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COSMIC is a joint Taiwan–US mission to study the atmosphere using the Global Positioning System (GPS) occultation technique. Improved formulas are developed for the radial, along-track, and cross-track perturbations, which are more accurate than the commonly used order-zero formulas. The formulas are used to simulate gravity recovery using the geodetic GPS data of COSMIC in the operational phase. Results show that the EGM96 model can be improved up to degree 26 using 1 year of COSMIC data. TOPEX/POSEIDON altimeter data are used to derive a temporal gravity variation. COSMIC cannot reproduce this gravity variation perfectly because of data noise and orbital configuration, but the recovered field clearly shows the gravity signature due to mass movement in an El Niño.
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Received: 3 March 2000 / Accepted: 10 November 2000
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Hwang, C. Gravity recovery using COSMIC GPS data: application of orbital perturbation theory. Journal of Geodesy 75, 117–136 (2001). https://doi.org/10.1007/s001900100159
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s001900100159