Measurements of the upper troposphere and lower stratosphere during tropical cyclones using the GPS radio occultation technique

Advances in Space Research

Volumn 47, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 348-355

  Biondi, Riccardo ^a   Neubert, Torsten ^a   Syndergaard, Stig ^b   Nielsen, Johannes ^b  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b DANISH METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Bending angle; COSMIC; Radio occultation; Tropical cyclone; Upper troposphere lower stratosphere

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; COSMOLOGY; IONOSPHERE; RADIO; SPACE STATIONS; STORMS; TROPICS; TROPOSPHERE; WATER VAPOR;

BENDING ANGLE; COSMIC; LOWER STRATOSPHERE; RADIO OCCULTATIONS; TROPICAL CYCLONE;

HURRICANES;

EID: 78650704218     PISSN: 02731177     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.asr.2010.05.031     Document Type: Article

References (25)

1. SPARC assessment of upper tropospheric and stratospheric water vapour. WCRP 113, WMO/TD No. 1043, SPARC Report No. 2, 2000.
2. R.A. Anthes, P.A. Bernhardt, and Y. Chen The COSMIC/Formosat/3 mission: early results Bull. Am. Meteor. Soc. 89 2008 313 333
3. G.S. Bath, A. Chakraborty, and R.S. Nanjundiah Vertical thermal structure of the atmosphere during active and weak phases of convection over North Bay of Bengal: observation and model results Curr. Sci. India 83 2002 296 302
4. F. Cairo, C. Buontempo, and A.R. MacKenzie Morphology of the tropopause layer and lower stratosphere above a tropical cyclone: a case study on cyclone Davina (1999) Atmos. Chem. Phys. 8 2008 3411 3426
5. P.M. Forster, and K.P. Shine Stratospheric water vapour changes as a possible contributor to observed stratospheric cooling Geophys. Res. Lett. 26 1999 3309 3312
6. P.M. Forster, and K.P. Shine Assessing the climate impact of trends in stratospheric water vapour Geophys. Res. Lett. 29 2002 101 102
7. S. Fueglistaler, A.E. Dessler, and T.J. Dunkerton Tropical tropopause layer Rev. Geophys. 47 2009 RG1004 10.1029/2008RG000267
8. G.A. Hajj, C.O. Ao, and B.A. Iijima CHAMP and SAC-C atmospheric occultation results and intercomparisons J. Geophys. Res. 109 2004 D06109 10.1029/2003JD003909
9. Kidder, S.Q., Goldberg, M.D., Zehr, R.M. et al. Tropical cyclone analysis using AMSU data, in: 10th Conference on Satellite Meteorology and Oceanography, 2000.
10. Kim, H.C. The effect of deep convection on temperatures in the tropical tropopause layer and its implications to the regulation of tropical lower stratospheric humidity. PhD thesis, University of Houston, USA, 2005.
11. J.A. Knaff, R.M. Zehr, and M.D. Goldberg An example of temperature structure differences in tow cyclone systems derived from the Advanced Microwave Sounder Unit. Wea. Forecasting 15 2000 476 483
12. Y.H. Kuo, T.K. Wee, and S. Sokolovskiy Inversion and error analysis of GPS radio occultation data J. Meteor. Soc. Jpn. 82 2004 507 531
13. E.R. Kursinski, G.A. Hajj, and J.T. Schofield Observing Earth's atmosphere with radio occultation measurements using the Global Positioning System J. Geophys. Res. 102 1997 23429 23465
14. S. Manabe, and R.T. Wetherald Thermal equilibrium of the atmosphere with a given distribution of relative humidity J. Atmos. Sci. 24 1967 241 259
15. Neubert, T., Crosby, B., Huang, T.Y. et al. ASIM - an instrument suite for the international space station, in: AIP Conference Proceedings, pp. 8-12, 2009, doi: 10.1063/1.3137718.
16. E.A. Ray, and K.H. Rosenlof Hydration of the upper troposphere by tropical cyclones J. Geophys. Res. 112 2007 D12311
17. C. Rocken, R. Anthes, and M. Exner Analysis and validation of GPS/MET data in the neutral atmosphere J. Geophys. Res. 102 1997 29849 29860
18. D.M. Romps, and Z. Kuang Overshooting convection in tropical cyclones Geophys. Res. Lett. 36 2009 L09804
19. M. Scherer, H. Vömel, and S. Fueglistaler Trends and variability of midlatitude stratospheric water vapour deduced from the re-evaluated Boulder balloon series and HALOE Atmos. Chem. Phys. 8 2008 1391 1402
20. S.C. Sherwood, T. Horinouchi, and H.A. Zeleznik Convective impact on temperatures observed ear the tropical tropopause J. Atmos. Sci. 60 2003 1847 1856
21. D. Singh Monitoring tropical cyclone evolution with NOAA satellites microwave observations Indian J. Radio Space Phys. 37 2008 179 184
22. B.J. Soden, and R. Fu A satellite analysis of deep convection, upper tropospheric humidity and the greenhouse effect J. Clim. 8 1995 2333 2351
23. S. Solomon, K. Rodenlof, and R. Portmann Contribution of stratospheric water vapour to decadal changes in the rate of global warming Sciencexpress 2010 10.1126/science.1182488
24. D. Svehla, M. Rothacher, and M. Ziebart Galileo on board International Space Station and synergy with the ACES clock ensemble EGU General Assembly 2006
25. J. Wickert, C. Reigber, and G. Beyerle Atmosphere sounding by GPS radio occultation: first results from CHAMP Geophys. Res. Lett. 28 2001 3263 3266 (Pubitemid 32931864)