Lidia Cucurull JCSDA DA Colloquium, Stevenson, WAĪ bash script was written to download this data. North Dakota Center of Excellence in Space Technology and Operations List of RO papers from 2009 Functional Review Lidia Cucurull NOAA Workshop on GNSS RO Improvements to Weather Forecasts National Weather Service Perspective on Radio Occultation Reichler SPARC General AssemblyĬan radio occultation be used to discern long-term tropopause trends? Space-born detection of long-term tropopause trends Juha-Pekka Luntama, Gottfried Kirchengast, Micahel Borsche, Ulrich Foelsche, Andrea Steiner, Sean Healy, Axel von Engeln, Eoin O'Clerigh, and Christian Marquardt Bulletin of American Meteorological Society Prospects of the EPS GRAS Mission for Operational Atmospheric Applications Zeng Bulletin of American Meteorological SocietyĮstimates of the precision of GPS radio occultations from the COSMIC/FORMOSAT-3 mission
The COSMIC/FORMOSAT-3 Mission: Early Results Kuo Terrestrial, Atmospheric, and Oceanic Sciences Since this data is still new, it is still being tested and checked for accuracy.Īpplications of COSMIC to Meteorology and Climate However, they are less accurate in the lower atmosphere, mainly from the ground to about 3-4 km. These atmospheric profiles created from the GPS receivers have shown to be very accurate in the upper atmosphere. Therefore, this technique is a way to get atmospheric profiles using satellites instead of weather ballons. These GPS receivers pick up the satellite signal, then from the occulation (bend) of the signal, information about the atmosphere (such as temperature and water vapor) can be calculated. The website for this project is: The COSMIC project began in April 2006 with the lanch of six GPS satellite receivers. One of the most recent missions is the FORMOSAT-3/COSMIC project which is a joint venture between the Taiwan National Space Organization and UCAR.
Several missions have taken place throughout the last decade to obtain GPS occultation soundings: GPS/Meteorology (GPS/MET), Satelite de Aplicaciones Cientificas-C (SAC-C), Challenging Mini Payload Satellite (CHAMP), Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites Polar System-Global Receiver for Atmospheric Sounding (EPS-GRAS), and Constellation Observing System for Meteorology, Ionosphere, and Climate (COSMIC). The idea of using radio occultations to obtain atmospheric profiles is a relatively new research endeavor.