5th Coastal Altimetry Workshop - San Diego 2011

   

Day 1, Sunday 16 October 2011 

 

 

13:30

14:00

Registration

 

 

14:00

14:00

Opening Session 

Chairs:

 J. Benveniste - P. Cipollini

14:00

14:10

Welcome

Jérôme Benveniste

European Space Agency

14:10

14:20

Workshop Objectives

Paolo Cipollini

National Oceanography Centre, UK

14:20

14:50

Keynote talk - Improvement in Global Marine Gravity from CryoSat

David Sandwell

UCSD, USA

14:50

14:50

Session 1: Error Budget, Key Areas of Improvement and Draft Recommendations 

Chairs:

 D. Griffin - R. Ray

14:50

15:05

Coastal Altimetry: Progress over Three Years – Original Questions and Findings (to be discussed again at end of day 3)

P. Ted Strub

COAS, Oregon State University, USA

15:05

15:25

A Review of CLS Retracking Solutions for Coastal Altimeter Waveforms

Pierre Thibaut

CLS, France

15:25

15:45

High Resolution Observations of Coastal Wet Path Delay Variability from the JPL High Altitude MMIC Sounding Radiometer

Shannon Brown

Jet Propulsion Laboratory, USA

15:45

16:05

Nested High-Resolution Data Assimilation Modeling of Ocean Tides in Coastal and Shallow Seas

Gary Egbert

COAS, Oregon State University, USA

16:05

16:20

Recommendations for the Future of Coastal Altimetry (to be discussed again at end of day 3)

The COASTALT Team

 

16:20

16:50

Coffee Break

 

 

16:50

18:50

Poster Session 

 

 

18:50

20:00

Ice Breaker Reception

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

08:30

08:30

Day 2, Monday 17 October 2011 

 

 

08:30

08:30

Session 2 : Application Highlights

Chairs:

 X. Deng - V. Kourafalou

08:30

08:50

Altimetry on the West Florida Shelf 

Yonggang Liu

University of South Florida, USA

08:50

09:10

Assess the Quality of Satellite Altimetry Data in the Arctic Ocean 

Yongcun Cheng

DTU Space, National Space Institute, Denmark

09:10

09:30

Agulhas Current Estimation from High Resolution Altimetry 

Jean Tournadre

Ifremer, France

09:10

09:10

Session 3 : Trends and Variability in Coastal Sea Level and Currents

Chairs:

 G. Han - J. Hausman

09:30

09:50

Fine Scale Mapping from a Multi-mission X-TRACK Data Set: Validation and Analysis

Renaud Dussurget

LEGOS, France

09:50

10:10

Sea Surface Height Variability in the Rio de la Plata Estuary and the Adjacent Continental Shelf

Martin Saraceno

Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina

10:10

10:30

Regional Applications Based on CTOH (Centre of Topography of the Oceans and the Hydrosphere) Altimeter Data

Florence Birol

CTOH/OMP, France

10:30

11:00

Coffee Break 

 

 

11:00

11:00

Session 3 : Trends and Variability in Coastal Sea Level and Currents (continued)

Chairs:

 G. Han - J. Hausman

11:00

11:20

Level-3 PISTACH Products for Coastal Studies

Sylvie Labroue

CLS, France

11:20

11:40

Comparison of Coastal Altimetry and SAR derived Surface Current in the Coastal Region of the Agulhas Current.

Fabrice Collard

CLS, France

11:40

12:00

Characterization of Oceanic Mesoscale and Submesoscale Energy Spectra

Sung Yong Kim

Scripps Institution of Oceanography, USA

12:00

12:20

On the Influence of Coastal Mesoscale Dynamics on the Jellyfish Trajectories and Distributions

Jérôme Bouffard

LOPB, France

12:20

12:40

Discussion

12:40

14:00

Lunch

 

 

14:00

14:00

Session 4 : Synergy of Coastal Altimetry and Modelling

Chairs: 

K. Ichikawa - J. Wilkin

14:00

14:20

Ocean Surface Topography Estimates from the Oregon Coastal Ocean Forecast Model + movie

Alexander Kurapov / Ted Strub

COAS, Oregon State University, USA

14:20

14:40

Real-Time Regional SSH Data Merging and Assimilation Modeling: Gulf of Mexico Demonstration

Yi Chao

Jet Propulsion Laboratory, USA

14:40

15:00

Modeling and in Situ Observations around the Florida Keys Coral Reefs: Potential Applications of Coastal Altimetry + movie

