Annual variations of monsoon and drought detected by GPS: A case study in Yunnan, China

Abstract The Global Positioning System (GPS) records monsoonal precipitable water vapor (PWV) and vertical crustal displacement (VCD) due to hydrological loading, and can thus be applied jointly to diagnose meteorological and hydrological droughts. We have analyzed the PWV and VCD observations durin...

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Main Authors: Weiping Jiang, Peng Yuan, Hua Chen, Jianqing Cai, Zhao Li, Nengfang Chao, Nico Sneeuw
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2017-07-01
Series:Scientific Reports
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-06095-1