Reports Table

Reports table
The complete reports table

Title Author(s) Date Doc ID Id Host Appointed Scientist Start End Task is Type (metaVS, metaTR, metaPR) Direct relevance to deliverables Phase Sort

NWP SAF Workshop on Satellite
Observations of the Earth System Interfaces: Summary and
recommendations Angela Benedetti, Catherine Prigent, Joel Bedard, Nadia Fourrié, Niels Bormann, Patricia de Rosnay, Peter Lean, Philip Browne, Sean Healy,
15/01/2025 NWPSAF-MO-TR-004 MetaTR CDOP4

Enhancing the capabilities of the PC-RTTOV model Marco Matricardi 08/04/2024 NWPSAF-EC_VS-063 Angela Benedetti, ECMWF Marco Matricardi 01/01/2024 31/03/2024 Completed MetaVS MetaRTTOV CDOP4

Comparison of RTTOV and CRTM in JEDI Benjamin T. Johnson, James Hocking and David Rundle 17/04/2023 NWPSAF-MO_VS-060 NWP_VS20_02 James Hocking, Met Office Benjamin T. Johnson 31/08/2022 22/09/2022 Completed MetaVS MetaRTTOV CDOP4 20_02

Improvement of the scattering
parameterisation in RTTOV Laurent C.-Labonnote, James Hocking and Jérôme Vidot 05/09/2022 NWPSAF-EC-VS-059 NWP_VS20_03
James Hocking, Met Office Laurent C.-Labonnote 01/05/2022 22/05/2022 Completed MetaVS MetaRTTOV CDOP4 20_03

Comparison of RTTOV and DISAMAR
for clear sky and aerosol cases Ping Wang and Olaf Tuinder 15/09/2022 NWPSAF-EC-VS-062 NWP_AS21_01
Angela Benedetti, ECMWF Ping Wang and Olaf Thuinder 01/05/2021 01/09/2022 Completed metaVS MetRTTOV CDOP4 21_01

Cloud particle orientation and polarisation for cross-track microwave
sensors in RTTOV Vasileios Barlakas, Alan J. Geer, Patrick Eriksson 18/08/2022 NWPSAF-EC-VS-061 NWP_AVS22_01 Alan J. Geer, ECMWF Vasileios Barlakas 01/04/2022 31/05/2022 Completed metaVS metaRTTOV CDOP4 22_01

Development of the SURface Fast Emissivity Model for Ocean (SURFEM-Ocean) Lise Kilic, Catherine Prigent, Carlos Jimenez 07/06/2022 NWPSAF-EC-VS-060 NWP_AVS20_01 Stephen English, ECMWF Lise Kilic 01/07/2020 14/04/2022 Completed metaVS CDOP4 20_01

Preparing an extension of RTTOV-DOM for application
to ICON-ART aerosol Lukas Muser, Christina Stumpf , Leonhard Scheck.
Christina Köpken-Watts 14/04/2022 NWPSAF-DWD-VS-059 NWP_VS21_02 Christina Köpken-Watts, DWD Lukas Muser (KIT) 01/01/2022 01/07/2022 Completed metaVS metaRTTOV CDOP4 21_02

Updating the AAPP microwave tests for EPS-SG: part 2 - surface tests Atkinson, N.C. 15/08/2022 NWPSAF-MO-TR-041 metaTR metaAAPP CDOP4

Updating the AAPP microwave tests for EPS-SG Atkinson, N.C. 23/05/2022 NWPSAF-MO-TR-040 metaTR metaAAPP CDOP4

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 metaTR CDOP3

Change point detection in Météo-France monitoring time series - Validation Stoop, F. 11/05/2021 NWPSAF-MF-TV-001 metaTR metaMonitoring CDOP3

High resolution data assimilation guide
Ad Stoffelen, Jur Vogelzang and Gert-Jan Marseille 23/11/2020 NWPSAF-KN-UD-008 metaTR metaScatterometer CDOP3

Wind Bias Correction Guide Ad Stoffelen and Jur Vogelzang 18/01/2021 NWPSAF-KN-UD-007 metaTR metaScatterometer CDOP3

