Study of Tropospheric Correction for Intercontinental GPS Common-View Time Transfer

W. Lewandowski, W. J. Klepczynski, M. Miranian, P. Grudler, F. Baumont, M. Imae

Abstract: Current practice is to incorporate general empirical models of the troposphere, which depend only on the station height and the elevation of the satellite, in GPS time receivers used for common-view time transfer. Comparisons of these models with a semi-empirical model based on weather measurements show differences of several nanoseconds. This paper reports on a study of tropospheric correction during GPS common-view time transfer over a short baseline of about 700 km, and three long baselines of 6400 km, 9000 km and 9600 km. It is shown that the use of a general empirical model of the troposphere within a region where the climate is similar does not affect time transfer by more than a few hundreds of picoseconds. For the long distance links, differences between the use of general empirical model and the use of a semi-empirical model reach several nanoseconds.
Published in: Proceedings of the 26th Annual Precise Time and Time Interval Systems and Applications Meeting
December 6 - 8, 1994
Hyatt Regency Reston Town Center
Reston, Virginia
Pages: 319 - 332
Cite this article: Lewandowski, W., Klepczynski, W. J., Miranian, M., Grudler, P., Baumont, F., Imae, M., "Study of Tropospheric Correction for Intercontinental GPS Common-View Time Transfer," Proceedings of the 26th Annual Precise Time and Time Interval Systems and Applications Meeting, Reston, Virginia, December 1994, pp. 319-332.
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