| | | 6th CAW - Programme
(ver. 17 Sept.) | | |
| 08:00 | 08:00 | Day 1, Thursday 20 September 2012 | | |
| 08:00 | 08:30 | Registration | | |
| 08:30 | 08:30 | Opening Session | Chairs: | Jérôme Benveniste (ESA/ESRIN),
Paolo Cipollini (NOC) |
| 08:30 | 08:45 | Welcome & Introduction | | |
| 08:45 | 09:10 | Invited Talk: An Overview of the Cosmo-SkyMed Mission and its Main Applications | Alessandro Coletta | ASI, Italy |
| 09:10 | 09:10 | Session 1 : The New Coastal Altimetry Data | Chairs: | Jessica Hausman (JPL),
Martín Saraceno (Univ. Buenos Aires) |
| 09:10 | 09:30 | CTOH Studies on Regional Altimetry in 2011/2012 | Florence Birol | CTOH/OMP, France |
| 09:30 | 09:50 | Level-3 Coastal Sea Level Anomalies from PISTACH Products | Claire Dufau | CLS, France |
| 09:50 | 10:10 | CryoSat Processing Prototype, LRM and SAR Processing on CNES Side and a Comparison to DUACS SLA | François Boy | CNES, France |
| 10:10 | 10:20 | Discussion | | |
| 10:20 | 10:50 | Coffee Break | | |
| 10:50 | 10:50 | Session 2 : Applications of Coastal Altimetry | Chairs: | Joana Fernandes (Univ. Porto), John Wilkin (Rutgers Univ.), Soma Yenamandra (NIO) |
| 10:50 | 11:10 | Sub-Mesoscale Circulation Features off Perth, WA, as Seen by HF Radar, Altimetry and Imagery | David Griffin | CSIRO, Australia |
| 11:10 | 11:30 | Comparing In Situ Current Data with Current Anomalies Derived from the PISTACH Products: the Agulhas Current | Mathilde Cancet | NOVELTIS, France |
| 11:30 | 11:50 | Satellite Altimetry of Inland Water Bodies in Turkmenistan | Andrey G.Kostianoy | P.P. Shirshov Institute of Oceanology, Russia |
| 11:50 | 12:10 | Coastal and Arctic Marine Gravity from Cryosat and Jason-1 Geodetic Mission Altimetry | Ole Baltazar Andersen | DTU Space, National Space Institute, Denmark |
| 12:10 | 12:30 | Observations of Storm Surges by Satellite Altimetry: Hurricane Igor off Newfoundland | Guoqi Han | Fisheries and Oceans, Canada |
| 12:30 | 12:50 | Estimation of Extreme Sea Levels from Altimetry and Tide Gauges at the Coast | Xiaoli Deng | The University of Newcastle, Australia |
| 12:50 | 13:10 | Discussion | | |
| 13:10 | 14:40 | Lunch | | |
| 14:40 | 14:40 | Session 3: Synergy with Models | Chairs: | Kaoru Ichikawa (Kyushu Univ.), Villy Kourafalou (Univ. Miami) |
| 14:40 | 15:00 | Invited Talk: Contributions of Coastal Altimetry to the GODAE/OceanView Coastal and Shelf Seas activities | Villy Kourafalou | RSMAS, University of Miami, United States |
| 15:00 | 15:20 | SSH Variability Along the US West Coast in Winter | Alexander Kurapov | CEOAS, Oregon State University, USA |
| 15:20 | 15:40 | Coastal Mean Dynamic Topography Computed Using ROMS Variational Assimilation of Long-Term Mean Observed Currents and Hydrography | John Wilkin | Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, USA |
| 15:40 | 16:00 | State Estimates and Forecasts in the Gulf of Mexico | Ganesh Gopalakrishnan | Scripps Institution of Oceanography, USA |
| 16:00 | 16:10 | Discussion | | |
| 16:10 | 16:40 | Coffee break | | |
| 16:40 | 16:40 | Session 4: Corrections | Chairs: | Ole Andersen (DTU), Lifeng Bao (Chinese Acad. Sciences) |
| 16:40 | 17:00 | An inter-Comparison Between Algorithms
for Wet Path Delay Retrieval in the Coastal Regions | M. Joana Fernandes | Univ. Porto, Fac. Ciências & CIMAR LA, CIIMAR-UP, Portugal |
| 17:00 | 17:20 | A Specific Coastal Wet Tropospheric
Correction for the Envisat RA2 Altimeter | Estelle Obligis | CLS, France |
| 17:20 | 17:40 | Comparison of Recent Ocean Tide Models
