby sites in 2015 were processed to extract the PWV so as to subsequently generate the PWV maps. The retrieved Ps and Tm and constructed PWV maps were assessed by the results derived from radiosonde and the ERA-Interim reanalysis. The results show that (1) accuracies of Ps and Tm derived by synoptic interpolation are within the range of 1.7-3.0 hPa and 2.5-3.0 K, respectively, which are much better than the GPT2w model; (2) the constructed PWV maps have good agreements with radiosonde and ERA-Interim reanalysis data with the overall accuracy being better than 3 mm; and (3) PWV maps can well reveal the moisture advection, transportation and convergence during heavy rainfall.
Publisher: Copernicus Gesellschaft
Journal: Atmospheric measurement techniques 
ISSN: 1867-1381
EISSN: 1867-8548
DOI: 10.5194/amt-11-5153-2018
Rights: © Author(s) 2018. This work is distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
The following publication Chen, B., Dai, W., Liu, Z., Wu, L., Kuang, C., & Ao, M. (2018). Constructing a precipitable water vapor map from regional GNSS network observations without collocated meteorological data for weather forecasting. Atmospheric Measurement Techniques, 11(9), 5153-5166 is available at https://dx.doi.org/10.5194/amt-11-5153-2018
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