In order to examine the effectiveness of the NSMC scheme, a comparison was arranged under the cooperation frame between EUMETSAT and CMA (China Meteorological Administration). Two periods of data from Meteosat-5 including IR and WV channels were processed and compared by both the EUMETSAT and NSMC schemes. The comparison periods were one week long each, and in January and July respectively. The...

Meteorological extremes have large impacts on society. The fact that approximately 40% of the Netherlands is below sea level makes this country especially vulnerable to flooding, both from the sea and from rivers. This has resulted in extensive research on the statistics of extremes. However, applications to meteorological and hydrological situations are always hampered by the brevity of the av...

The performance of single models and ensemble prediction systems has been investigated with respect to quantitative precipitation forecasts. Evaluation is based on the potential economic value of +72 h/+96 h forecasts. The verification procedure consists of taking into account all precipitation amounts that are predicted in the vicinity of an observation in order to compute spatial, multi-event...

The Megha-Tropiques (MT) satellite, a joint IndoFrench mission, was launched by ISRO’s PSLV-C18 on 12 October 2011 from Sriharikota, India. SAPHIR, a microwave humidity sounder on-board Megha Tropiques operates in six channels with frequencies around 183.31 GHz. A radiative transfer simulationbased operational algorithm has been developed to retrieve layer-averaged relative-humidity (LARH) for ...

To my family in China and my wife Yun ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS I wish to thank Prof. Robert Dickinson for advising my thesis and providing support for my PhD study for the past five years. This dissertation would be impossible without his continuous encouragement and support. I am grateful to the support and help from and discussions with Prof. Albany). I also like to thank my current and past group me...

To assess the status of global climate models (GCMs) in simulating upper-tropospheric ice water content (IWC), a new set of IWC measurements from the Earth Observing System’s Microwave Limb Sounder (MLS) are used. Comparisons are made with ECMWF analyses and simulations from several GCMs, including two with multi-scale-modeling framework. For January 2005 monthly and daily mean values, the spat...