{"title":"Concatenation of hourly RINEX files","authors":"H. Habrich","doi":"10.1016/S1464-1895(01)00101-6","DOIUrl":"10.1016/S1464-1895(01)00101-6","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>A subset of stations that are part of the International GPS Service (IGS) submit hourly RINEX observation files in addition to the daily files to be used for near real time applications. Ideally, concatenating the hourly files will result in the original 24 hour file. If this is indeed the case, there is no need for submitting every observation twice and the concatenated hourly files can replace the daily file. In order to compare such concatenated files with the original daily files, each data field has to be inspected according to the RINEX format definition. Differences have to be removed before any replacement could be performed. By using a RINEX inspection software tool on a subset of stations, the concatenated version of the daily file was in agreement with the original file in 94% of the conversions. This suggests that it may be possible for IGS to completely depend on the hourly files for the creation of the daily files in the future, thereby eliminating the need for transferring each observation twice.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":101024,"journal":{"name":"Physics and Chemistry of the Earth, Part A: Solid Earth and Geodesy","volume":"26 6","pages":"Pages 561-567"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/S1464-1895(01)00101-6","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72889052","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Mechanical compaction, microstructures and permeability evolution in sandstones","authors":"C. David , B. Menendez , W. Zhu , T-f. Wong","doi":"10.1016/S1464-1895(01)00021-7","DOIUrl":"10.1016/S1464-1895(01)00021-7","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>We present an overview of experimental results that we obtained in the last decade on the permeability evolution with stress and the analysis of stress-induced damage in sandstones. The goal of these studies was to get a fundamental knowledge on the interplay between deformation at the microscale level, fluid flow processes and the macroscopic rock properties. In a first part we present experimental data on the effect of stress on permeability, with emphasis on the influence of stress path and failure mode. In a second part, results from a microstructural study on the mechanics of deformation in Berea sandstone are shown. Although both studies have not been done on the same rock, some general conclusions are drawn on the influence of mechanical deformation on permeability with implications for field studies.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":101024,"journal":{"name":"Physics and Chemistry of the Earth, Part A: Solid Earth and Geodesy","volume":"26 1","pages":"Pages 45-51"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/S1464-1895(01)00021-7","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79261940","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
C. David (Guest editor of Physics and Chemistry of the Earth), N. Petford (Guest editor of Physics and Chemistry of the Earth), R. Risnes (Guest editor of Physics and Chemistry of the Earth)
{"title":"Thematic volume on “compaction, subsidence and the mechanics of granular materials”","authors":"C. David (Guest editor of Physics and Chemistry of the Earth), N. Petford (Guest editor of Physics and Chemistry of the Earth), R. Risnes (Guest editor of Physics and Chemistry of the Earth)","doi":"10.1016/S1464-1895(01)80003-X","DOIUrl":"10.1016/S1464-1895(01)80003-X","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":101024,"journal":{"name":"Physics and Chemistry of the Earth, Part A: Solid Earth and Geodesy","volume":"26 1","pages":"Pages 1-2"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/S1464-1895(01)80003-X","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88713097","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Compaction of microfossil and clay-rich chalk sediments","authors":"I.L. Fabricius","doi":"10.1016/S1464-1895(01)00023-0","DOIUrl":"10.1016/S1464-1895(01)00023-0","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The aim of this study was to evaluate the role of microfossils and clay in the compaction of chalk facies sediments. To meet this aim, chalk sediments with varying micro texture were studied. The sediments have been tested uniaxially confined in a stainless-steel compaction cell. The sediments are: 1) Pure carbonate chalk with mudstone texture from Stevns Klint (Denmark), 2) Relatively pure chalk sediments with varying content of microfossils from the Ontong Java Plateau (Western Pacific), 3) Clay-rich chalk and mixed sediments from the Caribbean. The tested samples were characterised by porosity, carbonate content, and microfossil content. The texture was quantified by analysis of backscattered electron micrographs of polished sections. The samples do not compact along a common stress — porosity trend. This observation can