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Determination of tropical belt widening using multiple GNSS radio occultation measurements
Mohamed Darrag
School of Remote Sensing and Geomatics Engineering, Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, Nanjing 210044, China
Geodynamic Department, National Research Institute of Astronomy and Geophysics-NRIAG, 11421 Helwan, Cairo, Egypt
Shuanggen Jin
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
School of Remote Sensing and Geomatics Engineering, Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, Nanjing 210044, China
Shanghai Astronomical Observatory, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 200030, China
School of Surveying and Land Information Engineering, Henan Polytechnic University, Jiaozuo 454000, China
Andrés Calabia
School of Remote Sensing and Geomatics Engineering, Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, Nanjing 210044, China
Aalaa Samy
Geomagnetic and Geoelectric Department, National Research Institute of Astronomy and Geophysics-NRIAG, 11421 Helwan, Cairo, Egypt
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Short summary
We investigated the possible widening of the tropical belt along with the probable drivers and impacts based on high-accuracy, high-resolution GNSS RO data (2001–2020). The results show that the tropical belt has significant expansion in the Northern Hemisphere, while the Southern Hemisphere has no significant expansion.
We investigated the possible widening of the tropical belt along with the probable drivers and...
