Articles | Volume 15, issue 2
https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-15-723-2023
https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-15-723-2023
Data description paper
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10 Feb 2023
Data description paper |  | 10 Feb 2023

An enhanced integrated water vapour dataset from more than 10 000 global ground-based GPS stations in 2020

Peng Yuan, Geoffrey Blewitt, Corné Kreemer, William C. Hammond, Donald Argus, Xungang Yin, Roeland Van Malderen, Michael Mayer, Weiping Jiang, Joseph Awange, and Hansjörg Kutterer

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We developed a 5 min global integrated water vapour (IWV) product from 12 552 ground-based GPS stations in 2020. It contains more than 1 billion IWV estimates. The dataset is an enhanced version of the existing operational GPS IWV dataset from the Nevada Geodetic Laboratory. The enhancement is reached by using accurate meteorological information from ERA5 for the GPS IWV retrieval with a significantly higher spatiotemporal resolution. The dataset is recommended for high-accuracy applications.
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