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AMV Monitoring - April 2011

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Density Map Vector Zonal Plot details

Details of plotted data
General
  • All data is in BUFR format unless otherwise specified.
  • A QI threshold of 80 is applied to all geostationary AMVs and a QI threshold of 60 is applied to all polar AMVs. The QI used is the EUMETSAT quality indicator without first guess check.
Assimilation status

Satellite Data assimilated at Met Office Data assimilated at ECMWF
Meteosat-9 IR 10.8, cloudy WV 7.3, HRVIS and VIS 0.8 IR 10.8, cloudy WV 7.3, cloudy WV 6.2 and VIS 0.8
Meteosat-8 Not assimilated Not assimilated
Meteosat-7 IR, cloudy WV and VIS IR, cloudy WV and VIS
MTSAT-2 IR, cloudy WV and VIS IR, cloudy WV and VIS
GOES-13 final (post-autoeditor)
IR, cloudy WV 		final (post-autoeditor)
IR, cloudy WV and VIS
GOES-11 final (post-autoeditor)
IR, cloudy WV 		final (post-autoeditor)
IR, cloudy WV and VIS
Terra/Aqua final (post-autoeditor)
NESDIS and direct broadcast (Tromso, McMurdo Stn, Sodankyla, Fairbanks)
IR, cloudy WV and clear sky WV 		final (post-autoeditor)
NESDIS
IR, cloudy WV and clear sky WV
NOAA 15-19 NOAA 15-19 final (post-autoeditor)
CIMSS and direct broadcast (Barrow, Rothera)
IR 		Not assimilated
Metop-A CIMSS IR Not assimilated

Plots are included from the Met Office for the unedited GOES and MODIS winds. These are the pre-autoeditor winds (i.e. before speed and pressure adjustment). There may be some differences between the final and unedited wind numbers as the unedited winds are not monitored operationally.