Ionospheric bending correction for GNSS radio occultation signals

Ionospheric Propagation Effects on GNSS Signals and New Correction Approaches

LAGRANGE RO: A GNSS Receiver for Radio Occultation

A GPS Radio Occultation occurs when a transmitting GPS satellite, setting or rising behind the Earth limb, is viewed by a LEO satellite that carries on board a space-qualified GPS receiver. In this way, it is provided a vertical sounding of the atmosphere exploiting the relative motion between the GPS and the LEO satellites. The technique proved to be particularly precise in retrieving temperat...

Spaceborne GNSS Radio Occultation Instrumentation for Operational Applications

Radio occultation (RO) instruments using GNSS signals are specialised spaceborne receivers designed to provide highly accurate measurements from which one can derive vertical profiles of the temperature, pressure and humidity in the atmosphere, as well as profiles of electron content in the ionosphere. A family of operational RO instruments is being developed for a number of European space proj...

Testing Climate Models Using Infrared Spectra and GNSS Radio Occultation

The Climate Absolute Radiance and Refractivity Observatory will be a climate benchmarking mission intended to include instruments for measuring Earth’s atmospheric refractivity by GNSS radio occultation (RO), high spectral resolution thermal infrared spectra emitted from the Earth, and the spectrally resolved reflected shortwave spectrum. Climate benchmarking is necessary to establish a record ...

Assimilation of GNSS radio occultation observations in GRAPES

This paper reviews the development of the global navigation satellite system (GNSS) radio occultation (RO) observations assimilation in the Global/Regional Assimilation and PrEdiction System (GRAPES) of China Meteorological Administration, including the choice of data to assimilate, the data quality control, the observation operator, the tuning of observation error, and the results of the obser...