Tropospheric water vapor, convection, and climate

SC Sherwood, R Roca, TM Weckwerth… - Reviews of …, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
Recent progress is reviewed in the understanding of convective interaction with water vapor
and changes associated with water vapor in warmer climates. Progress includes new …

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 COSMIC/FORMOSAT-3 mission: Early results

RA Anthes, PA Bernhardt, Y Chen… - Bulletin of the …, 2008 - journals.ametsoc.org
The radio occultation (RO) technique, which makes use of radio signals transmitted by the
global positioning system (GPS) satellites, has emerged as a powerful and relatively …

The COSMIC/FORMOSAT-3 radio occultation mission after 12 years: Accomplishments, remaining challenges, and potential impacts of COSMIC-2

S Ho, RA Anthes, CO Ao, S Healy… - Bulletin of the …, 2020 - journals.ametsoc.org
Abstract Launched in 2006, the Formosa Satellite Mission 3–Constellation Observing
System for Meteorology, Ionosphere and Climate (FORMOSAT-3/COSMIC) was the first …

Reference quality upper-air measurements: GRUAN data processing for the Vaisala RS92 radiosonde

RJ Dirksen, M Sommer, FJ Immler… - Atmospheric …, 2014 - amt.copernicus.org
The GCOS (Global Climate Observing System) Reference Upper-Air Network (GRUAN) data
processing for the Vaisala RS92 radiosonde was developed to meet the criteria for …

Validation of the Aura Microwave Limb Sounder temperature and geopotential height measurements

MJ Schwartz, A Lambert, GL Manney… - Journal of …, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
Global satellite observations of temperature and geopotential height (GPH) from the
Microwave Limb Sounder (MLS) on the EOS Aura spacecraft are discussed. The precision …

Exploring Earth's atmosphere with radio occultation: contributions to weather, climate and space weather

RA Anthes - Atmospheric Measurement Techniques, 2011 - amt.copernicus.org
The launch of the proof-of-concept mission GPS/MET (Global Positioning
System/Meteorology) in 1995 began a revolution in profiling Earth's atmosphere through …

Inversion and error estimation of GPS radio occultation data

YH Kuo, TK Wee, S Sokolovskiy, C Rocken… - Journal of the …, 2004 - jstage.jst.go.jp
In this paper, we describe the GPS radio occultation (RO) inversion process currently used
at the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR) COSMIC (Constellation …

Estimates of the precision of GPS radio occultations from the COSMIC/FORMOSAT‐3 mission

W Schreiner, C Rocken, S Sokolovskiy… - Geophysical …, 2007 - Wiley Online Library
The Constellation Observing System for Meteorology Ionosphere and Climate
(COSMIC)/Formosa Satellite 3 (FORMOSAT‐3) is a six‐satellite radio occultation mission …

Initial assessment of the COSMIC-2/FORMOSAT-7 neutral atmosphere data quality in NESDIS/STAR using in situ and satellite data

SP Ho, X Zhou, X Shao, B Zhang, L Adhikari, S Kireev… - Remote Sensing, 2020 - mdpi.com
A COSMIC-1/FORMOSAT-3 (Constellation Observing System for Meteorology, Ionosphere,
and Climate-1 and Formosa Satellite Mission 3) follow-on mission, COSMIC-2/FORMOSAT …