OSTST 2011 Presentations

Here are the oral presentations made for the Ocean Surface Topography Science Team 2011 meeting.

Wednesday 19 October 2011

Program status

• NASA Programme PDF  
  Eric Lindstrom
• CNES Programme PDF 
  Juliette Lambin
• EUMETSAT/NOAA Programme PDF
  François Parisot and Laury Miller
• ESA Programme PDF
  Jérôme Benveniste

Jason1/2/3 project status

• Jason-1 mission overview
  Glenn Shirtliffe (JPL)
• Jason-2 mission overview
  Thierry Guinle (CNES)
• Jason-3 mission overview
  Gérard Zaouche (CNES)

Keynote Talks

• Observing climate variability and change in the global oceans: The Argo Program 
  Dean Roemmich (Argo Steering Team Co-Chair)
• Towards Regional Projections of Twenty-first Century Sea Level Change 
  Caroline Katsman (KNMI)
• Science and Operational Applications from the Altimeter Constellation 
  Pierre-Yves Le Traon (IFREMER)
• Coastal Reflections: New Science and Open Questions from the Coastal Altimetry Workshop 
  Paolo Cipollini (NOC)

Discussion points for the Splinter Sessions

• Satellite Maneuver for AMR calibration on Jason-3
  Shannon Brown (JPL)
• CryoSat-2 Issues
  Richard Francis (ESA)

Local calibration/validation: focusing on bias

• Absolute calibration of TOPEX/POSEIDON,Jason-1 and Jason-2 altimeters in Corsica
  Pascal Bonnefond (GeoAzur)
• The Harvest Altimeter Calibration Experiment: Recent Results
  Bruce Haines (JPL)
• Updated Results from the Australian In-Situ Calibration Sites: Bass Strait and Storm Bay
  Christopher Watson (University of Tasmania)
• Recent Results for Jason-2 altimeter bias using the Gavdos Cal/Val Facility
  Stelios Merkitas (Technical University of Crete)
• JASON-2 Transponder Calibration
  Jean-Damien Desjonqueres (CNES)
• Absolute calibration of Jason radar altimeters from GPS kinematic campaigns over Lake Issykkul
  Jean-François Créteaux (LEGOS)
• Validation of Retracked CryoSat Data Over Open Oceans
  Remko Scharroo (Altimetrics  LLC)

Instrument Processing I

• Improved altimetric accuracy of SAR altimeters over the ocean: observational evidence from Cryosat-2 SAR and Jason-2 
  Christine Gommenginger (NOC)
• Optimal re-tracking of SAR altimeter echoes over open ocean: from theory to results for SIRAL2 
  Laurent Phalippou (THALES)
• Retracking range, SWH, sigma-naught, and attitude in CryoSat conventional ocean data 
  Walter Smith (NOAA)
• Models of the echo from the ocean surface from the CryoSat-2 pulse-limited, SAR and SARinterferometric altimeters 
  Duncan Wingham (CPOM, University College London)
• Precision measurement of the ocean surface topography with the CryoSat-2 synthetic aperture altimeter 
  Katharine Giles (University College London)
• Cryosat LRM, TRK and SAR processing 
  François Boy (CNES)
• SAR Data over Ocean, Processing Strategy and Continuity with LRM Data 
  Pierre Thibaut (CLS)

Thursday 20 October 2011

• Keynote Talk: Tracking Water above the Oceans: A 19-year Water Vapor and Cloud Water Climatology from the Altimeter Radiometers
  Animation:    TMR Integrated Water Vapor Anomalies for years 1993 to 2005
  Shannon Brown (JPL)

The Geoid, Mean Sea Surfaces and Mean Dynamic Topography

• EIGEN-6 - The new combined global gravity field model including GOCE data from the collaboration of GFZ Potsdam and GRGS Toulouse  
  Richard Biancale (GRGS)
• The CNES/CLS 2011 Global Mean Sea Surface  
  Philippe Schaeffer (CLS)
• High resolution Mean Dynamic Topography in the Kerguelen area from altimetry, GOCE data and oceanographic in-situ measurements  
  Marie-Hélène Rio (CLS)
• The challenge of GOCE and multi-mission altimetry: instantaneous dynamic ocean topography profiles with meso-scale resolution  
  Roman Savcenko (DGFI)
• Measurement of the across-track slope of the marine geiod with SAR -interferometric altimeter  
  Natalia Galin (CPOM University College London)
• Improvement in Global Marine Gravity from Jason-1  
  David Sandwell (UCSD - Scripps Institution of Oceanography)

