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Suggested Citation:"Contents." National Research Council. 1997. The Global Positioning System for the Geosciences: Summary and Proceedings of a Workshop on Improving the GPS Reference Station Infrastructure for Earth, Oceanic, and Atmospheric Science Applications. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/9254.
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Suggested Citation:"Contents." National Research Council. 1997. The Global Positioning System for the Geosciences: Summary and Proceedings of a Workshop on Improving the GPS Reference Station Infrastructure for Earth, Oceanic, and Atmospheric Science Applications. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/9254.
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 Shared Use of DGPS Data for NOAA Weather Forecasting and Climate Monitoring
Seth Gutman, Russell Chadwick, Daniel Wolfe, Anthony Simon

 

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 Large Permanent GPS Networks in Japan
Christian Rocken, Takeshi Sagiya, Hiromichi Tsuji

 

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 International GPS Service for Geodynamics: Mission, Development, Network, Structure, Products, and Current Projects
Gerhard Beutler, Jan Kouba, Ruth Neilan

 

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 Flow, Archiving, and Distribution of Global GPS Data and Products for the IGS and the Role of the Crustal Dynamics Data Information System (CDDIS)
Cary Noll and Maurice Dube

 

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 Central Bureau Information System of the International GPS Service for Geodynamics
James Zumberg

 

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 GPS Operations and Data Handling at JPL
Garth Franklin, Byron Iijima, Peter Kroeger, Ulf Lindqwister, Thomas
Lockhart, Anne Mikolajcik, Mark Smith

 

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 National Geodetic Survey Continuously Operating Reference System (CORS)
William Strange and Neil Weston

 

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8  REMOTE SENSING OF THE ATMOSPHERE

 
   

 The Potential Role of GPS/MET Observations in Operational Numerical Weather Prediction
Ronald McPherson, Eugenia Kalnay, Stephen Lord

 

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 GPS Sounding of the Atmosphere from Low Earth Orbit: Preliminary Results and Potential Impact on Numerical Weather Prediction
Richard Anthes, William Schreiner, Michael Exner, Douglas Hunt, Randolph
Ware, Ying-Hwa Kuo, Xiaolei Zou, Sergey Sokolovskiy

 

114

   

 Network and Data Requirements for a Future GPS-Based Operational Occultation Observing System
Michael Exner

 

124

   

 Precipitable Water Vapor Requirements for Climate Modeling
Judith Curry and Peter Webster

 

129

   

 Application of GPS Data in Automated Hazardous Weather Detection and Forecast Systems
Larry Cornman, Jothiram Vivekanandan, Richard Wagoner

 

131

   

 Data, Site, and Network Requirements for GPS-Based Sensing of Precipitable Water Vapor
Thomas Runge, Yoaz Bar-Sever, Garth Franklin, Peter Kroger, and Ulf
Lindqwister

 

137

   

 Antenna, Site, and Ancillary Data Requirements for Sensing of Slant-Path Water Vapor
Frederick Solheim, Christopher Alber, Randolph Ware, Christian Rocken

 

144

   

 Development of Operational Ionospheric Models for the 50th Weather Squadron
David Anderson

 

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Suggested Citation:"Contents." National Research Council. 1997. The Global Positioning System for the Geosciences: Summary and Proceedings of a Workshop on Improving the GPS Reference Station Infrastructure for Earth, Oceanic, and Atmospheric Science Applications. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/9254.
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 Ionospheric Modeling and FAA Wide Area Augmentation System Research at Stanford University
Yi-Chung Chao, Per Enge, Bradford Parkinson

 

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9  DYNAMIC POSITIONING AND NAVIGATION

 
   

 Kinematic Positioning with DGPS: Expanding Frontiers in Aerogeophysics
Robin Bell

 

165

   

 Airborne Laser Mapping of Greenland
William Krabill and Chreston Martin

 

170

   

 GPS Requirements for Satellite Calibration/Validation and Ionospheric Path Delay Correction
George Born and Kevin Key

 

178

   

 Orbit Determination Using GPS
Robert Schutz

 

182

   

 Use of Differential Global Positioning Systems (DGPS) in Physical Oceanography
Kevin Leaman

 

186

   

 Carrier Differential GPS for Takeoff to Landing of an Autonomous Aircraft
Paul Montgomery and Bradford Parkinson

 

191

   

10  STATIC POSITIONING

 
   

 Measurements of Surface Stability of Engineered Geodetic Control Points
Roger Bilham

 

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 Antenna Type, Mount, Height, Mixing, and Snow Effects in High-Accuracy GPS Observations
Charles Meertens, Christian Rocken, John Braun, Bruce Stephens, Christopher
Alber, Randolph Ware, Michael Exner, Paul Kolesnikoff

 

211

   

 Near-Field Problems for GPS Antennas
Arthur Niell

 

219

   

 Pointed Radiometry for Coordinate and Orbit Accuracy: Measurement of Tropospheric Water Vapor along Slant Paths with GPS
Frederick Solheim, Christopher Alber, Randolph Ware, Christian Rocken

 

223

 

 

APPENDICES

 
   

A  Statement of Task

 

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B  Biographical Sketches of Steering Committee Members

 

229

   

C  Workshop Attendees

 

231

   

D  Working Group Participants

 

234

   

E  Workshop Agenda

 

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Suggested Citation:"Contents." National Research Council. 1997. The Global Positioning System for the Geosciences: Summary and Proceedings of a Workshop on Improving the GPS Reference Station Infrastructure for Earth, Oceanic, and Atmospheric Science Applications. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/9254.
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Suggested Citation:"Contents." National Research Council. 1997. The Global Positioning System for the Geosciences: Summary and Proceedings of a Workshop on Improving the GPS Reference Station Infrastructure for Earth, Oceanic, and Atmospheric Science Applications. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/9254.
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