The 
Partners and Advisory Board
last updated: 13 November 2003
Participants
| www | Institute | Role | Contact person(s) |
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Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute (KNMI) | Coordinator Generation of surface heating rates Various case/validation studies |
Bart van den Hurk Erik van Meijgaard Arnout Feijt Pier Siebesma |
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European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasting | System implementation and production of soil moisture fields | Pedro Viterbo Gisela Seuffert Janneke Ettema |
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German Weather Service/Global Precipitation Climatology Centre | System implementation and production of soil moisture
fields Precipitation analysis |
Werner Wergen Martin Lange |
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Meteo France/CNRM | System implementation and production of soil moisture
fields Microwave radiative transfer modelling Various case/validation studies |
Joel Noilhan Jean-Christophe Calvet Aaron Boone Francois Bouyssel |
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Meteorological Institute Bonn University | Microwave radiative transfer modelling Surface radiation database |
Matthias Drusch Henning Wilker |
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Spanish Meteorological Institute | Evaluation of soil moisture assimilation in European seasonal NWP cycle | Ernesto Rodriquez Camino Beatriz Navasques |
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Alterra Research Centre Wageningen | Validation studies | Eddy Moors Cor Jacobs |
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Swedisch Meteorological and Hydrological Institute/BALTRAD | Baltex case studies Radar derived precipitation |
Phil Graham Daniel Michelson |
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Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, Wallingford | Case study UK Flooding | Eleanor Blyth Vicky Bell |
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University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna/Working group Biometeorology | Precipitation analyses | Franz Rubel Paul Skomorowski |
External Advisory Board
| Name | Function |
| Dr Paul Houser | Coordinator of the US Global Land Data Assimilation System (GLDAS) project |
| Dr Jan Polcher | Coorinator of the Global Land Atmosphere System Study (GLASS) project, carried out under the umbrella of GEWEX |
| Dr Michael Berger | Coordinator of the ESA Soil Moisture/Ocean Salinity (SMOS) mission |
| Dr Carlos Da Camara | Coordinator of the Land Satellite Application Facility (LandSAF) of EUMETSAT |
| Dr Sten Bergström | Head of the research and development unit of SMHI |
| Dr Jim Haywood | Head of the UK Environment Agency National Flood Warning Centre |
| Dr Alan Betts | Atmospheric researcher |