Near Real Time Products and Applications

• Dense, high-accuracy sea surface height data in near-realtime from the Jason-1, Jason-2, and ENVISAT missions  
  Shailen Desai (JPL)
• Updates of the SSALTO DUACS near real time system: focus on short latency data products  
  Sylvie Labroue (CLS)
• Real-time oceanography and extreme events  
  David Griffin (CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research)
• Modeling distribution of marine debris before and after tsunami of March 11, 2011  
  Nikolai Maximenko (IPRC/SOEST, University of Hawaii)
• Near-Real-Time Wave, Wind, and Sea Surface Height from CryoSat FDM/L1B data  
  Walter Smith (NOAA)
• Operational forecasting of wind-generated waves by tropical cyclones and altimetry  
  Jean-Michel Lefevre (Météo-France)

Precision Orbit Determination I

• Status of the Jason-2 GDR Precision Orbit Ephemerides  
  Alexandre Couhert (CNES)
• GSFC OSTM, Jason-1 and TOPEX POD Update  
  Frank Lemoine (NASA)
• Stability of GPS Bias-Resolved JASON and JASON2/OSTM Orbits, 2002-2011 in ITRF2008  
  Willy Bertiger (JPL)
• Improving the long-term stability of the GDR orbit solutions  
  Luca Cerri (CNES)

Science Results from Satellite Altimetry Part I: Mean Sea Level

• Spatial Trend Patterns in Sea Level from Altimetry, Past Sea Level Reconstructions and CMIP3 Coupled Climate Models  
  Benoit Meyssignac (LEGOS)
• Land waters contribution to sea level during ENSO events (altimetry era)  
  Anny Cazenave (LEGOS-CNES)
• Can a Combination of Altimetry, Argo, and GRACE Detect Deep Ocean Warming?  
  Don Chambers (College of Marine Science)
• Why has an acceleration of sea level rise not been observed during the altimeter era?  
  R. Steven Nerem (University of Colorado)
• Comparison of Internal Tides in a High Resolution Global Ocean Circulation Model with Altimetric Estimates  
  Jay Shriver (Naval Research Laboratory)
• Indian Ocean near 90-day resonance: its structure as resolved by the merged multi-satellitel sea level and dynamics  
  Weiqing Han (University of Colorado)

Global calibration/validation: focusing on corrections quality assessment and error budget assessment

• Global Jason-2/Jason-1 Data Quality assessment  
  Sabine Philipps (CLS)
• Jason-2 / EnviSat cross-calibration  
  Annabelle Ollivier (CLS)
• Multi-Mission cross-calibration: Latest results with new missions and products  
  Denise Dettmering (DGFI)
• Improvement of global and regional Mean Sea Level trends derived from all the altimetry missions  
  Michael Ablain (CLS)
• Evaluating the Jason-2 primary mission sea level climate record  
  Eric Leuliette (NOAA)

Outreach, Education & Altimetric Data Services

• Aviso users: what about them?  
  Vinca Rosmorduc (CLS)
• NOAA Archive and Access Services for Jason-2/OSTM  
  Deirdre Byrne (NOAA/NODC)
• Ocean Surface Topography Datasets And Services at PO.DAAC  
  Jessica Hausman (PO.DAAC)
• ARGONAUTICA, an educational project  
  Danielle de Staerke (CNES)
• Experiences with informing the public about sea level science   
  Animation: Greenland Ice Melt from GRACE 
  Steve Nerem (University of Colorado)
• JPL Ocean Surface Topography Program EPO Updates: JPL and NASA Climate Day  
  Annie Richardson (JPL)
• Showcase
  Paolo Cipollini, Val Byfield (NOC), LuAnn Thompson (University of Washington), John Church (SCIRO), Laury Miller (SOC), Vinca Rosmorduc (CLS), Margaret Srinivasan (NASA), Ted Strub (CEOAS), Nicolaï Maximenko (University of Hawaii)

