7 In recent years, the global positioning system (GPS) has been exploited via radio occultation techniques to obtain proÿles of refractivity, temperature, pressure and water vapor in the neutral atmosphere and electron density in the ionosphere. The 9 GPS=MET experiment, which placed a GPS receiver in a low-Earth orbit, provided a wealth of data which was used to test this concept and the accur...

We report the measurement of the essentially frequency independent refractivity of water vapor from 0.1 to 1 THz, independent of the simultaneous strong THz pulse broadening and absorption. The humidity dependent transit time of THz pulses through a 170 m long round trip path was measured to a precision of 0.1 ps, using a mode-locked laser as an optical clock.

With the availability of approximately 4,000 radio occultation soundings per day within three hours of observation, COSMIC has the potential to contribute significantly to global and regional weather analysis and prediction. However, the basic radio occultation measurements (phase delays) are very different from traditional meteorological measurements (i.e., temperature, water vapor), and to ef...

Abstract Ternary Sb 2 O 3 –B –K glass system, with general composition of x –(70-x) B –30 K (where = 0, 10, 20, 30, 40, 50) were prepared using melt-quenching technique. Structures these glasses investigated XRD analysis and FT-IR spectroscopy. The optical properties the UV–Vis NIR JASCO (Model V-670) Double Beam Spectrophotometer. Different physical parameters, such as density (ρ), molar volum...

We have considerable experience in carrying out refractivity estimation from ocean clutter data [Gerstoft et al., 2003a, 2003b, Gerstoft et al., 2004; Rogers et al., 2004]. Little has been done to indicate the quality of the solution for each parameter, either with the variance of the parameter estimate or preferably the complete a posteriori distribution. We have already done much work on this...

Global Navigation Satellite System Radio Occultation (GNSS-RO) refractivity climatologies for the stratosphere can be obtained from the Abel inversion of monthly average bending-angle profiles. The averaging of large numbers of profiles suppresses random noise and this, in combination with simple exponential extrapolation above an altitude of 80 km, circumvents the need for a “statistical optim...

Reduction of radio occultation data to retrieve atmospheric profiles (T-p(r)) requires knowledge or assumption of the horizontal structure of the atmosphere. In the case of terrestrial planets the atmosphere in the vicinity of ray periapsides usually is assumed to be spherically symmetric. This assumption leads to an integral transform relationship between the profiles of refractivity versus ra...