| Session Details | |
| Section | IWG - Interdisciplinary Working Groups |
| Session Title | Development of GPS data processing science and technology for meteorology, ionosphere, and geodesy |
| Main Convener | Prof. Yuei-An Liou (National Central University, Taiwan) |
| Co-convener(s) | |
| Session Description | GPS is widely used in a variety of scientific applications in climate, meteorology, ionosphere, and geodesy by using ground- and space-based observations. Undoubtedly, the potential of radio occultation (RO) space experiments have been proved successful in addressing a broad range of scientific questions in meteorology, climate, ionosphere, and geodesy for decades. Since the invention of RO technique, a series of RO space missions have been and are presently being conducted to probe the atmosphere and ionosphere, resulting in precise profiles of atmospheric density, pressure, temperature and moisture content, and ionospheric electron density profiles. These missions include GPS/MET (USA), CHAMP (Germany), GRACE (USA-Germany), and the recent mission of FORMOSAT3/COSMIC (Taiwan–USA). Almost on same foot, many ground networks of continuous GPS stations have been established for meteorological, ionospheric, and geodetic studies. This session solicits papers on (but not limited to) recent advances in the development with space RO experiments and ground-based GPS data processing in atmospheric sounding, retrieving atmospheric and ionospheric variables and their profiles, as well as geodetic aspects such as real-time and post-processing schemes for precise orbit determination (possible time-variable gravity solutions) and positioning determination. I hope you all will enjoy this session and your active participation and research contribution will make this meeting a remarkable mark in the advancement of GPS MET research by exchanging your scientific thought and new findings with the other distinguished researchers in this field. |