F Barbara ; M Barucci ; C Caligiuri ; U Cortesi ; F D'Amato ; S Del Bianco ; BM Dinelli ; M Gai ; T Maestri ; D Magurno ; L Palchetti ; G Poli ; F Pratesi ; P Raspollini ; M Ridolfi ; C Serio ; L Sgheri ; S Viciani ; P Zulian

F Barbara ; M Barucci ; C Caligiuri ; U Cortesi ; F D'Amato ; S Del Bianco ; BM Dinelli ; M Gai ; T Maestri ; D Magurno ; L Palchetti ; G Poli ; F Pratesi ; P Raspollini ; M Ridolfi ; C Serio ; L Sgheri ; S Viciani ; P Zulian

M Barucci ; U Cortesi ; FD'Amato ; S Del Bianco ; BM Dinelli ; T Maestri ; L Palchetti ; MRidolfi ; C Serio ; L Sgheri ; S Viciani ; P Raspollini ; F Barbara ; M Gai ; G Poli

This report is based on contributions from the FORUM Mission Advisory Group MAGHelen Brindley Imperial College London ; UKStefan A Buehler University of Hamburg ; DEDorothee Coppens EUMETSAT ; INTAdrien Deschamps CNES ; FRSteven Dewitte Royal Meteorological Institute of Belgium ; BEBianca M Dinelli ISACCNR ; ITLaurent Labonnote University of Lille ; FRQuentin Libois MétéoFrance ; FRMartin Mlynczak NASA Langley Research Center ; USLuca Palchetti INOCNR ; ITMarco Ridolfi University of Bologna ; ITMartin Riese Forschungszentrum Jülich ; DERoger Saunders Met Office ; UKThe scientific content of the report was compiled by Hilke Oetjen Scientific Coordinator ; based on inputs derived from the MAG ; supporting scientific studies ; campaignactivities ; with contributions from Richard Bantges ; Marco Barucci ; Claudio Belotti ; Giovanni Bianchini ; Elisa Castelli ; Simone Ceccherini ; Bertrand Cluzet ; Mathieu Compiègne ; Ugo Cortesi ; William Cossich ; Francesco D'Amato ; Samuele Del Bianco ; MohamadouAbdoulaye Diallo ; Gianluca Di Natale ; Alessio Di Roma ; Marie Dumont ; Marco Gai ; DinaKhordakova ; Lukas Kluft ; Tiziano Maestri ; Davide Magurno ; Alessio Montori ; Jonathan EMurray ; Piera Raspollini ; Markus Rettinger ; Christian Rolf ; Jacqueline E Russell ; LucaSgheri ; Ralf Sussmann ; Silvia Viciani ; Jérôme Vidot ; Hannes Vogelmann ; Laura Warwick ; the UK FAAM team ; the UK MetOffice ; Dirk SchuettemeyerThe technical content of the report was compiled by Bernardo Carnicero DomínguezTechnical Coordinator ; Charlotte Pachot Payload Technical Coordinator withcontributions from Itziar Barat ; Paolo Bensi ; Christophe Caspar ; Miguel Copano ; MauroFederici ; Dulce Lajas ; Flavio Mariani ; Vasco Pereira ; Stefanie Riel ; Gonçalo Rodrigues ; Bernd Sierk ; Kate Symonds ; Andrea Tromba ; based on inputs derived from the industrialPhase A system ; technical activities ; the FORUM endtoend performance simulatoractivity under the responsibility of the Future Missions ; Instruments Division Specialthanks go to the industrial teams who have supported ESA to bring this report together in avery short time after the Phase A Preliminary Requirements Review