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https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-335-2016
© Author(s) 2016. This work is distributed under
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the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.
Research article
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03 Feb 2016
Research article |
| 03 Feb 2016
Ionospheric correction of GPS radio occultation data in the troposphere
Z. Zeng
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
COSMIC Project Office, University Corporation for Atmospheric
Research, Boulder, Colorado, USA
S. Sokolovskiy
COSMIC Project Office, University Corporation for Atmospheric
Research, Boulder, Colorado, USA
W. Schreiner
COSMIC Project Office, University Corporation for Atmospheric
Research, Boulder, Colorado, USA
D. Hunt
COSMIC Project Office, University Corporation for Atmospheric
Research, Boulder, Colorado, USA
J. Lin
COSMIC Project Office, University Corporation for Atmospheric
Research, Boulder, Colorado, USA
Y.-H. Kuo
COSMIC Project Office, University Corporation for Atmospheric
Research, Boulder, Colorado, USA
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Short summary
This study discusses the ionospheric correction problem of RO data in the troposphere and investigates an optimal transition height (OTH) for replacing the standard linear combination method by the L1–L2 bending angle extrapolated from above. By comparing the RO ionosphere-free bending angles with the ECMWF global forecast ones, the OTH is found when it gives the minimal standard deviations. The results show the OTH depends mainly on the L2 signal and is ~20 km for COSMIC L2P and ~10 km for L2C.
This study discusses the ionospheric correction problem of RO data in the troposphere and...
