Reproducibility of GPS radio occultation data for climate monitoring: Profile-to-profile inter-comparison of CHAMP climate records 2002 to 2008 from six data centers

Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres

Volumn 117, Issue 17, 2012, Pages

  Ho, Shu Peng ^a   Hunt, Doug ^a   Steiner, Andrea K ^b   Mannucci, Anthony J ^c   Kirchengast, Gottfried ^b   Gleisner, Hans ^d   Heise, Stefan ^e   Von Engeln, Axel ^f   Marquardt, Christian ^f   Sokolovskiy, Sergey ^a   Schreiner, William ^a   Scherllin Pirscher, Barbara ^b   Ao, Chi ^c   Wickert, Jens ^e   Syndergaard, Stig ^d   Lauritsen, Kent B ^d   Leroy, Stephen ^g   Kursinski, Emil R ^h   Kuo, Ying Hwa ^a   Foelsche, Ulrich ^b   Schmidt, Torsten ^e   Gorbunov, Michael ^d,i   more..

^a UNIVERSITY CORPORATION FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

^c CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d DANISH METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Denmark)

^e GFZ GERMAN RESEARCH CENTRE FOR GEOSCIENCES   (Germany)

^f EUMETSAT   (Germany)

^g HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

ⁱ RUSSIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

METRIC SYSTEM; SATELLITE COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; STATISTICS; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; REFRACTION;

BENCHMARK DATA; BENDING ANGLE; CHALLENGING MINISATELLITE PAYLOADS; CLIMATE MONITORING; CLIMATE RECORD; DATA CENTERS; GEOPOTENTIAL HEIGHT; HIGH PRECISION; INTERCOMPARISONS; PROCESSING CENTER; PROCESSING METHOD; RADIO OCCULTATIONS; REPRODUCIBILITIES; STANDARD DEVIATION; STRUCTURAL UNCERTAINTY; GEO-POTENTIAL HEIGHTS; GPS RADIO OCCULTATIONS;

REFRACTION; RADIO;

CHAMP; DATA SET; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GEOPOTENTIAL; GPS; PRECISION; PROXY CLIMATE RECORD; SATELLITE DATA; TIME SERIES; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; DRY DENSITY; RADIO;

EID: 84867002426     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2012JD017665     Document Type: Article

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