Review Article

The Potential for Observing African Weather with GNSS Remote Sensing

Table 3

Comparison of ZTD estimation using different orbit products (the ZTD estimates obtained using IGS final orbits were used as reference to compute the other result) (after [33]).

Orbit typeRMS (mm)Standard deviation (mm)Mean difference (mm)Maximum difference (mm)Minimum difference (mm)

IGS rapid0.1850.180−0.0790.870−1.860
IGS ultrarapid1.8761.832−0.18529.435−19.560
JPL 15 min1.5491.511−0.1979.435−11.560