MiKlip/VECAP: VErification, Calibration and Assessment of Predictability of medium-range climate predicions using satellite data (bb0763)
VeCAP is a contribution to the BMBF research programme MiKlip (Mittelfristige Klimaprognosen). VeCAP is a joint project of the German Meteorological Service - Deutscher Wetterdienst (DWD) and the Meteorological Institute of University of Bonn (MIUB). VeCAP has contributed to the validation of the MiKlip decadal prediction system by the development of methods for the probabilistic evaluation of decadal hindcasts using classical reanalysis and satellite data. VeCAP has developed and applied 'satellite simulators' for TRMM PR and IASI to facilitate the comparison of climate model output with satellite observations. The MiKlip programme (MiKlip phase I) and VeCAP contribution started in September 2011 and ended in August 2015. The second phase of MiKlip started in October 2015 and has a planned lifetime of 3 years plus one year for the final operationalization of the MiKlip system.