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As discussed in earlier chapters of this monograph, atmospheric refractivity affects GPS measurements by introducing ionospheric and tropospheric delays. If not properly corrected or removed otherwise, these delays will cause position errors. This point of view treats the effects of atmospheric refraction on GPS measurements as a nuisance. The complementary point of view is that the refraction effects in GPS measurements contain useful information accumulated while passing through the atmosphere. In this scenario, the ionospheric and tropospheric delays are seen as remotely sensed data related to atmospheric parameters, with the possibility to recover some or all of these parameters through proper GPS data analysis.
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Kleusberg, A. (1998). Atmospheric Models from GPS. In: Teunissen, P.J.G., Kleusberg, A. (eds) GPS for Geodesy. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-72011-6_15
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