Implementierungsplan für ein Echtzeit-ASCAT Bodenfeuchtigkeitsproduct für die Wettervorhersage

01.12.2004 - 30.05.2006

Assigned research project

The objective is to develop an implementation plan for a near-real-time (NRT) global ASCAT surface soil moisture product for numerical weather prediction (NWP). The feasibility for an implementation in EUMETSAT¿s central Product Processing Facility (PPF) will be investigated. The METOP ASCAT is the successor of the scatterometer on-board of ERS-1/2, for which a team at the Vienna University of Technology has developed a novel method for retrieving soil moisture. Since the scatterometers on board METOP and ERS-1/2 have very similar sensor characteristics, so that it can be expected that methods developed for the ERS-1/2 scatterometer can be transferred to METOP without major problems.

People

Project leader

Wolfgang Wagner (E120)

Project personnel

Zoltan Bartalis (E120)
Richard Kidd (E120)

Institute

E120 - Department of Geodesy and Geoinformation

Contract/collaboration

Met Office

Keywords

German	English
Scatterometer	Scatterometer
Numerische Wettervorhersage	Numerical Weather Prediction
Bodenfeuchtigkeit	Soil Moisture

External partner

Met Office
ZZZU_European Centre for Medium-Ran Weather Forecasts
Meteo France

Publications

Publications