Publications
This page contains download links to publications from NWP SAF. This includes visiting scientist reports, technical reports, and peer-reviewed publications in which NWP SAF work was a large component.
Visiting Scientist reports
Technical Reports
| Title | Author(s) | Date | Doc ID |
|---|---|---|---|
| Updating the AAPP microwave tests for EPS-SG: part 2 - surface tests | Atkinson, N.C. | 15/08/2022 | NWPSAF-MO-TR-041 |
| Updating the AAPP microwave tests for EPS-SG | Atkinson, N.C. | 23/05/2022 | NWPSAF-MO-TR-040 |
| Literature Review on Microwave and Sub-millimetre Spectroscopy for MetOp Second Generation | Turner, E. Fox, F. Mattiolo, V. and Cimini, D. | 26/01/2022 | NWPSAF-MO-TR-039 |
| Change point detection in Météo-France monitoring time series - Validation | Stoop, F. | 11/05/2021 | NWPSAF-MF-TV-001 |
| High resolution data assimilation guide | Ad Stoffelen, Jur Vogelzang and Gert-Jan Marseille | 23/11/2020 | NWPSAF-KN-UD-008 |
| Wind Bias Correction Guide | Ad Stoffelen and Jur Vogelzang | 18/01/2021 | NWPSAF-KN-UD-007 |
| Report on Metop-C AMSU-A, MHS and IASI radiance data quality | Cooke, M. Köpken-Watts, C. Candy, B. Pitcher, L. Faulwetter, R. Harlow, C. and Atkinson, N. | 2020 | NWPSAF-MO-TR-037 |
| Sub-millimetre Spectroscopy for AMSUTRAN. Part One: TheTheoretical Basis | Turner, E. and Saunders, R. | 10/12/2019 | NWPSAF-MO-TR-038 |
| CFOSAT and WindRad Rotation Fan-beam Scatterometer Simulation and Wind Retrieval Performance Evaluation | Z. Li, A. Stoffelen and A. Verhoef | 29/07/2019 | NWPSAF-KN-TR-029 |
| Screening routines for aerosol- and trace-gas-affected infrared radiances (poster presentation at ITSC-22) | Reima Eresmaa, Julie Letertre-Danczak, Tony McNally | 2019 | |
| Channel specific aerosol flagging | Reima Eresmaa and Julie Letertre-Danczak | 29/01/2019 | |
| Wind Bias Correction Guide | Ad Stoffelen and Jur Vogelzang | 14/09/2018 | NWPSAF-KN-UD-007 |
| High resolution data assimilation guide | Ad Stoffelen, Jur Vogelzang and Gert-Jan Marseille | 10/09/2018 | NWPSAF-KN-UD-008 |
| Report on NOAA-20 ATMS and CrIS radiance data quality | Harlow, C., Ch. Köpken-Watts, A. Doherty, L. Pitcher, R. Faulwetter, F. Carminati, and N. Atkinson | 2018 | NWPSAF-MO-TR-036 |
| NWP SAF AMV monitoring: the 8th Analysis Report (AR8) | Warrick F. and J. Cotton | 2018 | NWPSAF-MO-TR-035 |
| Assessment of the forecast impact of suface-sensitive microwave radiances over land and sea-ice | Bormann, N, C. Lupu, A. Geer, H. Lawrence, P. Weston, S. English | 2017 | ECMWF Technical Memorandum No. 804 |
| The testing and implementation of variational bias correction (VarBC) in the Met Office global NWP system | Cameron, J. and Bell, W. | 2018 | Met Office Weather Science Tech Report no. 631 |
| Modeling on nonlocal thermodynamic equilibrium effects in the classical and principal component based version of the RTTOV fast radiative transfer model | M. Matricardi, M. Lopez Pueras and B. Funke | 2017 | ECMWF Tech. Memo 812 |
| CADS Version 2.3 Aerosol validation | Vidot J. | 2017 | NWP-MF-TV-001 |
| Meteosat-8 AMVs over the Indian Ocean | Cotton, J | 25/01/2017 | Met Office Satellite Applications Technical Memo 66 |
| An evaluation of radiative transfer modelling errors in AMSU-A data | Lupu, C., A. J. Geer, N. Bormann and S. English | 2016 | ECMWF Tech. Memo 770 |
| A visible/infrared multiple-scattering model for RTTOV | James Hocking | 20/12/2016 | NWPSAF-MO-TR-031 |
| NE∆T specification and monitoring for microwave sounders | Nigel Atkinson | 17/12/2016 | NWPSAF-MO-TR-033 |
