Satellite Microwave Sounding Measurements in Weather Prediction: A Report of The Virtual NOAA Workshop on Microwave Sounders

Microwave (MW) sounders on polar orbiting satellites operated by NOAA and EUMETSAT have been the most impactful remote sensing observations in numerical weather prediction (NWP) models for the past two decades, and are expected to continue to be so in future. These measurements from NOAA and EUMETSAT operated satellites are the backbone of NWP. In July 2021, NOAA invited experts from several NWP centers around the world to a one-day virtual workshop to understand how the data are used, the impacts of MW soundings on weather prediction applications, and the outlook of these measurements to enable future mission planning. 2021 NESDIS (National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service) Submitted https://doi.org/10.25923/wkgd-pw75 Public Domain 2286