water vapor

Aim. Identifying of reliable estimates of zenith tropospheric delay (ZTD) by the data of GNSS observations (remote monitoring of the troposphere) on the active reference stations of the west cross-border zone of Ukraine. Methods. The zenith tropospheric delays, and their direct link with integrated / precipitated water vapor are important products that are obtained in GNSS-meteorology. They allow to get the rapid information for numerical weather prediction.

This paper highlights the gradual steps of GNSS meteorology realization. The structure of GNSS meteorology is represented in the introduction in general. The main feature of it is that the neutral atmosphere delays the passage of GNSS signal, causing the error in the measured distance is called tropospheric delay. If in geodesy a lot of efforts have been put to reduce this error to a desired level, then for meteorology this error was used as an important source of information about the state of moisture accumulation in atmosphere and its dynamics in space and time.