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Among them, the globally distributed GNSS permanent stations can resolve the tropospheric delay with the highest accuracy and the best continuity. Meteorological models, such as the Saastamoinen model, provide formulae to calculate temperature, pressure, water vapor pressure and subsequently the tropospheric delay. Some grid-based empirical tropospheric delay models directly provide tropospheric parameters at a global scale and in real time without any auxiliary information. However, the spatial resolution of the GNSS tropospheric delay is not sufficient, and the accuracy of the meteorological and empirical models is relatively poor. With the rapid development of satellite navigation systems around the globe, the demand for real-time high-precision GNSS positioning services has been growing dramatically, requiring real-time and high-accuracy troposphere models as a critical prerequisite. Therefore, this paper proposes a multi-source real-time local tropospheric delay model that uses polynomial fitting of ground-based GNSS observations, meteorological data, and empirical GPT2w models. The results show that the accuracy in the zenith tropospheric delay (ZTD) of the proposed tropospheric delay model has been verified with a RMS (root mean square) of 1.48 cm in active troposphere conditions, and 1.45 cm in stable troposphere conditions, which is significantly better than the conventional tropospheric GPT2w and Saastamoinen models.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/rs11111321","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2019,6,3]],"date-time":"2019-06-03T02:08:40Z","timestamp":1559527720000},"page":"1321","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":33,"title":["Establishment of a Real-Time Local Tropospheric Fusion Model"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"11","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-7723-4601","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Yibin","family":"Yao","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Geodesy and Geomatics, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430079, China"},{"name":"Key Laboratory of Geospace Environment and Geodesy, Ministry of Education, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430079, China"}]},{"given":"Xingyu","family":"Xu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Geodesy and Geomatics, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430079, China"}]},{"given":"Chaoqian","family":"Xu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Geodesy and Geomatics, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430079, China"}]},{"given":"Wenjie","family":"Peng","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Geodesy and Geomatics, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430079, China"}]},{"given":"Yangyang","family":"Wan","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Geodesy and Geomatics, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430079, China"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2019,6,1]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"1","DOI":"10.1016\/j.jastp.2018.05.002","article-title":"GGOS tropospheric delay forecast product performance evaluation and its application in real-time PPP","volume":"175","author":"Yao","year":"2018","journal-title":"J. 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