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Archive of all visiting scientists’ reports<\/h2>\n\n\n\n\n\t\n\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t
Title<\/strong><\/th>Author(s)<\/strong><\/th>Date<\/strong><\/th>Doc ID<\/strong><\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n
An investigation of the impact of the assimilation of M-T SAPHIR data in the Met Office data assimilation system<\/a><\/td>Indira Rani, William Bell, Amy Doherty, and Stuart Newman<\/td>September 2016<\/td>NWPSAF-MO-VS-055<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
ASCAT-6.25 validation on coastal jets \u2013 2<\/a><\/td>Isabel Monteiro
\n<\/td>		July 2016<\/td>NWPSAF-KN-VS-016<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Constrained adaptive bias correction for satellite radiance assimilation in the ECMWF 4D-Var system <\/a><\/td>Wei Han and Niels Bormann
\n<\/td>		July 2016<\/td>NWPSAF-EC_VS-028<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Assessment of the mesospheric temperature sounding channels of SSMIS<\/a><\/td>Benjamin Ruston<\/td>May 2016<\/td>NWPSAF-MO_VS-053<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Comparison of MFASIS fast RT model and RTTOV-12<\/a><\/td>Leonhard Scheck<\/td>April 2016<\/td>NWPSAF-MO_VS-054<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
An evaluation of FY-3C satellite data quality at ECMWF and the Met Office<\/a><\/td>Qifeng Lu, Heather Lawrence, Niels Bormann, Steve English,
\nKatie Lean, Nigel Atkinson, William Bell, Fabien Carminati<\/td>		November 2015<\/td> NWPSAF-EC-VS-027<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
ASCAT-6.25 validation on coastal jets<\/a><\/td>Isabel Monteiro, Jur Vogelzang and Ad Stoffelen<\/td>October 2015<\/td>NWPSAF-KN-VS-015<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
On mesoscale analysis and ASCAT ambiguity removal<\/a><\/td>Wenming Lin, Marcos Portabella, Jur Vogelzang, Ad Stoffelen, Anton Verhoef<\/td>August 2015<\/td>NWPSAF-KN-VS-014<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
MFASIS - a fast radiative transfer method for the visible spectrum<\/a><\/td>Leonhard Scheck<\/td>July 2015<\/td>NWPSAF-MO-VS-051<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Microwave Surface Emissivity over sea-ice<\/a><\/td>Fabrizio Baordo and Alan Geer<\/td>July 2015<\/td>NWPSAF-EC-VS-026<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Preliminary studies towards the use of IASI PC products in the M\u00e9t\u00e9o-France global data assimilation system<\/a><\/td>S. Guedj, V. Guidard and J.-F. Mahfouf<\/td>February 2015<\/td>NWPSAF-MF-VS-005<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
The RTTOV UWiremis module: Investigation into the angular dependence of IR surface emissivity<\/a><\/td>Eva Borbas<\/td>October 2014<\/td>NWPSAF-MO-VS-050<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Validation of foam coverage derived from wave dissipative energy from a wave model for RTTOV<\/a><\/td>M. Anguelova, L.-F. Meunier, M. Bettenhausen, P.Janssen and S. English.<\/td>July 2014<\/td>NWPSAF-EC-VS-025<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
The Zeeman effect implementation for SSMIS in ARTS v. RTTOV<\/a><\/td>Richard Larsson<\/td>June 2014<\/td>NWPSAF-MO-VS-049<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Improved ocean emissivity modelling for assimilation of microwave imagers using foam coverage derived from a wave model<\/a><\/td>Louis-Fran\u00e7ois Meunier, Stephen English and Peter Janssen<\/td>February 2014<\/td>NWPSAF-EC-VS-024<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Evaluation of control variables for the assimilation of cloud-affected infrared radiances<\/a><\/td>Pauline Martinet, William Bell, Ed Pavelin and John Eyre<\/td>May 2013<\/td>NWPSAF-MO-VS-048<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Signatures of upscale and downscale energy transfer deduced from a third-order structure function analysis of scatterometer winds over the tropical Pacific<\/a><\/td>Gregory P. King, Jur Vogelzang and Ad Stoffelen<\/td>March 2013<\/td>NWPSAF-KN-VS-013<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Second-order structure function analysis of scatterometer winds over the tropical Pacific: Part 2. Rainy and dry regions<\/a><\/td>Gregory P. King, Jur Vogelzang and Ad Stoffelen<\/td>March 2013<\/td>NWPSAF-KN-VS-012<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Evaluation of FY-3B data and an assessment
\n\t\tof passband shifts in AMSU-A and MSU
\n\t\tduring the period 1978 \u2013 2012<\/a><\/td>		Qifeng Lu and William Bell<\/td>March 2012<\/td>NWPSAF-EC-VS-023<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Cloud information from high spectral
\nresolution IR sounders<\/a><\/td>		Kozo Okamoto, Anthony P. McNally and William Bell<\/td>September 2012<\/td>NWPSAF-EC-VS-022<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
IASI Channel
