Articles | Volume 9, issue 2
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-781-2016
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-781-2016
Research article
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02 Mar 2016
Research article |  | 02 Mar 2016

Preliminary validation of the refractivity from the new radio occultation sounder GNOS/FY-3C

Mi Liao, Peng Zhang, Guang-Lin Yang, Yan-Meng Bi, Yan Liu, Wei-Hua Bai, Xiang-Guang Meng, Qi-Fei Du, and Yue-Qiang Sun

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This paper provides a preliminary validation for the refractivity of GNOS, a new addition to the space-based radio occultation sounder on FY-3C. It possesses a similar sounding capability that COSMIC and GRAS did in the vertical range of 0-30 km, with a precision below 1 %.