RTTOV v13 beta test reports and responses 19/10/2020 NWPSAF-MO-TV-045 NWP_AS19_02/03 Oxford University (AS19_02) and Seoul National University (AS19_03), James Hocking Simon Proud (AS19_02) and B.J. Sohn (AS19_03) 01/04/2020 29/07/2020 Completed metaVS metaRTTOV CDOP3 19_02/03

Comparisons of ocean radiative transfer model simulations with GMI observations, between 10 and 170 GHz Lise Kilic 29/07/2020 NWPSAF-EC-VS-029 NWP_VS18_03 Observatoire de Paris/LERMA, Stephen English Lise Kilic 21/12/2018 30/6/2020 Completed metaVS CDOP3 18_03

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 metaTR CDOP3

Sub-millimetre Spectroscopy for AMSUTRAN. Part One: TheTheoretical Basis Turner, E. and Saunders, R. 10/12/2019 NWPSAF-MO-TR-038 metaTR metaRTTOV CDOP3

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 metaTR CDOP2

Screening routines for aerosol- and trace-gas-affected infrared radiances (poster presentation at ITSC-22) Reima Eresmaa, Julie Letertre-Danczak, Tony McNally 2019 metaTR metaCADS CDOP3

Channel specific aerosol flagging Reima Eresmaa and Julie Letertre-Danczak
29/01/2019 metaTR metaCADS CDOP3

Wind Bias Correction Guide Ad Stoffelen and Jur Vogelzang 14/09/2018 NWPSAF-KN-UD-007 metaTR metaScatterometer CDOP2

High resolution data assimilation guide Ad Stoffelen, Jur Vogelzang and Gert-Jan Marseille 10/09/2018 NWPSAF-KN-UD-008 metaTR metaScatterometer CDOP2

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 metaTR metaMonitoring CDOP3

NWP SAF AMV monitoring: the 8th Analysis Report (AR8)
Warrick F. and J. Cotton
2018 NWPSAF-MO-TR-035
metaTR metaMonitoring CDOP3

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
metaTR CDOP3

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
metaTR CDOP3

Updating the CAMEL surface emissivity atlas for RTTOV Eva Borbas and Michelle Feltz 18/01/2019 NWPSAF-MO-VS-058 NWP_VS18_01 University of Wisconsin/SSEC, Roger Saunders Eva Borbas and Michelle Feltz 01/05/2018 31/12/2018 Completed metaVS metaRTTOV CDOP3 18_01

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 NWP_VS18_02 Met office, Emma Turner & Roger Saunders Karen Cady-Pereira 01/09/2018 31/12/2018 Completed metaVS metaRTTOV CDOP3 18_02

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
metaTR metaRTTOV CDOP3

CADS Version 2.3 Aerosol validation
Vidot J.
2017 NWP-MF-TV-001
metaTR metaCADS CDOP3

CDP2

Meteosat-8 AMVs over the Indian Ocean Cotton, J
25/01/2017 Met Office Satellite Applications Technical Memo 66
metaTR metaAMV metaMonitoring CDOP2

RTTOV-12 beta testing NWP_VS16_09 Met Office, Roger Saunders Robin Faulwetter, Harald Anlauf 14/10/2016 14/10/2016 Completed metaVS CDOP2 16_09

RTTOV-12 beta testing NWP_VS16_06 Met Office, Roger Saunders Simon Proud 14/10/2016 14/10/2016 Completed metaVS CDOP2 16_06

RTTOV-12 beta testing NWP_VS16_05 Met Office, Roger Saunders B.J. Simon 14/10/2016 14/10/2016 Completed metaVS CDOP2 16_05

CADS Version 2.3 Aerosol Validation Jerome Vidot 28/02/2017 NWPSAF-MF-TV-001 metaTV metaCADS CDOP2

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 metaTR metaRTTOV 11 CDOP2

A visible/infrared multiple-scattering model for RTTOV James Hocking 20/12/2016 NWPSAF-MO-TR-031 metaTR metaRTTOV 12 CDOP2

NE∆T specification and monitoring for
microwave sounders Nigel Atkinson 17/12/2016 NWPSAF-MO-TR-033 metaTR metaRTTOV 12 CDOP2

Radiometric calibration for microwave
sounders Nigel Atkinson 08/12/2016 NWPSAF-MO-TR-034 metaTR metaRTTOV 12 CDOP2

