Abstract
For the period of CONT11, a continuous VLBI campaign which lasted from September 15 through September 29, 2011, new a coefficients for the Vienna Mapping Functions 1 (VMF1; Böhm et al., J Geophys Res 111:B02406, 2006) and an extended calculation strategy for horizontal gradients were applied. The a coefficients of the mapping functions are usually calculated by ray-tracing through numerical weather models (NWM) from the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF) with a spatial resolution of 0.25∘ × 0.25∘ every 6 h. By enhancing the spatial resolution to 0.125∘ × 0.125∘ and using a new ray-tracing program called RADIATE, the actual refractivities are described in more detail. Moreover, existing equations for the calculation of the azimuth-dependent part of the slant delay by means of horizontal gradients were extended in order to achieve better accordance with the data from ray-tracing, which improves the resulting baseline length repeatabilities.
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The authors would like to thank the Austrian Science Fund (FWF) for financial support of the project RADIATE VLBI (Ray-traced Delays in the Atmosphere for geodetic VLBI) (P25320) which is the basis of this work.
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Landskron, D., Hofmeister, A., Böhm, J. (2015). Refined Tropospheric Delay Models for CONT11. In: van Dam, T. (eds) REFAG 2014. International Association of Geodesy Symposia, vol 146. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/1345_2015_56
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