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Articles | Volume 6, issue 4
Articles | Volume 6, issue 4
https://doi.org/10.5194/wcd-6-1683-2025
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04 Dec 2025
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The potential of GNSS radio occultation data for the analysis of the tropical width: a comparison with reanalyses

Annika Reiter, Julia Danzer, and Andrea K. Steiner

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Observational Global navigation satellite system (GNSS) radio occultation (RO) temperature and wind data show high potential to study the tropical width. Comparisons of RO data with state-of-the-art reanalyses demonstrate their feasibility to study the tropopause break and jet stream metrics for zonal-mean and longitudinally-resolved studies. The RO data record provides observations in regions where other methods fall short, such as over oceans and in the Southern Hemisphere.
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