| 1 | Many people, inside and outside the ROM SAF, have contributed to the development
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| 2 | of ROPP. The principal authors are listed in below. The ROM SAF extends its
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| 3 | sincere appreciation for their efforts.
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| 5 | Contributing authors are:
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| 8 | Christian Marquardt (EUMETSAT) Ex-Development Manager. Author of majority of ROPP-1 code in UTILS, IO, FM and 1DVAR modules, and much personal, pre-existing software.
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| 9 | Huw Lewis (Met Office) 1st ROPP Development Manager, FM and 1D--VAR extensions. PP module.
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| 10 | Dave Offiler (Met Office) ROPP Project Manager, IO application code and IO extensions, BUFR format/template.
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| 11 | Sean Healy (ECMWF) Original 1D--Var code, FM 2D operator code.
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| 12 | Michael Gorbunov (Russian Academy of Sciences) Original PP code.
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| 13 | Axel von Engeln (EUMETSAT) Original Test Folder system author.
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| 14 | Stig Syndergaard (DMI) Original spectral version of MSIS model (expansion in spherical harmonics and Chebychev polynomials), PP module developments.
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| 15 | Ian Culverwell (Met Office) 2nd ROPP Development Manager. Documentation, testing, consolidation, IO development, GRIB2 reader, tropopause height diagnostics.
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| 16 | Carlo Buontempo (Met Office) S-G thinner code.
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| 17 | Michael Rennie (ECMWF) 1st ROPP Test Manager. Test folder developments.
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| 18 | Kjartan Kinch (DMI) Elements of ropp\_pp.
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| 19 | Hans Gleisner (DMI) Elements of ropp\_pp, prototype GRIB2 reader.
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| 20 | Torsten Schmidt (GFZ) Guidance on tropopause height diagnostics.
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| 21 | Chris Burrows (Met Office) 2nd ROPP Test Manager. Test folder developments.
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| 22 | Kent Baerkgaard Lauritsen (DMI) Code reviews; liaison with EUMETSAT (licences, beta tester contracts).
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| 25 | Any comments on the ROPP software should in the first instance
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| 26 | be raised via the ROM SAF Helpdesk at http://www.romsaf.org
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