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 …

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 …

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 …

A planetary boundary layer height climatology derived from ECMWF reanalysis data

A von Engeln, J Teixeira - Journal of Climate, 2013 - journals.ametsoc.org
A planetary boundary layer (PBL) height climatology from ECMWF reanalysis data is
generated and analyzed. Different methods are first compared to derive PBL heights from …

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 …

Monitoring the atmospheric boundary layer by GPS radio occultation signals recorded in the open‐loop mode

S Sokolovskiy, YH Kuo, C Rocken… - Geophysical …, 2006 - Wiley Online Library
A new type of radio occultation (RO) data, recorded in open‐loop (OL) mode from the SAC‐
C satellite, has been tested for monitoring refractivity in the Atmospheric Boundary Layer …

Advances and limitations of atmospheric boundary layer observations with GPS occultation over southeast Pacific Ocean

F Xie, DL Wu, CO Ao, AJ Mannucci… - … Chemistry and Physics, 2012 - acp.copernicus.org
The typical atmospheric boundary layer (ABL) over the southeast (SE) Pacific Ocean is
featured with a strong temperature inversion and a sharp moisture gradient across the ABL …

Empirical analysis and modeling of errors of atmospheric profiles from GPS radio occultation

B Scherllin-Pirscher, AK Steiner… - Atmospheric …, 2011 - amt.copernicus.org
The utilization of radio occultation (RO) data in atmospheric studies requires precise
knowledge of error characteristics. We present results of an empirical error analysis of GPS …

[HTML][HTML] Asian summer monsoon anticyclone: trends and variability

G Basha, MV Ratnam, P Kishore - Atmospheric Chemistry and …, 2020 - acp.copernicus.org
The Asian summer monsoon anticyclone (ASMA) has been a topic of intensive research in
recent times regarding its variability in dynamics, chemistry and radiation. This work …

Super‐refraction effects on GPS radio occultation refractivity in marine boundary layers

F Xie, DL Wu, CO Ao, ER Kursinski… - Geophysical …, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
With the combination of global coverage, high vertical resolution, and all‐weather capability,
GPS radio occultation (RO) is an emerging satellite remote sensing technique that can …