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The first Special Sensor Microwave Imager/Sounder (SSMIS) was launched in October 2003 aboard the Air Force Defense Meteorological Satellite Program (DMSP) F-16 Spacecraft. As originally conceived, the SSMIS integrates the imaging capabilities of the heritage DMSP conically scanning Special Sensor Microwave/Imager sensor with the cross-track microwave sounders Special Sensor Microwave Temperature...
Global positioning system radio occultations (GPS RO) are active limb soundings in which a receiver aboard a low Earth orbiting satellite tracks the coherent signal broadcast by the GPS satellites as they occult behind the Earth's atmosphere. The GPS signal delay introduced by the atmosphere along the entire signal path can be inverted to yield high vertical resolution radio-refractivity profiles...
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