An Observing System Simulation Experiment for the Impact of MTG Candidate Infrared Sounding Mission on Regional Forecasts: System Development and Preliminary Results
Table 1
List of experiments.
Experiment
Cycling period
Resolution (km)
Initial condition and assimilated data
NoDA
Nature
No
4
ETA 40 km analysis
Control
No
12
GFS analysis and forecast, no observations
3DVar
ROP
6 h
12
Background (BG)+ real conventional observations
SOP-6hc
6 h
12
BG+ simulated conventional observations (SOP)
SOP-RPtq-6hc
6 h
12
BG + SOP + retrieved profiles (RP) of temperature and humidity q (RPtq)