be explained as a result of the differences in content of microfossils and fine-grained silica and clay. Samples with relatively pure chalk mud supported texture compact along a common stress — matrix porosity trend. Microfossils thus have a passive role, apparently because they are supported by the chalk mud. Samples with fine-grained silica and clay can be modelled to follow the same trend if we assume that a part of the fine-grained silica and clay are in the supporting frame and that the remaining silica and clay has a passive pore-filling role. The modelled part of the clay and silica in the frame varies from 0% to 100%. Porosity and sonic velocity variations for a given degree of consolidation may be a key to indirect interpretation of content of microfossils and porefilling fine-grained silica and clay in chalk.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":101024,"journal":{"name":"Physics and Chemistry of the Earth, Part A: Solid Earth and Geodesy","volume":"26 1","pages":"Pages 59-62"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/S1464-1895(01)00023-0","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81794649","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
C. Marquardt, K. Labitzke, C. Reigber, T. Schmidt, J. Wickert
{"title":"An assessment of the quality of GPS/MET radio limb soundings during February 1997","authors":"C. Marquardt, K. Labitzke, C. Reigber, T. Schmidt, J. Wickert","doi":"10.1016/S1464-1895(01)00035-7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/S1464-1895(01)00035-7","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":101024,"journal":{"name":"Physics and Chemistry of the Earth, Part A: Solid Earth and Geodesy","volume":"1 1","pages":"125-130"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90227963","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Atmospheric water vapour content determined from zenith delay assuming a local model of troposphere","authors":"K. Kuyrzyńska, A. Gabryszewska","doi":"10.1016/S1464-1895(01)00040-0","DOIUrl":"10.1016/S1464-1895(01)00040-0","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The local model of troposphere is constructed on the basis of 7300 individual aerological soundings performed and processed over a period of 10 years in Poznań, Poland. The values of the zenith wet delay (ZWD) calculated using this model are shown to coincide very well with the real values obtained directly from individual aerological soundings, the systematic differences between them are not greater than the error of ZWD determination. Much larger differences were obtained assuming the standard model commonly used and the values estimated from the GPS measurements. The differences are particularly large in summer. The local model of troposphere is concluded to be the optimum for determination of water vapour content from ZWD.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":101024,"journal":{"name":"Physics and Chemistry of the Earth, Part A: Solid Earth and Geodesy","volume":"26 3","pages":"Pages 159-163"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/S1464-1895(01)00040-0","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82491384","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The IGS global data center at the CDDIS - an update","authors":"C. Noll , M. Dube","doi":"10.1016/S1464-1895(01)00108-9","DOIUrl":"10.1016/S1464-1895(01)00108-9","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The Crustal Dynamics Data Information System (CDDIS) has served as a global data center for the International GPS Service (IGS) since its start in June 1992, providing on-line access to data from over 175 sites on a daily basis. This paper will present information about the GPS and GLONASS data and products archive at the CDDIS. General information about the system and its support of other international space geodesy services (the ILRS, IVS, IGLOS-PP, and DPE) will also be discussed.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":101024,"journal":{"name":"Physics and Chemistry of the Earth, Part A: Solid Earth and Geodesy","volume":"26 6","pages":"Pages 603-604"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/S1464-1895(01)00108-9","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80666068","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"On hourly orbit determination","authors":"J. Douša, L. Mervart","doi":"10.1016/S1464-1895(01)00100-4","DOIUrl":"10.1016/S1464-1895(01)00100-4","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>We present here our hourly orbit product and we compare it to other near real-time (NRT) reliable orbits. The comparisons are based on satellite position differences with respect to the final IGS orbits. Experience shows that the use of predicted precise orbits in the NRT processing mode is usually problematic due to poorly determined arcs of only a few satellites. Thus, evaluation of satellite orbits is necessary. Nevertheless, we can find a decreased quality of some arcs also in ultra-rapid products, but the magnitude is significantly lower here. Reducing the predictions to 1–2 hours only, our hourly orbits improve especially the along-track satellite positions.