Pisa 2008 - Presentations & Posters
2nd Coastal Altimetry Workshop: Presentations and Posters
Introductive Talks
- Stefano Vignudelli (Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Italy): Welcome
- Nicolas Picot (Centre Nationale d'Etudes Spatiales, France) and Jérôme Benveniste (European Space Agency, Italy): Yves Ménard in memoriam
- Paolo Cipollini (National Oceanography Centre Southampton, UK): Introduction to the Workshop
- Walter Smith (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, US): Summary from previous Coastal Altimetry workshop (Silver Spring)
- Jérôme Benveniste (European Space Agency, Italy): EU Effort in the Coastal Zone
Session 1: User Requirements
Moderators: Cristina Martin-Puig, Starlab Barcelona S.L., Spain - Claire Dufau, Collecte Localisation Satellites (CLS), France
- Claire Dufau (Collecte Localisation Satellites (CLS), France) & Cristina Martin-Puig (Starlab Barcelona S.L., Spain) Joint PISTACH/COASTALT presentation on user requirements
Session 2: Retracking
Moderators: Peter Challenor, National Oceanography Centre, Southampton, UK - Walter Smith, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, US
- Luciana Fenoglio-Marc (Technical University Darmstadt, Germany) Retracking in the NW Mediterranean
- Le Yang (Second Institute of Oceanography, China) Retracking in typical areas along the Chinese coasts
- Jesús Gómez-Enri (Universidad de Cádiz, Spain) Envisat RA-2 Coastal Waveform Analysis in the Western Mediterranean Sea and West Britain during the ESA COASTALT project
- Pierre Thibaut (Collecte Localisation Satellites (CLS), France) Contribution from PISTACH retracking team
- Ole Andersen (DTU Space, Denmark) Retracking and the impact on modelling of geophysical signals
- Cristina Martin-Puig (Starlab Barcelona S.L., Spain) SAMOSA retracker for SAR Altimeter observations over water
- Xiaoli Deng (University of Newcastle, Australia) Retracking of Radar Altimetry for Coastal Applications
Session 3: Corrections: Dry/Wet Tropospheric, Ionospheric, Tides and HF
Moderators: Franck Mercier, Collecte Localisation Satellites (CLS), France - Phil Woodworth, Proudman Oceanographic Laboratory, UK
- Alexandra Nunes (University of Porto, Portugal) Wet Tropospheric correction for coastal altimetry based on GNSS path delay measurements
- Estelle Obligis (Collecte Localisation Satellites (CLS), France) Land decontamination of Wet Troposphere Correction
- Shannon Brown (NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, US) Improved near-land wet tropospheric path delay corrections for OSTM, Jason-1 and Topex/Poseidon
- Remko Scharroo (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, US) Ionospheric Correction: experiences with different measurements and models
- Ole Andersen (DTU Space, Denmark) On differences in the altimeter range dependent on which corrections you apply to the range (wet, dry, iono, SSB, etc) .
- Richard Ray (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, US) Coastal tides overview
- Phil Woodworth (Proudman Oceanographic Laboratory, UK) Global storm surge data provision
- Laurent Roblou (Laboratoire d'Etudes en Géophysique et Océanographie Spatiales, France) Tidal modeling in coastal and shelf seas and application to the alias issue in altimetry
- Wolfgang Bosch (Deutsches Geodätisches Forschungsinstitut, Germany) EOT08a model performances near coasts
Session 4: SSB and Waves
Moderators: Sylvie Labroue, Collecte Localisation Satellites (CLS), France - Remko Scharroo, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, US
- Sylvie Labroue (Collecte Localisation Satellites (CLS), France) Review of SSB issues near coasts
- Jessica Hausman (NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, US) Strengths and Limitations to Compute SSB
Session 5: Data Products, Quality and Dissemination
Moderators: Helen Snaith, National Oceanography Centre, Southampton, UK - Remko Scharroo, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, US
- Remko Scharroo (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, US) Operational use of altimetry products and requirements for coastal altimetry
- Christine Gommenginger (National Oceanography Centre Southampton, UK) COASTALT processor and products