| Radiometric calibration for microwave sounders | Nigel Atkinson | 08/12/2016 | NWPSAF-MO-TR-034 |
| Two-dimensional variational ambiguity removal (2DVAR) | Jur Vogelzang | 01/06/2022 | NWPSAF-KN-TR-004 |
| ASCAT-6.25 Validation | Jur Vogelzang | 19/05/2016 | NWPSAF-KN-TV-009 |
| Meteorological satellite data rescue: Assessing radiances from Nimbus-IV IRIS (1970-1971) and Nimbus-VI HIRS (1975-1976) | Poli, P. and P. Brunel | 2016 | ECMWF ERA Report Series 23 |
| A comparison of MFASIS and RTTOV-DOM | Scheck, L., Hocking, J., Saunders, R. | 2016 | Scheck, L., Hocking, J., Saunders, R. |
| ASCAT wind validation | Vogelzang, J. | 2016 | NWPSAF-KN-TV-009 |
| On buoys, scatterometers and reanalyses for globally representative winds | Ad Stoffelen and Jur Vogelzang | 28/08/2015 | NWPSAF-KN-TR-024 |
| NWP SAF AMV monitoring: the 7th Analysis Report (AR7) | Warrick F. | 2015 | NWPSAF-MO-TR-32 |
| Enhancing the impact of IASI observations through an updated observation error covariance matrix | Bormann, N. and M. Bonavita and R. Dragani and R. Eresmaa and M. Matricardi and T. McNally | 2015 | ECMWF Tech Memo 756 |
| An evaluation of FY3C satellite data quality at ECMWF and the Met Office | Lu, Q., H. Lawrence, N. Bormann, S. English, K. Lean, N. Atkinson, W. Bell, F. Carminati | 2015 | ECMWF Tech. Memo 757 |
| Evaluation and operational implementation of the RTTOV-11 in the IFS | Lupu, C. and A. J. Geer | 2015 | ECMWF Tech. Memo 748 |
| Revision of the microwave coefficient files in the IFS. | Lupu, C., A. J. Geer and N. Bormann | 2015 | ECMWF Tech. Memo 749 |
| Adjoint-based forecast sensitivity applied to observation error variances tuning | Lupu, C., C. Cardinali and A. P. McNally | 2015 | ECMWF Tech. Memo 753 |
| Options for filling the LEO-GEO AMV Coverage Gap | Warrick F. | 2015 | NWPSAF-MO-TR-30 |
| Diverse profile datasets from the ECMWF 137-level short-range forecasts | Reima Eresmaa and Anthony McNally | 30/10/2014 | NWPSAF-EC-TR-017 |
| The orientation of SeaWinds wind vector cells | Jur Vogelzang and Anton Verhoef | 22/10/2014 | NWPSAF-KN-TR-003 |
| Estimation of background error correlation functions | Jur Vogelzang | 20/10/2014 | NWPSAF-KN-TR-023 |
| Striping tests for microwave sounders | Atkinson, N | 17/05/2014 | Met Office Satellite Applications Technical Memo 17 |
| NEΔT specification and monitoring for microwave sounders | Atkinson, N | 17/12/2015 | Met Office Satellite Applications Technical Memo 24 |
| Assessment of FY-3A and FY-3B MWHS observations | Chen, K. S. English, N. Bormann and J. Zhu | 2014 | ECMWF Technical Memorandum 734 |
| Impact of reinstating Meteosat-10 low level AMVs | Cotton, J | 22/01/2014 | Met Office Satellite Applications Technical Memo 12 |
| NWP SAF AMV monitoring: the 6th Analysis Report (AR6) | Cotton, J | 2014 | NWPSAF-MO-TR-029 |
| Interpolation methods in the RTTOV radiative transfer model | Hocking, J. | 2014 | Met Office Forecasting Research Technical Report 590 |
| Analysis of MetOp AVHRR Polar AMVs | Warrick F. | 2014 | Met Office Satellite Applications Tech. Memo 21 |
| Data compression for MTG-IRS | Atkinson, N | 18/11/2013 | Met Office Satellite Applications Technical Memo 6 |
| An improved bias correction for SSMIS | Booton, A., W. Bell, and N. C. Atkinson. | 12/11/2013 | Met Office Satellite Applications Technical Memo 5 |
| Spread of the ensemble of data assimilations in radiance space | Bormann, N. and M. Bonavita | 2013 | ECMWF Technical Memorandum 708 |