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":101024,"journal":{"name":"Physics and Chemistry of the Earth, Part A: Solid Earth and Geodesy","volume":"26 6","pages":"Pages 555-560"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/S1464-1895(01)00100-4","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89395494","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Atmospheric sounding by ground-based and space-based systems","authors":"N.A. Berbeneva, V.E. Kunitsyn, O.G. Razinkov, V.I. Zakharov","doi":"10.1016/S1464-1895(01)00036-9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/S1464-1895(01)00036-9","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The possibilities of reconstruction of various atmospheric structures and influence of localized atmospheric and ionospheric irregularities on the reconstructed atmospheric profiles are discussed. In the case of vast atmospheric structures (above 400–600 km long), the radiooccultation method of atmospheric studies makes it possible to reconstruct the vertical profiles of meteorological parameters with the accuracy acceptable for applications (the errors in the refractive index profile are 0.5–1% for the altitude region 8–40 km). However, the presence of the atmospheric irregularities with horizontal dimensions up to 300–400 km leads to significant reconstruction errors, the fact being related to the ‘spreading’ of the disturbance to the entire region of the sounding ray intersection of the troposphere. Therefore, near such structures as secondary typo atmospheric fronts and developing cyclones, the profiles are reconstructed with strong distortions reaching 1–10%. The impact of the irregularities in the radio signal propagation media (atmosphere, ionosphere, and protonosphere) on the accuracy of the profiles reconstructed is studied. Possibilities to study various atmospheric irregularities by the tomographic method, using a network of ground-based receivers, are considered.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":101024,"journal":{"name":"Physics and Chemistry of the Earth, Part A: Solid Earth and Geodesy","volume":"26 3","pages":"Pages 131-138"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/S1464-1895(01)00036-9","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"91632881","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Atmospheric modeling in GPS data analysis for high accuracy positioning","authors":"O. Bock , E. Doerflinger","doi":"10.1016/S1464-1895(01)00069-2","DOIUrl":"10.1016/S1464-1895(01)00069-2","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>In this paper we review the atmospheric modeling methods used in GPS data analysis. Due to the strong spatial inhomogeneity and temporal variability of atmospheric constituents, especially water vapor, accurate modeling of path delay in GPS signals is necessary for high-accuracy positioning (e.g., tectonics and sea-level change) and meteorological applications (climatology and weather forecasting). State-of-the-art path delay modeling consists primarily in parameter estimation. In this strategy, zenith path delays are estimated during the GPS data reduction. External correction is another common strategy, in which the wet path delay is measured by a remote sensing instrument (usually a microwave radiometer). However, the latter is not as generalized, and is rather used for specific field campaigns or local long term observations. Both strategies have led to quite similar coordinate accuracies (using daily GPS observations), at the level of 1–2 mm in the horizontal component and 5–10 mm in the vertical component. The external correction strategy is capable of achieving even higher accuracy under specific conditions. Recent models, including gradients in the parameter estimation strategy have only led to marginal improvement. A major limitation of both strategies seems to be the use of mapping functions for the hydrostatic path delay correction. With the parameter estimation strategy, this limitation applies also to wet path delay correction. The use of numerical weather prediction and analysis models, and/or spaceborne sounding instruments, is suggested for replacing mapping functions and possibly for performing directly the hydrostatic correction. New instruments, such as Raman lidars, might also be used for a more accurate external wet path delay correction in the presence of strong atmospheric inhomogeneity. Further work is still needed for achieving measurements of absolute water vapor distribution in the atmosphere for this purpose.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":101024,"journal":{"name":"Physics and Chemistry of the Earth, Part A: Solid Earth and Geodesy","volume":"26 6","pages":"Pages 373-383"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/S1464-1895(01)00069-2","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79534639","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}