Quality control plan for Brightness Temperature monitoring - 2024

Title
Quality control plan for Brightness Temperature monitoring - 2024
Report
Date Published
05/2024
Series/Collection
ESA Contract Report
Author
Kirsti Salonen
Pete Weston
Patricia de Rosnay
Abstract This document outlines the current quality control procedures applied within the European Space Agency (ESA) Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity (SMOS) brightness temperature (Tb) monitoring run routinely at the European Centre for Medium-range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF). It also proposes possible future enhancements to this strategy. Effective quality control is important to avoid poor quality data skewing the monitoring statistics and in a possible future assimilation configuration will be important to avoid poor quality data contributing to degraded analyses and forecasts.
URL https://www.ecmwf.int/en/elibrary/81565-quality-control-plan-brightness-temperature-monitoring-2024
DOI 10.21957/1e7db9a856
Download citation