This document outlines the current quality control procedures applied within the European Space Agency (ESA) Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity (SMOS) brightness temperature (Tb) monitoring run routinely at the European Centre for Medium-range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF). It also proposes possible future enhancements to this strategy. Effective quality control is important to avoid poor quality data skewing the monitoring statistics and in a possible future assimilation configuration will be important to avoid poor quality data contributing to degraded analyses and forecasts.
BT - ESA Contract Report DA - 10/2020 DO - 10.21957/kfuqck834 LA - eng M1 - SMOS ESL contract 4000130567/20/I-BG N2 -This document outlines the current quality control procedures applied within the European Space Agency (ESA) Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity (SMOS) brightness temperature (Tb) monitoring run routinely at the European Centre for Medium-range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF). It also proposes possible future enhancements to this strategy. Effective quality control is important to avoid poor quality data skewing the monitoring statistics and in a possible future assimilation configuration will be important to avoid poor quality data contributing to degraded analyses and forecasts.
PY - 2020 T2 - ESA Contract Report T3 - ESA Contract Report TI - Quality Control Plan for Brightness Temperature Modelling UR - https://www.ecmwf.int/node/19779 SN - SMOS ESL contract 4000130567/20/I-BG ER -