ROHP-PAZ
PAZ Radio Occultation data will use NOAA's ground segment facilities
An agreement between the Institute of Space Sciences (ICE-CSIC/IEEC, Spain) and the North American National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA, USA) has been signed on April 9 2012, for which the GNSS Radio Occultation data obtained with the Spanish PAZ Low Earth Orbiter will be down-linked to NOAA facilities once per orbit. This collaboration agreement, together with the one already signed with the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR, USA), will allow the processing of the measured atmospheric profiles and their dissemination in near-real time to Meteorological Services worldwide for ingestion into the forecast models.