Special Issue for Applications of the Constellation Observing System for Meteorology, Ionosphere and Climate (COSMIC)

Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . i

• A History of GPS Sounding . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Thomas P. Yunck, Chao-Han Liu, Randolph Ware. . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

• COSMIC System Description . . . . . . . . .Christian Rocken, Ying-Hwa Kuo,
William S. Schreiner, Doug Hunt, Sergey Sokolovskiy, Chris McCormick . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .21

• The GPS Radio Occultation Technique . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
E. Robert Kursinski, George A. Hajj, Stephen S. Leroy, Benjamin Herman . . . . . . . . . . . . . .53

• Applications of COSMIC to Meteorology and Climate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Richard A. Anthes, Christian Rocken, Ying-Hwa Kuo . . . . . . . . . . .115

• Assimilation of GPS Radio Occultation Data for Numerical Weather
Prediction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Ying-Hwa Kuo,
Sergey V. Sokolovskiy, Richard A. Anthes and Francois Vandenberghe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .157

• The Application of COSMIC Data to Global Change Research . . . . . . . . . . . .

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Stephen S. Leroy and Gerald R. North . . . . . . . . . .187

• Weather and Climate Research in Taiwan: Potential Application of GPS/MET Data
. . . . . . . Chun-Chieh Wu, Hung-Chi Kuo, Huang-Hsiung Hsu, Ben Jong-Dao Jou . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211

• COSMIC GPS Ionospheric Sensing and Space Weather . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . George A. Hajj, Lou C. Lee, Xiaoqing Pi, Larry J. Romans, William S. Schreiner, Paul R. Straus, Chunming Wang . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235

• The Tiny Ionospheric Photometer: An Instrument for Measuring Ionospheric Gradients for the COSMIC Constellation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Kenneth F. Dymond, Jan Bai Nee, Ronald J. Thomas . .. . . . . . . . . . . 273

• Atmospheric Studies with the Tri-Band Beacon Instrument of the COSMIC
Constellation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Paul A. Bernhardt, Craig A. Selcher, Santi Basu, Gary Bust, Steven C. Reising . . . . . . 291

• The Causes and Effects of Adverse Space Weather . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Jih-Kwin Chao and Lou-Chuang Lee . . . . . . . . . . . .313

• Tomographic Study of Seasonal Variations of the Equatorial Anomaly in the Asian Sector
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. . . . . . . . . . . . . . Wei-Hsiung Tsai, Lin-Fu Huang, Mei-Feng Chen, Chao Han. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 337

• Modeling and Ground Observations of the Ionosphere Related to the COSMIC Project
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Jann-Yenq Liu, Yen-Hsyang Chu, Ming-Quey Chen, Lung-chih Tsai, Chien-Ming Huang . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 349

• COSMIC: Geodetic Applications in Improving Earth's Gravity Model . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Benjamin F. Chao, Erricos C. Pavlis, Cheinway Hwang, Chi-Ching Liu, C.K. Shum, Ching-Liang Tseng, Ming Yang . . . . . . . . . . 365