Title :
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
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;
Conference_Titel :
Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 2002. IGARSS '02. 2002 IEEE International
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-7536-X
DOI :
10.1109/IGARSS.2002.1024941
