Met office and ECMWF contribution to NPP and NPOESS cal/val effort

Author

Atkinson, Nigel C. ; English, Stephen J. ; Bell, William

Author_Institution

Met Office, Exeter, UK

Volume

1

fYear

2009

fDate

12-17 July 2009

Abstract

The use of numerical weather prediction (NWP) models in validating and characterizing satellite sounder data is described. The next generation U.S. polar-orbiter missions will be the NPOESS Preparatory Project (NPP) and the National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System (NPOESS). The Met Office and ECMWF will be participating in the calibration/validation activities for these missions, and the planned contributions are described. These contributions include both pre-processing expertise and the assessment of instrument bias and noise, using NWP models as a reference.

Keywords

artificial satellites; calibration; geophysical equipment; weather forecasting; ECMWF contribution; Met Office; NPOESS Preparatory Project; NPOESS mission; NPP mission; National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System; US polar-orbiter mission; calibration/validation activities; numerical weather prediction; satellite sounder data; Acoustic noise; Calibration; Instruments; Predictive models; Satellites; Weather forecasting; Working environment noise; NPOESS; NPP; Satellite instrumentation; satellite validation;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium,2009 IEEE International,IGARSS 2009

Conference_Location

Cape Town

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-3394-0

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-3395-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IGARSS.2009.5416893

Filename

5416893