Milestone 1 Tech Note - Part 2: IFS Interface

Title
Milestone 1 Tech Note - Part 2: IFS Interface
Report
Date Published
11/2009
Series/Collection
ESA/ESRIN Contract 20244/07/I-LG
Document Number
2009:ESA Contract 20244/07/I-LG
Author
J.M. Sabater
Patricia de Rosnay
Anne Fouilloux
M. Dragosavac
A. Hofstadler
Event Series/Collection
ESA Contract Report
Abstract Contracted by the European Space Agency (ESA), the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF) is involved in global monitoring and data assimilation of the Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity (SMOS) mission data. To this end ECMWF has developed the Community Microwave Emission Model as the passive microwave forward model operator to simulate brightness temperatures (TB). ECMWF has also developed a series of fortran routines and shell scripts which makes it possible to interface SMOS data in the Integrated Forecast System (IFS) of ECMWF. The technical implementation of the IFS interface will permit the monitoring of SMOS TB over land and sea. This report is the Part 2 of the first Milestone Technical Note / Progress Report of the ESA Request for Quotation RfQ 3-11640/06/I-LG. It provides technical documentation of the IFS interface with SMOS data.
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