On the possibility of studying the horizontal structural functions of the tropospheric radio-wave refractive index using a network of GPS and GLONASS receiving stations

Analysis of the Temporal Structural Function of Tropospheric Delay of Radio Waves Using Radio Measurements of the Signals from Global Navigation Satellite Systems

“…In the general case, the processing of this data yields an actually instantaneous "multidimensional" field of the values of the physical atmospheric parameters, which allows us to study the extremely complicated structure of the dynamics of the troposphere and its irregularities in fact simultaneously with the receivedsignal measurements [5,6]. Owing to the high-accuracy time-interval measurements, one can determine the distance L from the satellite to the receiver.…”

“…For example, the method and the results of studying the spatial horizontal structural function of mesoscale tropospheric irregularities in scale range up to 40 km are presented in [5]. The above results allow one to discuss the quantitative characteristics of the mesoscale irregularities of the above-mentioned size (including their altitude variability [4]).…”

“…Although many numerical models [5,6], which use various methods of representing the medium and the atmospheric processes have been developed, obtaining such results by other methods is expensive and not always realizable.…”

“…There are publications on the tropospheric studies using global navigational satellite systems [1,4,5], but works on the study of the temporal and spatial features of the mesoscale tropospheric irregularities are very few. As opposed to [1,4,5], in this work we use the method of structural functions for the receiver network in Kazan [7] and only the single-frequency measurements are used for calculations, which significantly reduces the equipment cost.…”

“…As opposed to [1,4,5], in this work we use the method of structural functions for the receiver network in Kazan [7] and only the single-frequency measurements are used for calculations, which significantly reduces the equipment cost. This method is described in more detail in [7].…”