Data coverage
This is an updating archive of radio occultation (RO) data using the transmitters of the Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) as generated and processed by the COSMIC DAAC (ucar), the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (jpl) of the California Institute of Technology, and the Radio Occultation Meteorology Satellite Application Facility (romsaf). The contributions for ucar and romsaf are currently active. This dataset is funded by the NASA Earth Science Data Systems and the Advancing Collaborative Connections for Earth System Science (ACCESS) 2019 program.
Access & permitted use
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A Creative Commons open-use licence (https://www.ucar.edu/terms-of-use/data) applies to the data contributed by UCAR; the EUMETSAT Data Policy (https://www.eumetsat.int/eumetsat-data-licensing) applies to the data contributed by the ROM SAF; and a creative commons license (https://creativecommmons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode) applied to the data contributed by the NASA JPL of the California Institute of Technology. The source of the data is designated in the attribute 'processingcenter' and the license in the attribute 'datauselicense'.
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