• DocumentCode
    1963356
  • Title

    Inter-comparison of the UTC time transfer links

  • Author

    Jiang, Z. ; Lewandowski, Wlodzimierz

  • Author_Institution
    Time Dept., Bur. Int. des Poids et Mesures (BIPM), Sevres, France
  • fYear
    2012
  • fDate
    23-27 April 2012
  • Firstpage
    126
  • Lastpage
    132
  • Abstract
    We present the new side-product of the monthly UTC computation: the long-term time links which is monthly published since Jan. 2010 and available on the BIPM ftp site: ftp://tai.bipm.org/TimeLink/LkC/LongTerm/. The techniques used for UTC generation are now TW, GPS and GLN. If they are considered independent, we can apply them in the investigations of the measurement uncertainties and the relative long-term variation in the link calibrations. 26 months´ data have been collected and analyzed in this paper. For the short term measurement instability, we have similar conclusion as presently given in the section 6 of the BIPM Circular T. It seems however, for some baselines, exist long-term variations in the link calibrations. Limited by the knowledge of the raw data, we cannot explain the causes of this instability. Except for the extreme cases, most of the annual variations are within 2 ns. This is the limit of the uncertainty of the nowadays instrumentation and calibration and should not affect the UTC generations beyond its total uncertainty.
  • Keywords
    satellite links; satellite navigation; GLN; GPS; TW; UTC generation; UTC time transfer link intercomparison; instrumentation; link calibrations; long-term time links; measurement instability; measurement uncertainties; raw data knowledge; time 2 ns; GLONASS (GLN); GPS; TWSTFT (TW); UTC; calibration; time transfer;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    European Frequency and Time Forum (EFTF), 2012
  • Conference_Location
    Gothenburg
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4673-1924-9
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/EFTF.2012.6502349
  • Filename
    6502349