William Schreiner, Sergey Sokolovskiy, Doug Hunt, Christian Rocken, Ying‐Hwa Kuo,
... orbit on the FORMOSAT-3/COSMIC (F3C) and Metop/GRAS (GNSS Receiver for Atmospheric Sounding) missions. The ... single-difference excess atmospheric phase algorithm, and the Metop/GRAS 50 Hz closed loop and raw sampling ( ... algorithm. The standard deviations of the F3C and Metop/GRAS bending angles from climatology between 60 and ... required with single-difference processing. The F3C and Metop/GRAS mean bending angles differences relative to climatology ... A comparison of ~13 500 collocated F3C and Metop/GRAS bending angle profiles over this six month ...
Tópico(s): Geophysics and Gravity Measurements
2011 - Copernicus Publications | Atmospheric measurement techniques
K. Dieter Klaes, François Montagner, Carole Larigauderie,
... orbit. The space segment is composed of the Metop satellites, of which Metop-A is in orbit since 2006, providing a ... ocean winds, atmospheric composition monitoring. The launch of Metop-B on the 17 September 2013 into the ... time, descending node, phased 48 min. apart from Metop-A) at 820 km assures the continuity of the system. A third Metop satellite (Metop-C), scheduled for launch early 2018, will assure ... EPS) and in particular presents the results from Metop-B commissioning and the actual status of products. ...
Tópico(s): Geophysics and Gravity Measurements
2013 - SPIE | Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE
Chung‐Chi Lin, Wolfgang Lengert, E. Attema,
... series of operational polar orbiting meteorological satellites, with MetOp-A and MetOp-B satellites launched on October 19, 2006 and September 17, 2012, respectively. The launch of MetOp-C is planned in 2018 which will ensure ... service until the start of the second generation MetOp mission (MetOp -SG) in 2021/22 for a mission duration ... the developments and operations of the ERS and MetOp wind scatterometer systems, concluding with the initial definition of the MetOp-SG scatterometer requirements and design. Technical challenges encountered ...
Tópico(s): Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes
2016 - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers | IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing
Banghua Yan, Junye Chen, Cheng‐Zhi Zou, Khalil Ahmad, Haifeng Qian, Kevin Garrett, Tong Zhu, D. Han, Joseph Green,
... A) flown on the Meteorological Operational satellite programme (MetOp)-C satellite. The calibration comprises the selection of ... launch until 15 November 2019. In particular, the Metop-C data quality is assessed by comparing to radiative transfer model simulations and observations from Metop-A/B AMSU-A, respectively. The results demonstrate ... specification after April 2019. The quality of the Metop-C AMSU-A data for all channels except ... the specification. Compared to its TDR data, the Metop-C AMSU-A SDR data exhibit a reduced ...
Tópico(s): Precipitation Measurement and Analysis
2020 - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute | Remote Sensing
... AVHRR/3 instrument on the Polar System satellite MetOp-A since 2011. The launch of MetOp-B in 2012 allowed for doubling of the ... of AMVs over the polar regions using both MetOp-A and MetOp-B satellite data. In addition to the single ... AVHRR wind product extracted from a pair of MetOp-A and MetOp-B images. This new product is extracted using ... same time period necessary to derive the single MetOp polar wind product but allowing for a temporal ...
Tópico(s): Atmospheric aerosols and clouds
2017 - American Meteorological Society | Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology
M. Antón, Diego Loyola, M. López, J. M. Vilaplana, M. Bañón, Walter Zimmer, A. Serrano,
... new Global Ozone Monitoring Experiment instrument (GOME-2/MetOp) with reliable ground-based measurement recorded by five ... April 2008. The results show that GOME-2/MetOp ozone data already has a very good quality, ... 46%). However, the relative differences between GOME-2/MetOp and Brewer measurements show significantly lower variability than ... no significant dependence on SZA. However, GOME-2/MetOp data show a significant dependence on the satellite ... ozone; such differences are minimized for GOME-2/MetOp. The comparison between the daily total ozone values ...
Tópico(s): Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics
2009 - Copernicus Publications | Annales Geophysicae
Sebastian Hahn, Thomas Melzer, Wolfgang Wagner,
... Advanced Scatterometer (ASCAT) onboard the meteorological operational platform (METOP) satellite METOP-A. Soil moisture is retrieved by using the ... the first of the three Meteorological Operational Platforms (METOP-A) in October 2006, ASCAT onboard METOP-A inherits and continues the role of his ... of scattering parameters, the initial near real-time METOP ASCAT soil moisture product had to rely on ... the artifacts in the initial near real-time METOP ASCAT soil moisture product, which frequently occur in ...
