Publications
This page contains download links to publications from NWP SAF produced during the third Continuous Development and Operations Phase (1st March 2017 to 28th February 2022). This includes visiting scientist reports, technical reports, and peer-reviewed publications in which NWP SAF work was a large component.
Visiting Scientist reports
| Title | Author(s) | Date | Doc ID |
|---|---|---|---|
| RTTOV v13 beta test reports and responses | 19/10/2020 | NWPSAF-MO-TV-045 | |
| Comparisons of ocean radiative transfer model simulations with GMI observations, between 10 and 170 GHz | Lise Kilic | 29/07/2020 | NWPSAF-EC-VS-029 |
| Updating the CAMEL surface emissivity atlas for RTTOV | Eva Borbas and Michelle Feltz | 18/01/2019 | NWPSAF-MO-VS-058 |
| Inter-comparison of line-by-line radiative transfer models MonoRTM and AMSUTRAN for microwave frequencies from the Top-Of-Atmosphere | Karen Cady-Pereira, Emma Turner and Roger Saunders | 21/11/2018 | NWPSAF-MO-VS-057 |
Technical Reports
| Title | Author(s) | Date | Doc ID |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| 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 | |
| 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 |
Peer-reviewed publications
| Author(s) | Title | Publication | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |