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These pages show information available at the Met Office to monitor the performance of NOAA satellites data usage.
 

Time series for ATOVS
An interface to enable a wide range of graphs to be shown. NB Your browser must support javascript and javascript must be enabled in order to use the interface.
Definitions for the time series graphs

NOAA satellites global rejection plots

 

Please note that there is currently a problem with the monitoring of ATOVS data which accounts for the noise on some of the plots. There is no problem with the instrumentation on the satellite.

Glossary

ATOVS Advanced TIROS Operational Vertical Sounder
TOVS TIROS Operational Vertical Sounder
AMSU Advanced Microwave Sounding Unit
HIRS HIgh Resolution Infrared Sounder
NOAA National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
NESDIS National Environmental Satellite, Data and Information Service
TIROS Television InfraRed Observation Satellite
1D-VAR One Dimensional Variational Analysis

 
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