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

By Richard Anthes. 2011

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Abstract. 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 radio occultation (RO). GPS/MET; subsequent single-satellite missions CHAMP (CHAllenging Minisatellite Payload), SAC-C (Satellite de Aplicaciones Cientificas-C), GRACE (Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment), METOP-A, and TerraSAR-X (Beyerle et al., 2010); and the six-satellite constellation, FORMOSAT-3/COSMIC (Formosa Satellite mission {#}3/Constellation Observing System for Meteorology, Ionosphere, and Climate) have proven the theoretical capabilities of RO to provide accurate and precise profiles of electron density in the ionosphere and refractivity, containing information on temperature and water vapor, in the stratosphere and troposphere. This paper summarizes results from these RO missions and the applications of RO observations to atmospheric research and operational weather analysis and prediction.

Subfields: Astronomy and Astrophysics, Molecular Biology

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In Astronomy and Astrophysics

1. Richard Anthes
2. Douglas Hunt
3. T. Wee
4. William S. Schreiner
5. Sergey Sokolovskiy
6. J. van Baelen
7. P. Schlüssel
8. P. Di Girolamo

In Molecular Biology

1. J. van Baelen
2. P. Di Girolamo
3. R. Michael Hardesty
4. David D. Turner
5. Florian Zus
6. Maria P. Cadeddu
7. Andreas Behrendt
8. Volker Wulfmeyer

Citations in the corpus

• COSMIC‐2 Radio Occultation Constellation: First Results (2020, background): “C2 is an operational follow‐on to the FORMOSAT‐3/COSMIC (hereafter COSMIC) researchmission launched in 2006 (Anthes, 2011; Ho et al., 2019) and is a successful example of a research‐to‐operations transition.”
• 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 cycles (2015, methodology): “A bending angle profile is derived, which can be inverted to the refractivity and (dry) T profile under the assumption of spherical symmetry [Ware et al., 1996; Kursinski et al., 1997; Anthes, 2011].”