Developments in the assimilation of satellite data in numerical weather prediction (NWP),
from the first experiments in the late 1960s to the present day, are presented in a two‐part …

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

This paper gives an update of the RTTOV (Radiative Transfer for TOVS) fast radiative
transfer model, which is widely used in the satellite retrieval and data assimilation …

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 …

A main limitation today in simulations and inversions of microwave observations of ice
hydrometeors (cloud ice, snow, hail, etc.) is the lack of data describing the interaction …

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 …

Forward models are a key tool to generate synthetic observations given knowledge of the
atmospheric state. In this way, they are an integral part of inversion algorithms that aim to …

Abstract The Community Radiative Transfer Model (CRTM) is a fast model that requires bulk
optical properties of hydrometeors in the form of lookup tables to simulate all‐sky satellite …

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