Special Issue "GNSS Meteorology: Algorithm, Modelling, Assessment and Application"

Dear Colleagues,

GNSS meteorology refers to the use of the effect of the atmosphere on the propagation of GNSS radio signals to derive information on the state of the neutral atmosphere. With the continuous observations from GNSS receivers from both satellite platforms and ground permanent stations, it has become an excellent tool for studying the earth atmosphere, snow depth, soil moisture, and terrestrial water storage variations with the advantages of continuous operation, a low cost, all-weather conditions, high accuracy, and high temporal resolution. For instance, not only can the two-dimensional content of the precipitable water vapor (PWV) be retrieved by GNSS, the three-dimensional distribution of water vapor density can be reconstructed by the water vapor tomography. It has a wide range of applications, such as meteorology, climatology, nowcasting, 4D monitoring of weather events and hydrological phenomena.

In this Special Issue, we are looking for articles that discuss the recent trends, current progress and future directions for GNSS meteorology, and articles that describe the algorithm, model and applications related to GNSS meteorology. We welcome original research on topics including, but not limited to:

• Water vapor retrievals based on multi-GNSS;
• Derivation of GNSS atmospheric parameters;
• PWV/IWV time series analysis and prediction;
• Modeling for the atmospheric parameters;
• Water vapor tomography;
• Numerical nowcasting based on GNSS observations;
• GNSS data assimilation and application;
• Climate change;
• GNSS radio occultation;
• Monitoring of the rainfall/drought/particle using GNSS PWV/ZWD/ZTD;
• Comprehensive utilization of multi-source atmospheric data;
• Parameter inversion using GNSS-IR.

Dr. Fei Yang
Dr. Ming Shangguan
Dr. Liangke Huang
Dr. Di Zhang
Guest Editors

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• GNSS
• atmosphere
• troposphere
• precipitable water vapor
• weighted mean temperature
• GNSS reflectometry
• GNSS RO
• ray tracing
• data assimilation
• tomography
• numerical modelling
• weather forecast
• numerical forecast
• climate change