2005 | OriginalPaper | Buchkapitel
Structure and Variability of the Tropopause Obtained from CHAMP Radio Occultation Temperature Profiles
verfasst von : Madineni Venkat Ratnam, Gerd Tetzlaff, Christoph Jacobi
Erschienen in: Earth Observation with CHAMP
Verlag: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
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The global structure and variability of the tropopause observed using CHAMP/GPS radio occultation observations from May 2001 through September 2003 are presented. Tropopause temperature and height observed by CHAMP/GPS has been compared with radiosonde observations at a sub-tropical site. At polar latitudes, the tropopause sharpness found to be highest in summer and lowest in winter with slight differences between hemispheres.