\n Selection for Reconstructed Radiances<\/a><\/td>		A. D. Collard<\/td>July 2012<\/td>NWPSAF-MO-VS-047<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Polarization options for the EPS-SG
\n scatterometer<\/a><\/td>		Maria Belmonte Rivas, Ad Stoffelen and Gerd-Jan Van Zadelhoff<\/td>July 2012<\/td>NWPSAF-KN-VS-009<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Report on land surface
\n data assimilation activities in Europe and the Americas in
\n the context of NWP SAF objectives<\/a><\/td>		Luis Gustavo Goncalves de Goncalves and Joao Gerd Zell
\n de Mattos<\/td>		April 2012<\/td>NWPSAF-EC-VS-021<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
TELSEM 1D-var experiments
\n at the Met Office: final report<\/a><\/td>		Filipe Aires, Sreerekha Thonipparambil, Catherine
\n Prigent and Roger Saunders<\/td>		February 2012<\/td>NWPSAF-MO-VS-046<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Explicit handling of surface emission for the exploitation of high spectral resolution infrared satellite sounding radiances from IASI over land and sea-ice<\/a><\/td>B. Ruston and A. McNally<\/td>February 2012<\/td>NWPSAF-EC-VS-020<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Second-order structure function analysis of
\n\t\tscatterometer winds over the Tropical Pacific:
\n\t\tPart 1. Spectra and Structure Functions<\/a><\/td>		Gregory P. King, Jur Vogelzang and Ad Stoffelen<\/td>February 2012<\/td>NWPSAF-KN-VS-008<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Evaluation of the 15 min. NWC SAF High Resolution AMVs<\/a><\/td>Javier Garc\u00eda Pereda<\/td>January 2012<\/td>NWPSAF-MO-VS-044<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Evaluation of new hourly GOES AMVs with
\n Expected Error<\/a><\/td>		David Santek<\/td>October 2011<\/td>NWPSAF-EC-VS-019<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Development of the GPU-based RTTOV-7
\n IASI and AMSU Radiative Transfer Models<\/a><\/td>		Bormin Huang, Jarno Mielikainen, Hung-Lung Allen
\n Huang, and Roger Saunders<\/td>		July 2011<\/td>NWPSAF-MO-VS-043<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
FASTEM-4 Validation<\/a><\/td>Quanhua Liu<\/td>June 2011<\/td>NWPSAF-MO-VS-045<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
An evaluation of the FY-3A sounding radiance
\n observations<\/a><\/td>		Qifeng Lu, W. Bell, P. Bauer, N. Bormann and C. Peubey<\/td>October 2010<\/td>NWPSAF-EC-VS-018<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
The RTTOV
\n UWiremis IR land surface emissivity module<\/a><\/td>		Eva E. Borbas and Benjamin C. Ruston<\/td>June 2010<\/td>NWPSAF-MO-VS-042<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Ozone
\n information from high spectral
\n\t resolution infrared sounders<\/a><\/td>		W.Han and A.McNally<\/td>May 2010<\/td>NWPSAF-EC-VS-017<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Comparison
\n of CPTEC AIRS L2 intercomparison and validation with Met
\n Office IASI L2 intercomparison and validation<\/a><\/td>		Simone Costa<\/td>March 2010<\/td>NWPSAF-MO-VS-041<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
TELSEM: a Tool to Estimate Land
\n\t Surface Emissivities at Microwave frequencies<\/a><\/td>		F.Aires, C.Prigent, F.Bernardo, C.Jim\u00e9nez, R.Saunders and P.Brunel<\/td>November 2009<\/td>NWPSAF-MO-VS-040<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Improving the assimilation
\n of IASI and ATOVS data in polar region and limited area
\n models<\/a><\/td>		Roger Randriamampianina, Fiona Hilton and Brett Candy<\/td>October 2009<\/td>NWPSAF-MO-VS-039<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Synoptic
\n assessment of AMV errors<\/a><\/td>		Renato Galante Negri and Mary Forsythe<\/td>June 2009<\/td>NWPSAF-MO-VS-038<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Comparison
\n of progress in assimilating cloud-affected microwave radiances
\n at NCEP, ECMWF, JMA and the Met Office<\/a><\/td>		Min-Jeong Kim, Steve English, Peter Bauer, Alan
\n Geer and Kozo Okamoto<\/td>		October 2008<\/td>NWPSAF-MO-VS-037<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Bias correction of window channels on
\nmicrowave and infrared sounders<\/a><\/td>		Wei Han and Anthony McNally<\/td>August 2008<\/td>NWPSAF-EC-VS-016<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Tools for improved use of hyperspectral IR observations<\/a><\/td>Benjamin Ruston<\/td>August 2008<\/td>NWPSAF-MO-VS-036<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Using simulated satellite images to improve
\n the characterization of Atmospheric Motion
\n Vectors (AMVs) and their errors for Numerical
\n Weather Prediction<\/a><\/td>		Lueder von Bremen<\/td>April 2008<\/td>NWPSAF-EC-VS-015<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
ASCAT coastal AWDP prototype<\/a><\/td>Marcos Portabella, Anton Verhoef, and Ad Stoffelen<\/td>March 2008<\/td>NWPSAF-KN-VS-007<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