Nwpsaf Mo Tv 039 James Hocking, B.J. Sohn, Robin Faulwetter, Simon Proud, Sylvain Heilliette, Louis-Francois Meunier, Philippe Chambon 19/12/2016 NWPSAF-MO-TV-039 metaTV metaRTTOV CDOP2

Atmospheric clear-sky Radiative Transfer model intercomparison at mm/submm wavelengths Juan R. Pardo and Peter Rayer
12/12/2016 NWPSAF-MO-VS-056
NWP_VS16_07 Met Office, Roger Saunders, James Hocking Juan R. Pardo 25/09/2016 30/09/2016 Completed metaVS metaRTTOV CDOP2 16_07

Optimization of ASCAT data assimilation in global NWP Wenming Lin, Marcos Portabella, Ad Stoffelen, Jur Vogelzang, Giovanna De Chiara
13/12/2016
NWPSAF-KN-VS-017
NWP_VS16_02 ICM-CSIC, Ad Stoffelen Wenming Lin 01/01/2016 18/11/2016 Completed metaVS metaScatterometer CDOP2 16_02

Two-dimensional variational ambiguity removal (2DVAR) Jur Vogelzang 01/06/2022 NWPSAF-KN-TR-004 metaTR metaScatterometer CDOP2

An investigation of the impact of the assimilation of M-T SAPHIR data in the Met Office data assimilation system Indira Rani, William Bell, Amy Doherty, and Stuart Newman
19/09/2016 NWPSAF-MO-VS-055 NWP_VS16_03 Met Office, Bill Bell and Amy Doherty Indira Rani 01/07/2016 30/07/2016 Completed metaVS metaMonitoring metaRadiance CDOP2 16_03

ASCAT-6.25 validation on coastal jets – 2 Isabel Monteiro
13/08/2016 NWPSAF-KN-VS-016 NWP_VS16_08 KNMI, Ad Stoffelen Isabel Monteiro 04/07/2016
06/07/2016 Completed metaVS metaAWDP CDOP2 16_08

Constrained adaptive bias correction for satellite radiance assimilation in the ECMWF 4D-Var system Wei Han and Niels Bormann
18/07/2016 NWPSAF-EC_VS-028 NWP_VS15_01 ECMWF, T. McNally Wei Han 08/2015 02/2016 Completed metaVS CDOP2 15_01

Assessment of the mesospheric temperature sounding channels of SSMIS Benjamin Ruston 06/06/2016 NWPSAF-MO_VS-053 NWP_VS16_04 Met Office, Bill Bell and Anna Booton Benjamin Ruston 10/05/2016 20/05/2016 Completed metaVS metaSSMIS_PP CDOP2 16_04

Comparison of MFASIS fast RT model and RTTOV-12 Leonhard Scheck 28/06/2016 NWPSAF-MO_VS-054 NWP_VS16_01 Met Office, Roger Saunders and James Hocking Leonhard Scheck 11/04/2016

20/05/2016 Completed metaVS metaRTTOV CDOP2 16_01

ASCAT-6.25 Validation Jur Vogelzang 19/05/2016 NWPSAF-KN-TV-009 metaTR metaAWDP CDOP2

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
metaTR metaRTTOV CDOP2

A comparison of MFASIS and RTTOV-DOM
Scheck, L., Hocking, J., Saunders, R.
2016 Scheck, L., Hocking, J., Saunders, R.
metaTR metaRTTOV CDOP2

ASCAT wind validation
Vogelzang, J.
2016 NWPSAF-KN-TV-009
metaTR metaAWDP CDOP2

An evaluation of FY-3C satellite data quality at ECMWF and the Met Office Qifeng Lu, Heather Lawrence, Niels Bormann, Steve English, Katie Lean, Nigel Atkinson, William Bell, Fabien Carminati 11/11/2015 NWPSAF-EC-VS-027 NWP_VS14_04 ECMWF, S. English and Met Office, W. Bell Qifeng Lu 08/08/2014
28/01/2015 Completed metaVS metaMonitoring CDOP2 14_04

ASCAT-6.25 validation on coastal jets Isabel Monteiro, Jur Vogelzang and Ad Stoffelen 28/10/2015 NWPSAF-KN-VS-015 NWP_VS15_05 KNMI, Ad Stoffelen Isabel Monteiro 10/2015 10/2015 Completed metaVS metaAWDP CDOP2 15_05

