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Models for the atmosphere of Mars based on the Mariner IV occulation experiment Scientific report nos. 2 and 15
Mars atmospheric models based on Mariner IV OCCULTATION experimen
The two-frequency, bistatic radar-occultation method for the study of planetary ionospheres scientific reports no. 1 and no. 7
Method for study of planetary ionospheres based on radio wave propagation between earth and spacecraf
The atmosphere of Venus as studied with the Mariner 5 dual radio-frequency occultation experiment, part 1 Final report
Differential Doppler measurement analysis for Mariner 5 Venus occultation experimen
The bistatic radar-occultation method for the study of planetary atmospheres scientific report no. 5
Bistatic radar-occultation method for planetary atmosphere stud
GPS radio occultation with GRACE: Atmospheric profiling utilizing the zero difference technique
Radio occultation events recorded on 28-29 July 2004 by a GPS receiver aboard
the GRACE-B satellite are analyzed. The stability of the receiver clock allows
for the derivation of excess phase profiles using a zero difference technique,
rendering the calibration procedure with concurrent observations of a reference
GPS satellite obsolete. 101 refractivity profiles obtained by zero differencing
and 96 profiles calculated with an improved single difference method are
compared with co-located ECMWF meteorological analyses. Good agreement is found
at altitudes between 5 and 30 km with an average fractional refractivity
deviation below 1% and a standard deviation of 2-3%. Results from end-to-end
simulations are consistent with these observations.Comment: 17 pages, 4 figure
A non-linear optimal estimation inverse method for radio occultation measurements of temperature, humidity and surface pressure
An optimal estimation inverse method is presented which can be used to
retrieve simultaneously vertical profiles of temperature and specific humidity,
in addition to surface pressure, from satellite-to-satellite radio occultation
observations of the Earth's atmosphere. The method is a non-linear, maximum
{\it a posteriori} technique which can accommodate most aspects of the real
radio occultation problem and is found to be stable and to converge rapidly in
most cases. The optimal estimation inverse method has two distinct advantages
over the analytic inverse method in that it accounts for some of the effects of
horizontal gradients and is able to retrieve optimally temperature and humidity
simultaneously from the observations. It is also able to account for
observation noise and other sources of error. Combined, these advantages ensure
a realistic retrieval of atmospheric quantities.
A complete error analysis emerges naturally from the optimal estimation
theory, allowing a full characterisation of the solution. Using this analysis a
quality control scheme is implemented which allows anomalous retrieval
conditions to be recognised and removed, thus preventing gross retrieval
errors.
The inverse method presented in this paper has been implemented for bending
angle measurements derived from GPS/MET radio occultation observations of the
Earth. Preliminary results from simulated data suggest that these observations
have the potential to improve NWP model analyses significantly throughout their
vertical range.Comment: 18 (jgr journal) pages, 7 figure
Preliminary results of the Mariner IV radio occultation measurements of the upper atmosphere of Mars
Mariner IV radio occultation measurements of Mars upper atmospher
Administration of remote computer networks
Today's computer networks have gone from typically being a small local area network,
to wide area networks, where users and servers are interconnected with each other from
all over the world. This development has gradually expanded as bandwidth has become
higher and cheaper.
But when dealing with the network traffic, bandwidth is only one of the important
properties. Delay, jitter and reliability are also important properties for the quality of
network connection. This is because different applications has different needs, and
therefore require different properties from the network.
System administrators are in an increasing degree involved with the troubleshooting
of solving network problems concerning the quality of service for the different
applications.
This thesis analyzed techniques for measuring, analyzing, presenting and interpreting
the different properties for the administration of remote computer network. In
this way system administrators can benefit from this thesis when administrating their
remote computer networks.Master i nettverks- og systemadministrasjo
Preliminary results of the Mariner IV OCCULATION measurement of the atmosphere of Mars
Mariner IV radio occultation measurement of Mars atmospher
Global monitoring of tropospheric water vapor with GPS radio occultation aboard CHAMP
The paper deals with application of GPS radio occultation (RO) measurements
aboard CHAMP for the retrieval of tropospheric water vapor profiles. The GPS RO
technique provides a powerful tool for atmospheric sounding which requires no
calibration, is not affected by clouds, aerosols or precipitation, and provides
an almost uniform global coverage. We briefly overview data processing and
retrieval of vertical refractivity, temperature and water vapor profiles from
GPS RO observations. CHAMP RO data are available since 2001 with up to 200 high
resolution atmospheric profiles per day. Global validation of CHAMP water vapor
profiles with radiosonde data reveals a bias of about 0.2 g/kg and a standard
deviation of less than 1 g/kg specific humidity in the lower troposphere. We
demonstrate potentials of CHAMP RO retrievals for monitoring the mean
tropospheric water vapor distribution on a global scale.Comment: 7 pages, 4 figure
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