摘要
Inthispaper,wedescribetheestimationoflow-altituderefractivitystructurefromsimulationandrealground-basedGPSdelays.Theverticalstructureoftherefractiveenvironmentismodeledusingthreeparameters,i.e.,ductheight,ductthickness,andductslope.Therefractivitymodelisimplementedwithaprioriconstraintsontheductheight,thickness,andstrength,whichmightbederivedfromsoundingsornumericalweather-predictionmodels.Araypropagationmodelmapstherefractivitystructureintoareplicafield.Replicafieldsarecomparedwiththesimulationobserveddatausingasquarederrorobjectivefunction.Aglobalsearchforthethreeenvironmentalparametersisperformedusingageneticalgorithm.Theinversionisassessedbycomparingtherefractivityprofilesfromtheradiosondestothoseestimated.Thistechniquecouldprovidenear-real-timeestimationoftheductingeffect.Theresultssuggestthatground-basedGPSprovidessignificantatmosphericrefractivityinformation,despitecertainfundamentallimitationsofground-basedmeasurements.Radiosondesaretypicallylaunchedjustafewtimesdaily.Consequently,estimatesoftemporallyandspatiallyvaryingrefractivitythatassimilateGPSdelayscouldsubstantiallyimproveover-estimatescausedbyusingradiosondedataalone.
出版日期
2013年02月12日（中国期刊网平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）
