Near real-time estimation of tropospheric water vapour content from ground based GNSS data and its potential contribution to weather now-casting in Austria |
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Authors: | Ana Karabati? Robert Weber Thomas Haiden |
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Institution: | 1. Institute for Geodesy and Geophysics, Vienna Technical University, Gusshausstrasse 27–29, 1040 Vienna, Austria;2. Central Institute for Meteorology and Geodynamics, Hohe Warte 38, 1190 Vienna, Austria |
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Abstract: | The importance of high resolution meteorological analysis of the atmosphere increased over the past years. A detailed analysis of the humidity field is an important precondition for a better monitoring of local and regional extreme precipitation events and for forecasts with improved spatial resolution. For this reason, the Austrian Meteorological Agency (ZAMG) is operating the spatial and temporal high resolution INCA system (Integrated Now-casting through Comprehensive Analysis) since begin of 2005. Errors in this analysis occur mainly in the areas of rapidly changing and hard to predict weather conditions or rugged topography with extreme differences in height such as the alpine area of Austria. The aim of this work is to provide GNSS based measurements of the tropospheric water vapour content with a temporal resolution of 1 h and a temporal delay of less than 1 h to assimilate these estimates into the INCA system. Additional requirement is an accuracy of better than 1 mm of the precipitable water (PW) estimates. |
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Keywords: | Tropospheric signal delay INCA Precise Point Positioning |
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