This article reviews developments towards assimilating cloud‐and precipitation‐affected
satellite radiances at operational forecasting centres. Satellite data assimilation is moving …

Ten years ago, humidity observations were thought to give little benefit to global weather
forecasts. Nowadays, at the European Centre for Medium‐range Weather Forecasts …

This paper presents an assessment of the usage of Arctic atmospheric observations in the
Numerical Weather Prediction (NWP) system of the European Centre for Medium‐Range …

As operational forecast and data assimilation (DA) systems evolve, observing system
simulation experiment (OSSE) systems must evolve in parallel. Expected development of …

This article investigates the use of an updated observation‐error covariance matrix for the
Infrared Atmospheric Sounding Interferometer (IASI) in the European Centre for Medium …

All-sky assimilation of infrared (IR) radiances has not yet become operational at any weather
forecasting centre, but it promises to bring new observations in sensitive areas and avoid the …

The Aeolus mission objectives are to improve numerical weather prediction (NWP) and
enhance the understanding and modeling of atmospheric dynamics on global and regional …

Radiances from microwave temperature sounders have been assimilated operationally at
ECMWF for two decades, but observations significantly affected by clouds and precipitation …

Exploitation of millimetre‐wave radiometer and radar observations of ice clouds and snow
requires the ability to model the scattering properties of snowflakes. This article extends the …

The impact of developments in weather forecasting is measured using forecast verification,
but many developments, though useful, have impacts of less than 0.5% on medium-range …