Tópico(s): Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) Applications and Techniques
2012 - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers | IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing
A. Marsouin, P. Le Borgne, Gérard Legendre, Sonia Péré, Hervé Roquet,
... resolution global Sea Surface Temperature (SST) from the METOP-A Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer (AVHRR) since ... against measurements are stable over time. Night-time METOP-A SSTs differ from drifting buoy SSTs by − ... has been tested on a prototype chain ingesting METOP-A data and gives encouraging results. It will ... under development at OSI SAF, that will process METOP-B data. An application example of METOP-A SST time series is given by analyzing ... with the ice coverage variability in September. The METOP-A time series gives consistent results when compared ...
Tópico(s): Climate variability and models
2015 - Elsevier BV | Remote Sensing of Environment
Nan Hao, Maria-Elissavet Koukouli, Antje Inness, Pieter Valks, Diego Loyola, Walter Zimmer, Dimitris Balis, I. Zyrichidou, Michel Van Roozendaël, Christophe Lerot, Robert Spurr,
... European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites) MetOp-A and MetOp-B satellites, launched in October 2006 and September ... respectively. This paper presents the operational GOME-2/MetOp-A (GOME-2A) and GOME-2/MetOp-B (GOME-2B) total ozone products provided by ...
Tópico(s): Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics
2014 - Copernicus Publications | Atmospheric measurement techniques
Margherita Grossi, Pieter Valks, Diego Loyola, Bernd Aberle, Sander Slijkhuis, Thomas Wagner, Steffen Beirle, R. Lang,
... from the GOME-2 sensors aboard EUMETSAT's MetOp-A and MetOp-B satellites and perform an extensive inter-comparison ... newer GOME-2 instrument on board of the MetOp-B platform and the GOME-2/MetOp-A data is evaluated in the overlap period ( ...
Tópico(s): Ionosphere and magnetosphere dynamics
2015 - Copernicus Publications | Atmospheric measurement techniques
Régis Borde, O. Hautecoeur, Manuel Carranza,
... AMV) operationally from the EUMETSAT Polar System satellite MetOp over polar regions since 2011. The launch of MetOp-B in 2012 permitted doubling the frequency of extracting AMVs using AVHRR imagery data of both MetOp-A and -B satellites. The tandem configuration with ... AVHRR winds product derived from a pair of MetOp-A and MetOp-B images that has been operational since January ... the scientific concept of wind extraction using dual MetOp satellites. It highlights the performance of the new ...
Tópico(s): Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations
2016 - American Meteorological Society | Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology
Sebastian Hahn, Christoph Reimer, Mariëtte Vreugdenhil, Thomas Melzer, Wolfgang Wagner,
... Advanced Scatterometer (ASCAT) on-board the series of Metop satellites. The incidence angle dependency of backscatter plays ... comparing the results obtained from ASCAT on-board Metop-A and Metop-B independently. Overall, a good agreement has been found between Metop-A and Metop-B confirming a robust interannual estimation of the ...
Tópico(s): Climate change and permafrost
2017 - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers | IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing
Ákos Horváth, O. Hautecoeur, Régis Borde, Hartwig Deneke, Stefan A. Buehler,
... Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites (EUMETSAT) MetOp-A and MetOp-B satellites fly in the same polar orbit ... part of ongoing validation efforts, two months of MetOp global AMVs were compared with a suite of ... satellite winds. In the tropics, however, high-level MetOp global AMVs show a strong fast speed bias, ... better correlated at mid- to high levels, although MetOp heights derived from window-channel brightness temperatures have ... altitudes but are available for only ~5% of MetOp AMVs.
Tópico(s): Climate variability and models
2017 - American Meteorological Society | Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology
Mathias Drach, Karolina Papageorgiou, Julia‐Tatjana Maul, Vahid Djamei, Nikhil Yawalkar, Peter Häusermann, Florian Anzengruber, Alexander A. Navarini,
... controlled, phase 3 trial, commonly known as the METOP trial, was published assessing the effectiveness and safety ... to determine whether the data obtained in the METOP-trial correspond to real-life registry data from ... compared to 15.9 ± 5.9 in the METOP trial. In our cohort, only 18% of all ... 100) compared to 41% and 4% in the METOP trial after 16 weeks. 22.7% of all ... nausea was seen in 15% (SDNTT) versus 22% (METOP) of patients. No severe adverse events were observed in our cohort. Compared to the METOP-trial, the response rates seen our real-world ...
