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30 November 2023

In this study, a forecasting model was developed based on the COAWST and atmospheric 3D EnVar module to investigate the effects of assimilation of the sounding and COSMIC–2 data on the forecasting of the revised atmospheric refraction. Three gr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,552 Views
17 Pages

21 August 2022

COSMIC-2 (Constellation Observing System for Meteorology, Ionosphere and Climate- 2) dry temperature profile data from December 2019 to November 2021 are used to study stratospheric gravity waves (GWs) in the Asian monsoon region. The stratosphere be...

  • Communication
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,793 Views
12 Pages

14 December 2022

We used the Constellation Observing System for Meteorology, Ionosphere, and Climate-2 (COSMIC-2) dry temperature profile data from December 2019 to November 2021 to study the vertical wavenumber spectra of the potential energy of stratospheric gravit...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
6,280 Views
22 Pages

Comparative Assessment of Spire and COSMIC-2 Radio Occultation Data Quality

  • Cong Qiu,
  • Xiaoming Wang,
  • Kai Zhou,
  • Jinglei Zhang,
  • Yufei Chen,
  • Haobo Li,
  • Dingyi Liu and
  • Hong Yuan

24 October 2023

In this study, we investigate the performances of a commercial Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) Radio Occultation (RO) mission and a new-generation RO constellation, i.e., Spire and Constellation Observing System for Meteorology, Ionosphere,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
93 Citations
6,045 Views
22 Pages

Initial Assessment of the COSMIC-2/FORMOSAT-7 Neutral Atmosphere Data Quality in NESDIS/STAR Using In Situ and Satellite Data

  • Shu-Peng Ho,
  • Xinjia Zhou,
  • Xi Shao,
  • Bin Zhang,
  • Loknath Adhikari,
  • Stanislav Kireev,
  • Yuxiang He,
  • James G. Yoe,
  • Wei Xia-Serafino and
  • Erin Lynch

15 December 2020

A COSMIC-1/FORMOSAT-3 (Constellation Observing System for Meteorology, Ionosphere, and Climate-1 and Formosa Satellite Mission 3) follow-on mission, COSMIC-2/FORMOSAT-7, had been successfully launched into low-inclination orbits on 25 June 2019. COSM...

  • Article
  • Open Access
46 Citations
5,133 Views
20 Pages

An Analysis Study of FORMOSAT-7/COSMIC-2 Radio Occultation Data in the Troposphere

  • Shu-Ya Chen,
  • Chian-Yi Liu,
  • Ching-Yuang Huang,
  • Shen-Cha Hsu,
  • Hsiu-Wen Li,
  • Po-Hsiung Lin,
  • Jia-Ping Cheng and
  • Cheng-Yung Huang

16 February 2021

This study investigates the Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) radio occultation (RO) data from FORMOSAT-7/COSMIC-2 (FS7/C2), which provides considerably more and deeper profiles at lower latitudes than those from the former FORMOSAT-3/COSMIC...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
900 Views
19 Pages

Monthly Convective Boundary Layer Height Study over Brazil Using Radiosonde, ERA5, and COSMIC-2 Data

  • Gregori de Arruda Moreira,
  • María Jesús Pérez Herrera,
  • Ginés Garnés Morales,
  • Maria João Costa,
  • Alexandre Cacheffo,
  • Samara Carbone,
  • Fábio Juliano da Silva Lopes,
  • Jesús Abril-Gago,
  • Juana Andújar-Maqueda and
  • Juan Luis Guerrero-Rascado
  • + 3 authors

7 November 2025

Although the atmospheric boundary layer height (ABLH) is a highly relevant parameter for various meteorological studies, the analysis of its behavior remains undersampled in South America, especially in Brazil. In this context, this work presents a m...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,386 Views
14 Pages

Comparative Analysis of Binhu and Cosmic-2 Radio Occultation Data

  • Hongjie Zhang,
  • Jingliang Huangfu,
  • Xingbao Wang,
  • Wen Chen,
  • Wenwu Peng,
  • Qi Tang,
  • Yiqi Chu and
  • Ziyue Xue

