Observing atmosphere and climate with occultation techniques – results from the OPAC-IROWG 2022 workshop
Observing atmosphere and climate with occultation techniques – results from the OPAC-IROWG 2022 workshop
Editor(s): Ulrich Foelsche, Andrea K. Steiner, Hui Shao, Anthony Mannucci, Kent B. Lauritsen, C. Marquardt, and Piet Stammes
Occultation techniques for observing the Earth’s atmosphere and climate comprise solar, lunar, stellar, navigation, and satellite-crosslink occultation methods, exploiting the electromagnetic spectrum from optical to radio signals via refraction, absorption, scattering, and reflection. Retrieved atmospheric variables range from bending angle, refractivity, pressure, geopotential height, temperature, and water vapor to greenhouse gases and particulate species such as aerosols and cloud liquid water. Information on ionosphere and space weather is also provided.

Occultation methods share the unique properties of self-calibration; high accuracy and vertical resolution; global coverage; and, if using radio signals, all-weather capability. Global navigation satellite system (GNSS) radio occultation has become particularly successful over the recent decades and provides accurate refraction-based measurements using data from all GNSS systems.

Occultation data are of high utility in numerical weather prediction, atmospheric physics, and climate science. Their application has further broadened in recent years, and new satellite missions and observation methods are on the way.

The OPAC-IROWG 2022 workshop brought together members from the different sub-communities and users of occultation data. The present Atmospheric Measurement Techniques special issue is dedicated to the results of this conference and recent achievements.

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20 Jun 2024
A Machine-learning Based Marine Planetary Boundary Layer (MPBL) Moisture Profile Retrieval Product from GNSS-RO Deep Refraction Signals
Jie Gong, Dong Liang Wu, Michelle Badalov, Manisha Ganeshan, and Minghua Zheng
EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2024-973,https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2024-973, 2024
Preprint under review for AMT (discussion: open, 2 comments)
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11 Jun 2024
Observed impact of the GNSS clock data rate on Radio Occultation bending angles for Sentinel-6A and COSMIC-2
Sebastiano Padovan, Axel Von Engeln, Saverio Paolella, Yago Andres, Chad R. Galley, Riccardo Notarpietro, Veronica Rivas Boscán, Francisco Sancho, Francisco Martin Alemany, Nicolas Morew, and Christian Marquardt
Atmos. Meas. Tech. Discuss., https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-2024-80,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-2024-80, 2024
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27 May 2024
Observing atmospheric rivers using GNSS radio occultation data
Bahareh Rahimi and Ulrich Foelsche
Atmos. Meas. Tech. Discuss., https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-2024-81,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-2024-81, 2024
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27 May 2024
Assessment of Operational Non-Time Critical Sentinel-6A Michael Freilich Radio Occultation Data: Insights into Tropospheric GNSS Signal Cutoff Strategies and Processor Improvements
Saverio Paolella, Axel Von Engeln, Sebastiano Padovan, Riccardo Notarpietro, Christian Marquardt, Francisco Sancho, Veronica Rivas Boscan, Nicolas Morew, and Francisco Martin Alemany
Atmos. Meas. Tech. Discuss., https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-2024-82,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-2024-82, 2024
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21 May 2024
Exploring commercial GNSS RO products for Planetary Boundary Layer studies in the Arctic Region
Manisha Ganeshan, Dong L. Wu, Joseph A. Santanello, Jie Gong, Chi O. Ao, Panagiotis Vergados, and Kevin Nelson
Atmos. Meas. Tech. Discuss., https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-2024-83,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-2024-83, 2024
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13 May 2024
GNSS-RO Residual Ionospheric Error (RIE): A New Method and Assessment
Dong L. Wu, Valery A. Yudin, Kyu-Myong Kim, Mohar Chattopadhyay, Lawrence Coy, Ruth S. Lieberman, C. C. Jude H. Salinas, Jae H. Lee, Jie Gong, and Guiping Liu
Atmos. Meas. Tech. Discuss., https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-2024-51,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-2024-51, 2024
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02 May 2024
The GRAS-2 Radio Occultation Mission
Joel Rasch, Anders Carlström, Jacob Christensen, and Thomas Liljegren
Atmos. Meas. Tech. Discuss., https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-2024-60,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-2024-60, 2024
Preprint under review for AMT (discussion: final response, 4 comments)
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08 Apr 2024
The added value and potential of long-term radio occultation data for climatological wind field monitoring
Irena Nimac, Julia Danzer, and Gottfried Kirchengast
Atmos. Meas. Tech. Discuss., https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-2024-59,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-2024-59, 2024
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07 Nov 2023
GNSS radio occultation excess-phase processing for climate applications including uncertainty estimation
Josef Innerkofler, Gottfried Kirchengast, Marc Schwärz, Christian Marquardt, and Yago Andres
Atmos. Meas. Tech., 16, 5217–5247, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-16-5217-2023,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-16-5217-2023, 2023
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23 Oct 2023
GNSS Radio Occultation Climatologies mapped by Machine Learning and Bayesian Interpolation
Endrit Shehaj, Stephen Leroy, Kerri Cahoy, Alain Geiger, Laura Crocetti, Gregor Moeller, Benedikt Soja, and Markus Rothacher
Atmos. Meas. Tech. Discuss., https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-2023-205,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-2023-205, 2023
Preprint under review for AMT (discussion: open, 6 comments)
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24 Jul 2023
Assessing the Ducting Phenomenon and its Impact on GNSS Radio Occultation Refractivity Retrievals over the Northeast Pacific Ocean using Radiosondes and Global Reanalysis
Thomas E. Winning, Feiqin Xie, and Kevin J. Nelson
Atmos. Meas. Tech. Discuss., https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-2023-150,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-2023-150, 2023
Revised manuscript under review for AMT (discussion: final response, 4 comments)
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13 Jul 2023
Closing the gap in the tropics: the added value of radio-occultation data for wind field monitoring across the equator
Julia Danzer, Magdalena Pieler, and Gottfried Kirchengast
Atmos. Meas. Tech. Discuss., https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-2023-137,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-2023-137, 2023
Revised manuscript accepted for AMT (discussion: closed, 4 comments)
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