COSMIC-1: Taking radio signals from the GPS as they pass through Earth's atmosphere.
COSMIC-2: A revolutionary increase in the number of atmospheric and ionospheric observations.
Ground-based GPS: Generating near real-time estimates of atmospheric precipitable water-vapor.
Education and Outreach: Expanding the research in Radio Occultation.
Missions of Opportunity: Providing data to the Radio Occultation Community.
CDAAC: Processing raw Radio Occultation data into atmospheric profiles.
Science Applications: Improving weather forecasts, monitoring climate change, and enhancing space weather research.
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Luan, X., W. Wang, X. Dou, A. Burns, and X. Yue, 2015: Longitudinal variations of the nighttime E layer electron density in the auroral zone. J. Geophys. Res., 120, 825-833, doi:10.1002/2014JA020610.
Yue, X., W. S. Schreiner, Z. Zeng, Y.-H. Kuo, and X. Xue, 2015: Case study on complex sporadic E layers observed by GPS radio occultations. Atmos. Meas. Tech., 8, 225-236, doi:10.5194/amt-8-225-2015.
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