References for the Met Office TOVS Analyses

Some pointers to additional information in the scientific literature about the Met Office TOVS Analyses

The Analysis System

The Principal References for the Met Office assimilation scheme are:

Bailey, M.J., A. O'Neill, V.D. Pope: Stratospheric Analyses produced by the UK Meteorological Office. J. Appl. Meteor. 32, pp 1471-1483 (1993)
Bailey, M.J., A. O'Neill, V.D. Pope: Stratospheric Analyses produced by the UK Meteorological Office. Climate Research Technical Note, No. 24, UK Met. Office. (1992)

Additional background information can be found in the following papers:

Bengtsson, L., J. Shukla: Integration of space and in-situ observations to study global climate change Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc. 69, pp. 1130-1143 (1988)
Eyre, J.R, A.C. Lorenc: Direct use of satellite sounding radiances in numerical weather prediction. Meteor. Mag., 118, 1398, pp. 13-16 (1989)
Gelman, M.E., R.M. Nagatani: Objective analyses if height and temperature at the 5, 2 and 0.4 mb levels using meteorological rocketsonde and satellite radiation data. Spcae Res XVII, pp. 117-122 (1977)
Grose, W.L., C.D. Rodgers: Coordinated study of the behavior of the middle atmosphere in early winter: Monthly-mean comparisons of satellite and radiosonde data and derived quantities. MAP handbook, 21, pp. 79-111. (1986)
Nash, J., J.L. Brownscombe: Validation of the stratospheric sounding unit. Adv. Space Res. 2, pp. 59-62 (1983)
Nash, J., J.L. Brownscombe, G.F. Forrester: Long-term monitoring of stratospheric temperature trends using radiance measurements obtained by the TIROS-N series of NOAA spacecraft. Adv. Space Res. 6, pp. 37-44. (1986)
Smith, W.L, H.M. Woolf: The TIROS-N operational Vertical Sounder. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 60, pp. 1177-1187 (1979)
Schwalb, A. The TIROS-N/NOAA A-G satellite series. NOAA Tech. Mem. NESS 95. (1978).

Clough S.A., N.S. Grahame, A. O'Neill: Potential Vorticity in the stratosphere derived using data from satellites. Quart. J. Roy. Meteor. Soc. 111, pp. 335-358 (1985)
Fairlie T.D.A., A. O'Neill: The stratospheric major warming of winter 1984/85: Observations and dynamical inferences. Quart. J. Roy. Meteor. Soc., 114, pp. 557-578. (1988)
Fairlie T.D.A., M. Fisher, A. O'Neill: The development of narrow baroclinic zones and other small-scale structure in the stratosphere during simulated major warmings. Quart. J. Roy. Meteor. Soc., 116, pp. 285-315. (1990)
Hirota, I., T. Hirooka, M. Shiotani: Upper stratosphere circulations in the two hemispheres observed by satellites. Quart. J. Roy. Meteor. Soc., 109, pp443-454 (1983)
McIntyre, M., T.N. Palmer: Breaking Planetary waves in the stratosphere. Nature 305, pp593-600.
Miles, T, A. O'Neill Eds: Comparison of satellite-derived dynamical quantities for the stratosphere of the southern hemisphere. MAP handbook 29, pp. 245-271. (1989)
Jackson, D.R., R.S. Harwood, E. Renshaw, Tests of a scheme for regression retrieval and time-space interpolation of stratospheric temperature from satellite measurements. Quart. J. Roy. Meteor. Soc., 116, 1449-1470.
Pick, D.R., J.L. Brownscombe: Early results based on the stratospheric channels of TOVS on the TIROS-N series of operational satellites Adv. Space Res. 1, pp. 247-260 (1981)