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Summary: Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society Q. J. R. Meteorol. Soc. 137: 690699, April 2011 A
A Tool to Estimate Land-Surface Emissivities at Microwave
frequencies (TELSEM) for use in numerical weather prediction
Filipe Aires,a,b* Catherine Prigent,b Fr´ed´eric Bernardo,a Carlos Jim´enez,b Roger Saundersc
and Pascal Bruneld
a
Laboratoire de M´et´eorologie Dynamique/IPSL/CNRS, Universit´e de Paris VI/Jussieu, Paris, France
bLaboratoire de l'Etude du Rayonnement et de la Mati`ere en Astrophysique, CNRS, Observatoire de Paris, Paris, France
cMet Office, Exeter, UK
dM´et´eo-France, Lannion, France
*Correspondence to: F. Aires, CNRS/IPSL/Laboratoire de M´et´eorologie Dynamique, Universit´e Pierre et Marie Curie,
case 99, 4 place Jussieu, F-75252 Paris C´edex 05, France. E-mail: filipe.aires@lmd.jussieu.fr
Now at Estellus, France.
The contribution of these authors was written in the course of the their employment at the Met Office, UK, and is
published with the permission of the Controller of HMSO and the Queen's Printer for Scotland.
A Tool to Estimate Land Surface Emissivities at Microwave frequencies (TELSEM)
has been developed for use with the Radiative Transfer for the Television and
infrared Observation satellite operational Vertical Sounder (RTTOV) model. Its
objective is to provide a good estimate of the microwave surface emissivity to
improve the retrieval of atmospheric profiles or the direct assimilation of radiances
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