Comparison between Satellite Water Vapour Observations and Atmospheric Models’ Predictions of the Upper Tropospheric Thermal Radiation

<table>Variation of the amount of low cloud (% of low clouds’ pixels to the sum of clear sky and low clouds) with the brightness temperature at 6.7 <i>μ</i>m (BT6.7) wavelength RMSE for various cloud effective emissivity (<i>E</i>) ranges. The determination coefficients on the right in each frame are, respectively, for the relation between the low cloud amount and both the RMSE NCEP/DOE (upper) and RMSE NICAM (lower).</table>

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Figure 10: Comparison between Satellite Water Vapour Observations and Atmospheric Models’ Predictions of the Upper Tropospheric Thermal Radiation 