Investigation into the partitioning of cloud signals into IASI reconstructed radiances Olaf Stiller, Fiona Smith, and
Christina Köpken-Watts 01/11/2015 NWPSAF-MO-VS-052 NWP_VS15_04 Met Office, Fiona Smith Olaf Stiller
DWD 08/2015 09/2015 Completed metaVS metaRTTOV CDOP2 15_04

On buoys, scatterometers and reanalyses
for globally representative winds Ad Stoffelen and Jur Vogelzang
28/08/2015 NWPSAF-KN-TR-024 metaTR metaScatterometer CDOP2

On mesoscale analysis and ASCAT ambiguity removal Wenming Lin, Marcos Portabella, Jur Vogelzang, Ad Stoffelen, Anton Verhoef 05/08/2015 NWPSAF-KN-VS-014 NWP_VS14_02 (ICIM-CSIC)
Barcelona
Ad Stoffelen, KNMI Marcos Portabella and
Wenming Lin 01/07/2014 10/08/2015 Completed metaVS metaAWDP CDOP2 14_02

MFASIS - a fast radiative transfer method for the visible spectrum Leonhard Scheck 10/07/2015 NWPSAF-MO-VS-051 NWP_VS15_03 Met Office, Roger Saunders Leonhard Scheck 04/2015 04/2015 Completed metaVS metaRTTOV CDOP2 15_03

Microwave Surface Emissivity over sea-ice Fabrizio Baordo and Alan Geer 02/07/2015 NWPSAF-EC-VS-026 NWP_VS15_02 ECMWF, A.J. Geer and S.J. English Fabrizio Baordo 05/2015 05/2015 Completed metaVS metaRTTOV CDOP2 15_02

Preliminary studies towards the use of IASI PC products in the Météo-France global data assimilation system S. Guedj, V. Guidard and J.-F. Mahfouf 20/02/2015 NWPSAF-MF-VS-005 NWP_VS14_01 CNRS/GAME
Toulouse
V. Guidard Stéphanie Guedj 01/07/2014 18/12/2014 Completed metaVS metaIASIPCA CDOP2 14_01

NWP SAF AMV monitoring: the 7th Analysis Report (AR7)
Warrick F.
2015
NWPSAF-MO-TR-32
metaTR metaAMV metaMonitoring CDOP2

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
metaTR metaMonitoring CDOP2

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 metaTR metaMonitoring CDOP2

Evaluation and operational implementation of the RTTOV-11 in the IFS
Lupu, C. and A. J. Geer
2015 ECMWF Tech. Memo 748 metaTR metaRTTOV CDOP2

Revision of the microwave coefficient files in the IFS.
Lupu, C., A. J. Geer and N. Bormann
2015 ECMWF Tech. Memo 749 metaTR metaRTTOV CDOP2

Adjoint-based forecast sensitivity applied to observation error variances tuning
Lupu, C., C. Cardinali and A. P. McNally
2015 ECMWF Tech. Memo 753
metaTR metaMonitoring CDOP2

Options for filling the LEO-GEO AMV Coverage Gap
Warrick F.
2015 NWPSAF-MO-TR-30
metaTR metaAMV metaMonitoring CDOP2

Diverse profile datasets from the ECMWF 137-level short-range forecasts Reima Eresmaa and Anthony McNally 30/10/2014 NWPSAF-EC-TR-017 metaTR metaRTTOV CDOP2

The orientation of SeaWinds wind vector cells Jur Vogelzang and Anton Verhoef 22/10/2014 NWPSAF-KN-TR-003 metaTR metaScatterometer CDOP2

Estimation of background error correlation functions Jur Vogelzang 20/10/2014 NWPSAF-KN-TR-023 metaTR metaScatterometer CDOP2

Striping tests for microwave sounders
Atkinson, N
17/05/2014 Met Office Satellite Applications Technical Memo 17
metaTR metaAAPP CDOP2

NEΔT specification and monitoring for microwave sounders
Atkinson, N
17/12/2015
Met Office Satellite Applications Technical Memo 24
metaTR metaAAPP CDOP2

