8th Coastal Altimetry Workshop - Konstanz 2014

A short Summary of the Workshop to OSTST

Final Programme with links to presentations and posters

		Day 1, Thursday 23 October 2014
08:00	08:30	Registration
08:30	08:30	Opening Session	Chairs:	Jérôme Benveniste (ESA/ESRIN, Italy) Paolo Cipollini (NOC, UK)
08:30	08:40	Welcome & Introduction	Jérôme Benveniste Paolo Cipollini	ESA/ESRIN, Italy NOC, UK
08:40	09:10	*Keynote: Milestones in Altimeter Performance: Past, Present, and Future*	R. Keith Raney	2kR-LLC, USA
09:10	09:10	Session 1 : Waveform Processing	Chairs:	Ole B. Andersen (DTU, Denmark) Jesus Gómez-Enri (U. Cadiz, Spain) Remko Scharroo (EUMETSAT, Germany)
09:10	09:30	The Near-Specular Altimeter Waveforms of Small Inland Water Bodies	Ron Abileah	jOmegak, USA
09:30	09:50	A New SAR Altimetry Waveform Model in Combination with Phase Information for Coastal Altimetry	Cristina Martin-Puig	isardSAT Polska, Poland
09:50	10:10	Delay/Doppler Waveform Processing in Coastal Zones	Pierre Thibaut	CLS, France
10:10	10:30	Geo-referencing of the Delay/Doppler Level-1 Stack with Application on Coastal Altimetry	Alejandro Egido	Starlab Barcelona, Spain
10:30	11:00	Coffee Break
11:00	11:40	Discussion for session 1
11:40	11:40	Session 2 : Calibration and Validation of Coastal Altimetry	Chairs:	Luciana Fenoglio (TUD, Germany) Jessica Hausman (JPL, USA) Walter H.F. Smith (NOAA, USA)
11:40	12:00	Corsica: a Cal/Val Experiment to Link Offshore and Coastal Altimetry	Pascal Bonnefond	OCA-GEOAZUR, France
12:00	12:20	Assessing SARAL/AltiKa Near-real Time Data in the Coastal Zone: Comparisons with HF Radar	Ananda Pascual	IMEDEA (CSIC-UIB), Spain
12:20	12:40	An Evaluation of CryoSat-2 SAR Mode Performance Around the UK Coasts	Helen Snaith	NOC, UK
12:40	13:00	Comparison of Reprocessed Cryosat-2 Altimetry Within SITU Data Around the Gulf of Cadiz (South-Western Ibernian Peninsula)	Jesus Gomez-Enri	Univ. of Cadiz, Spain
13:00	14:30	Lunch
14:30	14:50	Improving Significant Wave Height Detection for Coastal Satellite Altimetry: Validation in the German Bight.	Marcello Passaro	Univ. Southampton, UK & ESA/ESRIN, Italy
14:50	15:10	Discussion for session 2
15:10	15:10	Session 3: Applications I - Coastal Dynamics	Chairs:	Kaoru Ichikawa (U. Kyushu, Japan) Ananda Pascual (IMEDEA, Spain) Stefano Vignudelli (CNR, Italy)
15:10	15:30	Use of Altimeter Data over the Broad Continental Shelf in the SW Atlantic Ocean	Ted Strub	Oregon State Univ., USA
15:30	15:50	Poleward Circulation off the Pacific Coast of Southern Baja California, Mexico	Armando Trasviña-Cast	CICESE La Paz, Mexico
15:50	16:10	Aspects of the Variability of the Northern Current (NW Mediterranean Sea) Observed by Satellite Altimetry – Complementarity with a High Resolution Model	Florence Birol	LEGOS, France
16:10	16:40	Coffee Break
16:40	17:00	Discussion for session 3
17:00	19:30	Poster Session + Icebreaker Cocktail