| Research and Development in Europe on Global Application of the OceanSat-2 Scatterometer Winds | Ad Stoffelen, Anton Verhoef, Jeroen Verspeek, Jur Vogelzang, Gert-Jan Marseille, Tilly Driesenaar, Yun Risheng, Giovanna De Chiara, Christophe Payan, James Cotton, Abderrahim Bentamy and Marcos Portabella | 27/05/2013 | NWPSAF-KN-TR-022 |
| How to calculate wind spectra | Jur Vogelzang | 04/04/2013 | NWPSAF-KN-TR-008 |
| Initial assessment of the impact of MetOp-B IASI | Cameron J., J. Cotton and R. Marriott | 2013 | Met Office FRTR 579 |
| Assimilating winds from Oceansat-2: impact on Met Office analyses and forecasts. | Cotton, J | 2013 | Met Office FRTR 572 |
| Comparing AMVs over the Indian Ocean | Cotton, J | 2013 | NWPSAF-MO-TR-028 |
| The impact of ASCAT winds from MetOp-B and a new scatterometer thinning scheme | Cotton, J | 2013 | Met Office FRTR 580 |
| Impact of satellite data | English, S, T. McNally, N. Bormann, K. Salonen, M. Matricardi, A. Horanyi, M. Rennie, M. Janisková, S. Di Michele, A. Geer, E. Di Tomaso, C. Cardinali, P. de Rosnay, J. Muñoz Sabater, M. Bonavita, C. Albergel, R. Engelen and J.-N. Thépaut | 2013 | ECMWF Technical Memorandum 711 |
| Characterising channel center frequencies in AMSU-A and MSU microwave sounding instruments | Lu, Q. and W.Bell | 2013 | ECMWF Technical Memorandum 700 |
| Evaluation of RTTOV-11 in the IFS | Lupu C. | 2013 | RD Memorandum RD13-090 |
| MACC profile dataset | Reima Eresmaa, Angela Benedetti and Anthony P. McNally | 21/02/2012 | NWPSAF-EC-TR-015 |
| The importance of systematic errors in radiance assimilation. | Pavelin, E | 16/10/2013 | Met Office Satellite Applications Technical Memo 1 |
| Evaluation of the microwave ocean surface emissivity model FASTEM-5 in the IFS | Bormann, N., A. Geer, and S. English | 2012 | ECMWF Technical Memorandum 667 |
| Fifth analysis of the data displayed on the NWP SAF AMV monitoring website | Cotton, J. | 2012 | NWP SAF Technical Report 27 |
| Diverse profile database of aerosol and trace gas concentrations from the Monitoring Atmospheric Composition and Climate short-range forecasts | Eresmaa, R., A. Benedetti and A.P.McNally | 2012 | NWP SAF Programme Research Report No. 15 |
| Triple collocation | Vogelzang, J. and A. Stoffelen | 2012 | NWPSAF-KN-TR-021 |
| Operational implementation of RTTOV-10 in the IFS | Bormann, N., A. Geer, and T. Wilhelmsson | 2011 | ECMWF Technical Memorandum 650 |
| GOME-2 and IASI collocation | Nigel Atkinson | 12/10/2009 | NWPSAF-MO-TR-023 |
Peer-reviewed publications
| Author(s) | Title | Publication | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Turner, E., Rayer, P. and Saunders, R. | AMSUTRAN: A microwave transmittance code for satellite remote sensing | JQSRT Volume 227, April 2019, Pages 117-129, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jqsrt.2019.02.013 | 2019 |
| Fox, S., J. Mendrok, P. Eriksson, R. Ekelund, S. J. O’Shea, K. N. Bower, R. C. Harlow, and J. C. Pickering | Airborne validation of radiative transfer modelling of ice clouds at millimetre and sub-millimetre wavelengths | Atmos. Meas. Tech. Discuss., https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-2018-308 | 2019 |
| Carminati, F., Migliorini, S., Ingleby, B., Bell, W., Lawrence, H., Newman, S., Hocking, J., and Smith, A. | Using reference radiosondes to characterise NWP model uncertainty for improved satellite calibration and validation | https://www.atmos-meas-tech.net/12/83/2019/amt-12-83-2019.html | 2019 |
