A review of the remote sensing of lower tropospheric thermodynamic profiles and its indispensable role for the understanding and the simulation of water and energy …

V Wulfmeyer, RM Hardesty, DD Turner… - Reviews of …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
A review of remote sensing technology for lower tropospheric thermodynamic (TD) profiling
is presented with focus on high accuracy and high temporal‐vertical resolution. The …

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 …

[图书][B] GPS

G Xu, Y Xu - 2007 - Springer
The Global Positioning System (GPS) is a navigation system based on satellite technology.
Its fundamental technique involves measuring the ranges between the receiver and a few …

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 …

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 …

A global climatology of ionospheric irregularities derived from GPS radio occultation

C Arras, J Wickert, G Beyerle, S Heise… - Geophysical …, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
GPS radio occultation measurements from CHAMP, GRACE‐A and FORMOSAT‐3/COSMIC
are used to derive global information on small‐scale ionospheric irregularities such as …

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 …

The falling Lake Victoria water level: GRACE, TRIMM and CHAMP satellite analysis of the lake basin

JL Awange, MA Sharifi, G Ogonda, J Wickert… - Water Resources …, 2008 - Springer
In the last 5 years, Lake Victoria water level has seen a dramatic fall that has caused alarm
to water resource managers. Since the lake basin contributes about 20% of the lakes water …

Comparison of GPS radio occultation soundings with radiosondes

YH Kuo, WS Schreiner, J Wang… - Geophysical …, 2005 - Wiley Online Library
The radio occultation (RO) sounding technique that uses signals transmitted by the Global
Positioning System (GPS) has evolved as an important global observing technology. In this …

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 …