Implementation of a quality control for radio occultation observations in the presence of large gradients of atmospheric refractivity

Cucurull, L.

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-8-1275-2015

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16 Mar 2015

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| 16 Mar 2015

Implementation of a quality control for radio occultation observations in the presence of large gradients of atmospheric refractivity

L. Cucurull

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RC C3703: 'Comments on the QC for GNSSRO, under large gradients of atmospheric refractivity', Anonymous Referee #1, 12 Nov 2014
- AC C3932: 'Answers to comments made by Referee #1', Lidia Cucurull, 24 Nov 2014
SC C3919: 'Comments to reinforce the originality of the paper', Paul Poli, 24 Nov 2014
- EC C4631: 'Sufficient number of referee reports', Ulrich Foelsche, 20 Jan 2015
- AC C4864: 'Answers to Referee #2', Lidia Cucurull, 10 Feb 2015
AC C4866: 'Updated manuscript', Lidia Cucurull, 10 Feb 2015

Short summary

In preparation for the launch of the first six satellites of the COSMIC-2 mission in equatorial orbit, and the larger number of observations that such a mission will provide in the lower tropical troposphere, work is underway at NOAA to improve the assimilation of RO observations. This paper describes the limitations of the current standard quality controls for RO data and discusses the implementation of additional quality control procedures.