IAG working group 4.3.3

Numerical weather models for positioning

A Joint Working Group with IAG Sub-Commissions 4.3 and 4.5.

Terms of Reference:
To study various technical aspects of using Numerical Weather Prediction (NWP) model data to map the effect of troposphere on space geodetic signals. To concatenate the terminology used by both meteorological and geodetic communities. To test and sediment procedures related to ray-tracing through NWP data layers. To suggest quality control criteria to be used for assessing the quality of tropospheric data and results obtained from them. To evaluate state of the art and to report on the progress achieved so far and for the next two years on the use of NWP for positioning.

List of members

• Johannes Boehm, Institute of Geodesy and Geophysics, TU Vienna
• Dorota Brzezinska, Ohio State University
• Peter Dare, University of New Brunswick
• Dezso Derenyi, GPS-Met Observing Systems Section, NOAA
• Anna B.O. Jensen, Ass. Prof. Technical University of Denmark
• Pascal Gegout, Space Geodesy, GRGS, Toulouse, France
• Reza Ghoddousi-Fard, University of New Brunswick
• Seth I. Gutman, GPS-Met Observing Systems Section, NOAA
• Siebren de Haan, Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute, The Netherlands
• Thomas Hobiger, Kashima Space Research Center, NICT, Japan, WG chair
• Ryuichi Ichikawa, Kashima Space Research Center, NICT, Japan
• Ted Iwabuchi, UCAR/ COSMIC Project Office
• Samsung Lim, University of New South Wales
• João Monico, São Paulo State University
• Vahab Nafisi, University of Isfahan, Iran
• Arthur E. Niell, Haystack Observatory, MIT
• Felipe Nievinski, University of New Brunswick
• Etienne Orliac, Institute of Engineering Surveying and Space Geodesy, University of Nottingham, Great Britain
• Marcelo C. Santos, Ass. Prof., University of New Brunswick, Canada
• Norman Teferle, Institute of Engineering Surveying and Space Geodesy, University of Nottingham, Great Britain
• Luiz Fernando Sapucci, Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais (INPE), Brazil
• Landon Urquhart,University of New Brunswick
• Henrik Vedel, Danish Meteorological Institute
• Kefei Zhang, The RMIT University, Australia

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Papers related to this WG


Comparison of ray-tracing programs using reference data-sets (note: this page is only accessible to WG members)


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