The need for a community reference quality ocean emission and reflection model for use across a broad spectral range (microwave (MW) and infrared (IR)), as well as supporting passive and active remote sensing, has been identified in various reports and international workshops. Notably, the European Commission Horizon2020 project, GAIA-CLIM (http://www.gaia-clim.eu), identified in Deliverable D6.11 that the lack of a reference quality ocean emission and backscatter model was a major gap in our ability to provide absolute calibration of the satellite based observing system. The gap was also identified by the ECMWF-JCSDA-NWPSAF all-sky assimilation workshop in December 2015 and again in February 2020 and the 21st meeting of the International TOVS Working Group in December 2017.On the 18 th and 19 th of October 2022, an international science team of the International Space Science Institute (ISSI) met for the final meeting of a project started in November 2019 to develop a reference model, with the objective of it being maintained and supported, with ISSI SCIENCE TEAM MEETING REPORT ON DEVELOPMENT OF A REFERENCE QUALITY MODEL FOR OCEAN SURFACE EMISSIVITY AND BACKSCATTER FROM THE MICROWAVE TO THE INFRARED What: An international team of scientists, with backgrounds in radiative transfer modelling, data assimilation, field campaigns, space agencies and instrumentation, developed a reference quality model for ocean surface emission and backscatter.
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