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

Table 1

Correlation coefficient (R) between observed and simulated UTBT (BT6.7) and UTRH during the year 2006. NCEP represents the NCEP/DOE data.

Time	R (UTBT) NCEP	R (UTBT) NICAM	R (UTRH) NCEP	R (UTRH) NICAM
26 Dec at 00:15	0.775	0.714	0.752	0.729
26 Dec at 00:10	0.166	0.383	0.207	0.497
26 Dec at 00:05	0.451	0.682	0.205	0.530
26 Dec at 00:00	0.857	0.717	0.800	0.637
26 Dec at 23:55	0.703	0.426	0.632	0.316
26 Dec at 23:50	0.720	0.625	0.588	0.248
26 Dec at 23:45	0.455	0.260	0.661	0.658
26 Dec at 00:45	0.702	0.606	0.820	0.711
26 Dec at 00:50	0.432	0.129	0.592	0.306
27 Dec at 00:00	0.837	0.626	0.733	0.500
27 Dec at 00:05	0.536	0.497	0.482	0.306
27 Dec at 00:15	0.748	0.365	0.660	0.302