Villy Kourafalou

University of Miami/RSMAS, USA

15:00

15:20

Adjoint-based Ensemble Prediction in the Mid Atlantic Bight

Javier Zavala-Garay

Rutgers University, USA

15:20

15:40

Discussion

15:40

16:10

Coffee break

 

 

 

 

Session 5 : Extreme Events and other Applications

Chairs:

 E. Coelho - M. Saraceno

16:10

16:30

Tropical Cyclone Yasi Observed by Jason-1 and Jason-2  

Xiaoli Deng

The University of Newcastle, Australia

16:30

16:50

Coastal Altimetry for Storm Surge Forecasting in the eSurge Projec

Paolo Cipollini

National Oceanography Centre, UK

16:50

17:10

Airborne Remote Sensing for Ocean and Coastal Applications

Ben Reineman

Scripps Institution of Oceanography, USA

17:10

17:20

Discussion

17:20

18:30

Poster Session (continued)

 

 

19:30

 

Dinner

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

08:30

08:30

Day 3, Tuesday 18 October 2011 

 

 

08:30

08:30

Session 2 : Application Highlights (continued)

Chairs:

 X. Deng - V .Kourafalou 

08:30

08:50

Comparing In Situ Current Data with Current Anomalies Derived from the PISTACH Products: the Loop Current Case 

Mathilde Cancet

NOVELTIS, France

08:50

08:50

Session 6 : Retracking

Chairs:

 L. Fenoglio - W. Smith

08:50

09:10

Waveform Retracking Techniques for Quasi-Specular and Multi-Peak Echoes near the Coast

Nurul Idris

The University of Newcastle, Australia

09:10

09:30

Using HF Coastal Radar Currents to Correct Satellite Altimetry + movie1 + movie2

Bill Emery

University of Colorado, USA

09:30

09:40

Discussion

09:40

09:40

Session 7 : Path Delay

Chairs: 

J. Gomez-Enri - P. Thibaut

09:40

10:00

Wet Tropospheric Correction: Filling the Gaps from Coast to Coast 

M. Joana Fernandes

Universidade do Porto, Portugal

10:00

10:20

Wet Tropospheric Correction in Coastal Areas: Potential of Land Emissivity Maps / Neural Network Retrieval Algorithm 

Estelle Obligis

CLS, France

10:20

10:30

Discussion

10:30

11:00

Coffee Break

 

 

11:00

11:00

Session 8 : CryoSat and SAR Altimetry in the Coastal Zone

Chairs: 

O. Andersen-J.Fernandes

11:00

11:20

Some Recent Investigations with CryoSat in Conventional and SAR Modes

Walter H F Smith

NOAA, USA

11:20

11:40

Contribution of CryoSat to Oceanography and Coastal Altimetry

Remko Scharroo

Altimetrics LLC, USA

11:40

12:00

SAR Altimetry in Coastal Zone: Performances, Limits, Perspectives + movie

Salvatore Dinardo

SERCO/ESRIN, Italy

12:00

12:20

The SAMOSA Project Main Achievements and their Contribution to Coastal Altimetry + movie

Cristina Martin-Puig

Starlab Barcelona S.L., Spain

12:20

12:40

Discussion

12:40

14:00

Lunch

 

 

 

 

Session 9: Data Processing and Products

Chairs:

 F. Birol - W. Emery

14:00

14:20

Technical Achievements and Data from the COASTALT Project 

Paolo Cipollini

National Oceanography Centre, UK

14:20

14:40

Regional Sea Level Anomaly Processing in the Gulf of Mexico

Xiaochun Wang

UCLA, USA

14:40

14:50

Discussion

 

 

Session 10: Cal/Val

Chairs:

 R.Scharroo - S. Labroue

14:50

15:10

Corsica: a Cal/Val Experiment to Link Offshore and Coastal Altimetry

Pascal Bonnefond

Observatoire de la Côte d'Azur, France

15:10

15:30

Local Mean Sea Surface Models for Calibrating Jason-2 at the Gavdos Cal/Val Facility

Stelios Mertikas

Technical University of Crete, Greece

15:30

15:50

Advances in the Validation of Coastal Altimetry Full Rate Wave Data (COASTALT Project)

Jesús Gómez-Enri

University of Cadiz, Spain

15:50

16:00

Discussion

16:00

16:30

Coffee Break

 

 

16:30

17:30

Session Summaries from Chairs

 

 

17:30

18:10

Plenary Discussion on Error Budget and Recommendations

 

 

18:10

18:30

Closing Discussion and Wrap-up

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Poster Sessions - Scheduled on Sunday, 16:50 to 18:50 and Monday, 17:20 to 18:30

 

 

Tropical Atlantic Western Boundary Currents from Satellite Altimetry 

Arnault, S.

