Quality aspects of the Wegener Center multi-satellite GPS radio occultation record OPSv5.6

Angerer, Barbara; Ladstädter, Florian; Scherllin-Pirscher, Barbara; Schwärz, Marc; Steiner, Andrea K.; Foelsche, Ulrich; Kirchengast, Gottfried

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-10-4845-2017

Articles | Volume 10, issue 12

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 10, 4845–4863, 2017

https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-10-4845-2017

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Special issue: Observing Atmosphere and Climate with Occultation Techniques...

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 10, 4845–4863, 2017

https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-10-4845-2017

© Author(s) 2017. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 10, issue 12

Research article 13 Dec 2017

Research article | 13 Dec 2017

Quality aspects of the Wegener Center multi-satellite GPS radio occultation record OPSv5.6

Barbara Angerer et al.

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Final revised paper (published on 13 Dec 2017)
Preprint (discussion started on 07 Jul 2017)

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AC: Author comment | RC: Referee comment | SC: Short comment | EC: Editor comment

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RC1: 'Referee comment', Anonymous Referee #1, 01 Sep 2017
- AC1: 'Response to Referee No. 1', Barbara Angerer, 06 Oct 2017
RC2: 'Review of manuscript "Quality Aspects of theWegener Center Multi-Satellite GPS Radio Occultation Record OPSv5.6" by Angerer et al.', Anonymous Referee #2, 29 Sep 2017
- AC2: 'Response to Referee No. 2', Barbara Angerer, 06 Oct 2017

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AR by Barbara Angerer on behalf of the Authors (02 Nov 2017) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Publish subject to technical corrections (06 Nov 2017) by Axel von Engeln

Short summary

We present a detailed analysis of the latest Wegener Center GPS radio occultation reprocessing (OPSv5.6) output. Knowledge of differences in data quality, as well as of data consistency, is essential when combining data from different missions to a long-term climate record. We compare quality aspects of the various processed satellite missions and present satellite-dependent variations. Temperature data from various satellites are found to be highly consistent within 8 to 25 km.