“…In fact, Tropical Depression Grace struck Haiti on August 16th, only two days after the earthquake, during which time some of the early Sentinel-1 acquisitions were made. NWP models, while valuable for capturing broader atmospheric trends and the stratified component of the tropospheric noise, usually fail to capture the details of localized atmospheric disturbances (Siddique et al, 2019;Hu et al, 2018;Liu et al, 2015;Kumar et al, 2016). In comparison, the common-date stacking and ICA methods we tested utilize redundant interferograms to determine the atmospheric delays for each date without requiring auxiliary data.…”