LOCEAN-IPSL, France

COASTALT Product Validation at the Cascais Tide Gauge

Barbosa, S.

Instituto Dom Luiz, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal

New CryoSat Ocean Products 

Bouzinac, C.

ESRIN/RHEA, Italy

Impact of the New Near-Land Radiometer Wet Path Delay Retrievals on Altimeter Tide-Gauge Comparisons 

Brown, S.

JPL, USA

Bayes Linear Retracking in the Coastal Zone 

Challenor, P.

National Oceanography Centre, UK

Effects of Altimeter Corrections on Linear Sea Level Changes around Taiwan 

Cheng,Y.C

DTU Space, Denmark

Preliminary Result of Sea Surface Height Calibration/Validation for Multiple Satellite Altimeters in Taiwan 

Cheng, Kai-Chien

National Chung Cheng University, Taiwan

A New Parameter to Facilitate Screening of Coastal Altimetry Data and Corrections

Cipollini, P.

National Oceanography Centre, UK

Level-3 PISTACH Products for Coastal Studies

Dufau, C.

CLS, France

High Resolution Altimeter Gridded Fields for Coastal and Regional Studies: 
Applications in the Western Mediterranean

Escudier, R. and  Pascual, A.

IMEDEA(CSIC-UIB), Spain

Sea Level Variation over the NE US Coast-Shelf Region from Altimetry

Feng, H.

University of New Hampshire, UK

Validation of Altimetry Data near Coast in the German Bight 

Fenoglio-Marc, L.

Technical University Darmstadt, Germany

A Geometric Approach to Reducing Land Contamination in Coastal Altimetry Signals

Green, C. M.

GETECH/University of Leeds, UK

Impacts of Hurricane Igor on the Grand Bank Sea Level, Currents and Chlorophyll Concentration

Han, G.

Fisheries and Oceans, Canada

CryoSat-2 Low Rate and SAR Mode in the Coastal Zone – Limits and Possibilities with an Outlook to Sentinel-3

Horvath, A.

ESA/ESRIN, Italy

The Basic Radar Altimetry Toolbox for Oceanographers 

Lucas, B.

Deimos (ESA/ESRIN), Italy

Application of a Mixed-Pixel Algorithm to TOPEX for Coastal Wet Tropospheric Delay Retrieval 

Misra, S.

Jet Propulsion Laboratory, USA

Altimetry Observations of Coastal Kelvin Waves in the Bay of Bengal

Nienhaus, M.

University of South Carolina, USA

Reconstruction of Sea Level Change in South East Asia Waters Using Combined 
Tide Gauge and Satellite Altimetry Data

Manurung, P.

National Coordinating Agency for Surveys and Mapping of Indonesia (BAKOSURTANAL)

Eastern Mediterranean Tide Gauge Network – eMACnet

Pavlis, E.C.

Univ. of Maryland, Baltimore County, USA

CryoSat Processing Prototype, LRM and SAR Processing on CNES Side 

Picot, N.

CNES, France

Implementation of the Hyperbolic Pretracker

Quartly, G.

National Oceanography Centre, UK

Numerical Simulation of Radar Altimeter Waveforms – Foam Effects

Reale, F.

University of Salerno/CUGRI, Italy

Development of MMIC-based High-Frequency Radiometers to Improve Wet-Tropospheric Delay Correction in the Coastal Zone

Reising, S. C.

Colorado State University, USA

Tides in Shallow Water from Multi-Mission-Altimetry

Savcenko, R.

Deutsches Geodätisches Forschungsinstitut (DGFI), Germany

Satellite Altimetry Over Inland Water: A New Tool to Detect Geoid Errors!

Schwatke, C.

Deutsches Geodätisches Forschungsinstitut (DGFI), Germany

Bright Targets in the Coastal Zone: A Reconstruction Approach Applied to ENVISAT RA-2 Data

Scozzari, A.

CNR -IGG, Italy

Agulhas Current Estimation from High Resolution Altimetry 

Tournadre, J.

Ifremer, France

Altimeter Analysis of Seasonal Circulation Over the Patagonian Shelf

Strub, P. T.

Oregon State University, USA

SAR Data over Ocean, Processing Strategy and Continuity with LRM Data

Thibaut, P.

CNES, France

Radar Altimetry Waveform Retracking Applied to Coastal Ocean and Narrow Inland-Water Bodies

Tseng, K.

Ohio State University, USA