The RTTOV UWiremis module: Investigation into the angular dependence of IR surface emissivity Eva Borbas 13/10/2014 NWPSAF-MO-VS-050 NWP_VS13_01 University of Wisconsin
Madison USA
Roger Saunders Eva Borbas 09/04/2013 31/12/2013 Completed metaVS metaRTTOV CDOP2 13_01

Validation of foam coverage derived from wave dissipative energy from a wave model for RTTOV M. Anguelova, L.-F. Meunier, M. Bettenhausen, P.Janssen and S. English. 10/07/2014 NWPSAF-EC-VS-025 NWP_VS14_05 ECMWF, S. English M. Anguelova 07/2014 07/2014 Completed metaVS metaRTTOV CDOP2 14_05

NWP SAF Workshop on Efficient representation of Hyper-spectral Infrared Satellite Obervations - PC assimilation

NWP_VS13_04 Météo France
Tony McNally

Vincent Guidard 04/11/2013 07/11/2013 Completed metVS CDOP2 13_04

NWP SAF Workshop on Efficient representation of Hyper-spectral Infrared Satellite Obervations - PC assimilation

NWP_VS13_03 NCEP
Tony McNally

Andrew Collard
02/11/2013
08/11/2013 Completed metVS CDOP2 13_03

The Zeeman effect implementation for SSMIS in ARTS v. RTTOV Richard Larsson 10/06/2014 NWPSAF-MO-VS-049 NWP_VS13_02 Luleå University of Technology
Division of Space Technology
Kiruna
Roger Saunders Richard Larsson 10/02/2014
16/04/2014 Completed metaVS metaRTTOV CDOP2 13_02

Improved ocean emissivity modelling for assimilation of microwave imagers using foam coverage derived from a wave model Louis-François Meunier, Stephen English and Peter Janssen 24/02/2014 NWPSAF-EC-VS-024 NWP_VS12_02 ECMWF, Steve English Dr. Louis Francois Meunier
MF 13/11/2012 28/06/2013 Completed metaVS metaRTTOV CDOP2 12_02

RTTOV-11 beta testing NWP_VS12_04 Various Institutes,
Roger Saunders Various 01/01/2013 03/01/2013 Completed metaVS metaAMV metaMonitoring CDOP2 12_04

Assessment of FY-3A and FY-3B MWHS observations
Chen, K. S. English, N. Bormann and J. Zhu
2014 ECMWF Technical Memorandum 734
metaTR CDOP2

Impact of reinstating Meteosat-10 low level AMVs
Cotton, J
22/01/2014 Met Office Satellite Applications Technical Memo 12
metaTR metaAMV metaMonitoring CDOP2

NWP SAF AMV monitoring: the 6th Analysis Report (AR6)
Cotton, J 2014 NWPSAF-MO-TR-029 metaTR metaAMV metaMonitoring CDOP2

Interpolation methods in the RTTOV radiative transfer model
Hocking, J.
2014 Met Office Forecasting Research Technical Report 590
metaTR metaRTTOV CDOP2

Analysis of MetOp AVHRR Polar AMVs
Warrick F.
2014 Met Office Satellite Applications Tech. Memo 21
metaTR metaAMV metaMonitoring CDOP2

Evaluation of control variables for the assimilation of cloud-affected infrared radiances Pauline Martinet, William Bell, Ed Pavelin and John Eyre 27/05/2013 NWPSAF-MO-VS-048 NWP_VS12_03 Met Office, Ed Pavelin Dr. Pauline Martinet,
CNRM 07/01/2013 28/05/2013 Completed metaVS meta1DVar CDOP2 12_03

Data compression for MTG-IRS
Atkinson, N
18/11/2013
Met Office Satellite Applications Technical Memo 6
metaTR metaAAPP CDOP2

An improved bias correction for SSMIS

Booton, A., W. Bell, and N. C. Atkinson.

