• Bulletin of the Korean Space Science Society
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• 2009.10a
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• pp.41.3-41.3
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• 2009

우주측지 정밀도 향상을 위해 대류층 지연오차의 정확한 산출은 필수적이다. 한국천문연구원은 GPS 자료를 이용하여 대류층 지연오차 요인인 대기 중의 수증기량을 정확히 산출하는 연구를 수행하고 있다. 또한, 1999년부터 GPS 관측을 시작한 이래로 10년 이상의 연속 관측자료를 보유하고 있다. 이 연구에서는2000년부터 2008년까지 한국천문연구원의 GPS 상시관측소 5곳(서울, 대전, 목포, 밀양, 속초)의 GPS 가강수량을 산출하고 이들의 다년간 변화경향을 분석하였다. 산출된 GPS 가강수량을 라디오존데 관측값과 비교하여 신뢰도 검증하였다. 선형회귀방법을 통하여 GPS 가강수량에 대한 경향을 분석하면 관측 지역마다 기울기의 차는 있으나 전체적으로 시간이 지날수록 GPS 가강수량이 증가하는 경향을 보였다. 해당 기간동안 GPS 가강수량의 연간 변화량은 평균 0.20mm 증가하였고 목포의 경우 0.25mm로 가장 큰 변화량을 보였으며 서울이 0.16mm로 가장 작은 변화량을 보였다. 여름철 연간 변화량은 평균 0.32mm 증가하였고 겨울철은 평균 0.08mm 감소하였다. 일반적으로 기온이 상승하면 상대습도가 내려가 수증기의 증발이 활발해져 대기중의 수증기량이 증가한다. 최근 10년간 기상청의 기온은 매해 평균 $0.16^{\circ}C$씩 증가하였으며 대기 중의 수증기량과 직접적으로 연관되어 있는 GPS 가강수량의 변화 경향과 유사함을 확인하였다.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Surveying, Geodesy, Photogrammetry and Cartography
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• v.30 no.1
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• pp.97-104
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• 2012

In this paper, the GPS precipitable water vapor was retrieved by estimating of GPS signal delay in the troposphere during the progress of heavy snowfall on the Gangwon Province, 2011. For this period, the time series analysis between GPS precipitable water vapor and fresh snow depth was accomplished. The time series and the comparison with the GPS precipitable water vapor and the fresh snow depth indicates that the temporal change of two variations is closely related to the progress of the heavy snowfall. Also, the periodicity of GPS precipitable water vapor using the wavelet transform method was showed a similar cycle of saturated water vapor pressure as the limitation of this study span. The result shows that the decrement of GPS precipitable water vapor was conflicted with the increment of fresh snow depth at two sites, Gangneung and Uljin. The correlation between the GPS precipitable water vapor and the saturated water vapor pressure for the event was showed a positive correlation, compare with the non-heavy snowfall periods.

• KSCE Journal of Civil and Environmental Engineering Research
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• v.26 no.6D
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• pp.1033-1041
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• 2006

In this study, we calculated a space-time variation of GPS precipitable water vapor using GPS meteorology technique during a progress of the typhoon EWINIAR had made an effect on Korean peninsular at 10 July, 2006. We estimated tropospheric dry delay and wet delay for one hourly using 22 GPS permanent stations and precipitable water vapor was conversed by using surface meteorological data. The Korean weighted mean temperature and air-pressure of versa-reduction to the mean sea level have been used for an accuracy improvement of GPS precipitable water vapor estimation. Finally, we compared MTSAT water vapor image, radar image and precipitable water vapor map during a passage of the typhoon EWINIAR.

• Journal of Astronomy and Space Sciences
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• v.26 no.4
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• pp.547-554
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• 2009

The Atmospheric Infrared Sounder (AIRS) aboard the Aqua satellite, which is one of the Earth Observing System satellites managed by National Aeronautics and Space Administration, provides global measurements of the water vapor in the atmosphere using infrared (IR) channels. In this paper, we restored precipitable water vapor (PWV) over a permanent GPS station in Incheon using the IR measurements of AIRS and compared the result with GPS-based PWV estimates. As a result, AIRS PWV had similar trends with GPS PWV; the bias of AIRS PWV against GPS PWV is 0.3 cm and root mean square error (RMSE) 0.7 cm. In addition, the correlation coefficient between AIRS PWV and GPS PWV was 0.89. Thus we conclude that the AIRS PWV reflects local characteristics of the water vapor content.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Surveying, Geodesy, Photogrammetry and Cartography
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• v.33 no.4
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• pp.305-316
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• 2015

The GPS signal delays in troposphere, which are along the signal path between a transmitting satellite and GPS permanent station, can be used to retrieve the precipitable water vapor. The GPS remote sensing technique of atmospheric water vapor is capable of monitoring typhoon and detecting long term water vapor for tracking of earth’s climate change. In this study, we analyzed GPS precipitable water vapor variations during the heavy snowstorm event occurred in the Yeongdong area, 2014. The results show that the snowfall event were occurring after the GPS precipitable water vapor were increased, the maximum fresh snow depth was recorded after the maximum GPS precipitable water vapor was generated, in Kangneug and Wuljin, respectively. Also, we analyzed that the closely correlation among the GPS precipitable water vapor, the K-index and total index which was acquired by the upper air observation system during this snowstorm event was revealed.

