Articles | Volume 18, issue 6
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-18-1389-2025
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-18-1389-2025
Research article
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24 Mar 2025
Research article |  | 24 Mar 2025

Exploring commercial Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) radio occultation (RO) products for planetary boundary layer studies in the Arctic

Manisha Ganeshan, Dong L. Wu, Joseph A. Santanello, Jie Gong, Chi Ao, Panagiotis Vergados, and Kevin J. Nelson

Data sets

COSMIC-1 Radio Occultation Data (2021.0390) UCAR COSMIC Program https://doi.org/10.5065/ZD80-KD74

GeoOptics Radio Occultation Data (0001.0001) UCAR COSMIC Program https://doi.org/10.5065/0dxg-nn57

Spire Radio Occultation Data (0001.0001) UCAR COSMIC Program https://doi.org/10.5065/1a8d-yh72

ROM SAF Radio Occultation Interim Climate Data Record - Metop ROM SAF https://doi.org/10.15770/EUM_SAF_GRM_0006

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Short summary
This study explores the potential of two newly launched commercial Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) radio occultation (RO) satellite missions for advancing Arctic lower-atmospheric studies. The products have a good sampling of the lower Arctic atmosphere and are useful to derive the planetary boundary layer (PBL) height during winter months. This research is a step towards closing the observation gap in polar regions due to the decomissioning of Constellation Observing System for Meteorology, Ionosphere, and Climate (COSMIC-1) GNSS RO mission and the lack of high-latitude coverage by its successor (COSMIC-2).
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