2. Reference Documents

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2. 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.

2.1 EPS programme documents

[RD1]
EPS End User Requirements Document
EUM.EPS.MIS.REQ.93.001
[RD2] EPS Core Ground Segment Requirements Documents EPS.CGS.REQ.95327
[RD3] EPS Generic Product Format Specification EPS.GGS.SPE.96167
[RD4] Metop GRAS Instrument In-Orbit Verification Plan MO.PL.ESA.GR.0419
[RD5] GRAS Level 1 Product Generation Function Specification EPS.SYS.SPE.990010
[RD6] GRAS Level 1 Product Format Specification EPS.MIS.SPE.97234
[RD7] GRAS Requirements Specification MO.RS.MMT.GR.0001
[RD8] GRAS Calibration and Validation Plan EUM/EPS/SYS/PLN/01/013
[RD9] EPS/Metop Research Announcement of Opportunity EUM/STG/42/03/DOC/06
[RD10] U-MARF LEO Format Descriptions EUM/OPS/USR/06/1855
[RD11] EPS Product file naming for EUMETCast EUM/OPS-EPS-TEN/07/0012
[RD12] GRAS EPS-PFS Data Reading Introduction EUM/MET/MAN/06/0267

 

 

 

Future versions of this document will be available on the EUMETSAT UMARF webpages.

See www.eumetsat.int for more information on the project.

2.2 SAF documents

[GS1] GRAS Meteorology SAF User Requirements SAF/GRAS/METOFFICE/RQ/URD
[GS2] GRAS Meteorology SAF Validation Strategy SAF/GRAS/DMI/RQ/ST
[GS3] GRAS Meteorology SAF The Radio Occultation Processing Package (ROPP), An Overview SAF/GRAS/METO/UG/ROPP

 

2.3 Papers, reports and other technical documentation

[SCD1]
Observing Earth's Atmosphere with Radio Occultation Measurements using GPS
Kursinski, E., G. Hajj, K. Hardy, J. Schofield, R. Linfield
J. Geophys. Res., 102, 23429-23465, 1997
[SCD2] The radio occultation experiment aboard CHAMP: Operational data analysis and validation of vertical atmospheric profiles Wickert, J., T. Schmidt, G. Beyerle, R. König, Ch. Reigber and N. Jakowski
J. Met. Soc. Japan, Special issue 'Application of GPS Remote Sensing to Meteorology and Related Fields’, 82(1B), 381-395, 2004
[SCD3] Applications of COSMIC to Meteorology and Climate Anthes, R., C. Rocken and Y.H. Kuo
Terrestrial, Atmospheric and Ocean Sciences
, 11 (1), 115-156, 2000
[SCD4]
World Meteorological Organization Manual on Codes
WMO - No. 306
[SCD5]
NOAA KLM User's Guide
www2.ncdc.noaa.gov/docs/klm
[SCD6] GRAS Level 1b Product Validation with 1D-Var Retrieval Marquardt, C., S. Healy, J.-P. Luntama, E. McKernan
EUMETSAT Technical Memorandum No. 12, Feb 2005
[SCD7] An introduction to the EUMETSAT polar system Klaes, K. D., et al.
Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 88(7), 1085–1096, doi: 10.1175/BAMS-88-7-1085, 2007
[SCD8] Prospects of the EPS GRAS mission for operational atmospheric applications Luntama, J.-P., G. Kirchengast, M. Borsche, U. Foelsche, A. Steiner, S. Healy, A. von Engeln, E. O’Clerigh, and C. Marquardt
Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., in press, 89(12), 1863-1875, doi: 10.1175/2008BAMS2399.1, 2008
[SCD9] Smoothing and Differentiation of Data by Simplified Least Squares Procedures A. Savitzky and Golay, M.J.E
Analytical Chemistry, Vol. 36, pp. 1627-1639, 1964
[SCD10] Application Hints for Savitzky-Golay Digital Smoothing Filters M.U.A. Bromba and H. Ziegler
Analytical Chemistry, Vol. 53, pp. 1583-1586, 1981