| Aumann, H. H., Chen, X., Fishbein, E., Geer, A., Havemann, S., Huang, X., Liuzzi, G., DeSouza‐Machado, S., Manning, E. M., Masiello, G., Matricardi, M., Moradi, I., Natraj, V., Serio, C., Strow, L., Vidot, J., Wilson, R. C., Wu, W., Yang, Q. and Yung Q. L. | Evaluation of radiative transfer models with clouds | Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, DOI:10.1029/2017JD028063 | 2018 |
| Carminati F., B. Candy, W. Bell, N. Atkinson | Assessment and Assimilation of FY-3 Humidity Sounders and Imager in the UK Met Office Global Model | Adv. Atmos. Sci., Vol 35(80, pp 942-954 | 2018 |
| Doherty, A., S. Indira Rani, S. Newman & W. Bell | Investigation into the impact of SAPHIR on humidity analyses at the Met Office | Q.J.R. Meteorol. Soc. (Accepted) doi:10.1002/qj.3258 | 2018 |
| Eresmaa, R., J. Letertre-Danczak, C. Lupu, N. Bormann, A. P. McNally | The assimilation of Cross-track Infrared Sounder radiances at ECMWF | Q.J.R. Meteorol. Soc. doi:10.1002/qj.3171, Vol 143(709), pp 3177-3188 | 2018 |
| Poli, P. and Brunel, P. | Assessing reanalysis quality with early sounders Nimbus-4 IRIS (1970) and Nimbus-6 HIRS (1975) | Advances in Space Research, DOI:10.1016/j.asr.2018.04.022, Vol 62(2), pp 245-264 | 2018 |
| Smith, F., S. Havemann, A. Hoffmann, W. Bell, D. Weidmann and S. Newman | Evaluation of a Laser Heterodyne Radiometer for Numerical Weather Prediction Applications | QJRMS DOI: 10.1002/qj.3365 144 (715), pp 1831-1850 | 2018 |
| Saunders, R., Hocking, J., Turner, E., Rayer, P., Rundle, D., Brunel, P., Vidot, J., Roquet, P., Matricardi, M., Geer, A., Bormann, N., and Lupu, C. | An update on the RTTOV fast radiative transfer model (currently at version 12) | "Geosci. Model Dev. https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-11-2717-2018", Vol 11, pp 2717-2737 | 2018 |
| Cimini D., J. Hocking, F. De Angelis, A. Cersosimo, F. Di Paola, D. Gallucci, S. Gentile, E. Geraldi, S. Larosa, S. Nilo, F. Romano, E. Ricciardelli, E. Ripepi, M. Viggiano, L. Luini, C. Riva, F. S. Marzano, P. Martinet, Y. Song, M. H. Ahn, and P. W. Rosenkranz | RTTOV-gb v1.0 - Updates on sensors, absorption models, uncertainty, and availability. | Submitted to Geosci. Model Dev. | 2018 |
| Isabel T. Monteiro and Jur Vogelzang | Coastal Iberia Summertime Low‐Level Flow Assessed From Scatterometers | Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 10.1029/2018JD028648 | 2018 |
| Havemann, S., J.-C.Thelen, J. P.Taylor, and R. C. Harlow | The Havemann-Taylor Fast Radiative Transfer Code (HT-FRTC): A multipurpose code based on principal components | Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jqsrt.2018.09.008 | 2018 |
| Scheck, L., Mayer, B., Weissmann, M. | Efficient methods to account for cloud top inclination and cloud overlap in synthetic visible satellite images | J. Atmosph. Ocean Tech., Vol 35, pp665-685 | 2018 |
| Vidot J., Brunel P., Dumont M., Carmagnola C., Hocking J. | The VIS/NIR Land and Snow BRDF Atlas for RTTOV: Comparison between MODIS MCD43C1 C5 and C6. Remote Sens., 10, 21. | Remote Sensing. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs10010021, Vol 10(1) | 2018 |
| De Angelis F., Cimini D., Löhnert U., Caumont O., Haefele A., Pospichal B., Martinet P., Navas-Guzmán F., Klein-Baltink H., Dupont J-C, and Hocking J. | Long-term observations minus background monitoring of ground-based brightness temperatures from a microwave radiometer network | Atmos. Meas. Tech. https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-10-3947-2017 | 2017 |