in the China Seas | Li Dawei | Wuhan University, China |
| 17:40 | 17:50 | Discussion | | |
| 17:50 | 20:00 | Poster Session + Cocktail | | |
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| 08:30 | 08:30 | Day 2, Friday 21 September 2012 | | |
| 08:30 | 08:30 | Session 5: LRM Retracking | Chairs: | Xiaoli Deng (Univ. Newcastle), Luciana Fenoglio-Marc (TU Darmstadt) |
| 08:30 | 08:50 | Assessing the Transition from Open-Ocean to Coastal Retracking Algorithms | Paolo Cipollini | National Oceanography Centre, UK |
| 08:50 | 09:10 | The Coastal Waveform Retracking Using Fuzzy Expert System Approach | Nurul Idris | The University of Newcastle, Australia |
| 09:10 | 09:30 | Adaptive Retracking of Jason-1 Altimetry Data for Inland Waters on the Example of the Volga Reservoirs | Yuliya Troitskaya | Institute of Applied Physics RAS, Russian Federation |
| 09:30 | 09:50 | Improved Retrieval of Altimetry Heights in Coastal and Sea Ice-Covered Region via Waveform Modification and Retracking | Kuo-Hsin Tseng | Ohio State University, USA |
| 09:50 | 10:10 | Using HF Radar Coastal Currents to Correct Satellite Altimetry | Carolyn Roesler | University of Colorado, USA |
| 10:10 | 10:20 | Discussion | | |
| 10:20 | 10:50 | Coffee break | | |
| 10:50 | 10:50 | Session 6: Waveform Analysis and SAR Retracking | Chairs: | Jesus Gómez-Enri (Univ. Cadiz), Walter Smith (NOAA) |
| 10:50 | 11:10 | Pulse-Pair (Doppler) Processing of Envisat Individual Echoes | Ron Abileah | jOmegak, USA |
| 11:10 | 11:30 | Echo to Echo Correlation and Time Alignment in CryoSat FBR SAR Data: Implication for Range and SWH from Coastal SAR Data | Walter H F Smith | NOAA, USA |
| 11:30 | 11:50 | Land Contamination in SAR Mode in Coastal Zone and In Calm Waters | Salvatore Dinardo | SERCO/ESRIN, Italy |
| 11:50 | 12:10 | CryoSat-2 SAR Waveform Retracking Over
the Ocean: Does Multilooking Distort the Leading Edge? | David Sandwell | Scripps Institution of Oceanography, USA |
| 12:10 | 12:30 | Coastal Altimetry: Evolution of Measurement and Retracking Problems when Switching from Conventional (Ku, Ka) to SAR Altimetry | Pierre Thibaut | CLS, France |
| 12:30 | 12:40 | Discussion | | |
| 12:40 | 14:00 | Lunch | | |
| 14:00 | 14:00 | Session 7: CAL/VAL | Chairs: | Florence Birol (CTOH/OMP), Guoqi Han (Fisheries and Oceans) |
| 14:00 | 14:20 | Altimetry and Bathymetry Trends Around the Coastal Zone of Gavdos Permanent Cal/Val Facility | Stelios Mertikas | Technical University of Crete, Greece |
| 14:20 | 14:40 | A Study on the Conformance of Altimetry and In-Situ Sea Surface Data near Coast in the German Bight | Luciana Fenoglio-Marc | Technical University Darmstadt, Germany |
| 14:40 | 15:00 | Calibration and Validation of Combined Conventional and Reduced SAR Mode Data Over Oceans and in the Coastal Regime | Remko Scharroo | Altimetrics LLC, NOAA, USA |
| 15:00 | 15:10 | Discussion | | |
| 15:10 | 15:10 | Session 8: Future Data and Missions | Chairs: | David Griffin (CSIRO), Andrey Kostianoy (P.P. Shirshov Inst.) |
| 15:10 | 15:30 | The Future of PISTACH for 2013-2015 | Emilie Bronner | CNES, France |
| 15:30 | 15:50 | The Surface Water / Ocean Topography
Mission (1): Capabilities for Coastal Oceanography | Philip Callahan | Jet Propulsion Laboratory,
USA |
| 15:50 | 16:10 | Current Status of the Japanese Altimetry
Mission | Akihisa Uematsu | Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (Jaxa), Japan |
| 16:10 | 16:30 | Discussion | | |
| 16:30 | 17:00 | Coffee Break | | |
