A technical description of atmospheric sounding by GPS occultation

GA Hajj, ER Kursinski, LJ Romans, WI Bertiger… - Journal of Atmospheric …, 2002‏ - Elsevier
In recent years, the global positioning system (GPS) has been exploited via radio occultation
techniques to obtain profiles of refractivity, temperature, pressure and water vapor in the …

Full spectrum inversion of radio occultation signals

AS Jensen, MS Lohmann, HH Benzon… - Radio Science, 2003‏ - Wiley Online Library
Temperature, pressure, and humidity profiles of the Earth's atmosphere can be derived
through the radio occultation technique. This technique is based on the Doppler shift …

Canonical transform method for processing radio occultation data in the lower troposphere

ME Gorbunov - Radio Science, 2002‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The methods of processing radio occultation data in multipath zones which were used up to
now have very strong restrictions of the applicability. In this paper, we introduce a new …

[PDF][PDF] Assimilation of GPS radio occultation data for numerical weather prediction

YH Kuo, SV Sokolovskiy, RA Anthes… - Terrestrial …, 2000‏ - researchgate.net
With the availability of approximately 4,000 radio occultation soundings per day within three
hours of observation, COSMIC has the potential to contribute significantly to global and …

Effect of superrefraction on inversions of radio occultation signals in the lower troposphere

S Sokolovskiy - Radio Science, 2003‏ - Wiley Online Library
Radio occultation remote sensing of the Earth's atmosphere by use of GPS encounters
problems in the moist lower troposphere (planetary boundary layer). The negative errors in …

Tracking tropospheric radio occultation signals from low Earth orbit

SV Sokolovskiy - Radio Science, 2001‏ - Wiley Online Library
Propagation of radio occultation signals through the tropical lower troposphere with severe
refractivity gradients results in significant spreading of the signal spectrum. Under such …

FORMOSAT-3/COSMIC GPS radio occultation mission: Preliminary results

YA Liou, AG Pavelyev, SF Liu… - … on Geoscience and …, 2007‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The Formosa Satellite-3 and Constellation Observing System for the Meteorology,
Ionosphere, and Climate (FORMOSAT-3/COSMIC) radio occultation (RO) mission has been …

The radio occultation experiment aboard CHAMP: Operational data analysis and validation of vertical atmospheric profiles

J Wickert, T Schmidt, G Beyerle, R König… - Journal of the …, 2004‏ - jstage.jst.go.jp
The operational data analysis of the GPS radio occultation experiment aboard the German
CHAMP (CHAllenging Minisatellite Payload) satellite mission is described. Continuous Near …

Worst-case GPS scintillations on the ground estimated from radio occultation observations of FORMOSAT-3/COSMIC during 2007–2014

JY Liu, SP Chen, WH Yeh, HF Tsai, PK Rajesh - Surveys in Geophysics, 2016‏ - Springer
Abstract The FORMOSAT-3/COSMIC (F3/C) satellite probes the S4 scintillation index profile
of GPS signals by using the radio occultation (RO) technique. In this study, for practical use …

Modeling and inverting radio occultation signals in the moist troposphere

SV Sokolovskiy - Radio Science, 2001‏ - Wiley Online Library
Accurate modeling of radio occultation signals is performed by solving the Helmholtz
equation with the use of a multiple‐phase‐screen technique. Refractivity is assumed …