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Tropical cyclones vertical structure from GNSS radio occultation: an archive covering the period 2001–2018
Elżbieta Lasota
Institute of Geodesy and Geoinformatics, Wrocław University of
Environmental and Life Sciences, Wrocław, 50356, Poland
Dipartimento di Geoscienze, Università degli Studi di Padova,
Padua, 35131, Italy
Andrea K. Steiner
Wegener Center for Climate and Global Change (WEGC), University of
Graz, Graz, 8010, Austria
Institute for Geophysics, Astrophysics, and Meteorology/Institute of Physics, University of Graz, Graz, 8010, Austria
Gottfried Kirchengast
Wegener Center for Climate and Global Change (WEGC), University of
Graz, Graz, 8010, Austria
Institute for Geophysics, Astrophysics, and Meteorology/Institute of Physics, University of Graz, Graz, 8010, Austria
Riccardo Biondi
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Dipartimento di Geoscienze, Università degli Studi di Padova,
Padua, 35131, Italy
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In this work, we provide a comprehensive archive of tropical cyclone vertical structure for the period 2001–2018. The tropical cyclone best tracks are co-located in time and space with high-vertical-resolution atmospheric profiles (temperature, pressure, humidity and refractivity) from radio occultations and with climatological profiles. This dataset can be used to analyze the inner vertical thermodynamic structure of tropical cyclones and the pre-cyclone environment.
In this work, we provide a comprehensive archive of tropical cyclone vertical structure for the...
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