@article{gledocs_11858_10251, author = {Wang, Jungang and Balidakis, Kyriakos and Zus, Florian and Chang, Xiao and Ge, Maorong and Heinkelmann, Robert and Schuh, Harald}, title = {Improving the Vertical Modeling of Tropospheric Delay}, year = {2022-03-08}, volume = {49}, number = {5}, publisher = {}, publisher = {}, abstract = {Accurate tropospheric delays from Numerical Weather Models (NWM) are an important input to space geodetic techniques, especially for precise real‐time Global Navigation Satellite Systems, which are indispensable to earthquake and tsunami early warning systems as well as weather forecasting. The NWM‐based tropospheric delays are currently provided either site‐specific with a limited spatial coverage, or on two‐dimensional grids close to the Earth surface, which cannot be used for high altitudes. We introduce a new method of representing NWM‐derived tropospheric zenith hydrostatic and wet delays. A large volume of NWM‐derived data is parameterized with surface values and additional two or three coefficients for their vertical scaling to heights up to 14 km. A precision of 1–2 mm is achieved for reconstructing delays to the NWM‐determined delays at any altitudes. The method can efficiently deliver NWM‐derived tropospheric delays to a broader community of space geodetic techniques.}, note = { \url {http://resolver.sub.uni-goettingen.de/purl?gldocs-11858/10251}}, }