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View SchemaGPS radio occultation with GRACE: Atmospheric profiling utilizing the zero difference technique
| Authors | G. Beyerle, T. Schmidt, G. Michalak, S. Heise, J. Wickert, Ch. Reigber |
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| Categories | |
| ArXiv ID | physics/0409032 |
| URL | https://arxiv.org/abs/physics/0409032 |
| DOI | 10.1029/2005GL023109 |
Abstract
Radio occultation events recorded on 28-29 July 2004 by a GPS receiver aboard the GRACE-B satellite are analyzed. The stability of the receiver clock allows for the derivation of excess phase profiles using a zero difference technique, rendering the calibration procedure with concurrent observations of a reference GPS satellite obsolete. 101 refractivity profiles obtained by zero differencing and 96 profiles calculated with an improved single difference method are compared with co-located ECMWF meteorological analyses. Good agreement is found at altitudes between 5 and 30 km with an average fractional refractivity deviation below 1% and a standard deviation of 2-3%. Results from end-to-end simulations are consistent with these observations.
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