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COSMIC-1: Taking radio signals from the GPS as they pass through Earth's atmosphere.

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COSMIC Director - Bill Kuo - Recipient of the 2013 Fellow of the Meteorological Society of the Republic of China (Taiwan).

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COSMIC-2: A revolutionary increase in the number of atmospheric and ionospheric observations.

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Ground-based GPS: Generating near real-time estimates of atmospheric precipitable water-vapor.

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Education and Outreach: Expanding the research in Radio Occultation.

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Missions of Opportunity: Providing data to the Radio Occultation Community.

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CDAAC: Processing raw Radio Occultation data into atmospheric profiles.

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Science Applications: Improving weather forecasts, monitoring climate change, and enhancing space weather research.

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Recent Publications

Steiner, A. K., D. Hunt, S.-P. Ho, G. Kirchengast, A. J. Mannucci, B. Scherllin-Pirscher, H. Gleisner, A. von Engeln, T. Schmidt, C. Ao, S. S. Leroy, E. R. Kursinski, U. Foelsche, M. Gorbunov, Y.-H. Kuo et al., 2013: Quantification of structural uncertainty in climate data records from GPS radio occultation. Atmos. Chem. Phys. Discuss., 12, 26963-26994, doi:10.5194/acpd-12-26963-2012.

Yue, X., W. S. Schreiner, C. Rocken, and Y.-H. Kuo, 2013: Validate the IRI2007 model by the COSMIC slant TEC data during the extremely solar minimum of 2008. Adv. Space Res., 51(4), 647-653, doi:10.1016/j.asr.2011.08.011.

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