TY - RPRT
AU - S. Di Michele
AU - Edouard Martins
AU - Marta Janiskova
AB - This work package aims at building the main components needed to handle lidar observations in clouds within the ECMWF monitoring/assimilation system. The results achieved are summarized in this report. The first part describes the lidar forward operator, developed to simulate CALIPSO observations in clouds. The second part deals with the characterization of the observation errors, needed for data assimilation. In case of space-borne lidar (similarly to radar bservations), the representativity error is an important component of the observation error. A flow-dependent estimate has been implemented for the CALIPSO lidar following the same approach previously used for the CloudSat radar. The final part of this document describes the development of a quality control and a bias correction scheme able to reduce departures between CALIPSO observations and model first guess to a level suitable for assimilation.
BT - WP-1100 Report: ESA ESTEC Contract AO/I-6441/10/NL/CB
C1 - Research
CY - Shinfield Park, Reading
DA - 01/2014
LA - eng
M1 - 2014:WP-1200
N2 - This work package aims at building the main components needed to handle lidar observations in clouds within the ECMWF monitoring/assimilation system. The results achieved are summarized in this report. The first part describes the lidar forward operator, developed to simulate CALIPSO observations in clouds. The second part deals with the characterization of the observation errors, needed for data assimilation. In case of space-borne lidar (similarly to radar bservations), the representativity error is an important component of the observation error. A flow-dependent estimate has been implemented for the CALIPSO lidar following the same approach previously used for the CloudSat radar. The final part of this document describes the development of a quality control and a bias correction scheme able to reduce departures between CALIPSO observations and model first guess to a level suitable for assimilation.
PB - ECMWF
PP - Shinfield Park, Reading
PY - 2014
T2 - WP-1100 Report: ESA ESTEC Contract AO/I-6441/10/NL/CB
T3 - ESA Contract Report
TI - Observation operator and observation processing for cloud lidar. Support-to-Science-Element (STSE) Study EarthCARE Assimilation
ER -