SMOS Research monitoring page

Monitoring Results

2009

2010

Near Real Time (from November 2010)

Monitoring Chain

SMOS monitoring is produced by an Integrated Forecasting System experiment in research mode. The main goal of the SMOS research monitoring suite is to routinely monitor the data over land and sea as well as to localize the presence of possible temporal or spatial bias which may substantially affect the soil moisture analysis. The research monitoring suite is composed of the following main steps:

1. Routine acquisition of data,
   
2. Pre-screening of data in BUFR format,
   
3. Mapping of SMOS BUFR data to internal Observational Data Base (ODB) format for use in the IFS,
   
4. Collocation of observations with model fields and computations in model space (forward modelling, first-guess departures),
5. Production of global maps with statistics and publication at the SMOS research monitoring webpage.

Figure below shows an organigram of the SMOS research monitoring page: