Abstract: The spaceborne atomic clock is the core equipment of Beidou Satellite Navigation System (BDS). Clock error model is an important part of BDS broadcast messages, and its accuracy directly affects the service performance of BDS. In this paper, the accuracy of the BDS clock model is evaluated using the TWSTF clock error measurement as a reference. The results show that the accuracy of the BDS clock model is better than 2 ns (data age less than 12 h). Aiming at the problem of calculating the clock error parameters of BDS, combined with the clock error model solution strategy of the BDS ground segment, this paper proposes a variety of strategies to further improve the accuracy. For the short-term forecast of 1 h duration, this paper proposes a clock error forecast method of weighted linear model and mixed interval linear model. The accuracy of short-term forecast can be increased by more than 20%. For medium and long-term (>6 h), clock error time series is analyzed by spectral method and prediction model is constructed according to the spectral analysis results. Compared with simple quadratic polynomial model, the prediction accuracy of the clock error model is improved by 13% in 6 h and 21% in 12 h on average. For IGSO/MEO satellite, this paper proposes a strategy of using TWSTF equipment delay as parameters to estimate, which improves the accuracy of clock error model by 18% after equipment switching. Finally, using the improvement strategy proposed in this paper, the clock error data from January to June 2017 is reprocessed to obtain a new broadcast clock error model time series. Using the new broadcast clock error model to locate the BDS monitoring receiver, the results show that, the direction accuracy of N, E and U is increased by 14.22%, 29.39% and 14.91% respectively, which significantly improves the service performance of BDS broadcast clock error model.

Key words: BDS, broadcast ephemeris clock error, TWSTF, accuracy assessment, spectral analysis, accuracy improvement