I have been posting code to help cryosphere investigators use GPS/GNSS interferometric reflectometry (GPS-IR or GNSS-IR)

Picking and running a GPS/GNSS reflections site

Analyzing the data

Papers of specific interest for the Cryosphere Community:

• Greenland: Larson, K.M., J.M. Wahr, and P. Kuipers Munneke., Constraints on snow accumulation and firn density in Greenland using GPS receivers, J. Glaciology, 2015.
• Antarctica: Shean D. et al., GPS derived estimates of surface mass balance and ocean-induced basal melt for Pine Island Glacier ice shelf,  The Cryosphere, 2017.
• Antarctica: Siegfried M. et al.,Snow Accumulation Variability on a West Antarctic ice stream observed with GPS reflectometry, 2007-2017,  Geophysical Research Letters, 2017.
• Permafrost in Alaska: Liu, L. and K.M. Larson, Decadal changes of surface elevation over permafrost area estimated using reflected GPS signals, The Cryosphere, Vol 12, 477–489, 2018
• General principles and some examples, Larson, K.M. and F. G. Nievinski, GPS Snow sensing:results from the  EarthScope Plate Boundary Observatory, GPS Solutions, 2013.

Software/Description:

• • Simulator code-gitHub
  • Analysis Tools code – gitHub
  • Roesler, C.J. and K. M. Larson, Software Tools for GNSS Interferometric Reflectometry, GPS Solutions, Vol 22:80, doi:10.1007/s10291-018-0744-8, 2018.
  • Nievinski, F.G. and K.M. Larson, An Open Source GPS Multipath Simulator in Matlab/Octave, GPS Solutions, Vol 18(3), 473-481, doi:10.1007/s10291-014-0370-z, 2014.

Files for Summit Camp

• Reflector Heights (these are surface changes, which is RH with sign reversed)
• Geodetic vertical coords (from Nevada Reno)
• smm3.sitedescription