| Geer, A.J.,K. Lonitz, P. Weston, M. Kazumori, K. Okamoto, Y. Zhu, E.H. Liu, A. Collard, W. Bell,S. Migliorini, P. Chambon,N. Fourrié, M.-J.Kim,C. Köpken-Watts, and C. Schraff | All-sky satellite data assimilation at operational weather forecasting centres | Q.J.R. Meteorol. Soc. (Accepted) doi:10.1002/qj.3202 | 2017 |
| Kneifel, S., J. D. Neto, D. Ori, D. Moisseev, J. Tyynelӓ, I. S. Adams, K-.S. Kuo, R. Bennartz, A. Berne, E. E. Clothiaux, P. Eriksson, A. J. Geer, R. Honeyager, J. Leinonen, C. D. Westbrook | The First International Summer Snowfall Workshop: Scattering properties of realistic frozen hydrometeors from simulations and observations, as well as defining a new standard for scattering databases | 10.1175/BAMS-D-17-0208.1 | 2017 |
| Migliorini, S., A. Lorenc, and W. Bell | A moisture incrementing operator for the assimilation of humidity- and cloud-sensitive observations: formulation and preliminary results | Q.J.R. Meteorol. Soc. (Accepted) doi:10.1002/qj.3216 | 2017 |
| Wang, D., C. Prigent, L. Kilic, S. Fox, C. Harlow, C. Jimenez F. Aires, C. Grassotti, and F. Karbou | Surface Emissivity at Microwaves to Millimeter Waves over Polar Regions: Parameterization and Evaluation with Aircraft Experiments | J. Atmos. Oceanic Technol. DOI: 10.1175/JTECH-D-16-0188.1, pp 1039-1059 | 2017 |
| Belmonte Rivas, M., A. Stoffelen, J. Verspeek, A. Verhoef, X. Neyt and C. Anderson | Cone metrics: a new tool for the intercomparison of scatterometer records | IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth O, 2017, doi:10.1109/JSTARS.2017.2647842 | 2017 |
| Geer A. J., F. Baordo, N. Bormann, P. Chambon, S. J. English, M. Kazumori, H. Lawrence, P. Lean, K. Lonitz, C. Lupu | The growing impact of satellite observations sensitive to humidity, cloud and precipitation | Q.J.R. Meteorol. Soc. doi:10.1002/qj.3172, Vol 143, pp 3189-3206 | 2017 |
| De Angelis, F., Cimini, N., Hocking, J., Martinet, P., Kneifel, S. | RTTOV-gb – adapting the fast radiative transfer model RTTOV for the assimilation of ground-based microwave radiometer observation | Geosci. Model Development doi:10.5194/gmd-9-2721-2016 , Vol 9, pp 2721-2739 | 2016 |
| Vogelzang, J., A. Stoffelen, R.D. Lindsley, A. Verhoef and J. Verspeek | The ASCAT 6.25-km wind product | IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth O, 2016, doi:10.1109/JSTARS.2016.2623862 | 2016 |
| Vogelzang, J. and A. Stoffelen | ASCAT ultrahigh-resolution wind products on optimized grids | IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth O, 2016, doi:10.1109/JSTARS.2016.2623861 | 2016 |
| Verhoef, A., J. Vogelzang, J. Verspeek and A. Stoffelen | Long-Term Scatterometer Wind Climate Data Records | IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth O, 2016, doi:10.1109/JSTARS.2016.2615873 | 2016 |
| Kobayashi, S., P. Poli, V. John | Characterisation of Special Sensor Microwave Water Vapor Profiler (SSM/T-2) radiances using radiative transfer simulations from global atmospheric reanalyses | Advances in Space Research | 2016 |
| Poli, P., D. Dee, R. Saunders, V. John, P. Rayer, J. Schulz, K. Holmlund, D. Coppens, D. Klaes, J. Johnson, A. Esfandiari, I. Gerasimov, E. Zamkoff, A. Al-Jazrawi, D. Santek, M. Albani, P. Brunel, K. Fennig, M. Schroeder, S. Kobayashi, D. Oertel, W. Doehler, D. Spaenkuch, and S. Bojinski | Recent advances in satellite data rescue | Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society | 2016 |