4 October 2022

Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) radio occultation (RO) technology has been widely used in Earth atmospheric detection and has a significant impact on numerical weather prediction (NWP), climate detection, and other fields. Cosmic-2 LEO-1 (C...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
3,853 Views
26 Pages

5 May 2021

The radio occultation technique provides stable atmospheric measurements that can work as a benchmark for calibrating and validating satellite-sounding data. Launched on 25 June 2019, the Constellation Observing System for Meteorology, Ionosphere, an...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
3,888 Views
26 Pages

8 July 2022

In recent years, Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) radio occultation (RO) has become a critical observation system for global operational numerical weather prediction. Constellation Observing System for Meteorology, Ionosphere, Climate (COSMI...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
4,839 Views
24 Pages

4 March 2020

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) operational Advanced Technology Microwave Sounder (ATMS) and Advanced Microwave Sounding Unit-A (AMSU-A) data used in numerical weather prediction and climate analysis are essential to protect li...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,134 Views
18 Pages

10 November 2022

As the successor of FORMOSAT-3/COSMIC (FS3/C1), FORMOSAT-7/COSMIC-2 (FS7/C2) was successfully launched on 25 June 2019. FS3 radio occultation (RO) data has contributed greatly to Taiwan’s meteorological progress, improving model representations...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,003 Views
15 Pages

Analysis of Space-Borne GPS Data Quality and Evaluation of Precise Orbit Determination for COSMIC-2 Mission Based on Reduced Dynamic Method

  • Qiaoli Kong,
  • Yanfei Chen,
  • Wenhao Fang,
  • Guangzhe Wang,
  • Changsong Li,
  • Tianfa Wang,
  • Qi Bai and
  • Jingwei Han

24 July 2022

COSMIC-2 is a remote sensing satellite mission that mainly provides scientific data for weather forecasting, ionosphere, and climate research. High precise orbit is the basis for the application of remote sensing satellite data. In order to realize t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
6,161 Views
29 Pages

Four Years of Atmospheric Boundary Layer Height Retrievals Using COSMIC-2 Satellite Data

  • Ginés Garnés-Morales,
  • Maria João Costa,
  • Juan Antonio Bravo-Aranda,
  • María José Granados-Muñoz,
  • Vanda Salgueiro,
  • Jesús Abril-Gago,
  • Sol Fernández-Carvelo,
  • Juana Andújar-Maqueda,
  • Antonio Valenzuela and
  • Juan Luis Guerrero-Rascado
  • + 4 authors

3 May 2024

This work aimed to study the atmospheric boundary layer height (ABLH) from COSMIC-2 refractivity data, endeavoring to refine existing ABLH detection algorithms and scrutinize the resulting spatial and seasonal distributions. Through validation analys...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,121 Views
23 Pages

6 June 2022

The accuracy of brightness temperature (BT) from the Cross-track Infrared Sounder (CrIS) onboard the Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership (S-NPP) satellite and NOAA-20 is estimated using the Constellation Observing System for Meteorology, Ionosp...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
3,223 Views
26 Pages

Validation of COSMIC-2-Derived Ionospheric Peak Parameters Using Measurements of Ionosondes

  • Shuangshuang Shi,
  • Wang Li,
  • Kefei Zhang,
  • Suqin Wu,
  • Jiaqi Shi,
  • Fucheng Song and
  • Peng Sun

21 October 2021

Although numerous validations for the ionospheric peak parameters values (IPPVs) obtained from the Constellation Observing System for Meteorology, Ionosphere, and Climate (COSMIC) have been conducted using ionosonde measurements as a reference, compr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
2,828 Views
15 Pages

4 April 2022

Cosmic rays were discovered by the Austrian physicist Victor Hess in 1912 in a series of balloon experiments performed between 1911 and 1912. Cosmic rays are an integral part of fundamental and applied research in the field of solar–terrestrial...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,467 Views
14 Pages

