Effects of the High-Order Ionospheric Delay on GPS-Based Tropospheric Parameter Estimations in Turkey
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Department of Geomatics Engineering, Zonguldak Bulent Ecevit University, Zonguldak 67100, Turkey
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School of Remote Sensing and Geomatics Engineering, Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, Nanjing 210044, China
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Shanghai Astronomical Observatory, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 200030, China
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Remote Sens. 2020, 12(21), 3569; https://doi.org/10.3390/rs12213569
Received: 14 September 2020
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Revised: 11 October 2020
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Accepted: 21 October 2020
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Published: 31 October 2020
(This article belongs to the Special Issue GNSS High Rate Data for Research of the Ionosphere)
The tropospheric delay and gradients can be estimated using Global Positioning System (GPS) observations after removing the ionospheric delay, which has been widely used for atmospheric studies and forecasting. However, high-order ionospheric (HOI) delays are generally ignored in GPS processing to estimate atmospheric parameters. In this study, HOI effects on GPS-estimated tropospheric delay and gradients are investigated from two weeks of GPS data in June 2011 at selected GPS stations in Turkey. Results show that HOI effects are up to 6 mm on zenith tropospheric delay (ZTD), 4 mm on the North-South (NS) gradient and 12 mm on the East-West (EW) gradient during this period, but can reach over 30 mm in slant tropospheric delays. Furthermore, the HOI effects on tropospheric delay and gradient are larger in the daytime than the nighttime. Furthermore, HOI effects on tropospheric delay are further investigated on low and high solar activity days. The HOI effects on GPS estimated tropospheric delay and gradients in high solar activity days are higher than those in low solar activity days.
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Keywords:
GPS; high-order ionospheric delay; tropospheric delay; gradients
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Akgul, V.; Gurbuz, G.; Kutoglu, S.H.; Jin, S. Effects of the High-Order Ionospheric Delay on GPS-Based Tropospheric Parameter Estimations in Turkey. Remote Sens. 2020, 12, 3569. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs12213569
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Akgul V, Gurbuz G, Kutoglu SH, Jin S. Effects of the High-Order Ionospheric Delay on GPS-Based Tropospheric Parameter Estimations in Turkey. Remote Sensing. 2020; 12(21):3569. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs12213569
Chicago/Turabian StyleAkgul, Volkan, Gokhan Gurbuz, Senol H. Kutoglu, and Shuanggen Jin. 2020. "Effects of the High-Order Ionospheric Delay on GPS-Based Tropospheric Parameter Estimations in Turkey" Remote Sensing 12, no. 21: 3569. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs12213569
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