12/11/2013
Met Office Satellite Applications Technical Memo 5
metaTR metaSSMIS_PP CDOP2

Spread of the ensemble of data assimilations in radiance space
Bormann, N. and M. Bonavita
2013
ECMWF Technical Memorandum 708
metaTR metaMonitoring CDOP2

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 metaTR metaScatterometer CDOP2

How to calculate wind spectra Jur Vogelzang 04/04/2013 NWPSAF-KN-TR-008 metaTR metaScatterometer CDOP2

Signatures of upscale and downscale energy transfer deduced from a third-order structure function analysis of scatterometer winds over the tropical Pacific Gregory P. King, Jur Vogelzang and Ad Stoffelen 26/03/2013 NWPSAF-KN-VS-013 metaVS metaScatterometer CDOP2

Second-order structure function analysis of scatterometer winds over the tropical Pacific: Part 2. Rainy and dry regions Gregory P. King, Jur Vogelzang and Ad Stoffelen 26/03/2013 NWPSAF-KN-VS-012 metaVS metaScatterometer CDOP2

Initial assessment of the impact of MetOp-B IASI
Cameron J., J. Cotton and R. Marriott
2013 Met Office FRTR 579
metaTR metaMonitoring CDOP2

Assimilating winds from Oceansat-2: impact on Met Office analyses and forecasts.
Cotton, J 2013 Met Office FRTR 572
metaTR metaScatterometer metaMonitoring CDOP2

Comparing AMVs over the Indian Ocean
Cotton, J
2013 NWPSAF-MO-TR-028
metaTR metaAMV CDOP2

The impact of ASCAT winds from MetOp-B and a new scatterometer thinning scheme
Cotton, J
2013 Met Office FRTR 580
metaTR CDOP2

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 metaTR CDOP2

Characterising channel center frequencies in AMSU-A and MSU microwave sounding instruments
Lu, Q. and W.Bell
2013 ECMWF Technical Memorandum 700 metaTR metaMonitoring metaRTTOV CDOP2

Evaluation of RTTOV-11 in the IFS
Lupu C.
2013 RD Memorandum RD13-090
metaTR metaRTTOV CDOP2

Cloud information from high spectral resolution IR sounders Kozo Okamoto, Anthony P. McNally and William Bell 28/09/2012 NWPSAF-EC-VS-022 metaVS metaRTTOV CDOP2

IASI Channel Selection for Reconstructed Radiances A. D. Collard 20/07/2012 NWPSAF-MO-VS-047 metaVS metaIASIPCA CDOP2

Polarization options for the EPS-SG
scatterometer Maria Belmonte Rivas, Ad Stoffelen and Gerd-Jan Van Zadelhoff 01/07/2012 NWPSAF-KN-VS-009 metaVS metaScatterometer CDOP2

Report on land surface data assimilation activities in Europe and the Americas in the context of NWP SAF objectives Luis Gustavo Goncalves de Goncalves and Joao Gerd Zell de Mattos 11/04/2012 NWPSAF-EC-VS-021 metaVS metaRTTOV meta1DVar CDOP2

Evaluation of FY-3B data and an assessment of passband shifts in AMSU-A and MSU during the period 1978 – 2012 Qifeng Lu and William Bell 28/03/2012 NWPSAF-EC-VS-023 metaVS metaMonitoring CDOP2

TELSEM 1D-var experiments at the Met Office: final report Filipe Aires, Sreerekha Thonipparambil, Catherine Prigent and Roger Saunders 21/02/2012 NWPSAF-MO-VS-046 metaVS metaRTTOV CDOP1

Explicit handling of surface emission for the exploitation of high spectral resolution infrared satellite sounding radiances from IASI over land and sea-ice B. Ruston and A. McNally 21/02/2012 NWPSAF-EC-VS-020 metaVS metaMonitoring CDOP1

MACC profile dataset Reima Eresmaa, Angela Benedetti and Anthony P. McNally 21/02/2012 NWPSAF-EC-TR-015 metaTR metaRTTOV CDOP1

Second-order structure function analysis of
scatterometer winds over the Tropical Pacific:
Part 1. Spectra and Structure Functions Gregory P. King, Jur Vogelzang and Ad Stoffelen 03/02/2012 NWPSAF-KN-VS-008 metaVS metaScatterometer CDOP1

Evaluation of the 15 min. NWC SAF High Resolution AMVs Javier García Pereda 03/01/2012 NWPSAF-MO-VS-044 metaVS metaMonitoring metaAMV CDOP1

The importance of systematic errors in radiance assimilation. Pavelin, E 16/10/2013 Met Office Satellite Applications Technical Memo 1 metaTR CDOP2

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 metaTR metaRTTOV CDOP2

Fifth analysis of the data displayed on the NWP SAF AMV monitoring website Cotton, J. 2012 NWP SAF Technical Report 27 metaTR metaMonitoring metaAMV CDOP2