3 December 2021

Since their discovery, cosmic rays have been an integral part of the development of fundamental physics, from the discovery of radiation coming to the Earth from outer space and the identification of high-energy particles in it, as well as new fundam...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,871 Views
17 Pages

26 May 2023

A hybrid approach is proposed to detect anomalies in natural complicated data structures with high noise levels. The approach includes the application of an autoencoder neural network and singular spectrum analysis (SSA) with an adaptive anomaly dete...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,715 Views
21 Pages

Impacts of GNSS RO Data on Typhoon Forecasts Using Global FV3GFS with GSI 4DEnVar

  • Tang-Xun Hong,
  • Ching-Yuang Huang,
  • Chen-Yang Lin,
  • Guo-Yuan Lien,
  • Zih-Mao Huang and
  • Shu-Ya Chen

19 April 2023

The FORMOSAT-7/COSMIC-2 satellites were launched in 2019, which can provide considerably larger amounts of radio occultation (RO) observations than the FORMOSAT-3/COSMIC satellites. The radio signals emitted from the global navigation satellites syst...

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
2,130 Views
8 Pages

An Overview of Nonstandard Signals in Cosmological Data

  • George Alestas,
  • George V. Kraniotis and
  • Leandros Perivolaropoulos

We discuss in a unified manner many existing signals in cosmological and astrophysical data that appear to be in some tension (2σ or larger) with the standard ΛCDM as defined by the Planck18 parameter values. The well known tensions of ΛCDM include t...

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  • Open Access
64 Citations
4,948 Views
10 Pages

2 November 2018

This paper provides a snapshot of the formal S 8 σ 8 Ω m / 0.3 tension between Planck 2015 and the Kilo Degree Survey of450 deg 2 of imaging data (KiDS-450) or the Canada France Hawaii Lensing Survey (CFH...

  • Feature Paper
  • Review
  • Open Access
31 Citations
11,476 Views
9 Pages

15 January 2016

In the last decade, the study of the overall shape of the universe, called Cosmic Topology, has become testable by astronomical observations, especially the data from the Cosmic Microwave Background (hereafter CMB) obtained by WMAP and Planck telesco...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
5,311 Views
73 Pages

4 August 2021

This paper focuses on a detailed comparison, based on the F2-layer peak characteristics foF2 and hmF2, between the International Reference Ionosphere (IRI), which is a climatological empirical model of the terrestrial ionosphere, and the IRI Real-Tim...

  • Article
  • Open Access
31 Citations
5,509 Views
14 Pages

Russian–German Astroparticle Data Life Cycle Initiative

  • Igor Bychkov,
  • Andrey Demichev,
  • Julia Dubenskaya,
  • Oleg Fedorov,
  • Andreas Haungs,
  • Andreas Heiss,
  • Donghwa Kang,
  • Yulia Kazarina,
  • Elena Korosteleva and
  • Dmitry Zhurov
  • + 12 authors

28 November 2018

Modern large-scale astroparticle setups measure high-energy particles, gamma rays, neutrinos, radio waves, and the recently discovered gravitational waves. Ongoing and future experiments are located worldwide. The data acquired have different formats...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
4,530 Views
26 Pages

16 May 2019

This study introduced a Kalman filtering assimilation model that considers the DCB errors of GPS/LEO satellites and GNSS stations. The assimilation results and reliability were verified by various types of data, such as ionMap, ionosonde, ISR, and th...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
2,143 Views
19 Pages

9 July 2025

Background: Current cosmological fits typically assume a direct relation between cosmic time (t) and the scale factor (a(t)), yet this ansatz remains largely untested across diverse observations. Objectives: We (i) test whether a single power-law sca...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,710 Views
11 Pages

Ionizing radiation sources such as Solar Energetic Particles and Galactic Cosmic Radiation may cause unexpected errors in imaging and communication systems of satellites in the Space environment, as reported in the previous literature. In this study,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,028 Views
20 Pages

