Effect of broadcast and precise satellite orbits in the estimation of Zenith tropospheric delay and integrated precipitable water vapour from GPS

Authors

  • J. K. S. YADAV India Meteorological Department, New Delhi – 110 003, India
  • R. K. GIRI India Meteorological Department, New Delhi – 110 003, India
  • D. K. MALIK India Meteorological Department, New Delhi – 110 003, India

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.54302/mausam.v61i2.801

Keywords:

Broadcast orbit, Rapid orbit, Zenith total delay, Integrated precipitable water vapour (IPWV)

Abstract

Global Positioning System (GPS) estimates the total delay in zenith direction by the propagation delay of the neutral atmosphere in presence of water vapour present in the troposphere. This total delay has been treated as a nuisance parameter for many years by the geodesists. The above delay have two parts dry delay and wet delay and known as Zenith Hydrostatic Delay (ZHD) and Zenith Wet Delay (ZWD) respectively. The Integrated Precipitable Water Vapour (IPWV) is estimated through ZWD overlying the receiver at ground-based station. The accuracy of the above said estimates depends on the quality of the predicted satellite orbits, which are not the same for each individual satellite. India Meteorological Department (IMD) is operationally estimating the IPWV on near real time basis at five places and matches fairly well (error ~6.7 mm) with Radisonde (RS) data. This paper examine the effect of International GPS Service (IGS) predicted precise orbits and near real time predicted rapid or broadcast orbits supplied by the Scripps Orbit and Permanent Array Center (SOPAC) on Zenith Total Delay (ZTD) and IPWV estimates by calculating the mean Bias and Root Mean Square Error (RMSE) for ZTD and IPWV in mm for all the five stations. The observed bias for ZTD is almost of the order of less than 1 mm in most cases and RMSE is less than 6 mm. Similarly the bias observed in the case of derived IPWV is almost negligible and RMSE is less than 1 mm.

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Published

01-04-2010

How to Cite

[1]
J. K. S. . YADAV, R. K. . GIRI, and D. K. . MALIK, “Effect of broadcast and precise satellite orbits in the estimation of Zenith tropospheric delay and integrated precipitable water vapour from GPS”, MAUSAM, vol. 61, no. 2, pp. 197–202, Apr. 2010.

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