Ocean and Hydrology presentations

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Thursday 21 October 2010

Introduction to the Meeting

• Towards High-Resolution of Ocean Dynamics and Terrestrial Surface Waters from Space
  N. MOGNARD (CNES), R. MORROW (LEGOS)
• The role of SWOT in water cycle science
  D. LETTENMAIER (University of Washington)

Joint Hydrology Oceanography
Science Linkages : estuaries & coastal zones, impact of inland waters on sea level change

• Effects of land waters on sea level
  A. CAZENAVE (LEGOS/CNES)
• Ocean modeling and data assimilation: linking river discharge with coastal processes
  Y. CHAO (JPL)

Hydrology Satellite based estimates of river discharge

• Discharge versus storage rate – Present and future contributions of radar altimetry
  S. CALMANT (IRD)
• Assessing and Retiring Risk in SWOT discharge products: A steady-state Bayesian analysis scheme
  M. DURAND (Ohio State University)
• Global ocean satellite-based mass-balance estimates of continental river discharge
  J. FAMIGLIETTI (University of California)

Theory and models of mesoscale to sub-mesoscale ocean processes

• Impact of submesoscales on the oceanic circulation from high-resolution simulations: role of the ageostrophic motions
  P. KLEIN (IFREMER)
• The distribution of kinetic energy in the ocean
  R. FERRARI (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
• Geostrophic turbulence near rapid changes in stratification: implications for the upper ocean
  S. SMITH (New York University)
• Diagnosing submesoscale tracer fluxes in the global ocean with existing satellite products
  J. LE SOMMER (CNRS)

Hydrology: Satellite based estimates of storage change

• Capability of SWOT to measure surface water storage change
  H. LEE (Ohio State University)
• Combination of radar altimetry and satellite imagery for the monitoring of flood events in arid zone: application to the Inner Niger delta
  JF CRETAUX (LEGOS/CNES)
• Satellite Altimetry measurements over lakes and reservoirs
  C. BIRKETT (University of Maryland)

Hydrology: Accuracies of existing classifications and data sets

• A multi-month assimilation for discharge estimation of the Ohio River using high-resolution simulated SWOT
  D. MOLLER (Remote Sensing Solutions Inc)
• Accuracy and classification of river form and extent from remote observations
  T. PAVELSKY (University of North Carolina)
• Wetland inventory and variability over the last two decades at a global scale
  C. PRIGENT (CNRS)

Ocean: Observing mesoscale & submesoscale processes from Space

• Satellite observations of mesoscale ocean currents
  B. CHAPRON (IFREMER)
• Observation of swell pattern and energetic surface currents with synthetic aperture radar
  F. COLLARD (CLS)
• Resolving small-scale structures from nadir altimetry
  R. MORROW (LEGOS/OMP)

What we have learned from in-situ observations

• Observations of submesoscale activity at ocean fronts: past and future
  E. DASARO (University of Washington)
• High resolution multi-sensor experiments to diagnose vertical motion in the upper ocean
  A. PASCUAL (IMEDEA (CSIC-UIB)
• Timescale and vertical length scale of subinertial currents assessed with 800 moorings
  R. SCOTT (University of Texas)

Friday 22 October 2010

Hydrology: Data assimilation in hydrodynamic models

• Using wide swath altimetry to reduce modelling errors for the Ob River in western Siberia
  S. BIANCAMARIA (LEGOS)
• Basin-wide data assimilation of SWOT observations
  K. ANDREADIS (Ohio State University)
• Towards the sequential assimilation of SARderived water stages into hydraulic models using the particle filter
  P. MATGEN (Centre de Recherche Public - Gabriel Lippmann)

Hydrology: Science problems being solved because of satellite measurements

• Representation of continental land surface water in global climate and weather prediction models
  A. BOONE (CNRM-GAME Météo-France)
• Can hydraulic geometry aid river discharge retrievals?
  L. SMITH (UCLA)
• A global water cycle climatology from NASA news and related datasets
  J. FAMIGLIETTI (University of California, Irvine)

Ocean: Observing internal tides from Space

• On the temporal variability of low-mode internal tides in the deep ocean
  R. RAY (NASA GSFC)
• Mapping the sea surface signature of internal tides in global ocean models
  B. ARBIC (University of Michigan)
• On the Observability and predictability of internal tides
  F. LYARD (LEGOS)
• Internal tides in a global ocean circulation model
  J. RICHMAN (Stennis Space Centre)

Ocean: Fronts & Ocean-atmosphere interactions at the mesoscale – sub-mesoscale

• Coupled ocean-atmosphere interaction on oceanic mesoscales
  L. ONEILL (Naval Research Laboratory)
• Ocean-atmosphere interactions over mesoscale features
  G. LAPEYRE (LMD)

Ocean: Statistical & assimilation techniques for the sub-mesoscale

• The geometry of lateral stirring: lyapunov vectors from altimetry data
  F. DOVIDIO (ISC-PIF and LOCEAN-IPSL)
• Relation between mesoscale surface motions and baroclinic and SQG modes
  G. LAPEYRE (Laboratoire de Meteorologie Dynamique)
• Assimilation of submesoscale
  J. VERRON (LEGI/CNRS)
• New understanding of intense current dynamics from high-resolution satellite sensor synergy
  J. JOHANNESSEN (NERSC)

Hydrology: Joint hydrology oceanography: applications

• Using uncertain satellite observations to improve flood mapping and forecasting
  P. BATES (University of Bristol)
• Characterizing terrestrial runoff patterns to the pacific ocean from the western U.S.
  E. BEIGHLEY (San Diego State University)
• Mesoscale turbulence and bio-geochemistry : high-resolution bio/physical coupling and challenges for observations and modelling
  M. LEVY (LOCEAN-IPSL)

Future satellite missions aimed at high-resolution processes

• Hydrology and oceanography drivers of the SWOT mission
  L. SMITH (UCLA)
• SWOT mission
  E. RODRIGUEZ (JPL)
• Future space missions planned for high-resolution observations
  J. LAMBIN (CNES)