Precipitation Water Vapour Variation in the East Java Region from Data CORS Using GIPSY

Abstract

The Global Navigation Satellite System is being developed as an atmospheric remote sensing system through the calculation of Zenith Total Delay. The development of the Continous Operating Reference Station encourages research investigations into Zenith Tropospheric Delay with continuous data and good spatial resolution. This research studies the characteristics of spatial and temporal variations of the Zenith Wet Delay in East Jawa. The case study in East Jawa Province uses 16 Continous Operating Reference Stations. As a comparison, meteorological data from the Badan Meteorologi, Klimatologi, and Geofisika stations are used.The Zenith Total Delay and Zenith Wet Delay values from the Continous Operating Reference Station data are calculated using GIPSY 6.4 Software. The Zenith Wet Delay values are gridded using the kriging method with the size of the grids being 0,25 x 0,25. The ZWD value comparison from the Continous Operating Reference Station and meteorology data has a strong correlation with a coefficient value of 0,712. The mean of Zenith Wet Delay's trend is increasing by about 0,712 mm/yr. The characteristics of the spatial and temporal variations of the ZWD value are influenced by the monsoon of Asia-Australian, which causes dry and rainy seasons, global phenomena such as El Nino and La Nina, rainfall, local meteorological conditions such as temperature and humidity, weather, and the topography of the stations.