Incorporation of the JCSDA
\n Zeeman RT model in RTTOV v9<\/a><\/p>
\n <\/td>

Y. Han<\/td>December 2007<\/td>NWPSAF-MO-VS-035<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Investigation of the suitability
\n of the 6S radiative tranfer model to extend RTTOV to solar wavelengths<\/a><\/td>		N. Huneeus<\/td>December 2007<\/td>NWPSAF-MO-VS-034<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Comparison of radiative transfer models for
\n\t AMSU-B in presence of ice clouds<\/a><\/td>		N. Courcoux, A. Doherty, T. R. Sreerekha<\/td>May 2007<\/td>NWPSAF-MO-VS-020<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Towards the assimilation
\n of satellite microwave observations over land: feasibility studies
\n using SSMI\/S, AMSU-A and AMSU-B<\/a><\/td>		F. Karbou, N. Bormann, J-N. Th\u00e9paut<\/td>January 2007<\/td>NWPSAF-EC-VS-010<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

SMOS Community Microwave Emission
\n Model (SMOS-CHEM)<\/a><\/p>
\n <\/td>

T.R.H. Holmes<\/td>December 2006<\/td>NWPSAF-EC-VS-014<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

Incorporation of RTTOV-8 in
\n the JCSDA CRTM<\/a><\/p>
\n <\/td>

P.F.W. van Delst and R.W. Saunders<\/td>September 2006<\/td>NWPSAF-MO-VS-022<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

