Since the launch of FY-3C in September 2013, there has been an international partnership between CMA/NMSC, the Met Office and ECMWF to evaluate the data for use in NWP. The main focus initially was on comparisons of observed brightness temperatures with NWP model simulations: these are reported in other presentations. More recently, a particular effort has been made to understand the details of...

Soil moisture is an important control over atmospheric evolution, since it controls the partition of incoming radiation into latent and sensible heating. To accurately model these land surface fluxes, atmospheric models must ultimately have accurate soil moisture fields. Yet soil moisture is typically initialised indirectly in Numerical Weather Prediction (NWP) models, frequently resulting in u...

[1] An operational dust forecasting model is developed by including the Met Office Hadley Centre climate model dust parameterization scheme, within a Met Office regional numerical weather prediction (NWP) model. The model includes parameterizations for dust uplift, dust transport, and dust deposition in six discrete size bins and provides diagnostics such as the aerosol optical depth. The resul...

Abstract Satellite infrared (IR) sounder and imager measurements have become one of the main sources data used by assimilation systems to generate initial conditions for numerical weather prediction (NWP) models atmospheric analysis/reanalysis. This paper reviews development satellite IR in NWP recent years, especially all-sky observations. The major challenges future directions are outlined di...

This paper presents a new blending approach to applying large-scale correction the initial condition in limited-area numerical weather prediction (NWP) model. The combines implementation benefits of known approaches and shows significant improvement forecast quality when implemented tropical NWP Sensitivity studies indicate that many improvements come from horizontal winds alone. Adding tempera...

On September 17, 2012 the Metop-B satellite with onboard the Advanced Scatterometer (ASCAT-B) has been successfully launched. For the ASCAT-B scatterometer, corrections are derived with the use of the NWP ocean calibration (NOC). These corrections are used in the ASCAT wind data processor in order to obtain high-quality winds. The NOC-calibrated ASCAT-B wind product is examined and its quality ...