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An assessment of reprocessed GPS/MET observations spanning 1995â1997
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We have performed an analysis of reprocessed GPS/MET data spanning 1995-1997 generated by the COSMIC Data Analysis and Archive Center (CDAAC) in 2007.
Description
CDAAC developed modified dual-frequency processing methods for the encrypted data (anti-spoofing (AS)-on) during 1995-1997. We compared the CDAAC data set to the Modern-Era Retrospective Analysis for Research and Applications-2 (MERRA-2) reanalysis, separately for AS-on and AS-off, focusing on the altitude range 10-30 km.
MERRA-2 did not assimilate GPS/MET data in the period 1995-1997. To gain insight into the CDAAC data set, we developed a single-frequency data set for GPS/MET, which is unaffected by the presence of encryption. We find excellent agreement between the more limited single-frequency data set and the CDAAC data set: the bias between these two data sets is consistently less than 0.25 % in refractivity, whether or not AS is on.
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Given the different techniques applied between the CDAAC and the new data set presented here (designated JPL), agreement suggests that the CDAAC AS-on processing and the single-frequency processing are not biased in an aggregate sense greater than 0.25 % in refractivity, which corresponds approximately to a temperature bias less than 0.5 K. Since the profiles contained in the new single-frequency data set are not a subset of the CDAAC profiles, the combination of the CDAAC data set, consisting of 9579 profiles, and the new single-frequency data set, consisting of 4729 profiles, yields a total number of 11 531 unique profiles from combining the JPL and CDAAC data sets.
All numbers are after quality control has been applied by the respective processing activities.
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Topics
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- Earth & Environmental Science · Ocean & Atmospheric Science
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- Geophysics 71%
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