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However, due to the random and contingent changes in weather conditions and water vapor factors, the classical tropospheric delay model cannot accurately reflect changes in tropospheric delay. In recent years, with the development of meteorological observation\/detection and numerical weather prediction (NWP) technology, the accuracy and resolution of meteorological reanalysis data have been effectively improved, providing a new solution for the inversion and modeling of regional or global tropospheric delays. Here, we evaluate the consistency and accuracy of three different types of reanalysis data (i.e., ERA5, MERRA2, and CRA40) used to invert the zenith tropospheric delay (ZTD) from 436 international GNSS service (IGS) stations in 2020, based on the integral method. The results show that the ZTD inversion of the three types of reanalysis data was consistent with the IGS ZTD, even in heavy rain conditions. Furthermore, the average precision of the ZTD inversion of the ERA5 reanalysis data was higher, where the mean deviation (bias), mean absolute error (MAE), and root mean square (RMS) were \u20133.39, 9.69, and 12.55 mm, respectively. The ZTD average precisions of the MERRA2 and CRA40 inversions were comparable, showing slightly worse performance than the ERA5. In addition, we further analyzed the global distribution characteristics of the ZTD errors inverted from the reanalysis data. The results show that ZTD errors inverted from the reanalysis data were highly correlated with station latitude and climate type, and they were mainly concentrated in the tropical climate zone at low latitudes. Compared to dividing error areas by latitude, dividing error areas by climatic category could better reflect the global distribution of errors and would also provide a data reference for the establishment of tropospheric delay models considering climate type.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/rs14143434","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2022,7,18]],"date-time":"2022-07-18T01:53:22Z","timestamp":1658109202000},"page":"3434","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":14,"title":["Accuracy Evaluation and Analysis of GNSS Tropospheric Delay Inversion from Meteorological Reanalysis Data"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"14","author":[{"given":"Guolin","family":"Liu","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"College of Geology Engineering and Geomatics, Chang\u2019an University, Xi\u2019an 710054, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Guanwen","family":"Huang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"College of Geology Engineering and Geomatics, Chang\u2019an University, Xi\u2019an 710054, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Ying","family":"Xu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"College of Geodesy and Geomatics, Shandong University of Science and Technology, Qingdao 266590, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Liangyu","family":"Ta","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"College of Geology Engineering and Geomatics, Chang\u2019an University, Xi\u2019an 710054, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-1796-1962","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Ce","family":"Jing","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"College of Geology Engineering and Geomatics, Chang\u2019an University, Xi\u2019an 710054, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Yu","family":"Cao","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"College of Geology Engineering and Geomatics, Chang\u2019an University, Xi\u2019an 710054, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Ziwei","family":"Wang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"College of Geology Engineering and Geomatics, Chang\u2019an University, Xi\u2019an 710054, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2022,7,17]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","first-page":"2218","article-title":"A new global zenith tropospheric delay model GZTD","volume":"56","author":"Yao","year":"2013","journal-title":"Chin. 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