E. R. Kursinski

TL;DR: In this article, the authors present the first systematic, extensive error analysis of the spacecraft radio occultation technique using a combination of analytical and simulation methods to establish a baseline accuracy for retrieved profiles of refractivity, geopotential, and temperature.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors provide a relatively comprehensive treatment of the mission and technical aspects of an Earth-orbiting radio occultation satellite, which can be used to recover profiles of the Earth's atmospheric refractivity, pressure, and temperature using small, dedicated and relatively low-cost space systems.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors evaluated the accuracy of the German Challenging Minisatellite Payload (CHAMP) and the Argentine Satelite de Aplicaciones Cientificas-C (SAC-C) Earth science missions for radio occultation sounding of the ionosphere and neutral atmosphere.

TL;DR: In this article, the structural uncertainty of atmospheric trends estimated from the radio occultation (RO) record is quantified from current processing schemes of six international RO processing centers, DMI Copenhagen, EUM Darmstadt, GFZ Potsdam, JPL Pasadena, UCAR Boulder, and WEGC Graz.

TL;DR: In this paper, the structural uncertainties of retrieved profiles that result from different processing methods are quantified and differences and standard deviations of the individual centers relative to the inter-center mean are used to quantify the structural uncertainty.