RTTOV documentation
User documentation:
- Release Note for RTTOV v14.0
- RTTOV v14 user guide v1.0
- RTTOV v14 user interface changes
- RTTOV v14 quick start beginners guide
- RTTOV v14 GUI user guide
- RTTOV v14 Python/C++ wrapper user guide
- List of supported instruments
Science and Validation Reports:
- RTTOV v14 Science and validation report v1.0
- RTTOV v13 Science and validation report v1.0
- RTTOV v12 Science and validation report v1.0
- RTTOV v11 Science and validation report v1.0
- RTTOV v10 Science and validation report
- RTTOV v9 Science and validation report and Annex A
- RTTOV v8 Science and validation report
- RTTOV v7 Science and validation report
- RTTOV v6 Science and validation report
Additional scientific, technical and design documentation:
- RTTOV Interpolation technical report – applies to v13 and earlier, see RTTOV v14 SVR for latest versions
- Memo on gas, cloud and aerosol units conversions applied in RTTOV
- RTTOV v14 Product Specification
- RTTOV v14 Top Level Design
Performance comparisons:
User surveys:
- Summary of results from 2022 RTTOV user survey
- Summary of results from 2017 RTTOV user survey
- Summary of results from 2014 RTTOV user survey
Reports from previous studies
- Microwave transmittance models for RTTOV
- ISEM-6: Infrared Surface Emissivity Model for RTTOV v6 (some figs currently missing)
- Evaluation of the ocean microwave emissivity models: Fastem and Fastem2 & figures
- Use of Fastem2 for the Special Sensor Microwave Imager & figures
Other NWP SAF reports on radiative transfer
- Gastropod – a fast radiative transfer model for AIRS and IASI
- Fast model intercomparison study results
- Impact of RTIASI fast radiative transfer model error on IASI retrieval accuracy
- Vertical discretisation for advanced sounder fast radiative transfer models: grid refinement for RTIASI
- An improved general fast radiative transfer model for the assimilation of radiance observations