| Larsson, R., M. Milz, P. Rayer, R. Saunders, W. Bell, A. Booton, S. A. Buehler, P. Eriksson, and V. John | Modeling the Zeeman effect in high altitude SSMIS channels for numerical weather prediction profiles: comparing a fast model and a line-by-line model | Atmos. Meas. Tech. doi:10.5194/amt-9-841-2016, 2016, Vol 9, pp 841-857 | 2016 |
| Hwang, P. A.*, A. Stoffelen, G.-J. van Zadelhoff, W. Perrie, B. Zhang, H. Li, and H. Shen | Cross-polarization geophysical model function for C-band radar backscattering from the ocean surface and wind speed retrieval | J. Geophys. Res. Oceans, doi:10.1002/2014JC010439, Vol 120 | 2015 |
| Alemohammad, Seyed Hamed, Kaighin A. McColl, Alexandra G. Konings, Dara Entekhabi, Ad Stoffelen | Characterization of precipitation product errors across the US using multiplicative Triple Collocation | Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci. Discuss. , Vol 12, pp 2527-2559 | 2015 |
| Brocca, L., C. Massari, L. Ciabatta, W. Wagner, A. Stoffelen | Remote Sensing of Terrestrial Rainfall From Ku-Band Scatterometers | IEEE J. of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing | 2015 |
| Doherty A., Atkinson N., Bell W., and Smith A. | An Assessment of Data from the Advanced Technology Microwave Sounder at the Met Office | Advances in Meteorology http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2015/956920 | 2015 |
| Fois, Franco, Peter Hoogeboom, Fran?ois Le Chevalier, Ad Stoffelen | An analytical model for the description of the full polarimetric sea surface Doppler signature | Journal of Geophysical Research:Oceans | 2015 |
| Fois, F., P. Hoogeboom, F. Le Chevalier, A. Stoffelen, A. Mouche | DopSCAT: A mission concept for simultaneous measurements of marine winds and surface currents | Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans | 2015 |
| Fois, F., P. Hoogeboom, F.Le Chevalier, A. Stoffelen | Future Ocean Scatterometry: On the Use of Cross-Polar Scattering to Observe Very High Winds | IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing | 2015 |
| Hasager, Charlotte B.*, Alexis Mouche, Merete Badger, Ferhat Bingöl, Ioanna Karagali, Tilly Driesenaar, Ad Stoffelen, Alfredo Peña, Nicolas Longépé | Offshore wind climatology based on synergetic use of Envisat ASAR, ASCAT and QuikSCAT | Remote Sensing of Environment , Vol 156, pp 247263 | 2015 |
| Houchi, K., A. Stoffelen, G.J. Marseille and J. de Kloe | Statistical Quality Control of High-Resolution Winds of Different Radiosonde Types for Climatology Analysis | J. Atm. Oceanic Technol., 2015, 32, 1796-1812, doi:DOI: 10.1175/JTECH-D-14-00160.1 | 2015 |
| Lin, W., M. Portabella, A. Stoffelen, A. Verhoef and A. Turiel | ASCAT Wind Quality Control Near Rain | IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, doi:10.1109/TGRS.2015.2392372, Vol 53 (8), pp 4165-4177 | 2015 |
| Panfilova, M. A., M. B. Kanevsky, G. N. Balandina, V. Yu. Karaev, A. Stoffelen, A. Verhoef | Determination of the Wind-Velocity Vector Above the Ocean Surface Using the Image Spectrum of a Polarimetric Radar with Synthesized Aperture | Radiophysics and Quantum Electronics | 2015 |
| Salonen, K., J. Cotton, N. Bormann and M. Forsythe | Characterising AMV height assignment error by comparing best-fit pressure statistics from the Met Office and ECMWF systems | Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology, Vol 54, pp 225-242 | 2015 |
| Smith A., Atkinson N. , Bell W. and Doherty A. | An initial assessment of observations from the Suomi-NPP satellite: data from the Cross-track Infrared Sounder (CrIS) | Atmospheric Science Letters DOI: 10.1002/asl2.551 2015 | 2015 |
