Global monitoring of tropospheric water vapor with GPS radio occultation aboard CHAMP

Details Global monitoring of tropospheric water vapor with GPS radio occultation aboard CHAMP Global monitoring of tropospheric water vapor with GPS radio occultation aboard CHAMP

2005-02-16

arxiv.org/abs/physics/0502085v1

Physics

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics

7 pages, 4 figures

Scientific paper

10.1016/j.asr.2005.06.066

The paper deals with application of GPS radio occultation (RO) measurements aboard CHAMP for the retrieval of tropospheric water vapor profiles. The GPS RO technique provides a powerful tool for atmospheric sounding which requires no calibration, is not affected by clouds, aerosols or precipitation, and provides an almost uniform global coverage. We briefly overview data processing and retrieval of vertical refractivity, temperature and water vapor profiles from GPS RO observations. CHAMP RO data are available since 2001 with up to 200 high resolution atmospheric profiles per day. Global validation of CHAMP water vapor profiles with radiosonde data reveals a bias of about 0.2 g/kg and a standard deviation of less than 1 g/kg specific humidity in the lower troposphere. We demonstrate potentials of CHAMP RO retrievals for monitoring the mean tropospheric water vapor distribution on a global scale.

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