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An inter-comparison of zenith tropospheric delays derived from DORIS and GPS data
Authors:Olivier Bock  Pascal Willis  Maïté Lacarra  Pierre Bosser
Institution:1. Institut Géographique National, LAREG, 6-8 avenue Blaise Pascal, 77455 Marne-la-Vallée, France;2. Institut Géographique National, Direction Technique, 2, avenue Pasteur, 94165 Saint-Mandé, France;3. Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris (IPGP, Paris 7, CNRS), 35 rue Hélène Brion, 75013 Paris, France;4. IPSL/LOCEAN, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, 4, place Jussieu, Paris, France;5. Institut Géographique National, LOEMI, 2, avenue Pasteur, 94165 Saint-Mandé, France
Abstract:Doppler Orbitography Radiopositioning Integrated by Satellite (DORIS) and Global Positioning System (GPS) techniques are similarly affected by propagation delays in the neutral atmosphere (troposphere) and hence make use of similar data processing strategies for reducing this effect. We compare Zenith Tropospheric Delays (ZTDs) estimated from 52 DORIS and GPS station pairs co-located at 35 sites over the 2005–2008 period. We find an overall systematic negative mean bias of −4 mm and a median bias of −2 mm, with a large site-to-site scatter and especially stronger biases over South America, potentially linked to remaining problems related to the South Atlantic Anomaly (SAA) in the current DORIS data processing. The standard deviation of ZTD differences is in the range 4–12 mm over the globe (8 mm on average), with larger values located in the southern hemisphere. The spatial variability of differences is consistent with previous work but remains largely unexplained. DORIS is shown to be much less sensitive to instrumental changes than GPS (only the switch from Alcatel to Starec antenna at Toulouse is detected as an offset of −4 mm in the ZTD time series). On the opposite, discontinuities and spurious annual signals are found in the GPS ZTD solutions. A discontinuity of +5 mm is found on 5 November 2006, linked to the switch from relative to absolute GPS antenna models used in the data processing. The use of modified GPS antennas (e.g. at GODE) or improved antenna models is shown to reduce the spurious annual signal (e.g. from 5 mm to 2 mm at METS). Overall, the agreement between both techniques is good, though DORIS shows a significantly larger random scatter. The high stability and good spatial and temporal coverage make DORIS a potential candidate technique for meteorology and climate studies as long as reasonable time averaging can be applied (e.g. differences are reduced from 8.6 to 2.4 mm with 5-day averages) and no real-time application is considered. This technique could be considered as a potential contributor to Global Geodetic Observing System (GGOS) for climatology.
Keywords:Tropospheric delays  DORIS  GPS  Climate  Meteorology  Geodesy
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