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 metaTR metaCADS CDOP2

Triple collocation Vogelzang, J. and A. Stoffelen 2012 NWPSAF-KN-TR-021 metaTR metaScatterometer CDOP2

Evaluation of new hourly GOES AMVs with
Expected Error David Santek 01/10/2011 NWPSAF-EC-VS-019 metaVS metaMonitoring metaAMV CDOP1

Development of the GPU-based RTTOV-7
IASI and AMSU Radiative Transfer Models Bormin Huang, Jarno Mielikainen, Hung-Lung Allen Huang, and Roger Saunders 04/07/2011 NWPSAF-MO-VS-043 metaVS metaRTTOV CDOP1

FASTEM-4 Validation Quanhua Liu 16/06/2011 NWPSAF-MO-VS-045 metaVS metaRTTOV CDOP1

Operational implementation of RTTOV-10 in the IFS Bormann, N., A. Geer, and T. Wilhelmsson 2011 ECMWF Technical Memorandum 650 metaTR metRTTOV CDOP1

An evaluation of the FY-3A sounding radiance observations Qifeng Lu, W. Bell, P. Bauer, N. Bormann and C. Peubey 04/10/2010 NWPSAF-EC-VS-018 metaVS metaMonitoring CDOP1

The RTTOV UWiremis IR land surface emissivity module Eva E. Borbas and Benjamin C. Ruston 02/06/2010 NWPSAF-MO-VS-042 metaVS metaRTTOV CDOP1

Ozone information from high spectral resolution infrared sounders W.Han and A.McNally 01/05/2010 NWPSAF-EC-VS-017 metaVS metaMonitoring CDOP1

Comparison of CPTEC AIRS L2 intercomparison and validation with Met Office IASI L2 intercomparison and validation Simone Costa 01/03/2010 NWPSAF-MO-VS-041 metaVS metaRTTOV meta1Bar CDOP1

TELSEM: a Tool to Estimate Land Surface Emissivities at Microwave frequencies F.Aires, C.Prigent, F.Bernardo, C.Jiménez, R.Saunders and P.Brunel 01/11/2009 NWPSAF-MO-VS-040 metaVS metaRTTOV CDOP1

Improving the assimilation of IASI and ATOVS data in polar region and limited area models Roger Randriamampianina, Fiona Hilton and Brett Candy 14/10/2009 NWPSAF-MO-VS-039 metaVS CDOP1

GOME-2 and IASI collocation Nigel Atkinson 12/10/2009 NWPSAF-MO-TR-023 metaTR metaAAPP CDOP1

Synoptic assessment of AMV errors Renato Galante Negri and Mary Forsythe 04/06/2009 NWPSAF-MO-VS-038 metaVS metaMonitoring metaAMV CDOP1

Comparison of progress in assimilating cloud-affected microwave radiances at NCEP, ECMWF, JMA and the Met Office Min-Jeong Kim, Steve English, Peter Bauer, Alan Geer and Kozo Okamoto 23/10/2008 NWPSAF-MO-VS-037 metaVS CDOP1

Bias correction of window channels on microwave and infrared sounders Wei Han and Anthony McNally 01/08/2008 NWPSAF-EC-VS-016 metaVS CDOP1

Tools for improved use of hyperspectral IR observations Benjamin Ruston 15/08/2008 NWPSAF-MO-VS-036 metaVS metaAAPP CDOP1

Using simulated satellite images to improve the characterization of Atmospheric Motion Vectors (AMVs) and their errors for Numerical Weather Prediction Lueder von Bremen 01/04/2008 NWPSAF-EC-VS-015 metaVS metaMonitoring metaAMV CDOP1

ASCAT coastal AWDP prototype Marcos Portabella, Anton Verhoef, and Ad Stoffelen 20/03/2008 NWPSAF-KN-VS-007 metaVS metaAWDP CDOP1

Incorporation of the JCSDA Zeeman RT model in RTTOV v9

Y. Han 11/12/2007 NWPSAF-MO-VS-035 metaVS metaRTTOV CDOP1

Investigation of the suitability of the 6S radiative transfer model to extend RTTOV to solar wavelengths N. Huneeus 13/12/2007 NWPSAF-MO-VS-034 metaVS metaRTTOV CDOP1

