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1		Table 1: Overview
2	Institute	Data Assimilation System		Radiative Transfer Model	Sounding data assimilated			Bias Correction Scheme	More Information	Point of contact and e-mail	Last modified (applies to all tables)
3	Institute	Global	Regional or Km Scale	Radiative Transfer Model	Radiances	Retrievals	RARS	Bias Correction Scheme	More Information	Point of contact and e-mail	Last modified (applies to all tables)

4	ECCC (Canada)	EnVAR & EnKF	EnVar	RTTOV10.2	YES	NO	YES	Online (no VarBC)			November 15 2017
5	ECMWF (Europe)	4DVAR/EDA		RTTOV12	YES	YES(ozone)	EARS, AP-RARS	VARBC		Tony McNally (Tony.McNally@ecmwf.int)	14/11/2017
6	MET Norway (Norway)		3DVAR	RTTOV10.2	YES	NO	EARS	VAR			October 30 2017
7	US-FNMOC/NRL (USA)	4DVAR	3DVAR	CRTM	YES	YES(RD)	YES	VAR			October 13 2015
8	DWD (Germany)	EnVAR + LETKF	LETKF	RTTOV10	YES	NO	YES (G)	Online		C. Köpken-Watts, Robin Faulwetter	November 27 2017
9	Met Office (UK)	Hybrid 4DVAR + ETKF	Hourly 4DVAR (conv. scale)	RTTOV11	YES	NO	EARS AP-RARS SA-RARS	VARBC		Brett Candy brett.candy[at]metoffice.gov.uk	November 17 2017
10	DMI (Denmark)		3DVAR	RTTOV8.5/RTTOV10	YES	NO	EARS	Off-line Hirlam/VAR Harmonie			October 21 2015
11	JMA (Japan)	4DVAR	4DVAR (Meso-scale Analysis) 3DVAR (Local Analysis)	RTTOV10.2	YES	NO	EARS, AP-RARS, SA-RARS	VAR	NWP Systems at JMA	jma-nwp-satasim[at]npd.kishou.go.jp	November 27 2017
12	Meteo France (France)	4DVAR+Ens	3DVAR	RTTOV11.2	YES	NO	EARS, AP-RARS	VAR	http://www.meteo.fr/special/minisites/monitoring/menu.html	J.-F. Mahfouf jean-francois.mahfouf[at]meteo.fr	December 4 2017
13	NCEP (USA)	4DEnsVar Hybrid	3DEnsVar Hybrid	CRTM 2.3	YES	NO	Yes (G)	VAR	global_satinfo	Andrew Collard andrew.collard[at]noaa.gov	October 27 2017
14	BoM (Australia)	4DVAR	4DVAR	RTTOV9	YES	NO	YES	Off-line		Fiona Smith fiona.smith[at]bom.gov.au Chris Tingwell chris.tingwell[at]bom.gov.au	November 17 2017
15	CPTEC/INPE (Brazil)	3DVAR	3DVAR	CRTM	YES	NO	YES	N/A			November 20 2015
16	OMSZ (Hungary)		3DVAR	RTTOV10	YES	NO	EARS	VAR			March 2 2016
17	SMHI (Sweden)		3DVAR	RTTOV10	YES	NO	EARS	VAR			October 31 2017
18	COMET (Italy)		LETKF	RTTOV11.3	YES	NO (monitoring)	EARS	Off-line			November 21 2015
19	KMA (Korea)	Hybrid 4DVar/Ens	4DVAR (regional) 3DVar (km scale)	RTTOV9	YES	NO	EARS, AP-RARS, SA-RARS	Off-line			March 2 2016
20	NCMRWF (India)	Hybrid 4DVar +ETKF	4DVAR/3DVAR	CRTM/RTTOV9	YES	NO	YES	VARBC	https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Dz7Bxuu9GvQqtBNszPCLnu2WCDIp1B5dYEWxx6m1StM/edit?usp=sharing	indira[at]ncmrwf.gov.in	November 15 2017
21	NIWA (New Zealand)		FGAT7 VAR (at 12 km) 6 hourly PseudoDA (at 1.5 km) 3 hourly	RTTOV9	YES	NO	YES (and as data supplier)	Offline (monthly rolling archive updated every analysis)			October 12 2015
22	CMA (CHINA)	3DVAR	3DVAR	RTTOV9/CRTM	YES	NO	YES	Offline(CBC)			October 16 2015
23	CHMI (Czech Republic)		3DVAR	RTTOV10	YES	NO	NO	VAR		patrik.benacek@chmi.cz	December 1 2017
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30		off-line: dynamic bias corrections updated and applied to data before each analysis
31		variational: e.g VarBC, where bias corrections are computed during variational analysis as part of minimization
32		HK: Harris and Kelly type bias correction (thickness predictors)
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