GPS Occultation Measurements with GPS/MET and CHAMP
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First results from the GPS radio occultation experiment aboard the German CHAMP satellite are presented. The agreement between observed temperature profiles in the upper troposphere and the lower stratosphere and temperature profiles obtained from meteorological analyses is found to be below 1 K. The data processing and analysis system (operated by GeoForschungsZentrum Potsdam) has been successfully validated with GPS/MET occultation data. A radio holographic analysis of GPS/MET observations reveals signatures of secondary signal components. Ray tracing simulations suggest that these secondary components are due to GPS signal reflections at Earth’s surface.
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