- Franck Mercier (Collecte Localisation Satellites (CLS), France) PISTACH products
- Phil Callahan (NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, US): Web-based altimeter service
Session 6: Synergy with other Data and Models
Moderators: William Emery, CCAR, University of Colorado, US - Ted Strub, Oregon State University, US
- John Wilkin (Rutgers University, US): US East coast applications (including synergy with HF radars)
- Ted Strub (Oregon State University, US) & William Emery (University of Colorado, US) US West coast applications
- Jérôme Bouffard (Laboratoire d'Etudes en Géophysique et Océanographie Spatiales, France) & Ananda Pascual (Institut Mediterrani d'Estudis Avançats, Spain) European coast applications
- David Griffin (CSIRO, Australia): Australia coast applications
- Kaoru Ichikawa (Kyushu University, Japan): Asian coast applications
Session 7: Forthcoming Technologies
Moderators: Christine Gommenginger, National Oceanography Centre, Southampton, UK - Keith Raney, Johns Hopkins University, US
- Christine Gommenginger (National Oceanography Centre Southampton, UK; chair): Welcome and opening remarks
- Keith Raney (Johns Hopkins University, US): Motivation and issues for forthcoming altimeter technologies in the Coastal zone
- Jérôme Benveniste (European Space Agency, Italy): Exploiting Delay Doppler Altimetry in the coastal zone with Sentinel 3
- Alix Lombard (Centre Nationale d'Etudes Spatiales, France): Applications of Alti-Ka in the coastal zone
- Laurent Phalippou (Thales Alenia Space, France): Wide Swath Altimetry and the coastal zone
Session 8: International Cooperation and Future Programmes
Moderators: Jérôme Benveniste, European Space Agency - ESRIN, Italy - Nicolas Picot, Centre Nationale d'Etudes Spatiales, France
- Jérôme Benveniste (European Space Agency, Italy): ESA programs
- Eric Lindstrom (NASA Headquarters, US) via Jérôme Benveniste: NASA support to Coastal Altimetry
- Eric Thouvenot (Centre Nationale d'Etudes Spatiales, France): CNES programs
- Laury Miller (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, US): NOAA programs
- Mingsen Lin (National Satellite Ocean Application Service, China) via Le Yang: The Contribution of Global Ocean Observation of Continuity of HY-2 Satellite
- Muthalagu Ravichandran (Indian National Center for Ocean Information Services, India): Coastal Ocean state forecasting system for Indian seas
- Prakash Chauhan (Space Applications Centre, Indian Space Research Organisation): Indian Oceanographic and Meteorological Missions
- Andrey Kostianoy (P.P. Shirshov Institute of Oceanology, Moscow): Russian Altimeter Missions and Forthcoming Springer Book on Coastal Altimetry
POSTERS
- Lifeng Bao (Chinese Academy of Science - Institute of Geodesy and Geophysics, China) Houze Hsu: Determination of island height from geopotential
- Somayajulu Y.K. (National Institute of Oceanography, India), Ravichandran M., Patil R.V. Preliminary Studies on Coastal Altimetry of the Indian Seas (ALTICORE-India)
- Saraceno M. (Centro de Investigaciones del Mar y la Atmósfera, Argentina), Onofrio E.E:, Fiore M.E., Grismeyer W.H. On the Utilization of Satellite Sea Surface Height Over the Argentinean Continental Shelf
- Valchev N., Andreeva (Institute of Oceanology, Bulgaria), Trifonova E., Demireva D. Knowledge on wind waves and sea level at IO-BAS and need for remote sensing data
- Fenoglio-Marc L. (Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany), Fehlau M., Becker M., Bouffard J., Vignudelli S. Comparison of improved altimeter coastal sea surface heights to tide gauge data
- Rinaldi E., Buongiorno Nardelli B. (Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Italy), Santoleri R., Zambianchi E., Poulain P. Study of the Tyrrhenian Sea circulation by combined analysis of the altimeter and lagrangian data
Extra Presentations and Posters (sent post-meeting)
- Chu P. (Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, U.S.), Satellite Altimetry Data Assimilation for Naval Undersea Capability
- Mamedov R. (Institute of Geography, Baku, Azerbaijan) Recent developments in cal/val supporting satellite altimetry in the Caspian Sea
- Vignudelli S. (Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Italy), ALTICORE: a collaborative experience in exploring coastal altimetry