Radio Occultations for Numerical Weather Prediction, Ionosphere, and Space Weather II

Dear Colleagues,

Radio occultation play an increasing role in the numerical weather prediction, ionospheric study, as well as in space weather and climate research. This is determined by their low cost, all-weather capability, global coverage, universal calibration, and high vertical resolution. Currently, there are high-quality data from COSMIC-2, as well other missions, with different levels of signal-to-noise ratio. This makes radio occultation an essential source of data about the atmospheric and ionospheric state. The amount of data in the open access increases. This opens new prospective in the statistical analysis, including global atmospheric trends. This also results in an increased amounts of interesting cases and/or extreme events detectable from radio occultation observations.

The aim of the Special Issue is promoting new results based on the radio occultation data and new methods of processing radio occultation data. This fits very well to the scope of Remote Sensing journal.

Suggested themes and article types for submissions.

• Numerical weather prediction and assimilation of radio occultation data into global atmospheric circulation models
• Ionospheric retrieval
• Space weather research
• Global climate change study
• New methods of radio occultation inversion and ionospheric correction
• Extreme events
• Internal gravity waves
• Planetary boundary layer study
• Polarimetric radio occultations
• Techniques of numerical simulation of radio occultation events

Dr. Vladimir Gubenko
Dr. Michael E. Gorbunov
Prof. Dr. Xiaolei Zou
Dr. Paweł Gilewski
Guest Editors

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