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Validation of Atmospheric temperature profiles derived using Neural Network approach from AMSU-A measurements onboard NOAA-15 and NOAA-16 satellites and their applications for tropical cyclone analysis. By Devendra Singh, R.C.Bhatia, S.K.Srivastav, S.K.Mukharjee and S.Prasad Satellite Meteorology Division India Meteorological Department, New Delhi-10003 INDIA. ABSTRACT The new High Resolution Picture Transmission (HRPT) reception system installed recently at India Meteorological Department (IMD),New Delhi is capable of receiving real time data from sensors onboard the NOAA-K,L,M and N series of satellites . In this system , Neural Network approach is used to retrieve the temperature profiles from AMSU-A measurements. The retrieval results are evaluated by computing the bias and root mean square (RMS) difference between retrievals and collocated Radiosonde sounding profiles. The IAPP2.0(International Atovs Processing Package) developed at SSEC, University of Winconsin,USA and ICI3.0(Inversion Coupled Imager) developed at Meteo-France have been installed on SGI Origin-200 at IMD, New Delhi. The comparison among different techniques based on a limited data set for the period of January,2002 show that IAPP and ICI yield better results as compared to neural network for all atmospheric levels over the Indian region. The AMSU-A measurements are also used for the analysis of two recent tropical cyclones which formed in Arabian sea in the months of May and September,2001. The temperature anomalies were computed using AMSU-A derived temperature profiles with NOAA-16 data. The preliminary results based on the analysis of limited data show that, in both cases the warm core anomalies were located at about 250hPa level. The magnitude of warm core anomalies appear to be positively correlated with the strength of the tropical cyclone. The negative temperature anomalies which were also observed at lower levels, appear to be caused by rainfall contamination