Instrument Processing III

• Evaluation of 3D SSB Models on Jason-1 and ENVISAT Time-Series  
  Ngan Tran (CLS)
• On Long Term Variation in the Sea State Bias Corrections  
  Ole Baltazar Andersen (DTU)
• Use of SSM/I Data To Better Characterize Trend And Variability of the Atmospheric Water Vapor  
  Estelle Obligis (CLS)
• Improvements to the Radiometer Processing for GDR-D  
  Shannon Brown (JPL)
• Jason-2 GDR_D standard  
  Nicolas Picot (CNES)

Science Results from Satellite Altimetry Part II: Finescale Circulation

• Predicting unobserved ocean filaments from altimeters  
  Gregg Jacobs (Naval Research Laboratory)
• Statistical Parameters of the Geostrophic Ocean Flow Field, Estimated from the Jason-1-TOPEX/Poseidon Tandem Mission  
  Martin Scharffenberg (University of Hambourg)
• SSH wavenumber spectrum in the North Pacific  
  Animation: surface oceanic vorticity
  Patrice Klein (IFREMER)
• Monitoring the ocean from observations  
  Marie-Helene RIO (CLS)
• Characterization of oceanic mesoscale and submesoscale energy  
  Sung Yong Kim (MPL Scripps Institution of Oceanography)
• Surface Currents as an Early ENSO Index  
  Kathleen Dohan (Earth and Space Research Seattle)

Friday 21 October 2011

• Keynote Talk: The Road to Continuity: Redefining Success on the 10th Anniversary of Jason-1 
  Josh Willis (JPL)

New Frontiers in Satellite Altimetry

• CryoSat-2 Mission Status and Ocean Product 
  Duncan Wingham (CPOM,University College London)
• Sentinel-3 
  Jerome Benveniste 5ESA)
• Jason-CS Progress in phase B studies 
  Richard Francis (ESA)
• AltiKa/SARAL 
  Pierre Sengenes (CNES)
• ICESat-2 
  Charon Birkett (ESSIC/UMD)
• SWOT/AirSWOT 
  Lee-Lueng Fu (JPL)
• Discussion: OSTST and the Future of Satellite Altimetry 
  Eric Lindstrom (NASA)

Precision Orbit Determination II

• European Space Operation Center Precise and homogeneous orbits for Jason-1 and Jason-2 
  Michiel Otten (ESA)
• DPOD2008: A DORIS terrestrial reference for precise orbit determination  
  Pascal Willis (IGN)
• Orbit Quality Assessment through the SSH calculation 
  Sabine Philips (CLS)
• Influence of latest orbit reprocessing on multi-mission altimetry 
  Denise Dettmering (DGFI)

Science Results from Satellite Altimetry III: Largescale Circulation

• Estimates of Heat and Mass Budgets in the Atlantic Ocean 
  Kathryn Kelly (University of Washington)
• Dynamics and thermodynamics of interannual sea level variability 
  Rui Ponte (Atmospheric and Environmental Research)
• Use of Satellite Altimeter Data for Decadal Predictions of the Kuroshio Extension Dynamic State 
  Bo Qiu (University of Hawaii)
• Reliability estimates of decadal sea-level trend hindcasts: a case of predictions with uncertain verification data 
  Philippe Rogel (CERFACS)
• Low-frequency sea level variability in the southern Indian Ocean 
  Ming Feng (CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research)
• A new "ground truth" ocean-tides dataset based on bottom pressure measurements 
  Richard Ray (NASA/GSFC)

Advanced Altimetry Modes (SAR/SARIN)

• CryoSat-2 mission status and ocean products 
  Duncan Wingham (CPOM, University College London)

Summary and Recommendation

• Regional and Global CAL/VAL for Assembling a Climate Data Record
• Precision Orbit Determination
• Instrument processing
• Near Real Time Products and Applications
• Outreach, Education & Altimetric data services
• The Geoid Mean Sea Surfaces and Mean Dynamic Topography
• SAR mode session

GDR Product discussion & recommendations

• Topex Reprocessing/GDR-C 
  Phil Callahan (JPL)
• Jason/GDR-D 
  Nicolas Picot (CNES)