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.

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Summary plots

F17 SMIS	F18 SMIS	GOES-16 ABI	HIMAWARI-9 AHI	J1 VIIRS-M	METOP-B AMSU-A	METOP-B AVHRR
METOP-B IASI	METOP-B MHS	METOP-C AMSU-A	METOP-C AVHRR	METOP-C MHS	METOP-C IASI
NOAA-15 AMSU-A	NOAA-18 AMSU-A	NOAA-18 AVHR	NOAA-19 AVHR	NOAA-19 AMSU-A	NOAA-19 HIRS/4
NOAA-19 MHS	NOAA-20 ATMS	NOAA-20 CRIS-FSR	NPP ATMS	NPP CRIS-FSR	NPP VIIRS-M