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Comparison of radiative transfer models for AMSU-B in presence of ice clouds N. Courcoux, A. Doherty, T. R. Sreerekha 24/05/2007 NWPSAF-MO-VS-020 metaVS metaRTTOV IOP

Towards the assimilation of satellite microwave observations over land: feasibility studies using SSMI/S, AMSU-A and AMSU-B F. Karbou, N. Bormann, J-N. Thépaut 01/01/2007 NWPSAF-EC-VS-010 metaVS meta1DVar IOP

SMOS Community Microwave Emission Model (SMOS-CHEM)

T.R.H. Holmes 18/12/2006 NWPSAF-EC-VS-014 metaVS metaRTTOV IOP

Incorporation of RTTOV-8 in the JCSDA CRTM

P.F.W. van Delst and R.W. Saunders 29/09/2006 NWPSAF-MO-VS-022 metaVS metaRTTOV IOP

91-level ECMWF diverse profile dataset

F. Chevallier 30/06/2006 NWPSAF-EC-VS-013 metaVS metaRTTOV IOP

CIMMS Liaison Meeting, 15-17 May 2006 (password protected — NWPSAF members only)

N. Atkinson, P. Brunel and P. Marguinaud 01/05/2006 NWPSAF-MO-VS-021 metaVS metaAAPP IOP

Quantitative precipitation estimation from satellite data (password protected — NWPSAF members only)

S. Laviola 15/04/2006 NWPSAF-MO-VS-024 metaVS metaRTTOV metaAAPP metaAAMIS-PP IOP

RTTOVCLD version 8: Independent Assessment, v1.1

C.J. Merchant, O. Embury, C.P. Old 03/04/2006 NWPSAF-MO-VS-018 metaVS metaRTTOV IOP

The validation of cloud detection for AIRS

W. Gräsle 20/01/2006 NWPSAF-EC-VS-012 metaVS meteCloudDetection metaAerosolDetection IOP

Validation of background error covariances for radiance assimilation R. Hess 20/01/2006 NWPSAF-EC-VS-011 metaVS IOP

Implementation Plan for a NRT global ASCAT soil moisture product for NWP metaVS IOP

Part 1: NWP User Community Requirements Summary R.A. Kidd 25/07/2005 NWPSAF-MO-VS-025 metaVS IOP

Part 2: METOP ASCAT Data Streams and Data Formats R.A. Kidd 27/06/2005 NWPSAF-MO-VS-026NWP SAF AMV monitoring: the 7th Analysis Report (AR7)
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Part 3: Azimuthal Anisotrophy of Scatterometer Measurements over Land Z. Bartalis 14/09/2005 NWPSAF-MO-VS-027 metaVS IOP

Part 4: Discrete Global Grid Systems R.A. Kidd 20/12/2005 NWPSAF-MO-VS-028 metaVS IOP

Part 5: Implementation Plan for a Soil Moisture Product for NWP W. Wagner 05/12/2005 NWPSAF-MO-VS-029 metaVS IOP

RTTOVSCATT model summary & reviewer comments A. Gasiewski 15/06/2004 NWPSAF-MO-VS-014 metaVS metaRTTOV IOP

Part 6: Selection of resampling Procedure Z. Bartalis 07/09/2005 NWPSAF-MO-VS-030 metaVS IOP

Part 7: Definition of Quality Flags K. Scipal 31/08/2005 NWPSAF-MO-VS-031 metaVS IOP

Part 9: ERS-METOP Scatterometer Cross-Calibration K. Scipal 11/01/2006 NWPSAF-MO-VS-033 metaVS IOP

Visit to EUMETSAT to discuss AMVs (26-29 June 2005) v1.3

M. Forsythe and M.Doutriaux-Boucher 12/09/2005 NWPSAF-MO-VS-016 metaVS metaMonitoring metaAMV IOP

Comparison of radiative transfer model jacobians in the presence of hydrometeors between JCSDA model and NWP SAF model

G. Wick 01/05/2005 NWPSAF-MO-VS-023 metaVS metaRTTOV IOP

Use of AIRS cloudy radiances M. Dahoui, F. Rabier, L. Lavanant and N. Fourrié 31/12/2004 NWPSAF-MF-VS-004 metaVS IOP