Many people, inside and outside the ROM SAF, have contributed to the development
of ROPP.  The principal authors are listed in below.  The ROM SAF extends its
sincere appreciation  for their efforts.

  Christian Marquardt (EUMETSAT):
    Author of majority of ROPP-1 code in UTILS, IO, FM & 1DVAR modules, 
    and much personal, pre-existing software.

  Huw Lewis (Met Office):
    (1st) ROPP Development Manager, FM & 1DVAR extensions, PP module.

  Dave Offiler (Met Office):
    ROPP Project Manager, IO application code and IO extensions, 
    BUFR format/template.

  Sean Healy (ECMWF):
    Original 1D FM code, 2D FM operator code, introduction of compressibility
    factors, improved FM vertical interpolation scheme, forward modelling of 
    L1 and L2 bending angles, 1d and 2d wave optics propagators.

  Michael Gorbunov (Russian Academy of Sciences):
    Original PP code.

  Axel von Engeln (EUMETSAT):
    Original Test Folder system, reader of EUMETSAT-formatted RO data.

  Stig Syndergaard (DMI):
    Original spectral version of MSIS model (expansion in spherical harmonics
    and Chebychev polynomials), PP module developments.

  Ian Culverwell (Met Office):
    (2nd) ROPP Development Manager. Documentation, testing, consolidation, IO
    development, GRIB2 reader, implementation of tropopause height and of
    planetary boundary layer height diagnostics, forward modelling of L1 and L2
    bending angles.

  Chris Burrows (Met Office):
    (2nd) ROPP Test Manager. Test folder  developments, improved FM vertical
    interpolation scheme.

  Michael Rennie (ECMWF):
    (1st) ROPP Test Manager. Test folder developments.

  Kjartan Kinch (DMI):
    Elements of PP module.

  Hans Gleisner (DMI):
    Elements of PP module, prototype GRIB2 reader.

  Carlo Buontempo (Met Office):
    Savitzky-Golay thinner code.

  Torsten Schmidt (GFZ):
    Guidance on tropopause height diagnostics.

  Feiqin Xie (Texas A&M Univ):
    Suggested boundary layer height diagnostic algorithms.

  Barbara Scherllin-Pirscher (Wegener Center, Univ Graz):
    BAROCLIM (3) dataset for statistical optimisation.

  Helge Jonch-Sorensen (DMI):
    BAROCLIM code.

  Kent Baerkgaard Lauritsen (DMI):
    Code reviews; liaison with EUMETSAT (licences, beta tester contracts).

Any comments on the ROPP software should in the first instance
be raised via the ROM SAF Helpdesk at http://www.romsaf.org
