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JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-ATMOSPHERES
卷 114, 期 -, 页码 -出版社
AMER GEOPHYSICAL UNION
DOI: 10.1029/2009JD011969
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- National Science Foundation
- NOAA [NA07OAR4310224]
- Austrian Science Fund FWF [CLIMROCC, INDICATE]
- Austrian Research Promotion Agency FFG [EOPSCLIM]
- European Space Agency [ProdexCN2-EGOPS6]
- Max Kade Foundation (New York)
- UCAR
- U.S. NOAA [NA 06 0AR4310121]
- DECC [GA01101]
- Defra [GA01101]
- MoD Integrated Climate Programme [CBC/2B/0417_Annex C5]
- Austrian Science Fund (FWF) [P 21642] Funding Source: researchfish
- Div Atmospheric & Geospace Sciences
- Directorate For Geosciences [0939962] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
To examine the suitability of GPS radio occultation (RO) observations as a climate benchmark data set, this study aims at quantifying the structural uncertainty in GPS RO-derived vertical profiles of refractivity and measured refractivity trends obtained from atmospheric excess phase processing and inversion procedures. Five years (2002-2006) of monthly mean climatologies (MMC) of retrieved refractivity from the experiment aboard the German satellite CHAMP generated by four RO operational centers were compared. Results show that the absolute values of fractional refractivity anomalies among the centers are, in general, <= 0.2% from 8 to 25 km altitude. The median absolute deviations among the centers are less than 0.2% globally. Because the differences in fractional refractivity produced by the four centers are, in general, unchanging with time, the uncertainty of the trend for fractional refractivity anomalies among centers is +/-0.04% per 5 years globally. The primary cause of the trend uncertainty is due to different quality control methods used by the four centers, which yield different sampling errors for different centers. We used the National Centers for Environmental Prediction reanalysis in the same period to estimate sampling errors. After removing the sampling errors, the uncertainty of the trend for fractional refractivity anomalies among centers is between -0.03 and 0.01% per 5 years. Thus 0.03% per 5 years can be considered an upper bound in the processing scheme-induced uncertainty for global refractivity trend monitoring. Systematic errors common to all centers are not discussed in this article but are generally believed to be small.
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