Empirical Tm modeling in the region of Guangxi

This paper presents three strategies for modeling the regional empirical Tm (the weighted mean temperature of the atmosphere) to obtain more accurate determinations in a regional empirical model that is better adapted to the geographical and climatic characteristics of the applied area. The proposed models utilize data from four radiosonde stations in Guangxi, at Nanning, Guilin, Wuzhou and Baise, over an 11 month period (from Jan. to Nov. of 2011). The experimental results demonstrated the following: (1) there is no significant difference between monthly and annual regression results at each site; (2) it is more reasonable and feasible to use the proposed regional Hybrid model for the area far away from the radiosonde site; (3) from the analysis of the possible temperature conditions, the precision of the proposed regional Hybrid model is higher than that of the well-known Bevis formula and of some other existing models and can reach an accuracy within 1 mm for the GPS-derived PWV estimates for the applied region.