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Table 2 Main specifications of the GNSS analysis

From: Comparison of shipborne GNSS-derived precipitable water vapor with radiosonde in the western North Pacific and in the seas adjacent to Japan

Classification

Specification

Remarks

Software

RNX2RTKP (RTKLIB ver. 2.4.2, patch 12)

 

Analysis procedure

Precise point positioning

 

 Kinematic (Shipborne GNSS)

 Static (GEONET station)

Integer ambiguity

Not fixed (no PPP-AR applied)

 

Ephemeris

MADOCA real-time product (MDC2)

https://ssl.tksc.jaxa.jp/madoca/public/public_index_en.html

Mapping function

GMF (no gradient estimation)

Boehm et al. (2006)

Elevation cutoff angle

 

Antenna phase center variation

IGS08_1793.atx MAST (DECKt): “TRM55970. 00 NONE” DECK: “JAV_GRANT-G3T NONE”

http://ftp.igs.org/pub/station/general/igs08.atx

Geoid model

EGM2008-SE (1″) (Und min1 × 1 egm2008 is w = 82 WGS84 TideFree_SE)

http://earth-info.nga.mil/GandG/wgs84/gravitymod/egm2008/egm08_wgs84.html

Tidal effect

Solid earth tide: IERS Conventions 2010 Ocean Tidal Loading: Not applied

Petit and Luzum (2010) IERS Technical Note No.36, IERS Conventions (2010)

Ionosphere correction

Ionosphere-free linear combination

 

ZHD

\( \begin{aligned}& {\text{ZHD}} = 0.002277 \times P \hfill \\ & P \, = 1013.25 \times (1 \, - \, 2.2557 \times \, 10 -^{5} /h)^{5.2568} \hfill \\ \end{aligned} \) P: atmospheric pressure (hPa), h: geodetic height above mean sea level

Elgered et al. (1991)

Time-dependent parameters

 Antenna coordinate

Updated every 1 s

 Receiver clock

 ZWD random-walk variable with process noise of 0.1 mm/s1/2