Improving GPS Radio occultation stratospheric refractivity retrievals for climate benchmarking

Lower-Troposphere Refractivity Bias in GPS Occultation Retrievals

Analysis of atmospheric occultation data from the GPS/MET experiment has revealed that the refractivity retrievals in the lower troposphere were systematically smaller than those obtained with numerical weather prediction models. It has been suggested that the bias was due to a combination of atmospheric multipath, critical refraction, and receiver tracking errors. In this paper, we show that a...

Testing climate models using GPS radio occultation: A sensitivity analysis

[1] We survey the IPCC AR4 models’ responses to SRES A1B forcing in order to evaluate a prediction of climate change common to all models and testable using GPS radio occultation data over the coming decades. Of the IPCC AR4 models that submitted runs of the SRES A1B forcing scenario, we select twelve because of the timeliness of their submission. Trends in the global average surface air temper...

GPS radio occultation with CHAMP

GPS radio occultation with CHAMP: monitoring of climate change parameters T. Schmidt, S. Heise, J. Wickert, G. Beyerle, and C. Reigber GeoForschungsZentrum Potsdam, Department 1: Geodesy and Remote Sensing, Potsdam, Germany Received: 20 September 2004 – Accepted: 27 October 2004 – Published: 1 December 2004 Correspondence to: T. Schmidt ([email protected]) © 2004 Author(s). This work is l...

Improvements on Typhoon Forecast with Assimilated GPS Occultation Refractivity

Atmosphere sounding using GPS radio occultation

Introduction On July 17, 1995 the U.S. Air Force announced “ .. that today the Global Positioning System (GPS) satellite constellation has met all requirements for Full Operational Capability”. Apart from precise positioning GPS signals also can be used to derive characteristic properties of the propagation medium (neutral atmosphere and ionosphere). Onboard the Low-Earth-Orbiting MICROLAB-1 sa...