Evaluation of Operational Monsoon Moisture Surveillance and Severe Weather Prediction Utilizing COSMIC-2/FORMOSAT-7 Radio Occultation Observations

  • Yu-Chun Chen,
  • Chih-Chien Tsai,
  • Yi-chao Wu,
  • An-Hsiang Wang,
  • Chieh-Ju Wang,
  • Hsin-Hung Lin,
  • Dan-Rong Chen and
  • Yi-Chiang Yu

28 July 2021

Operational monsoon moisture surveillance and severe weather prediction is essential for timely water resource management and disaster risk reduction. For these purposes, this study suggests a moisture indicator using the COSMIC-2/FORMOSAT-7 radio oc...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,770 Views
14 Pages

23 August 2020

The boundary layer height (BLH) determines the interface between the lower and the free atmosphere, and it is a key variable in numerical simulations and aerosol and environmental pollution studies. This article proposes a novel method in conjunction...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,042 Views
19 Pages

30 July 2023

In arid and semi-arid areas, soil moisture (SM) plays a crucial role in land-atmosphere interactions, hydrological processes, and ecosystem sustainability. SM data at large scales are critical for related climatic, hydrological, and ecohydrological r...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,607 Views
29 Pages

INTEGRAL View of TeV Sources: A Legacy for the CTA Project

  • Angela Malizia,
  • Mariateresa Fiocchi,
  • Lorenzo Natalucci,
  • Vito Sguera,
  • John B. Stephen,
  • Loredana Bassani,
  • Angela Bazzano,
  • Pietro Ubertini,
  • Elena Pian and
  • Antony J. Bird

Investigations that were carried out over the last two decades with novel and more sensitive instrumentation have dramatically improved our knowledge of the more violent physical processes taking place in galactic and extra-galactic Black-Holes, Neut...

  • Communication
  • Open Access
14 Citations
3,341 Views
12 Pages

Cosmic rays are a powerful tool for the investigation of the structure of the magnetic fields in the Galactic halo and the properties of the inter-stellar medium. Two parameters of the cosmic ray propagation models, the Galactic halo (half) thickness...

  • Article
  • Open Access
43 Citations
6,491 Views
59 Pages

Cosmic-Ray Database Update: Ultra-High Energy, Ultra-Heavy, and Antinuclei Cosmic-Ray Data (CRDB v4.0)

  • David Maurin,
  • Hans Peter Dembinski,
  • Javier Gonzalez,
  • Ioana Codrina Mariş and
  • Frédéric Melot

We present an update on CRDB, the cosmic-ray database for charged species. CRDB is based on MySQL, queried and sorted by jquery and table-sorter libraries, and displayed via PHP web pages through the AJAX protocol. We review the modifications made on...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,290 Views
16 Pages

Searching for Gravitational-Wave Bursts from Cosmic String Cusps with the Parkes Pulsar Timing Array’s Third Data Release

  • Yong Xia,
  • Jingbo Wang,
  • Sachiko Kuroyanagi,
  • Wenming Yan,
  • Yirong Wen,
  • Agastya Kapur,
  • Jing Zou,
  • Yi Feng,
  • Valentina Di Marco and
  • Xingjiang Zhu
  • + 4 authors

Pulsar timing arrays (PTAs) are designed to detect nanohertz-frequency gravitational waves (GWs). Since GWs are anticipated from cosmic strings, PTAs offer a viable approach to testing their existence. We present the results of the first Bayesian sea...

