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Articles | Volume 18, issue 1
Articles | Volume 18, issue 1
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-18-265-2025
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Articles | Volume 18, issue 1
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16 Jan 2025
Research article |  | 16 Jan 2025

The added value and potential of long-term radio occultation data for climatological wind field monitoring

Irena Nimac, Julia Danzer, and Gottfried Kirchengast

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Due to the shortcomings of available observations, having accurate global 3D wind fields remains a challenge. A promising option is radio occultation (RO) satellite data, which enable the derivation of winds based on wind approximations. We test how well RO winds describe the ERA5 winds. We separate the total wind difference into the approximation bias and the systematic difference between the two datasets. The results show the utility of RO winds for climate monitoring and analyses.
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