91-level ECMWF diverse profile
\n dataset<\/a><\/p>
\n <\/td>

F. Chevallier<\/td>June 2006<\/td>NWPSAF-EC-VS-013<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

CIMMS Liaison Meeting, 15-17 May 2006<\/a> (password protected \u2014 NWPSAF members only)<\/p>
\n <\/td>

N. Atkinson, P. Brunel and P. Marguinaud<\/td>May 2006<\/td>NWPSAF-MO-VS-021<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

Quantitative precipitation estimation from satellite data<\/a> (password protected \u2014 NWPSAF members only)<\/p>
\n <\/td>

S. Laviola<\/td>April 2006<\/td>NWPSAF-MO-VS-024<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

RTTOVCLD version 8: Independent
\n Assessment, v1.1<\/a><\/p>
\n <\/td>

C.J. Merchant, O. Embury, C.P. Old<\/td>April 2006<\/td>NWPSAF-MO-VS-018<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

The validation of cloud detection
\n for AIRS<\/a><\/p>
\n <\/td>

W. Gr\u00e4sle<\/td>January 2006<\/td>NWPSAF-EC-VS-012<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Validation of background error
\n covariances for radiance assimilation<\/a><\/td>		R. Hess<\/td>January 2006<\/td>NWPSAF-EC-VS-011<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Impementation Plan for a NRT global ASCAT soil moisture product
\n for NWP:<\/td>		\u00a0<\/td>\u00a0<\/td>\u00a0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Part 1: NWP User Community Requirements Summary<\/a><\/td>R.A. Kidd<\/td>July 2005<\/td>NWPSAF-MO-VS-025<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Part 2: METOP ASCAT Data Streams and Data Formats<\/a><\/td>R.A. Kiddhref=\"http:\/\/nwp-saf.eumetsat.int\/vs_reports\/nwpsaf-mo<\/td>June 2005<\/td>NWPSAF-MO-VS-026<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Part 3: Azimuthal Anisotrophy of Scatterometer Measurements over
\n Land<\/a><\/td>		Z. Bartalis<\/td>September 2005<\/td>NWPSAF-MO-VS-027<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Part 4: Discrete Global Grid Systems<\/a><\/td>R.A. Kidd<\/td>December 2005<\/td>NWPSAF-MO-VS-028<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Part 5: Implementation Plan for a Soil Moisture Product for NWP<\/a><\/td>W. Wagner<\/td>December 2005<\/td>NWPSAF-MO-VS-029<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Part 6: Selection of resampling Procedure<\/a><\/td>Z. Bartalis<\/td>September 2005<\/td>NWPSAF-MO-VS-030<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Part 7: Definition of Quality Flags<\/a><\/td>K. Scipal<\/td>August 2005<\/td>NWPSAF-MO-VS-031<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Part 9: ERS-METOP Scatterometer Cross-Calibration<\/a><\/td>K. Scipal<\/td>June 2006<\/td>NWPSAF-MO-VS-033<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

Visit to EUMETSAT to discuss
\n AMVs (26-29 June 2005) v1.3<\/a><\/p>
\n <\/td>

M. Forsythe and M.Doutriaux-Boucher<\/td>September 2005<\/td>NWPSAF-MO-VS-016<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

Comparison of radiative transfer
\n model jacobians in the presence of hydrometeors between JCSDA
\n model and NWP SAF model<\/a><\/p>
\n <\/td>

G. Wick<\/td>May 2005<\/td>NWPSAF-MO-VS-023<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Use of AIRS cloudy radiances<\/a><\/td>M. Dahoui, F. Rabier, L. Lavanant and N. Fourri\u00e9<\/td>December 2004<\/td>NWPSAF-MF-VS-004<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
RTTOVSCATT model summary & reviewer comments<\/a> <\/td>A. Gasiewski<\/td>July 2004<\/td>NWPSAF-MO-VS-014 <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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