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Articles | Volume 16, issue 4
Articles | Volume 16, issue 4
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-16-941-2023
© Author(s) 2023. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-16-941-2023
© Author(s) 2023. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Articles | Volume 16, issue 4
Research article
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23 Feb 2023
Research article |  | 23 Feb 2023

GNSS radio occultation soundings from commercial off-the-shelf receivers on board balloon platforms

Kevin J. Nelson, Feiqin Xie, Bryan C. Chan, Ashish Goel, Jonathan Kosh, Tyler G. R. Reid, Corey R. Snyder, and Paul M. Tarantino

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Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) radio occultation (RO) remote sensing is effective for atmospheric profiling. The capability of a low-cost and scalable commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) GNSS receiver on board high-altitude balloons is tested in two campaigns. Preliminary results demonstrate high-quality refractivity observations from the COTS RO receiver, which is worth further improvement for dense atmospheric observations over a targeted region.
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