| Vidot, J. , A. J. Baran, and P. Brunel | A new ice cloud parametrization for infrared radiative transfer simulation of cloudy radiances: Evaluation and optimisation with IIR observations and ice cloud profile retrieval products | Journal of Geophysical Research. Atmospheresdoi: 10.1002/2015JD023462, Vol 120, pp 6937-6951 | 2015 |
| Vogelzang, J., G.P. King and A. Stoffelen | Spatial variances of wind fields: their sensitivity to sampling strategy and their relation to second-order structure functions and spectra | J. Geophys. Res., doi:10.1002/2014JC010239, Vol 120 2015 | 2015 |
| Lupu, C., C. Cardinali and A. P. McNally | Adjoint-based forecast sensitivity applied for tuning observation error variances | Submitted (and accepted with minor revision) to Q. J. R. Meteorol. Soc. | 2015 |
| Vidot, J. and E. Borbas | Land surface VIS/NIR BRDF atlas for RTTOV-11: Model and validation against SEVIRI Land SAF albedo product | Q.J. Roy. Meteorol. Soc. Article first published online: 12FEB 2014. DOI: 10.1002/qj.2288 | 2014 |
| Sun, X. J., R. W. Zhang, G. J. Marseille, A. Stoffelen, D. Donovan, L. Liu, J. Zhao | The performance of Aeolus in heterogeneous atmospheric conditions using high-resolution radiosonde data | Atmos. Meas. Tech doi:10.5194/amt-7-2695-2014, pp 26952717 | 2014 |
| Negri, R.G., L.A.T. Machado, S. English and M.Forsythe | Combining a cloud-resolving model with satellite for cloud process model simulation validation | J. Appl Met and Clim, 53, 521-533 | 2014 |
| Megner, L., D.G.H. Tan, H. Kornich, A. Horanyi, A. Stoffelen and G.J. Marseille | Linearity aspects of the ensemble of data assimilations technique | Quart. J. Royal Meteor. Soc., 2014, doi:DOI:10.1002/qj.2362 | 2014 |
| Mccoll, Kaighin A., Jur Vogelzang, Alexandra G Konings, Dara Entekhabi, María Piles, Ad Stoffelen | Extended Triple Collocation: estimating errors and correlation coefficients with respect to an unknown target | Geophysical Research Letters | 2014 |
| Lu, Q. and W. Bell | Characterising channel center frequencies in AMSU-A and MSU microwave sounding instruments | Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology. doi:10.1175/JTECH-D-13-00136.1, Vol 31, pp 1713-1732 | 2014 |
| Lin, W., M. Portabella, A. Stoffelen, A. Turiel, A. Verhoef | Rain Identification in ASCAT Winds Using Singularity Analysis | IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters , Vol 11, pp 1519-1523 | 2014 |
| King, Gregory P., Jur Vogelzang, Ad Stoffelen | Second-order structure function analysis of scatterometer winds over the Tropical Pacific: Part 1. Spectra and Structure Functions | Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans | 2014 |
| King, Gregory P., Jur Vogelzang, Ad Stoffelen | Upscale and downscale energy transfer over the tropical Pacific revealed by scatterometer winds | Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans | 2014 |
| R. Eresmaa | Imager-assisted cloud detection for assimilation of Infrared Atmospheric Sounding Interferometer radiances | QJRMS, DOI: 10.1002/qj.2304 | 2014 |
| Belmonte-Rivas, M., A. Stoffelen and G.J. van Zadelhoff | The Benefit of HH and VV Polarizations in Retrieving Extreme Wind Speeds for an ASCAT-Type Scatterometer | IEEE Gosci. Remote Sensing Letters, doi:10.1109/TGRS.2013.2280876, Vol 52 (7), pp 4273-4280 | 2014 |
| Peubey C. and William Bell | The influence of frequency shifts in microwave sounder channels on NWP analyses and forecasts. | Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology. doi: 10.1175/JTECH-D-13-00016.1, Vol 31, pp 788-807 | 2014 |