| 17:00 | 18:30 | Summary from Session Chairs, Discussion, Recommendations, Roadmap and Conclusions | | |
| | | Poster Session + Cocktail - Scheduled on Thursday, 17:50 to 20:00 | | |
| | | FES 2012: A New Tidal Model Taking Advantage of Nearly 20 Years of Altimetry Measurements | Carrere, Loren | CLS,France |
| | | Continental Shelf Dynamics from Coastal Altimetry in the Bay of Biscay | Charria, Guillaume | IFREMER, France |
| | | The Use of Coastal Altimetry to Support Storm Surge Studies in Project eSurge | Cipollini, Paolo | National Oceanography Centre, UK |
| | | Cryosat Plus For Oceans - User Consultation | Cotton, David | SatOC, UK |
| | | Retracking of Altimeter Waveforms over the Prince William Sound | Deng,Xiaoli | The University of Newcastle, Australia |
| | | The GMES Sentinel-3 Mission | Donlon, Craig | ESA/ESTEC |
| | | The GMES Sentinel-3 Topography Mission
| Donlon, Craig | ESA/ESTEC |
| | | Regional Assessment of Altimetry Products in the NW Mediterranean : Comparisons to In-Situ Data and Model Outputs. | Dussurget, Renaud | IFREMER, France |
| | | Characterizing Spatiotemporal Variability in Altimeter-Derived Ocean Currents on the Coastal NW Atlantic Shelf | Feng, Hui | University of New Hampshire, UK |
| | | Coastal Radar Altimetry: What Can we Learn from the Costa Concordia Accident? |
Gomez-Enri, Jesus | University of Cadiz, Spain |
| | | Comparison of Altimetric Datasets Near the US West Coast | Hausman, Jessica | JPL/Caltech, USA |
| | | Performance Evaluation of Traditional and Improved Waveform Retrackers for Processing Cryosat2 Data. | Jain, Maulik | DTU Space/National Space Institute, Denmark |
| | | Flood Wave Propagation Model of the Caspian Sea Based on Satellite Altimetry Data | Lebedev, Sergey | Geophysical Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Russian Federal |
| | | Interannual Variability of the Black Sea Level basing on the Radar Altimetry | Lebedev, Sergey | Geophysical Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Russian Federal |
| | | Trajectory of Giant Jellyfish by Satellite Altimetry Data | Morimoto, Akihiko | Nagoya University, Japan |
| | | Validation of the Sea Level Simulated by MRI.COM-JPN, a Japan Coastal Ocean Model | Ogawa, Koji | Meteorological Research Institute, Japan |
| | | Small Scale Storm Variability and Satellite Altimeter Data | Reale, Ferdinando | CUGRI, Italy |
| | | Evaluation Of CTOH New Along-track Tidal Constants Database For Dealiasing Coastal
Altimetry Over The North-West European Continental Shelf.
| Roblou, Laurent | CNRS/LEGOS, France |
| | | Seasonal Sea Level Anomaly Patterns over Argentine Continental Shelf | Ruiz Etcheverry, Laura | DCAO/CIMA, Argentina |
| | | Towards Assimilation of Satellite Altimetry Products Into a Storm-Surge Model Ensemble Along the Argentine Coast | Saraceno, Martin | CIMA/CONICET-UBA, Argentina |
| | | On the Accuracy of Satellite Altimetry Data over Continental Shelves: a Case study in Southeastern South America | Saraceno, Martin | CIMA/CONICET-UBA, Argentina |
| | | Classifying Radar-Echos of Envisat Altimeter Data for an Optimized Retracking | Schwatke, Christian | DGFI, Germany |
| | | A 20-Year Satellite Climatology of Ocean Circulation in the Northern Indian Ocean | Strub, Ted | Oregon State University, USA |
| | | Examples of Pulse-Pair (Doppler) Processing of Envisat Individual Echoes in Coastal and Inland Waters | Vignudelli, Stefano | CNR, Italy |
| | | A Multi-Peak Waveform Retracker for Coastal Altimetry | West, Luke | National Oceanography Centre, UK |