		Day 2, Friday 24 October 2014
		Session 4: Corrections	Chairs:	Mathilde Cancet (Noveltis, France) Joana Fernandes (U. Porto, Portugal) Pierre Thibaut (CLS, France)
08:30	08:50	On the Use of the Peachi Prototype to Improve Ka-band Altimeter Data Along Coastal Areas	Guillaume Valladeau	CLS, France
08:50	09:10	Performance of Saral/AltiKa over Inland Water – Effects of Atmospheric Water Content	Eva Börgens	DGFI, Germany
09:10	09:30	High-frequency Airborne Microwave and Millimeter-Wave Radiometer (HAMMR) Flight Demonstration to Improve Spatial Resolution of Wet-Tropospheric Path Delay Corrections for Coastal and Inland Water Altimetry	Steve Reising	Colorado State Univ., USA
09:30	09:50	DComb wet Tropospheric Correction for CryoSat-2 Over Open and Coastal Ocean	Joana Fernandes	Univ. of Porto & CIIMAR, Portugal
09:50	10:10	MSS at the Coast - What Cryosat-2 Revealed About Existing MSS Models in Coastal Regions.	Ole Andersen	DTU Space, Denmark
10:10	10:30	Discussion for session 4
10:30	11:00	Coffee Break
11:00	11:00	Session 5: Applications II - Extremes and Synergy with Models	Chairs:	Lifeng Bao (Chinese Acad. Sci., China) Doug Vandemark (U New Hampsh., USA) John Wilkin (Rutgers U., USA)
11:00	11:20	Cyclone Xaver seen by Geodetic Observations	Luciana Fenoglio	TU Darmstadt, Germany
11:20	11:40	Assimilation of SSH in a Hydrodynamical Model using Tide Gauge and Coastal Satellite Altimetry Observations	Jacob Høyer	DMI, Denmark
11:40	12:00	Data Assimilation of Altimeter SSH in a Regional Model with Atmospheric Pressure Forcing	Claire Dufau	CLS, France
12:00	12:20	Sea Level Response to Pressure and Wind Forcing in a Shallow Estuary: Validation of Two Barotropic Models with Tide Gauge and Altimetry Data	Laura Ruiz Etcheverry	CIMA/CONICET-UBA, Argentina
12:20	12:40	Discussion for Session 5
12:40	12:40	Session 6: Applications III	Chairs:	Andrey Kostianoy (P.P. Shirshov, Russia) Akihisa Uematsu (JAXA, Japan)
12:40	13:00	Climate-quality Estimates of Sea Level in the Coastal Zone from the ESA Climate Change Initiative Sea Level Project	Paolo Cipollini	NOC, UK
13:00	14:30	Lunch
14:30	14:50	Coastal Altimetry: Its Potential for Very High Resolution Tide Modelling in the Gulf of Guinea	Raphaël Onguene	LEGOS, France & Univ. of Douala, Cameroon
14:50	15:10	Applications of Airborne Laser Scanning for Water Surface Altimetry on Lake Balaton	András Zlinszky	Centre for Ecological Research, Hungary
15:10	15:30	Discussion for Session 6
15:30	15:30	Session 7: Future Missions	Chairs:	Lee-Lueng Fu (JPL, USA) Ted Strub (Oregon State U., USA)
15:30	15:50	The Surface Water Ocean Topography Mission: Capabilities for Coastal Oceanography	Phil Callahan	JPL, USA
15:50	16:10	Coastal applications for the Japanese Altimetry Mission, COMPIRA	Akihisa Uematsu	JAXA, Japan
16:10	16:20	Discussion for session 7
16:20	16:50	Coffee Break
16:50	19:00	Summary from Session Chairs, Discussion, Recommendations, Roadmap and Conclusions

	Poster Session + Icebreaker Cocktail - Thursday 23 October 17:20 to 19:20
1	Altimetry data for regional applications: the CTOH database	Florence Birol	LEGOS, France
2	Altimetric Studies of Sea Surface Height and Warm Water Movement Correlations in Coastal Greenland	Charles Brechtel	Colorado Center for Astrodynamics Research, USA
3	Assessment of Coastal Altimetry Along the Norwegian Coast	Kristian Breili	Norwegian Mapping Authority, Norway
4	Retracking and Validation of PLRM CrySat-2 Altimetry Data in the German Bight	Christopher Buchhaupt	TU Darmstadt, Germany
5	Global Sea Level Reconstructions from Tide Gauge and Satellite Altimetry Data	Francisco Mir Calafat	NOC, UK
6	New Altimetry Products Over Shelf and Coastal Zone from the eSurge Processor	Paolo Cipollini	NOC, UK
7	Mesoscale Capability of Along-track Altimeter Data in LRM & SARM	Claire Dufau	CLS, France
8	High-Resolution Altimeter Data Processing for Brazilian Applications	Claire Dufau	CLS, France
9	Characteristics of Altimeter Sea Level Anomaly in the US Northeast Coastal Ocean	Hui Feng	Univ. of New Hampshire, USA
10	Coastal CRYOSAT-2 Data in SAR Mode in the German Bight Area	Luciana Fenoglio	TU Darmstadt, Germany
11	Validation of Envisat RA-2 Coastal-Oriented Altimetry Data In Challeging Zones: The Strait of Gibraltar	Jesus Gomez-Enri	Univ. of Cadiz, Spain
12	Measuring Large River Freshwater Discharges In Rio De La Plata (South America) Estuary Using In-Situ And Coastal Altimetry Data	Jesus Gomez-Enri	Univ. of Cadiz, Spain
13	Impact of Different Wet Tropospheric Corrections on Sea Level Change in the Indonesia Region	Eko Yuli Handoko	Univ. of Porto, Portugal
14	Comparison of Altimetric Datasets Along the U.S. East Coast	Jessica Hausman	JPL, USA
15	Assessment of Altimeter Observations in the North Sea – Baltic Sea Transition Zone	Jacob Høyer	DMI, Denmark
16	Surface Circulation Observed by Altimetry Along the Tunisian Coast (Central Mediterranean Sea)	Fatma Jebri	INSTM, Tunisia
17	Using ExtR Method to Retrack Satellite Radar Altimetry Waveforms, Case Studies: Caspian Sea and Persian Gulf	Mehdi Khaki	Univ. of Tehran, Iran
18	DOPPIO – A Data-Assimilative Model for the Mid-Atlantic Bight & Gulf of Maine	Alexander Lopez	Rutgers Univ., USA
19	Bathymetry Changes and Sea Level Trends Sensed by Jason, SARAL/AltiKa and HY-2 Altimeters Around the Coastal Zone of Gavdos/Crete Permanent Satellite Calibration Facility	Stelios Mertikas	Technical University of Crete, Greece
20	LOTUS Multi-Peak Coastal and In-Land Water Retracking System	Karina Nielsen	DTU Space, Denmark
21	PISTACH Products for Monitoring Sea Level Variations in the Eastern Mediterranean using different Mean Sea Surface Models	Dimitris Papazachariou	Cyprus Oceanography Center, Cyprus
22	Spatial Variability of the Annual Cycle in Coastal Sea Level: a Regional Study	Marcello Passaro	Univ. Southampton, UK & ESA/ESRIN, Italy
23	On the Accuracy of Jason-2 Satellite Sea Surface High Data in a Highly Dynamical Coastal Environment	Martín Saraceno	Univ. Buenos Aires, Argentina
24	Database for Hydrological Time Series of Inland Waters (DAHITI)	Christian Schwatke	DGFI, Germany
25	Coastal Region Applications of SWOT	Margaret Srinivasan	Caltech/JPL, USA
26	Coastal applications for the Japanese Altimetry Mission, COMPIRA	Akihisa Uematsu	JAXA, Japan
27	Use of the along-track altimeter data to study the near-surface coastal currents over the continental shelf at the South Atlantic Bight	Yeping Yuan	Univ. of Georgia, USA
28	The near-specular altimeter waveforms of small surface water bodies	Ron Abileah	jOmegak, USA
29	Remote sensing of ocean circulation in Eastern Fram Strait	Eli Anne Ersdal	Univ. Svalbard, Norway