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  1. Chapter

    Multi-GNSS Tomography: Case Study of the July 2021 Flood in Germany

    Due to climate change, intensive storms and severe precipitation will continue to happen, causing destructive flooding. In July 2021, a series of storms with prolonged rain episodes took place in Europe. Sever...

    Karina Wilgan, Hugues Brenot, Riccardo Biondi, Galina Dick, Jens Wickert (2023)

  2. Article

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    Tropospheric parameters from multi-GNSS and numerical weather models: case study of severe precipitation and flooding in Germany in July 2021

    Storms and floods are the most frequent natural disaster in western and central Europe. Due to climate change, intensive storms with prolonged rain episodes will continue to cause even more destructive floodin...

    Karina Wilgan, Galina Dick, Florian Zus, Jens Wickert in GPS Solutions (2023)

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    GNSS Water Vapor Tomography

    The spatial distribution of the atmospheric humidity is difficult to observe, especially for larger domains with dimensions of tens or hundreds of kilometers. The signals of satellite positioning systems like...

    Michael Bender, Galina Dick in Springer Handbook of Atmospheric Measurements (2021)

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    Book and Conference Proceedings

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    Article

    Towards a zero-difference approach for homogenizing GNSS tropospheric products

    A data homogenization method based on singular spectrum analysis (SSA) was developed and tested on real and simulated datasets. The method identifies abrupt changes in the atmospheric time series derived from ...

    Mostafa Hoseini, Fadwa Alshawaf, Hossein Nahavandchi, Galina Dick in GPS Solutions (2019)

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    Article

    Improving BeiDou real-time precise point positioning with numerical weather models

    Precise positioning with the current Chinese BeiDou Navigation Satellite System is proven to be of comparable accuracy to the Global Positioning System, which is at centimeter level for the horizontal componen...

    Cuixian Lu, **ngxing Li, Florian Zus, Robert Heinkelmann, Galina Dick in Journal of Geodesy (2017)

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    Article

    Estimation and evaluation of real-time precipitable water vapor from GLONASS and GPS

    The revitalized Russian GLONASS system provides new potential for real-time retrieval of zenith tropospheric delays (ZTD) and precipitable water vapor (PWV) in order to support time-critical meteorological app...

    Cuixian Lu, **ngxing Li, Maorong Ge, Robert Heinkelmann, Tobias Nilsson in GPS Solutions (2016)

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    Open Access

    Tropospheric delay determination by Kalman filtering VLBI data

    The troposphere is one of the most important error sources for space geodetic techniques relying on radio signals. Since it is not possible to model the wet part of the tropospheric delay with sufficient accur...

    Benedikt Soja, Tobias Nilsson, Maria Karbon, Florian Zus in Earth, Planets and Space (2015)

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    Article

    Systematic errors of map** functions which are based on the VMF1 concept

    Precise global navigation satellite system (GNSS) positioning requires an accurate map** function (MF) to model the tropospheric delay. To date, the most accurate MF is the Vienna map** function 1 (VMF1)....

    Florian Zus, Galina Dick, Jan Dousa, Jens Wickert in GPS Solutions (2015)

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    GNSS Activities for Natural Disaster Monitoring and Climate Change Detection at GFZ – An Overview

    Natural hazards and climate change are of major concern to the society. Huge losses are reported in recent years. It is widely believed that modern GNSS technologies are effective in hazard monitoring and clim...

    Jun** Chen, Michael Bender, Geory Beyerle in Advances in Earth Observation of Global Ch… (2010)

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    Chapter and Conference Paper

    Analysis of Crustal Deformations Based on SLR Data

    Laser ranging to artificial satellites and VLBI are the only modern geodetic techniques having a longer history of precise data acquisition which enables the monitoring of crustal deformations in regional and ...

    Gerd Gendt, Horst Montag, Galina Dick in Geodesy and Physics of the Earth (1993)