气候变化领域集成服务门户(CCPortal): The COSMIC/FORMOSAT-3 radio occultation mission after 12 years: Accomplishments, remaining challenges, and potential impacts of COSMIC-2

CCPortal

DOI	10.1175/BAMS-D-18-0290.1
	The COSMIC/FORMOSAT-3 radio occultation mission after 12 years: Accomplishments, remaining challenges, and potential impacts of COSMIC-2
	Ho S.-P.; Anthes R.A.; Ao C.O.; Healy S.; Horanyi A.; Hunt D.; Mannucci A.J.; Pedatella N.; Randel W.J.; Simmons A.; Steiner A.; Xie F.; Yue X.; Zeng Z.
发表日期	2020
ISSN	00030007
起始页码	E1107
结束页码	E1136
卷号	101 期号:7
英文摘要	Launched in 2006, the Formosa Satellite Mission 3-Constellation Observing System for Meteorology, Ionosphere and Climate (FORMOSAT-3/COSMIC) was the first constellation of microsatellites carrying global positioning system (GPS) radio occultation (RO) receivers. Radio occultation is an active remote sensing technique that provides valuable information on the vertical variations of electron density in the ionosphere, and temperature, pressure, and water vapor in the stratosphere and troposphere. COSMIC has demonstrated the great value of RO data in ionosphere, climate, and meteorological research and operational weather forecasting. However, there are still challenges using RO data, particularly in the moist lower troposphere and upper stratosphere. A COSMIC follow-on constellation, COSMIC-2, was launched into equatorial orbit in 2019. With increased signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) from improved receivers and digital beam steering antennas, COSMIC-2 will produce at least 5,000 high-quality RO profiles daily in the tropics and subtropics. In this paper, we summarize 1) recent (since 2011 when the last review was published) contributions of COSMIC and other RO observations to weather, climate, and space weather science; 2) the remaining challenges in RO applications; and 3) potential contributions to research and operations of COSMIC-2. © 2020 American Meteorological Society.
语种	英语
scopus关键词	Global positioning system; Ionosphere; Ionospheric measurement; Orbits; Radio; Remote sensing; Signal receivers; Signal to noise ratio; Tropics; Troposphere; Weather forecasting; Beam-steering antennas; Ionosphere and climates; Meteorological research; Observing systems; Radio occultations; Remote sensing techniques; Satellite mission; Vertical variation; Cosmology
来源期刊	Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/177839
作者单位	NOAA/Center for Weather and Climate Prediction, College Park, MD, United States; COSMIC Project Office, University Corporation for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States; Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States; European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts, Reading, United Kingdom; National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States; Wegener Center for Climate and Global Change, Institute for Geophysics, Astrophysics, and Meteorology, Institute of Physics, University of Graz, Graz, Austria; Texas A & M University, Corpus Christi, TX, United States; Key Laboratory of Earth and Planetary Physics, Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Ho S.-P.,Anthes R.A.,Ao C.O.,et al. The COSMIC/FORMOSAT-3 radio occultation mission after 12 years: Accomplishments, remaining challenges, and potential impacts of COSMIC-2[J],2020,101(7).
APA	Ho S.-P..,Anthes R.A..,Ao C.O..,Healy S..,Horanyi A..,...&Zeng Z..(2020).The COSMIC/FORMOSAT-3 radio occultation mission after 12 years: Accomplishments, remaining challenges, and potential impacts of COSMIC-2.Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society,101(7).
MLA	Ho S.-P.,et al."The COSMIC/FORMOSAT-3 radio occultation mission after 12 years: Accomplishments, remaining challenges, and potential impacts of COSMIC-2".Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society 101.7(2020).