Table 2 Data sets used in each analysis
From: Performance assessment of radio occultation data from GeoOptics by comparing with COSMIC data
Data | Processing center/data type | Data period | “Measurement coverage” section | “Influence of SNR” section | “Quality assessment of RO measurements by comparing with other data sets” section | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
“Comparison with ECMWF” section | “ Comparison with radiosonde” section | “Analysis of random error uncertainty by using the 3CH methodsection” | ||||||
COSMIC-1 & GeoOptics | COSMIC-2 & GeoOptics | |||||||
COSMIC-1 RO data | CDAAC | Period 1 | V | V | V | |||
COSMIC-2 RO data | CDAAC | Period 2 | V | V | V | V | V | |
GeoOptics RO data | GeoOptics, Inc | Period 1 | V | |||||
CDAAC | Period 2 | V | V | V | V | V | ||
ECMWF | CDAAC (echPrf) | Period 1 | V | |||||
Period 2 | V | V | ||||||
Radiosonde | CDAAC (sonPrf) | Period 1 | V | |||||
GRUAN RS41 | Period 2 | V | V | |||||