Abstract
Since 1983, the UK Meteorological Office has been receiving the direct readout transmissions of TIROS-N Operational Vertical Sounder (TOVS) data from the NOAA satellites and routinely deriving high resolution temperature and humidity profiles for the North Atlantic/European area. These profiles are used by forecasters in the production of subjective analyses and are also used in the operational coarse- and fine-mesh numerical analysis schemes. The process of deriving these profiles using locally derived regression coefficients is described with a brief account of a new cloud clearing process now being tested. Characteristics of profiles and 1000-500MB thickness fields derived from the retrieval data when compared with conventional profiles and fields, which have been noted over a two year period, are described. An example of a comparison of profiles from TOVS data with collocated radiosonde profiles is also shown. Finally, work on new retrieval methods is outlined.
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