by Leanne Avila — last modified Jun 03, 2015 02:35 AM

This working group was formed at the 11th ITSC meeting in Budapest (2000) to foster the development of radiative transfer and surface property models for satellite radiance assimilation. On this site we maintain up-to-date reference information on

• atmospheric profile datasets and profile manipulation tools for radiative transfer model development and validation
• satellite instrument characteristics relevent to radiative transfer modelling and satellite data assimilation
• line-by-line models and spectroscopic databases
• fast radiative transfer model developments
• and surface property models

and documentation relating to our working group activities

• radiative transfer model intercomparisons
• and the surface property models task group.

-- information for participants and summary of results from the AIRS RT model comparison (printable PDF version)

-- results from the survey of Operational Weather Centers on use of surface sensitive ATOVS radiances.

At every ITSC the group meets to discuss developments and issues arising in the areas of interest to the working group, listed above. PDF copies of the resulting reports are provided here:

• Budapest September 2000
• Lorne March 2002
• Ste. Adele October 2003
• Beijing May 2005

• Radiance and Jacobian intercomparison of radiative transfer models applied to HIRS and AMSU channels.

• 1st Workshop on Remote Sensing and Modeling of Surface Properties (20-22 June 2006, Paris, France)
• 2nd Workshop on Remote Sensing and Modeling of Surface Properties (9-11 June 2009, Toulouse, France)
• 3rd Workshop on Remote Sensing and Modeling of Surface Properties (18-20 October 2011, Beijing, China)
• 4th Workshop on Remote Sensing and Modeling of Surface Properties (Planned)
• Joint workshop on uncertainties at 183 GHz (29-30 June 2015, Paris , France)