Technical issues in coastal altimetry, both for conventional and SAR modes, such as: progress on waveform retracking and Sea State Bias correction in coastal regions, improvements in other corrections, assessment of the capabilities of the new missions (including Cryosat-2, HY-2, AltiKa), preparatory studies for Sentinel-3 SRAL in the coastal zone.
Applications of coastal altimetry data, both for conventional and SAR modes, alone or in combination with other data and/or models. This includes the use of data from the various processing and/or reprocessing initiatives: PISTACH, COASTALT, REAPER, ESA CCI. Possible applications comprise coastal sea level variations, coastal currents, coastal wave field, storm surge research, assimilation of data in coastal models and surge models. Studies exploiting the synergies with in situ, model and other satellite data (like SAR, SST, ocean colour) are particularly welcome.