Assimilation of satellite data in numerical weather prediction. Part II: Recent years

JR Eyre, W Bell, J Cotton, SJ English… - Quarterly Journal of …, 2022‏ - Wiley Online Library
Developments in the assimilation of satellite data in numerical weather prediction (NWP),
from the first experiments in the late 1960s to the present day, are presented in a two‐part …

Techniques and challenges in the assimilation of atmospheric water observations for numerical weather prediction towards convective scales

RN Bannister, HG Chipilski… - Quarterly Journal of …, 2020‏ - Wiley Online Library
While contemporary numerical weather prediction models represent the large‐scale
structure of moist atmospheric processes reasonably well, they often struggle to maintain …

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 …

Assimilation of Global Positioning System radio occultation data in the ECMWF ERA–Interim reanalysis

P Poli, SB Healy, DP Dee - Quarterly Journal of the Royal …, 2010‏ - Wiley Online Library
This article presents results of the assimilation of Global Positioning System (GPS) radio
occultation (RO) bending‐angle data from CHAMP, FORMOSAT‐3/COSMIC and MetOp‐A …

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 …

[HTML][HTML] Persistence of moist plumes from overshooting convection in the Asian monsoon anticyclone

SM Khaykin, E Moyer, M Krämer… - Atmospheric …, 2022‏ - acp.copernicus.org
The Asian monsoon anticyclone (AMA) represents one of the wettest regions in the lower
stratosphere (LS) and is a key contributor to the global annual maximum in LS water vapour …

Satellites see the world's atmosphere

SA Ackerman, S Platnick, PK Bhartia… - Meteorological …, 2019‏ - journals.ametsoc.org
Satellite meteorology is a relatively new branch of the atmospheric sciences. The field
emerged in the late 1950s during the Cold War and built on the advances in rocketry after …

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 …

Refractivity and temperature climate records from multiple radio occultation satellites consistent within 0.05%

U Foelsche, B Scherllin-Pirscher… - Atmospheric …, 2011‏ - amt.copernicus.org
Data consistency is an important prerequisite to build radio occultation (RO) climatologies
based on a combined record of data from different satellites. The presence of multiple RO …