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GNSS Radio Occultation (RO) can monitor the atmosphere globally under all weather conditions with a high vertical resolution. In this study, four different techniques for identifying the TPH were investigated. The lapse rate tropopause (LRT) and cold point tropopause (CPT) methods are the traditional methods for determining the TPH based on temperature profiles according to the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) definition. Two advanced methods based on the covariance transform (CT) method are used to estimate the TPH from the refractivity (TPHN) and the TPH from the bending angle (TPH\u03b1). Data from the Sentinel-6 satellite were used to evaluate the different algorithms for the identification of the TPH. The analysis shows that the CPT height is greater than the LRT height and that the CPT is only valid in tropical regions. The CPT height, TPHN, and TPH\u03b1 were compared with the LRT height. In general, the TPH\u03b1 had the largest value, followed by the TPHN, and the LRT had the lowest value of TPH at and near the equator. In the equatorial region, the maximum TPH results from the TPH\u03b1 (approximately 17.5 km), and at the poles, the minimum TPH results from the LRT (approximately 9 km). The results were also compared with the European Center for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF), and there was a strong correlation of 0.999 between the different approaches for identifying the TPH from RO and the ECMWF model. The identification of the TPH is critical for the transfer of mass, water, and trace gases between the troposphere and stratosphere.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/rs15235513","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2023,11,27]],"date-time":"2023-11-27T03:35:06Z","timestamp":1701056106000},"page":"5513","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":4,"title":["Evaluation of Tropopause Height from Sentinel-6 GNSS Radio Occultation Using Different Methods"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"15","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-1112-387X","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Mohamed","family":"Zhran","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Public Works Engineering Department, Faculty of Engineering, Mansoura University, Mansoura 35516, Egypt"}]},{"given":"Ashraf","family":"Mousa","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Geodynamic Department, National Research Institute of Astronomy and Geophysics, Helwan 11421, Egypt"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-5958-2621","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Fahad","family":"Alshehri","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Abdullah Alrushaid Chair for Earth Science Remote Sensing Research, Geology and Geophysics Department, College of Science, King Saud University, Riyadh 11451, Saudi Arabia"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-5108-4828","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Shuanggen","family":"Jin","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Surveying and Land Information Engineering, Henan Polytechnic University, Jiaozuo 454003, China"},{"name":"Shanghai Astronomical Observatory, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 200030, China"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2023,11,27]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","unstructured":"Johnston, B., and Xie, F. 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