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Processing and Validation of the STAR COSMIC-2 Temperature and Water Vapor Profiles in the Neutral Atmosphere
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2022
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Source: Remote Sensing, 14(21), 5588
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Journal Title:Remote Sensing
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Description:The global navigation satellite system (GNSS) radio occultation (RO) is becoming an essential component of National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) observation systems. The constellation observing system for meteorology, ionosphere, and climate (COSMIC) 2 mission and the Formosa satellite mission 7, a COSMIC follow-on mission, is now the NOAA’s backbone RO mission. The NOAA’s dedicated GNSS RO SAtellite processing and science Application Center (RO-SAAC) was established at the Center for Satellite Applications and Research (STAR). To better quantify how the observation uncertainty from clock error and geometry determination may propagate to bending angle and refractivity profiles, STAR has developed the GNSS RO data processing and validation system. This study describes the COSMIC-2 neutral atmospheric temperature and moisture profile inversion algorithms at STAR. We used RS41 and ERA5, and UCAR 1D-Var products (wetPrf2) to validate the accuracy and uncertainty of the STAR 1D-Var thermal profiles. The STAR-RS41 temperature differences are less than a few tenths of 1 K from 8 km to 30 km altitude with a standard deviation (std) of 1.5–2 K. The mean STAR-RS41 water vapor specific humidity difference and the standard deviation are −0.35 g/kg and 1.2 g/kg, respectively. We also used the 1D-Var-derived temperature and water vapor profiles to compute the simulated brightness temperature (BTs) for advanced technology microwave sounder (ATMS) and cross-track infrared sounder (CrIS) channels and compared them to the collocated ATMS and CrIS measurements. The BT differences of STAR COSMIC-2-simulated BTs relative to SNPP ATMS are less than 0.1 K over all ATMS channels.
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Source:Remote Sensing, 14(21), 5588
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ISSN:2072-4292
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