Articles | Volume 10, issue 3
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-10-1093-2017
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-10-1093-2017
Research article
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16 Mar 2017
Research article |  | 16 Mar 2017

Tropospheric dry layers in the tropical western Pacific: comparisons of GPS radio occultation with multiple data sets

Therese Rieckh, Richard Anthes, William Randel, Shu-Peng Ho, and Ulrich Foelsche

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We use GPS radio occultation (RO) data to investigate the structure and temporal behavior of extremely dry, high-ozone tropospheric air in the tropical western Pacific and compare them to various data sets (research aircraft, radiosonde, infrared sounder, and model reanalyses). All these data sets have limitations. We show that the RO data contribute significant information on the water vapor content. Our results also verify the quality of the reanalyses.