• Journal of Astronomy and Space Sciences
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• v.24 no.4
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• pp.285-296
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• 2007

The Precipitable Water Vapor (PWV) from GPS with high resolution in terms of time and space might reduce the limitations of the numerical weather prediction (NWP) model for easily variable phenomena, such as precipitation and cloud. We have converted to PWV from Global Positioning System (GPS) data of Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute (KASI) and Ministry of Maritime Affairs & Fisheries (MOMAF). First of all, we have selected the heavy rainfall case of having a predictability limitation in time and space due to small-scale motion. In order to evaluate the effect for GPS PWV, we have executed the sensitivity experiment with PWV from GPS data over Korean peninsula in the Weather Research & Forecasting 3-Dimensional Variational (WRF-3DVAR). We have also suggested the direction of further research for an improvement of the predictability of NWP model on the basis of this case.

• Journal of Astronomy and Space Sciences
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• v.26 no.4
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• pp.555-566
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• 2009

Precipitable water vapor (PWV) derived from a numerical weather prediction (NWP) model were compared to observations derived from ground-based Global Positioning System (GPS) receivers. The model data compared were from the Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) model short-range forecasts on nested grids. The numerical experimets were performed by selecting the cloud microphysics schemes and for the comparisons, the Changma period of 2008 was selected. The observational data were derived from GPS measurements at 9-sites in South Korea over a 1-month period, in the middle of June-July 2008. In general, the WRF model demonstrated considerable skill in reproducing the temporal and spatial evolution of the PWV as depicted by the GPS estimations. The correlation between forecasts and GPS estimates of PWV depreciated slowly with increasing forecast times. Comparing simulations with a resolution of 18 km and 6 km showed no obvious PWV dependence on resolution. Besides, GPS and the model PWV data were found to be in quite good agreement with data derived from radiosondes. These results indicated that the GPS-derived PWV data, with high temporal and spatial resolution, are very useful for meteorological applications.

• Bulletin of the Korean Space Science Society
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• 2010.04a
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• pp.36.3-36.3
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• 2010

대기 수증기량의 정확한 추정은 우주측지 정밀도 향상에 필수적이다. 대류층 지연오차의 주요 원인인 대기 수증기량을 추정하는 대표적인 시스템으로는 라디오존데, 라디오미터, GPS 등이 있다. 한국천문연구원은 GPS 가강수량의 상시 비교검증을 위해 2009년 7월부터 라디오미터를 도입하여 비교관측을 수행하고 있다. 라디오미터는 대기복사의 밝기온도를 측정하여 가강수량을 산출하는 시스템으로써, 24시간 연속관측이 가능하고 실시간으로 관측결과를 확인할 수 있으나, 강수시 불안정하다. 2009년 7월부터 최근까지 GPS와 라디오미터 가강수량 결과간 비교로부터 0.1mm, 1.8mm의 편향과 표준편차, 0.98의 상관관계계수를 산출하였다. 현재 두 시스템의 가강수량을 10분 간격으로 비교하고 있으며, 그 결과를 웹으로 표출하는 시스템을 구축하여 운영하고 있다.

• Journal of the Korean earth science society
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• v.34 no.7
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• pp.626-632
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• 2013

In this study the GPS Precipitable Water Vapor (PWV) was derived and evaluated by a radiosode measure during the winter intensive observation in Gangneung site from January 5 till February 29 in 2012. Bernise 5.0 software was used to derive the GPS data. GPS-derived PWV from Zero difference (GANG) and Single difference (GANG and DAEJ) was high variance in time and about 5 times the PWV of radiosonde. GPS post-processing has been performed from two additional IGS site (Xian Dao, Ibaraki-ken) in order to correct the absolute troposphere errors. As a result, the mean bias error (MBE) and root mean square error (RMSE) and correlation compared with radiosonde measure were 0.67 mm, 6.40 mm, and 0.93, respectively. In order to correct the relative troposphere errors from the altitudinal difference between the two GPS receivers, we calculated the GPS-derived PWV by adding the data of GPS that was installed in Gangneung-Wonju University near the Gangwon Regional Meteorological Administration. In the end, the improved result showed that MBE, RMSE and correlation in comparison with radiosonde measures were 0.61 mm, 5.79 mm, and 0.93, respectively.

• Journal of Astronomy and Space Sciences
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• v.23 no.4
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• pp.373-384
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• 2006

The Bevis' mean temperature equation (MTE) is generally used in estimating Precipitable Water Vapor (PWV) based on GPS measurements. Because the equation was derived from Worth American meteorological data, however, it may induce errors in PWV if the equation is applied to Korea which has different climate conditions. In this study, we developed a new MTE using local meteorological data. We compared PWVs from the new equation with those from the Bevis and two other local equations. The PWV differences from the four equations increase as a function of surface temperatures at the observation site, reaching up to $1{\sim}3mm$.