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The measurement of atmospheric water vapor (WV) content and variability is important for meteorological and climatological research. A technique for the remote sensing of atmospheric WV content using ground-based Global Positioning System (GPS) has become available, which can routinely achieve accuracies for integrated WV content of 1–2 kg/m2. Some experimental work has shown that the accuracy of WV measurements from a moving platform is comparable to that of (static) land-based receivers. Extending this technique into the marine environment on a moving platform would be greatly beneficial for many aspects of meteorological research, such as the calibration of satellite data, investigation of the air-sea interface, as well as forecasting and climatological studies. In this study, kinematic precise point positioning has been developed to investigate WV in the Arctic Ocean (80°–87°N) and annual variations are obtained for 2008 and 2012 that are identical to those related to the enhanced greenhouse effect.
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Foundation item: Chinese Polar Environment Comprehensive Investigation and Assessment Programmes under contract Nos CHINARE 2013-03-03 and CHINARE 2013-04-03; the National Oceanic Commonweal Research Project under contract No. 201105001; the National Natural Science Foundation of China under contract No. 41374043.
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Luo, X., Zhang, T., Gao, J. et al. Estimation of annual variation of water vapor in the Arctic Ocean between 80°–87°N using shipborne GPS data based on kinematic precise point positioning. Acta Oceanol. Sin. 34, 1–4 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13131-015-0680-1
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