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Reference Documents |
The following documents have been used to compile the information in this guide. Some of them are referenced within the text, others are provided here for further reading.
| [RD11] | EPS Generic Product Format Specification | EPS.GGS.SPE.96167 |
| [RD12] | ASCAT Level 1 Product Format Specification | EPS.MIS.SPE.97233 |
| [RD13] | ASCAT Product Generation Function Specification | EUM.EPS.SYS.SPE.990009 |
| [RD14] | ASCAT Calibration and Validation Plan | EUM.EPS.SYS.PLN.01.011 |
| [RD15] | EPS Programme Calibration and Validation Overall Plan | EUM.EPS.SYS.PLN.02.004 |
| [RD16] | ASCAT Instrument Technical Description | MO.RP.DOR.SC.0001 |
| [RD17] | ASCAT Measurement Data Interface Specification | MO.TN.DOR.SC.0015 |
| [RD19] | U-MARF LEO Format Descriptions | EUM/OPS/USR/06/1855 |
| [RD20] | EUMETCast Technical Description | EUM TD 15 |
| [RD21] | EPS Product file naming for EUMETCast | EUM/OPS-EPS-TEN/07/0012 |
| [RD22] | ASCAT L2 Soil Moisture Product Format Specification | EUM/OPS-EPS/SPE/07/0343 |
| [RD23] | Metop-A ASCAT Commissioning Quality Report | EUM.MET.REP.08.0525 |
| [RD24] | ASCAT Level 1 Reprocessing Phase 1 - dataset description | EUM.OPS.DOC.09.2481 |
| [RD25] | ASCAT Level 2 Soil Moisture reprocessing Phase 1 - dataset description | EUM.OPS.DOC.09.2569 |
| [RD26] | ASCAT Reprocessing Phase 1 - validation report | EUM.OPS.REP.09.3033 |
| [RD27] | Metop Space to Ground Interface Specification | MO-IF-MMT-SY0001 |
| See www.eumetsat.int for more information on the project. | ||
| [RD31] | OSI SAF Output Formats Description Document | SAF/OSI/M-F/TEC/SP/044 |
| [RD32] | OSI SAF ASCAT Product User Manual | SAF/OSI/KNMI/TEC/MA/134 |
| [RD33] | CMOD5.n - the CMOD5 GMF for neutral winds | SAF/OSI/CDOP/KNMI/TEC/TN/165 |
| See www.nwpsaf.org
for more information on the NWP SAF project. See www.osi-saf.org for more information on the OSI SAF project. |
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| [RD41] | The Advanced Scatterometer (ASCAT) on the meteorological operational (MetOp) platform: A follow on for European wind scatterometers | J. Figa-Saldaña, J.J.W. Wilson, E. Attema, R. Gelsthorpe,
M.R. Drinkwater and A. Stoffelen Can.J.Remote Sensing, Vol.28, No.3, pp.404-412, 2002 |
| [RD42] | ASCAT-MetOp's Advanced Scatterometer | Gelsthorpe, R.V., Schied, E., Wilson, J.J.W. ESA Bulletin No. 102, 2000 (http://www.esa.int/esapub/bulletin/bullet102/Gelsthorpe102.pdf) |
| [RD43] | Scatterometry | A. Stoffelen, PhD Thesis, 1998 |
| [RD44] | CMOD5 - An improved geophysical model function for ERS C-Band scatterometry | H. Hersbach, 2003 |
| [RD45] | Manual on the Global Telecommunication System | WMO - No. 386 |
| [RD46] | World Meteorological Organization Manual on Codes | WMO - No. 306 |
| [RD47] | NOAA KLM User's Guide | www2.ncdc.noaa.gov/docs/klm |
| [RD48] | ASCAT Soil Moisture Product Handbook | Bartalis, Z., Naeimi, V., Hasenauer, S., Wagner, W. ASCAT Soil Moisture Product Guide. ASCAT Soil Moisture Report Series No. 15, Institute of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, Vienna University of Technology, Austria, 2008. |
| See http://www.ipf.tuwien.ac.at/radar/index.php?go=a_reports for more information about soil moisture retrieval and validation. | ||