Tópico(s): Autoimmune and Inflammatory Disorders Research
2019 - Springer Science+Business Media | Archives of Dermatological Research
Xiaodan Wu, Kathrin Naegeli, Stefan Wunderle,
... assessment than existing approaches. Data of NOAA-17, MetOp-A and MetOp-B satellites were selected to test the geocoding ... 1.1, 2.19 km for NOAA-17, MetOp-A, and MetOp-B, respectively. The large shifts and uncertainties are ... 79 and 1.70 km for NOAA-17, MetOp-A and MetOp-B, respectively. The data can be accessed from ...
Tópico(s): Geophysics and Gravity Measurements
2020 - Copernicus Publications | Earth system science data
... in recent years on NOAA-17, 18, and METOP-A platforms. As in the previous study, the ... radiometer on NOAA-15, 16, 17, 18 and METOP-A using AVHRR NOAA-18 as a reference. ... or 0.01 in absolute values). The AVHRR METOP-A reveals the most different behavior among the ... of AVHRR on NOAA-15, 16, 17 and METOP-A to AVHRR NOAA-18.
Tópico(s): Urban Heat Island Mitigation
2008 - Elsevier BV | Remote Sensing of Environment
Juha-Pekka Luntama, Gottfried Kirchengast, Michael Borsche, Ulrich Foelsche, Andrea K. Steiner, S. B. Healy, Axel von Engeln, Eoin O'Clerigh, Christian Marquardt,
... instrument is already flying on board the first MetOp satellite (.MetOp-A) that was launched in October 2006. It will also be on board two other MetOp satellites (MetOp-B and MetOp-C) that will successively cover the total EPS ...
Tópico(s): GNSS positioning and interference
2008 - American Meteorological Society | Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
Gustau Camps‐Valls, Jordi Muñoz-Marı́, Luis Gómez‐Chova, Luis Guanter, Xavier Calbet,
... the Infrared Atmospheric Sounding Interferometer (IASI) onboard the MetOp-A satellite data for the future Meteosat Third ... current MTG-IRS L2 processing concept, which processes MetOp-IASI and proxy MTG-IRS data. The official ... yield better results than linear retrieval for both MetOp-IASI and MTG-IRS synthetic and real data. ... K are obtained for temperature profile estimation from MetOp-IASI and IRS data, respectively. Similar gains are ...
Tópico(s): Calibration and Measurement Techniques
2011 - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers | IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing
... level‐1b data used. This study utilizes the MetOp IASI measurements to calibrate the long‐wave CO ... radiance bias characteristics are displayed for a sample MetOp orbit. Detailed analysis is performed in an attempt ... the HIRS window channel reveals the blackbody of MetOp HIRS has a 0.14 K bias. Then, ... parameters are validated using 16 months of independent MetOp data, with very positive results, showing consistent performance. ...
Tópico(s): Atmospheric aerosols and clouds
2011 - American Geophysical Union | Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres
Gorm Dybkjær, Rasmus Tonboe, Jacob L. Høyer,
... An operational ice surface temperature product using satellite Metop AVHRR infra-red data was developed for MyOcean. ... are detected using the EUMETSAT cloud mask. The Metop IST compares to 2 m temperature at the ... measurements complicate the validation. Differences and variability between Metop IST and in situ data are analysed and discussed. An inter-comparison of Metop IST, numerical weather prediction temperatures and in situ ...
Tópico(s): Climate change and permafrost
2012 - Copernicus Publications | Ocean science
Ilias Manolis, S. Grabarnik, J. Caron, Jean‐Loup Bézy, Marc Loiselet, Maurizio Betto, Hubert M. J. P. Barré, G. R. Mason, Roland Meynart,
The MetOp-SG programme is a joint Programme of EUMETSAT and ESA. ESA develops the prototype MetOp-SG satellites (including associated instruments) and procures, on ... Two parallel, competitive phase A/B1 studies for MetOp Second Generation (MetOp-SG) have been concluded in May 2013. The ...
Tópico(s): Spacecraft Design and Technology
2013 - SPIE | Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE
R. J. Redmon, J. V. Rodriguez, J. C. Green, Dan Ober, Gordon Wilson, D. J. Knipp, L. M. Kilcommons, Robert E. McGuire,
... noaa.gov/stp/satellite/goes/. NOAA POES and MetOp Space Environment Monitor (SEM-2) observations from the ... seven spacecraft NOAA 15 through NOAA 19 and MetOp-1(B) and MetOp-2(A) and currently covers the period from ... exist. Therefore, researchers unfamiliar with the GOES, POES/MetOp SEM-2, and DMSP SSJ particle data are ... gov/stp/satellite/goes/), (6) NGDC archival POES/MetOp services (http://ngdc.noaa.gov/stp/satellite/poes/), ...
