Abstract: The first European Remote Sensing satellite, known as ERS1, will be launched by 1989. Priority in the payload has been given to a comprehensive set of radar instruments designed to observe the surface wind and wave structure ...

Abstract: cle reviews past and current reanalysis activities at the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF) and describes plans for developing future reanalyses of the coupled climate system. Global reanalyses of ...

Abstract: This paper presents the results from the Observing System Experiments (OSEs) with the current ECMWF data assimilation and modeling system for quantifying the impact on both analysis and forecast quality of Special Sensor ...