Validation of all data with HIRLAM
Below the statistics of ZTD estimates from all AC's are compared to HIRLAM analysis times 00, 06, 12 and 18 UTC. GPS ZTD observations are linearly interpolated to these times.

Period2012/05/14 - 2012/05/22
AC Total number of Obs. Number of Sites site biases
mean/stddev
site stddev
mean/stddev
stddev. of all Obs.
ASIC 798517112.1 / 46.821.0 / 34.752.8
ASI_ 2895613.5 / 12.017.6 / 5.622.1
BKG_ 44909117.5 / 31.225.7 / 45.364.1
GFZ_ 1457629314.8 / 15.613.7 / 22.232.5
GOP1 31026214.8 / 28.225.6 / 43.860.4
GOPG 10492581.2 / 197.023.5 / 36.5137.1
G_UK 9622582.2 / 196.222.8 / 35.2134.5
IGE_ 70081955.1 / 37.410.9 / 4.415.7
KNM3 30306313.5 / 24.718.2 / 35.650.3
KNM4 15273310.1 / 21.118.1 / 37.249.7
LPTR 218946-4.4 / 7.416.1 / 21.328.8
LPT_ 516911414.8 / 51.516.2 / 29.546.9
METO 104552195.4 / 16.414.9 / 24.434.2
NGAA 15415370-37.0 / 245.423.8 / 58.3223.7
N_UK 9420.0 / 0.00.0 / 0.00.0
ROB_ 78811669.5 / 25.721.3 / 34.748.1
SGN1 12770339-0.8 / 20.819.5 / 25.841.0
SGNC 242747.6 / 3.512.1 / 0.5745.1
SGN_ 12436312-1.1 / 21.719.8 / 26.841.4