| Weston P P, W Bell and J R Eyre | Accounting for correlated error in the assimilation of high resolution sounders. | Q J R Meteorol Soc., 2013. Accepted manuscript online: 3 Dec 2013, DOI: 10.1002/qj.2306 | 2013 |
| Saunders, R.W, T.A.Blackmore, B.Candy, P.N.Francis and T.J.Hewison. | Monitoring Satellite Radiance Biases Using NWP Models | Geoscience and Remote Sensing, IEEE Transactions on (Volume:51, Issue: 3) | 2013 |
| McNally, A., M.Bonavita and J-N Thepaut | The role of satellite data in the forecasting of hurricane Sandy | Mon.Wea. Rev | 2013 |
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| Bormann,N . Anne Fouilloux and William Bell | Evaluation and assimilation of ATMS data in the ECMWF system | Journal of Geophysical Research. doi:10.1002/2013JD020325, Vol 118, pp 12,970-12,980 | 2013 |
| Lin, W., M. Portabella, A. Stoffelen and A. Verhoef | On the characteristics of ASCAT wind direction ambiguities | Atmospheric Measurement Techniques, Vol 6, pp 1053-2013 | 2013 |
| Belmonte, M., J. Verspeek, A. Verhoef and A. Stoffelen | Bayesian sea ice detection with the Advanced Scatterometer | IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, pp 2649-2657 | 2012 |
| Chakraborty, A., R. Kumar and A. Stoffelen | Validation of ocean surface winds from the OCEANSAT-2 scatterometer using triple collocation | Remote Sensing Letters, Vol 4, pp 85-91 | 2012 |
| Lin, C.C., M. Betto, M. Belmonte-Rivas, A. Stoffelen and J. de Kloe | EPS-SG Windscatterometer Concept Tradeoffs and Wind Retrieval Performance Assessment | IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, pp 2458-2472 | 2012 |
| Martinet P, Fourrié N, Guidard V, Rabier F, Montmerle T and Brunel P | Towards the use of microphysical variables for the assimilation of cloud-affected infrared radiances | Q. J. Roy. Meteorol. Soc. | 2012 |
| Portabella, M., A. Stoffelen, A. Verhoef and J. Verspeek | A new method for improving ASCAT wind quality control | IEEE Gosci. Remote Sensing Letters, pp 579-583, | 2012 |
| Portabella, M., A. Stoffelen, W. Lin, A. Turiel, A. Verhoef, J. Verspeek and J. Ballabrera-Poy | Rain Effects on ASCAT-Retrieved Winds: Toward an Improved Quality Control | IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, pp 2495-2506 | 2012 |
| Verhoef, A., M. Portabella and A. Stoffelen | High-resolution ASCAT scatterometer winds near the coast | IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, pp 2481-2487 | 2012 |
| Verspeek, J., A. Stoffelen, A. Verhoef and M. Portabella | Improved ASCAT Wind Retrieval Using NWP Ocean Calibration | IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, pp 2488-2494 | 2012 |
| Vogelzang, J. and A. Stoffelen | Scatterometer wind vector products for application in meteorology and oceanography | J. Sea Res. In Print | 2012 |
| Lu Q., W. Bell, N. Bormann, P. Bauer, C. Peubey, A. Geer | Improved Assimilation of Data from China's FY-3A Microwave Temperature Sounder (MWTS) | Atmospheric Science Letters. DOI: 10.1002/asl.354 | 2011 |
| Lu Q., W. Bell, P. Bauer, N. Bormann and C. Peubey | An evaluation of FY-3A satellite data for numerical weather prediction | Q.J. Roy. Meteorol. Soc. DOI: 10.1002/qj.834, Vol 137, pp 1298-1311 | 2011 |
| Qifeng Lu, W. Bell, P. Bauer, N. Bormann and C. Peubey | Characterising the FY-3A Microwave Temperature Sounder Using the ECMWF Model | Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology. doi:10.1175/JTECH-D-10-05008.1, Vol 28, pp 1373-1389 | 2011 |