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Temperature, pressure, density and water vapor are the most significant variables describing the state of the atmosphere. Therefore they have always been the major goals of direct and indirect atmospheric remote sensings. Radiosonde, satellite infrared, and microwave soundings are the traditional means of collecting temperature, pressure and humidity data today. Radiosonde observations typically yield acceptable accuracy and high vertical resolution, but the geographic coverage is uneven with almost no coverage over oceans. Passive satellite remote sensing techniques yield good global coverage and high horizontal resolution, but the vertical and temporal resolutions are rather coarse. Due to these limitations, these data collection techniques have not been adequate for many weather and global climate applications today.
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Feng, D., Herman, B., Exner, M., Schreiner, W., McCloskey, R., Hunt, D. (1996). Preliminary Results from the GPS/MET Atmospheric Remote Sensing Experiment. In: Beutler, G., Melbourne, W.G., Hein, G.W., Seeber, G. (eds) GPS Trends in Precise Terrestrial, Airborne, and Spaceborne Applications. International Association of Geodesy Symposia, vol 115. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-80133-4_22
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