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@ARTICLE{Heise:60711,
author = {Heise, S. and Wickert, J. and Beyerle, G. and Schmidt, T.
and Smit, H. G. J. and Cammas, J. P. and Rothacher, M.},
title = {{C}omparison of water vapor and temperature results from
{GPS} radio occultation aboard {CHAMP} with {MOZAIC}
aircraft measurements},
journal = {IEEE transactions on geoscience and remote sensing},
volume = {46},
issn = {0196-2892},
address = {New York, NY},
publisher = {IEEE},
reportid = {PreJuSER-60711},
pages = {3406 - 3411},
year = {2008},
note = {The authors would like to thank the European Commission for
their strong support; Airbus and the airlines who carried
the MOZAIC equipment free of charge and have performed the
maintenance since 1994 (Lufthansa, Austfian, and Air
France); and the CHAMP team for all efforts to provide this
unique long-term GPS RO data set. MOZAIC is supported by the
Institut National des Sciences de l'Univers-Centre National
de la Recherche Scientifique (INSU-CNRS), France;
Meteo-France; and Forschungszentrum Rilich (FZJ), Gennany.
The German Weather Service provided ECMWF analysis data.},
abstract = {Global Positioning System (GPS) radio occultation (RO)
observations aboard Low Earth Orbiting (LEO) satellites
provide a powerful tool for global atmospheric sounding.
Almost continuously activated since mid-2001, the
CHAllenging Minisatellite Payload (CHAMP) GPS RO experiment
provides up to 200 vertical atmospheric profiles per day. In
this paper, we intercompare CHAMP RO humidity results and
analyses from the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather
Forecasts (ECMWF) with coinciding Measurement of OZone and
water vapor by AIrbus in-service airCraft (MOZAIC) data
collected during aircraft ascents and descents. About 320
coinciding profiles with CHAMP were found from 2001 to 2006
(coincidence radius: 3 h, 300 km). Between about 650 and 300
hPa, the CHAMP-MOZAIC humidity bias is smaller than the
ECMWF-MOZAIC bias. On the other hand, the standard deviation
between MOZAIC and CHAMP humidity is slightly higher than
that between MOZAIC and ECMWF through the entire altitude
range. Apart from the water vapor validation (ascent and
descent data), we also compare MOZAIC cruise data at an
altitude of typically 10-11 km with CHAMP refractivity and
temperature results (dry retrieval), and corresponding ECMWF
analysis data. Whereas refractivity data from MOZAIC, CHAMP,
and ECMWF show excellent agreement, the CHAMP temperature
exhibits a cold bias of about 0.9 K in comparison to MOZAIC
and ECMWE.},
keywords = {J (WoSType)},
cin = {ICG-2},
ddc = {550},
cid = {I:(DE-Juel1)VDB791},
pnm = {Atmosphäre und Klima},
pid = {G:(DE-Juel1)FUEK406},
shelfmark = {Geochemistry $\&$ Geophysics / Engineering, Electrical $\&$
Electronic / Remote Sensing},
typ = {PUB:(DE-HGF)16},
UT = {WOS:000261309100005},
doi = {10.1109/TGRS.2008.920268},
url = {https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/60711},
}