About the ITWG RTSP Working Group
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
and documentation relating to our working group activities
- and the surface property models task group.
Working group activities
Recent updates
AIRS RT model intercomparison
-- information for participants and summary of results from the AIRS RT model comparison (printable PDF version)
Surface property models task group
-- results from the survey of Operational Weather Centers on use of surface sensitive ATOVS radiances.
ITSC working group reports
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:
Publications
Meetings
- 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)