GNSS Radio Occultation Soundings from Commercial Off-the-Shelf Receivers Onboard Balloon Platforms (NCEI Accession 0254366)

The global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) radio occultation (RO) technique has proven to be an effective tool for Earth atmosphere profiling. Traditional spaceborne RO satellite constellations are expensive with relatively low sampling rates for individual satellites. Airborne RO platforms can provide much higher spatial and temporal sampling of ROs around regional weather events. This dataset is the result of a paper which explores the capability of a low-cost and scalable Commercial-Off-The-Shelf (COTS) GNSS receiver onboard high-altitude balloons. The atmospheric refractivity profile retrievals from balloon-borne RO payloads obtained from two flight campaigns (World View and ZPM-1) are archived.

全球导航卫星系统（Global Navigation Satellite System, GNSS）无线电掩星（Radio Occultation, RO）技术已被证实为地球大气廓线探测的有效工具。传统星载RO卫星星座成本高昂，且单颗卫星的采样率相对偏低。机载RO平台可在区域天气事件周边实现更高时空分辨率的RO采样。本数据集源自一篇探讨高空气球搭载低成本、可扩展商用现货（Commercial-Off-The-Shelf, COTS）GNSS接收机性能的研究论文，收录了两次飞行任务（World View与ZPM-1）中气球搭载RO载荷获取的大气折射率廓线反演结果。