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The GNSS solution named ’NGL14’ is produced by the Nevada Geodetic Laboratory (NGL) using a Precise Point Positioning (PPP) data analysis strategy. The GipsyX software (version 1.0) from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) is employed to produce daily position time series for over 17,000 globally distributed stations using JPL satellite orbits and clock products expressed in the IGS14 reference frame (Blewitt et al. 2018). The data set covers the period January 1996 to March 2022.

This GNSS data analysis strategy complies with the standards (models, corrections,...) of the International GNSS Service (IGS) reanalysis (reprocessing) campaigns ; hence the Sixteenth session of the Group of Experts for the Global Sea Level Observing System (GLOSS), held in Busan (Republic of Korea), 11-13 April 2019, tasked the SONEL data assembly centre to consider including the NGL solution (position time series and velocities) for the subset of GNSS stations nearby tide gauges. Among the more than 17,000 stations processed by NGL, as many as 1111 have actually been identified as co-located, or nearby, tide gauges.

The GNSS velocities, provided here for 1069 stations (nearby tide gauges and reference frame stations included) with a minimum record length of 3 years and data gaps not exceeding 30%, are produced by NGL using the MIDAS estimator (Blewitt et al. 2016).

More details about the GNSS data analysis strategy can be found here or in Blewitt et al. (2016).