GPS radio occultation with CHAMP: monitoring of climate change parameters T. Schmidt, S. Heise, J. Wickert, G. Beyerle, and C. Reigber GeoForschungsZentrum Potsdam, Department 1: Geodesy and Remote Sensing, Potsdam, Germany Received: 20 September 2004 – Accepted: 27 October 2004 – Published: 1 December 2004 Correspondence to: T. Schmidt ([email protected]) © 2004 Author(s). This work is l...

We describe an assimilation of thermal profiles below about 40 km altitude and total dust opacities into a general circulation model (GCM) of the Martian atmosphere. The data were provided by the Thermal Emission Spectrometer (TES) on board the Mars Global Surveyor (MGS) spacecraft. The results of the assimilation are verified against an independent source of contemporaneous data represented by...

An optimal estimation inverse method is presented which can be used to retrieve simultaneously vertical profiles of temperature and specific humidity, in addition to surface pressure, from satellite-to-satellite radio occultation observations of the Earth’s atmosphere. The method is a non-linear, maximum a posteriori technique which can accommodate most aspects of the real radio occultation pro...

Recent work has shown that the retrieval of stratospheric aerosol vertical profiles is possible using limb scattered sunlight measurements at optical wavelengths. The aerosol number density profile is retrieved for an assumed particle size distribution and composition. This result can be used to derive the extinction at the measured wavelength. However, large systematic error can result from th...

Generalization of radio holographic method for 3-dimensional case is presented. Application of this method to analysis of radio occultation data gives high vertical resolution and accuracy in estimating physical parameters of the ionosphere and atmosphere and allows recovering vertical temperature gradients and wave structures in the atmosphere and in the ionosphere.

The effective temperature of Saturn from 30øS to 10øN is 96.5 + 2.5 K. This value is 1.9 K higher than our preliminary estimate (Ingersoll et al., 1980). The atmospheric mole fraction of H2 relative to H2 + He is 90 + 3%. This value is derived by comparing infrared and radio occultation data (Kliore et al., this issue) for the same latitude. The high value of the effective temperature suggests ...

This paper presents the application of Neural Networks for the spatial and temporal modeling of (critical frequency) foF2 data over Europe. foF2 is the most important parameter in describing the electron density profile of the ionosphere since it represents the critical point of maximum electron density in the profile and therefore can be used to drive empirical models of electron density which...

[1] The interpretation of radio occultation data in the lower troposphere is a complicated problem due to strong multipath effects. This problem can be solved on the basis of the wave optics. We analyze Microlab-1 radio occultation using two radio-holographic approaches: the radio-optics method, which employs the analysis of the local spatial spectra of the registered wave field, and the canoni...

Fig. 1. The German CHAMP satellite (view from antivelocity direction with GPS occultation antennas) Abstract: The German CHAMP (Challenging Minisatellite Payload) satellite (launched on July 15, 2000) is a geoscience mission aiming for the determination of Earth’s gravity and magnetic field and for GPS-based atmospheric sounding. The atmospheric profiling experiment onboard CHAMP was started in...