Tropical temperature variability in the UTLS: New insights from GPS radio occultation observations

B Scherllin-Pirscher, AK Steiner, RA Anthes… - Journal of …, 2021 - journals.ametsoc.org
Global positioning system (GPS) radio occultation (RO) observations, first made of Earth's
atmosphere in 1995, have contributed in new ways to the understanding of the thermal …

The FengYun-3C radio occultation sounder GNOS: a review of the mission and its early results and science applications

Y Sun, W Bai, C Liu, Y Liu, Q Du, X Wang… - Atmospheric …, 2018 - amt.copernicus.org
The Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) Occultation Sounder (GNOS) is one of the
new-generation payloads on board the Chinese FengYun 3 (FY-3) series of operational …

Precise orbit determination for the GRACE mission using only GPS data

Z Kang, B Tapley, S Bettadpur, J Ries, P Nagel… - Journal of …, 2006 - Springer
The GRACE (gravity recovery and climate experiment) satellites, launched in March 2002,
are each equipped with a BlackJack GPS onboard receiver for precise orbit determination …

GPS radio occultation for climate monitoring and change detection

AK Steiner, BC Lackner, F Ladstädter… - Radio …, 2011 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Observation of the atmospheric climate and detection of changes require high quality data.
Radio Occultation (RO) using Global Positioning System (GPS) signals is based on time …

Consistency and structural uncertainty of multi-mission GPS radio occultation records

AK Steiner, F Ladstädter, CO Ao… - Atmospheric …, 2020 - amt.copernicus.org
Atmospheric climate monitoring requires observations of high quality that conform to the
criteria of the Global Climate Observing System (GCOS). Radio occultation (RO) data based …

Observational characteristics of double tropopauses

WJ Randel, DJ Seidel, LL Pan - Journal of Geophysical …, 2007 - Wiley Online Library
Temperature profiles in the extratropics often exhibit multiple tropopauses (as defined using
the lapse rate definition). In this work we study the observational characteristics of double …

GPS radio occultation with GRACE: Atmospheric profiling utilizing the zero difference technique

G Beyerle, T Schmidt, G Michalak… - Geophysical …, 2005 - Wiley Online Library
Radio occultation events recorded on 28–29 July 2004 by a GPS receiver aboard the
GRACE‐B satellite are analyzed. The stability of the receiver clock allows for the derivation …

GNSS transpolar earth reflectometry exploring system (G-TERN): Mission concept

E Cardellach, J Wickert, R Baggen, J Benito… - IEEE …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The global navigation satellite system (GNSS) Transpolar Earth Reflectometry exploriNg
system (G-TERN) was proposed in response to ESA's Earth Explorer 9 revised call by a …

GPS radio occultation: results from CHAMP, GRACE and FORMOSAT-3/COSMIC

J Wickert, G Michalak, T Schmidt, G Beyerle… - … and Oceanic Sciences, 2009 - elib.dlr.de
The Taiwan/US FORMOSAT-3/COS MIC (FORMOsa SATellite mission-3/Constellation
Observing System for Meteorology, Ionosphere and Climate) satellite constellation was …

Estimating the uncertainty of using GPS radio occultation data for climate monitoring: Intercomparison of CHAMP refractivity climate records from 2002 to 2006 from …

S Ho, G Kirchengast, S Leroy, J Wickert… - Journal of …, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
To examine the suitability of GPS radio occultation (RO) observations as a climate
benchmark data set, this study aims at quantifying the structural uncertainty in GPS RO …