Tópico(s): Atmospheric Ozone and Climate
2015 - American Geophysical Union | Space Weather
Niilo Kalakoski, Jukka Kujanpää, Viktoria Sofieva, Johanna Tamminen, Margherita Grossi, Pieter Valks,
... the Global Ozone Monitoring Experiment-2 on board Metop-A and Metop-B satellites (GOME-2/Metop-A and GOME-2/Metop-B) produced by the Satellite Application Facility on ...
Tópico(s): Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics
2016 - Copernicus Publications | Atmospheric measurement techniques
Matthias Schneider, Christian Borger, A. Wiegele, Frank Hase, Omaira García, Eliezer Sepúlveda, Martin Werner,
... shown that the sensor IASI aboard the satellite MetOp can measure the free tropospheric {H2O,δD} pair ... present a tool that allows for simulating MUSICA MetOp/IASI {H2O,δD} pair remote sensing data for ... simulations is within the uncertainty of the MUSICA MetOp/IASI products, i.e. the retrieval simulations are ... clearly reveal the large potential of the MUSICA MetOp/IASI {H2O,δD} data pairs for evaluating modelled ...
Tópico(s): Climate variability and models
2017 - Copernicus Publications | Atmospheric measurement techniques
Konstantinos Michailidis, Maria-Elissavet Koukouli, Νικόλαος Σιώμος, Dimitris Balis, O. N. E. Tuinder, L. G. Tilstra, Lucia Mona, Gelsomina Pappalardo, Daniele Bortoli,
... 2 (GOME-2) instruments, aboard the Meteorological Operational (MetOp)-A, MetOp-B and MetOp-C satellite programme platforms, to deliver accurate geometrical ... finding further testifies for the capabilities of the MetOp-borne instruments to sense the atmospheric aerosol layer ...
Tópico(s): Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics
2021 - Copernicus Publications | Atmospheric chemistry and physics
Alaa S. Amin, Gamal H. Ragab, Hanaa Saleh,
... of some beta-blockers as atenolol (Ateno), metoprolol (Metop), sotalol (Sot) and nadolol (Nad) is described. This ... NBD-Cl) in methanolic-aqueous (for Ateno and Metop) or acetone-aqueous (for Sot and Nad) medium [ ... 485, 470, 465 and 462 nm for Ateno, Metop, Sot and Nad, respectively. The optimization of various ... 98, 1.15 and 0.87% for Ateno, Metop, Sot and Nad, respectively. Applications of the proposed ...
Tópico(s): Pharmacological Effects and Assays
2002 - Elsevier BV | Journal of Pharmaceutical and Biomedical Analysis
Axel von Engeln, Yago Andrés, Christian Marquardt, Francisco Sancho,
The GRAS radio occultation instrument is flying on Metop-A and belongs to the EPS (EUMETSAT Polar ... addition, we also analyze the impact of the Metop orbit processing on the derived GRAS bending angle data, where different GPS and Metop orbit solutions are analyzed. Results show that a ...
Tópico(s): Solar and Space Plasma Dynamics
2010 - Elsevier BV | Advances in Space Research
K. Dieter Klaes, Marc Cohen, Yves Bühler, Peter Schlüssel, Rosemary Munro, Juha-Pekka Luntama, Axel von Engeln, Eoin Ó Clérigh, Hans Bonekamp, Jörg Ackermann, Johannes Schmetz,
... new polar system are the Meteorological Operational Satellite (Metop) satellites, jointly developed with ESA. Three Metop satellites are foreseen for at least 14 years ... will support operational meteorology and climate monitoring. The Metop Programme includes the development of some instruments, such ... recent successful research missions. Core components of the Metop payload, common with the payload on the U. ...
Tópico(s): Ionosphere and magnetosphere dynamics
2007 - American Meteorological Society | Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
Denis Blumstein, Bernard Tournier, F. Cayla, T. Phulpin, Roger Fjørtoft, C. Buil, G. Ponce,
... a key element of the payload embarqued on METOP series of European meteorological polar-orbit satellites. IASI ... of the IASI soundings with AVHRR imager onboard METOP. The first METOP satellite was successfully launched on 19th of October ...
Tópico(s): Spacecraft and Cryogenic Technologies
2007 - SPIE | Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE
B. Pirscher, Ulrich Foelsche, Bettina Lackner, Gottfried Kirchengast,
... of the satellite orbits. The Sun‐synchronous satellite MetOp (Meteorological Operational European weather satellite) and the non‐ ... as representative cases. For the Sun‐synchronous satellite MetOp the local time component remains constant during the ... stable) local time error of an annual mean MetOp climatology resolved into 18 zonal bands amounts to ∼ ... local time errors is slightly larger compared to MetOp since the monthly averaging period is too short ...
Tópico(s): Solar and Space Plasma Dynamics
2007 - American Geophysical Union | Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres