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Version 26 Sept.'11 |
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Day 1, Sunday 16 October 2011 |
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Registration |
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Opening Session |
Chairs: |
J. Benveniste - P. Cipollini |
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14:10 |
Welcome |
Jérôme Benveniste |
European Space Agency |
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14:20 |
Workshop Objectives |
Paolo Cipollini |
National Oceanography Centre, UK |
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14:50 |
Keynote talk - Improvement in Global Marine Gravity from CryoSat |
David Sandwell |
UCSD, USA |
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14:50 |
Session 1: Error Budget, Key Areas of Improvement and Draft Recommendations |
Chairs: |
D. Griffin - R. Ray |
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15:05 |
Coastal Altimetry: Progress over Three Years – Revised Findings and Recommendations (to be discussed again at end of day 3) |
P. Ted Strub |
COAS, Oregon State University, USA |
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15:25 |
A Review of Retracking Solutions for Coastal Altimeter Waveforms |
Pierre Thibaut |
CLS, France |
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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 |
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16:05 |
Nested High-Resolution Data Assimilation Modeling of Ocean Tides in Coastal and Shallow Seas |
Gary Egbert |
COAS, Oregon State University, USA |
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16:20 |
Recommendations for the Future of Coastal Altimetry (to be discussed again at end of day 3) |
The COASTALT Team |
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16:50 |
Coffee Break |
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18:50 |
Poster Session |
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20:00 |
Ice Breaker Reception |
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Day 2, Monday 17 October 2011 |
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Session 2 : Application Highlights |
Chairs: |
X. Deng - V. Kourafalou |
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08:50 |
Altimetry on the West Florida Shelf |
Yonggang Liu |
University of South Florida, USA |
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09:10 |
Assess the Quality of Satellite Altimetry Data in the Arctic Ocean |
Yongcun Cheng |
DTU Space, National Space Institute, Denmark |
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09:30 |
Agulhas Current Estimation from High Resolution Altimetry |
Jean Tournadre |
Ifremer, France |
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Session 3 : Trends and Variability in Coastal Sea Level and Currents |
Chairs: |
G. Han - J. Hausman |
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09:50 |
Fine Scale Mapping from a Multi-mission X-TRACK Data Set: Validation and Analysis |
Renaud Dussurget |
LEGOS, France |
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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 |
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10:30 |
Regional Applications Based on CTOH (Centre of Topography of the Oceans and the Hydrosphere) Altimeter Data |
Florence Birol |
CTOH/OMP, France |
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11:00 |
Coffee Break |
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Session 3 : Trends and Variability in Coastal Sea Level and Currents (continued) |
Chairs: |
G. Han - J. Hausman |
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11:20 |
Level-3 PISTACH Products for Coastal Studies |
Sylvie Labroue |
CLS, France |
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11:40 |
Comparison of Coastal Altimetry and SAR derived Surface Current in the Coastal Region of the Agulhas Current. |
Fabrice Collard |
CLS, France |
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12:00 |
Characterization of Oceanic Mesoscale and Submesoscale Energy Spectra |
Sung Yong Kim |
Scripps Institution of Oceanography, USA |
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12:20 |
On the Influence of Coastal Mesoscale Dynamics on the Jellyfish Trajectories and Distributions |
Jérôme Bouffard |
LOPB, France |
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Discussion |
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Lunch |
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Session 4 : Synergy of Coastal Altimetry and Modelling |
Chairs: |
K. Ichikawa - J. Wilkin |
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Ocean Surface Topography Estimates from the Oregon Coastal Ocean Forecast Model |
Alexander Kurapov |
COAS, Oregon State University, USA |
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14:40 |
Real-Time Regional SSH Data Merging and Assimilation Modeling: Gulf of Mexico Demonstration |
Yi Chao |
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, USA |
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15:00 |
Modeling and in Situ Observations around the Florida Keys Coral Reefs: Potential Applications of Coastal Altimetry |
Villy Kourafalou |
University of Miami/RSMAS, USA |
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15:20 |
Adjoint-based Ensemble Prediction in the Mid Atlantic Bight |
Javier Zavala-Garay |
Rutgers University, USA |
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15:40 |
Discussion |
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16:10 |
Coffee break |
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Session 5 : Extreme Events and other Applications |
Chairs: |
E. Coelho - M. Saraceno |
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Tropical Cyclone Yasi Observed by Jason-1 and Jason-2 |
Xiaoli Deng |
The University of Newcastle, Australia |
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Coastal Altimetry for Storm Surge Forecasting in the eSurge Project |
Paolo Cipollini |
National Oceanography Centre, UK |
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17:10 |
Airborne Remote Sensing for Ocean and Coastal Applications |
Ben Reineman |
Scripps Institution of Oceanography, USA |
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17:20 |
Discussion |
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18:30 |
Poster Session (continued) |
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Dinner |
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Day 3, Tuesday 18 October 2011 |
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Session 2 : Application Highlights (continued) |
Chairs: |
X. Deng - V .Kourafalou |
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Comparing In Situ Current Data with Current Anomalies Derived from the PISTACH Products: the Loop Current Case |
Mathilde Cancet |
NOVELTIS, France |
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Session 6 : Retracking |
Chairs: |
L. Fenoglio - W. Smith |
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Waveform Retracking Techniques for Quasi-Specular and Multi-Peak Echoes near the Coast |
Nurul Idris |
The University of Newcastle, Australia |
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Using HF Coastal Radar Currents to Correct Satellite Altimetry |
Bill Emery |
University of Colorado, USA |
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09:40 |
Discussion |
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Session 7 : Path Delay |
Chairs: |
J. Gomez-Enri - P. Thibaut |
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Wet Tropospheric Correction: Filling the Gaps from Coast to Coast |
M. Joana Fernandes |
Universidade do Porto, Portugal |
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10:20 |
Wet Tropospheric Correction in Coastal Areas: Potential of Land Emissivity Maps / Neural Network Retrieval Algorithm |
Estelle Obligis |
CLS, France |
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10:30 |
Discussion |
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11:00 |
Coffee Break |
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Session 8 : CryoSat and SAR Altimetry in the Coastal Zone |
Chairs: |
O. Andersen-J.Fernandes |
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Contribution of CryoSat to Oceanography and Coastal Altimetry |
Remko Scharroo |
Altimetrics LLC, USA |
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SAR Altimetry in Coastal Zone: Performances, Limits, Perspectives |
Salvatore Dinardo |
SERCO/ESRIN, Italy |
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Some Recent Investigations with CryoSat in Conventional and SAR Modes |
Walter H F Smith |
NOAA, USA |
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The SAMOSA Project Main Achievements and their Contribution to Coastal Altimetry |
Cristina Martin-Puig |
Starlab Barcelona S.L., Spain |
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Discussion |
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Lunch |
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Session 9: Data Processing and Products |
Chairs: |
F. Birol - W. Emery |
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Technical Achievements and Data from the COASTALT Project |
Paolo Cipollini |
National Oceanography Centre, UK |
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Regional Sea Level Anomaly Processing in the Gulf of Mexico |
Xiaochun Wang |
UCLA, USA |
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Discussion |
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Session 10: Cal/Val |
Chairs: |
R.Scharroo - S. Labroue |
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Corsica: a Cal/Val Experiment to Link Offshore and Coastal Altimetry |
Pascal Bonnefond |
Observatoire de la Côte d'Azur, France |
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Local Mean Sea Surface Models for Calibrating Jason-2 at the Gavdos Cal/Val Facility |
Stelios Mertikas |
Technical University of Crete, Greece |
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Advances in the Validation of Coastal Altimetry Full Rate Wave Data (COASTALT Project) |
Jesús Gómez-Enri |
University of Cadiz, Spain |
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Discussion |
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Coffee Break |
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Session Summaries from Chairs |
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Plenary Discussion on Error Budget and Recommendations |
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Closing Discussion and Wrap-up |
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Poster Sessions - Scheduled on Sunday, 16:50 to 18:50 and Monday, 17:20 to 18:30 |
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Tropical Atlantic Western Boundary Currents from Satellite Altimetry |
Arnault, S. |
LOCEAN-IPSL, France |
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COASTALT Product Validation at the Cascais Tide Gauge |
Barbosa, S. |
Instituto Dom Luiz, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal |
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New CryoSat Ocean Products |
Bouzinac, C. |
ESRIN/RHEA, Italy |
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Impact of the New Near-Land Radiometer Wet Path Delay Retrievals on Altimeter Tide-Gauge Comparisons |
Brown, S. |
JPL, USA |
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Bayes Linear Retracking in the Coastal Zone |
Challenor, P. |
National Oceanography Centre, UK |
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Effects of Altimeter Corrections on Linear Sea Level Changes around Taiwan |
Cheng,Y.C |
DTU Space, Denmark |
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Preliminary Result of Sea Surface Height Calibration/Validation for Multiple Satellite Altimeters in Taiwan |
Cheng, Kai-Chien |
National Chung Cheng University, Taiwan |
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A New Parameter to Facilitate Screening of Coastal Altimetry Data and Corrections |
Cipollini, P. |
National Oceanography Centre, UK |
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Level-3 PISTACH Products for Coastal Studies |
Dufau, C. |
CLS, France |
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High Resolution Altimeter Gridded Fields for Coastal and Regional Studies:
Applications in the Western Mediterranean
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Escudier, R. and Pascual, A. |
IMEDEA(CSIC-UIB), Spain |
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Sea Level Variation over the NE US Coast-Shelf Region from Altimetry |
Feng, H. |
University of New Hampshire, UK |
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Validation of Altimetry Data near Coast in the German Bight |
Fenoglio-Marc, L. |
Technical University Darmstadt, Germany |
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Improved Altimetric Accuracy of SAR Altimeters over the Ocean: Observational
Evidence from CryoSat-2 SAR Data |
Gommenginger, C. |
National Oceanography Centre, UK |
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A Geometric Approach to Reducing Land Contamination in Coastal Altimetry Signals |
Green, C. M. |
GETECH/University of Leeds, UK |
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Impacts of Hurricane Igor on the Grand Bank Sea Level, Currents and Chlorophyll Concentration |
Han, G. |
Fisheries and Oceans, Canada |
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Comparison of Envisat RA-2 Altimetry Radar Returns Versus Simulated Results at
Pianosa Island |
Hancock, D. |
Foster City, USA |
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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 |
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The Basic Radar Altimetry Toolbox for Oceanographers |
Lucas, B. |
Deimos (ESA/ESRIN), Italy |
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Application of a Mixed-Pixel Algorithm to TOPEX for Coastal Wet Tropospheric Delay Retrieval |
Misra, S. |
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, USA |
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Altimetry Observations of Coastal Kelvin Waves in the Bay of Bengal |
Nienhaus, M. |
University of South Carolina, USA |
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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) |
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Eastern Mediterranean Tide Gauge Network – eMACnet |
Pavlis, E.C. |
Univ. of Maryland, Baltimore County, USA |
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CryoSat Processing Prototype, LRM and SAR Processing on CNES Side |
Picot, N. |
CNES, France |
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Implementation of the Hyperbolic Pretracker |
Quartly, G. |
National Oceanography Centre, UK |
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Numerical Simulation of Radar Altimeter Waveforms – Foam Effects |
Reale, F. R. |
University of Salerno/CUGRI, Italy |
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Development of MMIC-based High-Frequency Radiometers to Improve Wet-Tropospheric Delay Correction in the Coastal Zone |
Reising, S. C. |
Colorado State University, USA |
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Tides in Shallow Water from Multi-Mission-Altimetry |
Savcenko, R. |
Deutsches Geodätisches Forschungsinstitut (DGFI), Germany |
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Satellite Altimetry Over Inland Water: A New Tool to Detect Geoid Errors! |
Schwatke, C. |
Deutsches Geodätisches Forschungsinstitut (DGFI), Germany |
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Bright Targets in the Coastal Zone: A Reconstruction Approach Applied to ENVISAT RA-2 Data |
Scozzari, A. |
CNR -IGG, Italy |
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Agulhas Current Estimation from High Resolution Altimetry |
Tournadre, J. |
Ifremer, France |
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Altimeter Analysis of Seasonal Circulation Over the Patagonian Shelf |
Strub, P. T. |
Oregon State University, USA |
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SAR Data over Ocean, Processing Strategy and Continuity with LRM Data |
Thibaut, P. |
CNES, France |
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Radar Altimetry Waveform Retracking Applied to Coastal Ocean and Narrow Inland-Water Bodies |
Tseng, K. |
Ohio State University, USA |
