Title :
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
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;
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
DOI :
10.1109/IGARSS.2009.5416893