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
1,727 Views
7 Pages

Cosmic Rays (CRs) are powerful tools for the investigation of the structure of the magnetic fields in the galactic halo and the properties of the Inter-Stellar Medium. There are two parameters of CR propagation models: The galactic halo (half-) thick...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,396 Views
22 Pages

13 March 2024

In this paper we propose the method for detecting potential anomalous cosmic ray particle tracks in big data image dataset acquired by Complementary Metal-Oxide-Semiconductors (CMOS). Those sensors are part of scientific infrastructure of Cosmic Ray...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
6,296 Views
10 Pages

17 July 2017

The coupling between dark energy and dark matter provides a possible approach to mitigate the coincidence problem of the cosmological standard model. In this paper, we assumed the interacting term was related to the Hubble parameter, energy density o...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,857 Views
15 Pages

Assessment of ZTD Derived from COSMIC Occultation Data with ECWMF, Radiosondes, and GNSS

  • Naifeng Fu,
  • Mingbo Jiang,
  • Fenghui Li,
  • Peng Guo,
  • Chunping Hou,
  • Mengjie Wu,
  • Jianming Wu,
  • Zhipeng Wang and
  • Liang Kan

12 July 2022

Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) signals generate slant tropospheric delays when they pass through the atmosphere, which is recognized as the main source of error in many spatial geodetic applications. The zenith tropospheric delay (ZTD) der...

  • Communication
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,925 Views
10 Pages

17 July 2025

The impacts of the solar eclipse that occurred on 8 April 2024 over the United States on various atmospheric parameters are investigated. We analyzed surface and vertical profiles of temperature and humidity to understand how this eclipse affected th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,359 Views
14 Pages

Diagnostics of Es Layer Scintillation Observations Using FS3/COSMIC Data: Dependence on Sampling Spatial Scale

  • Lung-Chih Tsai,
  • Shin-Yi Su,
  • Chao-Han Liu,
  • Harald Schuh,
  • Jens Wickert and
  • Mohamad Mahdi Alizadeh

17 September 2021

The basic theory and experimental results of amplitude scintillation from GPS/GNSS radio occultation (RO) observations on sporadic E (Es) layers are reported in this study. Considering an Es layer to be not a “thin” irregularity slab on limb viewing,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
4,031 Views
15 Pages

20 January 2020

At certain geographic locations, especially in the polar regions, the ionization of the ionospheric E layer can dominate over that of the F2 layer. The associated electron density profiles show their ionization maximum at E layer heights between 80 a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
2,525 Views
15 Pages

29 March 2021

A method for identification of structures of a complex signal and noise suppression based on nonlinear approximating schemes is proposed. When we do not know the probability distribution of a signal, the problem of identifying its structures can be s...

  • Technical Note
  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,607 Views
8 Pages

Prototype Setup Hardware Choice for the DUCK System

  • Dmitriy Beznosko,
  • Valeriy Aseykin,
  • Alexander Dyshkant,
  • Alexander Iakovlev,
  • Oleg Krivosheev,
  • Tatiana Krivosheev,
  • Vladimir Shiltsev and
  • Valeriy Zhukov

This article covers the overall design hardware choices for the prototyping activities for the DUCK (Detector system of Unusual Cosmic ray casKades). The primary goal of the DUCK system is to verify the existence of the unusual cosmic events reported...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,929 Views
25 Pages

10 September 2025

We extend the Quantum Memory Matrix (QMM) framework—previously shown to unify gauge interactions and reproduce cold dark matter phenomenology—to account for the observed late-time cosmic acceleration. In QMM, each Planck-scale cell carrie...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
3,338 Views
28 Pages

17 December 2023

Geomagnetic storms are one of the leading causes of ionospheric irregularities, depending on their intensity. The 6–10 September 2017 geomagnetic storm, the most severe geomagnetic event of the year, resulted from an X9 solar flare and a subseq...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
4,028 Views
29 Pages

19 September 2021

Radio occultation (RO) sensor measurements have critical roles in numerical weather prediction (NWP) by complementing microwave and infrared sounder measurements with information of the atmospheric profiles at high accuracy, precision, and vertical r...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
3,624 Views
28 Pages

25 July 2023

Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) Radio Occultation (RO) data play an essential role in improving numerical weather prediction (NWP) and monitoring climate change. The NOAA Commercial RO Purchase Program (CDP) purchased RO data provided by Sp...

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