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The Constellation Observing System for Meteorology, Ionosphere, and Climate (COSMIC) is scheduled for launch in 2006. COSMIC will consist of six low earth orbiting satellites in planes separated by 24° to provide global atmospheric and ionospheric observations. One of the goals is to demonstrate near real-time processing of data products for numerical weather prediction and space weather applications. Each COSMIC satellite will carry three payloads: (1) a Global Positioning System (GPS) occultation receiver with two high-gain limb viewing antennas and two antennas for precision orbit determination, (2) a Tiny Ionospheric Photometer (TIP) for monitoring the electron density via nadir radiance measurements along the sub-satellite track, and (3) a Tri-Band Beacon (TBB) transmitter for ionospheric tomography and scintillation studies. The data from all these payloads will be processed at the COSMIC Data Analysis and Archival Center (CDAAC). Here we give an overview of the ionospheric data products from COSMIC and focus on the plans and preliminary simulation studies for analyzing the ionospheric occultation data and combining them with ground-based GPS, TIP, and TBB observations.
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- Global Position System
- Total Electron Content
- Radio Occultation
- Vertical Total Electron Content
- Ionospheric Scintillation
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Syndergaard, S., Schreiner, W.S., Rocken, C., Hunt, D.C., Dymond, K.F. (2006). Preparing for COSMIC: Inversion and Analysis of Ionospheric Data Products. In: Foelsche, U., Kirchengast, G., Steiner, A. (eds) Atmosphere and Climate. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-34121-8_12
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