[time-nuts] GPS usable for weather forecasting?

[Jim Lux]

On 3/29/13 9:09 AM, David J Taylor wrote:
> FYI: Yet another use for GPS timing signals is proposed:
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> http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/03/28/a-marshall-mcluhan-approach-to-weather-forecasting/
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> It's already been done!  GPS occultation sensors have been fitted to
> Metop-A and Metop-B satellites, which have been in orbit since 2006
> (Metop-A).  You get an integrated path over the atmosphere, so in some
> respects precise, in others a blurred view.
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> Cheers,
> David

COSMIC and (coming soon) COSMIC-2 also do GPS occultation.

http://www.cosmic.ucar.edu/

http://www.earthzine.org/2010/10/13/cosmic-2-weather-forecasting-and-space-weather-monitoring-in-the-21st-century/