edu.ucar.opensky::articles:19032 UCAR/NCAR - Library OpenSky Support PO Box 3000 Boulder CO 80307-3000 opensky@ucar.edu http://opensky.ucar.edu/ homepage pointOfContact 2025-12-26T15:56:49.611703 ISO 19115-2 Geographic Information - Metadata - Part 2: Extensions for Imagery and Gridded Data ISO 19115-2:2009(E) https://n2t.org/ark:/85065/d71v5gpq The ROCSAT-3/COSMIC mission and applications of GPS radio occultation data to weather and climate 2004-12-22T00:00:00Z publication https://n2t.org/ark:/85065/d71v5gpq https://doi.org/10.1117/12.566544 Rocken, Christian author Kuo, Ying-Hwa author Sokolovskiy, Sergey author Anthes, Richard A. author UCAR/NCAR - Library publisher The atmospheric limb sounding technique based on the Global Positioning System (GPS) has been shown to be accurate and of very high vertical resolution. The fact that the GPS radio occultation (RO) technique is not affected by clouds or precipitation, has no instrument drift, and requires no calibration makes it ideally suited for climate monitoring and global weather prediction. The Constellation Observing System for Meteorology, Ionosphere, and Climate (ROCSAT-3/COSMIC) mission will be launched in late 2005, and will provide ~2,500 GPS radio occultation soundings per day to support operational weather prediction, climate analysis, and ionospheric research. Other radio occultation missions are expected to coincide with COSMIC promising additional data. In this paper, we provide status overview of the COSMIC mission, describe its science goals, and review selected GPS RO studies that are relevant to weather prediction and climate analysis. UCAR/NCAR - Library OpenSky Support PO Box 3000 Boulder CO 80307-3000 opensky@ucar.edu http://opensky.ucar.edu/ homepage pointOfContact PDF Text theme Resource Type 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z publication Copyright 2004 SPIE. None eng geoscientificInformation