Accurately and dynamically monitoring the water vapor over the ocean is of vital importance for global climate research. To explore the potential of BeiDou-based moored buoy platform in detection of atmospheric water vapor above the ocean,the experiment was carried out with the BeiDou navigation satellite system(BDS) and global positioning system (GPS) observations from the receiver on the Bailong buoy. The precise point positioning (PPP) technique was applied to process global navigation satellite system (GNSS) observation and retrieve the precipitable water vapor (PWV) under shore-based static and sea-surface dynamic modes,respectively. The PWV retrieved from BDS observation was evaluated by the international authoritative global reanalysis data ERA5. It was showed that under shore-based static mode,the root-mean-square (RMS) results of the PWV differences were 0.7 mm and 0.6 mm for BDS and GPS,respectively. While for the sea-surface dynamic mode,the RMS results were 1.2 and 2.0 mm for BDS and GPS,respectively. It indicated that the PWV under the dynamic mode shared similar accuracy with that under the static mode. This partly proved the feasibility of using BDS moored buoy for monitoring atmospheric water vapor under the sea-surface dynamic mode. However,further study should be carried out with longer experiment and more sufficient observation.
BeiDou navigation satellite system (BDS)atmospheric water vaporoceanmoored buoy