The COSMIC/FORMOSAT-3 Mission: Early Results
European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts · University Corporation for Atmospheric Research · +5 more institutions
Abstract
The radio occultation (RO) technique, which makes use of radio signals transmitted by the global positioning system (GPS) satellites, has emerged as a powerful and relatively inexpensive approach for sounding the global atmosphere with high precision, accuracy, and vertical resolution in all weather and over both land and ocean. On 15 April 2006, the joint Taiwan-U.S. Constellation Observing System for Meteorology, Ionosphere, and Climate (COSMIC)/Formosa Satellite Mission 3 (COSMIC/FORMOSAT-3, hereafter COSMIC) mission, a constellation of six microsatellites, was launched into a 512-km orbit. After launch the satellites were gradually deployed to their final orbits at 800 km, a process that took about 17…
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Authors
24- RARichard A. Anthes
European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts, University Corporation for Atmospheric Research, NOAA Center for Satellite Applications and Research, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, NSF National Center for Atmospheric Research, Utah State University, Taiwan Space Agency
- PAP. A. Bernhardt
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, NSF National Center for Atmospheric Research, NOAA Center for Satellite Applications and Research, European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts, University Corporation for Atmospheric Research, Utah State University, Taiwan Space Agency
- YCY. Chen
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, NSF National Center for Atmospheric Research, European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts, University Corporation for Atmospheric Research, NOAA Center for Satellite Applications and Research, Utah State University, Taiwan Space Agency
- LCLídia Cucurull
European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts, NSF National Center for Atmospheric Research, NOAA Center for Satellite Applications and Research, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, University Corporation for Atmospheric Research, Taiwan Space Agency, Utah State University
- KFK. F. Dymond
European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts, NSF National Center for Atmospheric Research, NOAA Center for Satellite Applications and Research, Taiwan Space Agency, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Utah State University, University Corporation for Atmospheric Research
Topics & keywords
- Radio occultation
- COSMIC cancer database
- Environmental science
- Constellation
- Satellite
- Troposphere
- Ionosphere
- Meteorology
- Life below water