6th Coastal Altimetry Workshop - Lake Garda 2012

 A short summary of the Workshop is available at the bottom and has been published in EOS, Trans. AGU

Final Programme with links to presentations and posters

   

Day 1, Thursday 20 September 2012

 

 

08:00

08:40

Registration

 

 

08:40

08:40

Opening Session

Chairs:

Jérôme Benveniste (ESA/ESRIN), Paolo Cipollini (NOC)

08:40

09:10

Welcome & Introduction

Jérôme Benveniste and Paolo Cipollini

 

 

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

Coastal Altimetry: Evolution of Measurement and Retracking Problems when Switching from Conventional (Ku, Ka) to SAR Altimetry

Pierre Thibaut

CLS, 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 (withdrawn)

Li Dawei

Wuhan University, China

17:40

17:50

Discussion

 

 

17:50

20:00

Poster Session + Cocktail

      

 

 

 

 

 

 

   

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

Echo 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

Cryosat Processing Prototype, LRM and SAR processing on CNES side

François Boy

CNES, 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

The Sentinel-3 Mission

Craig Donlon

ESA/ESTEC

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

Sentinel-3: operational coastal altimetry

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

Summary of the Workshop:

6th Coastal Altimetry Workshop
Riva del Garda, Italy
20-21 September 2012

The scientific community involved in the research and development of applications of satellite altimetry in the coastal zone met for the 6th Coastal Altimetry Workshop. Research in coastal altimetry is going through exciting times: experimental datasets for the coastal zone are now available, such as those from the French PISTACH project for the Jason-2 satellite and from the European Space Agency (ESA)-funded COASTALT project for the Envisat satellite, and many diverse applications were shown at the workshop. These range from observing coastal currents to monitoring river and lake levels, ice margins, and storm surges to gravity mapping in coastal zones.

It was apparent from the workshop that there has been a gear shift in the analysis of echoes in the coastal zone, in the geophysical corrections (several new correction techniques having been proposed in the past few years for the wet tropospheric delay), and in the integration of coastal altimetry in the observing and forecasting systems. Synthetic aperture radar (SAR) (delay-Doppler) altimetry, on board Cryosat-2 and planned for the operational Global Monitoring for Environment and Security mission Sentinel-3, is now revolutionizing the field, and many talks dealt with applying this new technique, exploiting the amplitude and phase of the very high repeat frequency radar echoes.

There are still challenges to the processing, such as waveform building and retracking and correction of the sea state bias, but the quality of the data that are being produced by ESA, the French National Centre for Space Studies (CNES), and the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is extremely promising, and initiatives like ESA’s SAR Altimetry Mode Studies and Applications (SAMOSA) study on the improvement in precision with respect to conventional altimetry have confirmed that the choice of a SAR altimeter for Sentinel-3 is a good one. Other challenges are the integration with models—on which there were several talks and posters—and the ever-crucial need for the calibration and validation of the reprocessed data. Future missions, such as AltiKa and 2D altimeters, were also illustrated.

The workshop issued some recommendations . Noteworthy is the request to use an interleaved mode, using both pulse-limited and SAR, over the entire globe for the planned Jason-CS mission, and to maximize the use of SAR acquisition area over the oceans for the Sentinel-3 mission.

The Coastal Altimetry Workshop, with 88 participants from 25 countries, 32 talks, and 24 posters, was a strong, lively, passionate community review of science and applications that continued the success of previous editions and confirmed that coastal altimetry is truly emerging as the new frontier of altimetry. These messages were fully taken up by the wider altimetry community gathered in Venice for the “20 Years of Progress in Radar Altimetry” symposium, Argo Workshop, and Ocean Surface Topography Science Team (OSTST) meeting the following week, where coastal altimetry had a dedicated session, a dedicated keynote talk in the opening plenary session, a workshop report in the OSTST splinters’ session, and a good amount of mention in the roundtable on future observational requirements.