Dominique Carrer

TL;DR: SURFEX as mentioned in this paper is an externalized land and ocean surface platform that describes the surface fluxes and the evolution of four types of surfaces: nature, town, inland water and ocean.

TL;DR: The satellite Application Facility for Land Surface Analysis (Land-SAF) as mentioned in this paper takes full advantage of remotely sensed data to support land, landmosphere and biosphere applications, with emphasis on the development and implementation of algorithms that allow operational use of data from European Organization for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites (EUMETSAT) sensors.

TL;DR: In this article, the soil moisture measured in-situ at 5 cm is used to evaluate the normalised surface soil moisture (SSM) estimates derived from coarse-resolution (25 km) active microwave data of the ASCAT scatterometer instrument (onboard METOP), issued by EUMETSAT for a period of 6 months (April-September) in 2007.

TL;DR: In this article, a suite of active and passive remote sensing instruments and in situ sensors was deployed at the Site Instrumental de Recherche en Teledetection Atmospherique (SIRTA; instrumented site for atmospheric remote sensing research) observatory, near Paris, France, for 6 months (winter 2006/07) to monitor profiles of wind, turbulence, microphysical, and radiative properties as well as temperature, humidity, aerosol, and fog droplet microphysics and chemical composition in the surface layer.

TL;DR: A daily albedo product is developed, which is derived in near real time from observations provided by the Spinning Enhanced Visible and Infrared Imager instrument onboard the geostationary satellites of the Meteosat Second Generation series.