Monitoring atmospheric water vapour using GPS measurements during precipitation events

Author

Basili, P. ; Bonafoni, S. ; Mattioli, V. ; Ciotti, P. ; Auria, G. D´

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electron. & Inf. Eng., Perugia Univ., Italy

Volume

1

fYear

2002

fDate

2002

Firstpage

60

Abstract

This paper considers the monitoring of integrated precipitable water vapour (IPWV) exploiting measurements of Global Positioning System (GPS) ground-based receivers with the purpose of analysing the behaviour of such parameter in occasion of precipitation events. A statistical characterisation of atmospheric water vapour content retrieved by GPS at specific receiver locations will be proposed to improve the knowledge of water vapour field of precipitation systems.

Keywords

atmospheric humidity; atmospheric techniques; humidity measurement; remote sensing; 1.228 GHz; 1.575 GHz; GPS; Global Positioning System; IPWV; L-band; UHF; atmosphere; ground based receiver; humidity; integrated precipitable water vapour; measurement technique; meteorology; monitoring; precipitation event; radiowave propagation; rain; rainfall; remote sensing; water vapor; water vapour; Atmosphere; Atmospheric measurements; Condition monitoring; Delay estimation; Face detection; Global Positioning System; Microwave measurements; Position measurement; Spatial resolution; Temperature;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 2002. IGARSS '02. 2002 IEEE International

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7536-X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IGARSS.2002.1024941

Filename

1024941