GPS profiling of the lower troposphere from space: Inversion and demodulation of the open-loop radio occultation signals

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 33, Issue 14, 2006, Pages

  Sokolovskiy, S ^a   Rocken, C ^a   Hunt, D ^a   Schreiner, W ^a   Johnson, J ^a   Masters, D ^b   Esterhuizen, S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY CORPORATION FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; DATA PROCESSING; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; MOISTURE DETERMINATION; PHASE LOCKED LOOPS; RADIO SYSTEMS; TRACKING (POSITION); WEATHER FORECASTING;

LOWER TROPOSPHERE (LT); NAVIGATION DATA MODULATION (NDM); RADIO OCCULTATION (RO); TROPICAL OCCULTATIONS;

TROPOSPHERE;

CLIMATE CHANGE; DATA SET; GPS; INVERSION LAYER; RADIO; REMOTE SENSING; RESEARCH WORK; TRACKING; TROPOSPHERE; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 33845652548     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2006GL026112     Document Type: Article

References (14)

1. Ao, C. O., T. K. Meehan, G. A. Hajj, A. J. Mannucci, and G. Beyerle (2003), Lower troposphere refractivity bias in GPS occultation retrievals, J. Geophys. Res., 108(D18), 4577, doi:10.1029/2002JD003216.
2. Beyerle, G., M. E. Gorbunov, and C. O. Ao (2003), Simulation studies of GPS radio occultation measurements, Radio Sci., 38(5), 1084, doi:10.1029/2002RS002800.
3. Beyerle, G., et al. (2006), Observations and simulations of receiver-induced refractivity biases in GPS radio occultation, J. Geophys. Res., 111(D12), D12101, doi:10.1029/2005JD006673.
4. Hajj, G. A., et al. (2002), A technical description of atmospheric sounding by GPS occultation, J. Atmos. Sol. Terr. Phys., 64, 451-469.
5. Hajj, G. A., C. O. Ao, B. A. Iijima, D. Kuang, E. R. Kursinski, A. J. Mannucci, T. K. Meehan, L. J. Romans, M. de la Torre Juarez, and T. P. Yunck (2004), CHAMP and SAC-C atmospheric occultation results and intercomparisons, J. Geophys. Res., 109, D06109, doi:10.1029/2003JD003909.
6. Kaplan, E. D. (1996), Understanding GPS, Principles and Applications, 554 pp., Artech House, Norwood, Mass.
7. Kursinski, E. R., G. A. Hajj, J. T. Schofield, R. P. Linfield, and K. R. Hardy (1997), Observing Earth's atmosphere with radio occultation measurements using the Global Positioning System, J. Geophys. Res., 102(D19), 23,429-23,466.
8. Kuo, Y.-H., et al. (2004), Inversion and error estimation of GPS radio occultation data, J. Meteorol. Soc. Jpn., 82(1B), 507-531.
9. Rocken, C., et al. (1997), Analysis and validation of GPS/MET data in the neutral atmosphere, J. Geophys. Res., 102(D25), 29,849-29,866.
10. Rocken, C., et al. (2000), COSMIC System Description, Terr. Atmos. Oceanic Sci., 11(1), 21-52.
11. Sokolovskiy, S. V. (2001a), Modeling and inverting radio occultation signals in the moist troposphere, Radio Sci., 36(3), 441-458.
12. Sokolovskiy, S. V. (2001b), Tracking troposphcric radio occultation signals from low Earth orbit, Radio Sci., 36(3), 483-498.
13. Ware, R., et al. (1996), GPS sounding of the atmosphere from low Earth orbit: Preliminary results, Bull. Am. Meteorol. Soc., 77, 19-40.
14. Wickert, J., et al. (2001), Atmosphere sounding by GPS radio occultation: First results from CHAMP, Geophys. Res. Lett., 25(17), 3263-3266.