Introduction

The purposes of monitoring the data assimilation system are to ensure the proper performance of the assimilation system and to diagnose problems with the system for future improvements. Furthermore, it provides statistics for use in the assimilation system. The statistics shown here include the bias correction and the observed-minus-simulated radiance statistics (with and without bias correction).

The sources of the departure statistics between the observed and the simulated radiance include: (i) errors in the observed data (ii) errors in the profile obtained from the forecast model, and (iii) errors in the radiative-transfer model used to compute radiance from the forecast.

Some observation numbers may have the decimal points because they are normalized by the cycle numbers.

Summary plots

F17 SMIS	F18 SMIS	GOES-16 ABI	GOES-18 ABI	HIMAWARI9 AHI	J1 VIIRS-M	J2 VIIRS-M
METOP-B AMSU-A	METOP-B AVHR	METOP-B IASI	METOP-B MHS	METOP-C AMSU-A	METOP-C AVHR	METOP-C IASI
METOP-C MHS	NOAA-15 AMSU-A	NOAA-18 AMSU-A	NOAA-18 AVHR	NOAA-19 AMSU-A	NOAA-19 AVHR	NOAA-19 MHS
NOAA-20 ATMS	NOAA-20 CRIS-FSR	NOAA-21 ATMS	NOAA-21 CRIS-FSR	NPP ATMS	NPP VIIRS-M