OSTST 2012 Presentations

Here are the oral presentations made for the Ocean Surface Topography Science Team 2012 meeting.

Thursday, September 27 2012

Program status

• NASA/CNES/EUMETSAT/NOAA/ESA Programme Status
  Peter Hacker on behalf of Eric Lindstrom (NASA), Juliette Lambin (CNES), François Parisot (EUMETSAT), Laury Miller (NOAA) and Jérôme Benvéniste (ESA)

Jason1/2/3 project status

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

Discussion points for the splinter sessions

• Jason-CS design issues
  Hans Bonekamp (EUMETSAT)
• Remaining geographical or seasonal correlations in the errors
  Joël Dorandeu (Mercator Océan)
• Seamless transition from ocean to coastal retracking algorithms
  Graham Quartly (NOC) 
• Future scientific outlook for Jason-1: geodesy and oceanography 
  David Sandwell (Scripps Institution of Oceanography) and Gérald Dibarboure (CLS)

Regional and Global CAL/VAL for Assembling a Climate Data Record (Part I)

• FOAM: From Ocean to inland waters Altimetry Monitoring
  Pascal Bonnefond (GeoAzur)
• Twenty Years of Altimeter Calibration from an Offshore Platform: An Update from the Harvest Experiment
  Bruce Haines (JPL)
• Updated Absolute Bias Results from the Australian In -Situ Calibration Sites: Bass Strait and Storm Bay
  Christopher Watson (University of Tasmania)
• Latest results for the determination of absolute bias for Jason-2 and HY-2 satellites using the Gavdos & Crete Cal/Val permanent facilities
  Stelios Mertikas (Technical University of Crete, Greece)
• Precise Jason-2 absolute altimeter calibration by means of a microwave transponder
  Walter Hausleitner (Austrian Academy of Sciences, Austria)
• Arctic Ocean Sea-Level Rise
  C. K. Shum (School of Earth Sciences, Ohio State University, USA)

 Tides, internal tides and high-frequency processes

• Improving the dynamic atmospheric correction for mean sea level and operational applications of altimetry
  Loren Carrère (CLS)
• 59-day Oscillations, Beta-prime, S2, and All That
  Richard Ray (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center)
• Evaluation of CTOH new along-track tidal constants database for dealiasing coastal altimetry over the North-West European continental shelf
  Laurent Roblou (LEGOS)
• FES 2012: A new tidal model taking advantage of nearly 20 years of altimetry measurements
  Loren Carrère (CLS)
• Evaluation of Contemporary Ocean Tide Models
  C. K. Shum (School of Earth Sciences, Ohio State University, USA)

Outreach, Education and Altimetric data services

• ARGONAUTICA: high school presentations
  Lycée de la Mer Gujan-Mestras
  Lycée P.P. Riquet de Saint Orens
• The 7th Continent Expedition : International Student Participation in a Voyage to the “Great Pacific Garbage Patch”
  Julie Vernières-Chevalier (CNES)
• Education, Outreach, and Societal Benefits of Ocean Altimetry Missions: 20 Years of Communication & Collaboration
  Annie Richardson (JPL)
• Climate Science Education for Underrepresented Students through Collaboration with CABPES
  Benjamin Hamlington (University of Colorado, Boulder)
• Indonesian Throughflow Proxy from Satellite Altimeters
  Dwi Susanto (Lamon Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University)
• Jason-1 Geodetic Datasets at PO.DAAC and the Impact on its Users and Services
  Jessica Housman (JPL/Caltech)
• SHOWCASE of altimeter outreach
  Vinca Rosmorduc (CLS)

Regional and Global CAL/VAL for Assembling a Climate Data Record (part II)

• Global Jason-2 Data Quality Assessment including first results of GDR-D reprocessing
  Sabine Phillips (CLS)
• Global Calibration and Validation of the Jason-2 GDR-D Products
  Shailen Desai (JPL)
• Evaluation of Jason-2 GDR-D sea level and retracking parameters
  Eric Leuliette (NOAA)
• Comparing altimetry with Argo and GRACE data for quality assessment and Mean Sea Level studies
  Jean-François Legeais (CLS)
• Jason-2 / Envisat Cross-Calibration
  Annabelle Ollivier (CLS)
• Reassessment of Jason-2 stability based on revised POD standards
  Brian D. Beckley (NASA/GSFC)
• Global Cal/Val of CryoSat-2 LRM and SAR data over oceans
  Remko Scharroo (Altimetrics LLC)
• Global Jason-1 Data Quality Assessment on the new geodetic orbit
  Sabine Phillips (CLS)
• HY-2A and DUACS multi-missions products
  Jean-François Legeais (CLS)

Near Real Time Products and Applications

• Ssalto/DUACS : Status on the Real Time system upgrades and impact of the altimetry constellation  events
  Yannice Faugère (CLS)
• The Use of NRT Altimeter Wind and Wave Products at ECMWF
  Saleh Abdalla (ECMWF)
• Assimilation of altimeters and ASAR wave data in the wave model MFWAM : preparation study related to CFOSAT mission
  Lotfi Aouf (Météo-France)
• SSH implication for operational prediction
  Gregg Jacobs (NRL)
• Predictability of the Middle Atlantic Bight Shelf Break Front given Satellite Data
  Javier Zavala-Garay (IMCS, The State University of New Jersey)
• Application of Near-Real Time Satellite Altimetry for Initializing the Ocean Component of Coupled Tropical Cyclone-Ocean Forecast Models
  Animation
  Richard M. Yablonsky (University of Rhode Island)
• Assessment of Cryosat near-real-time sea level anomaly data using HF radar and SST imagery
  Animations: Perth_C2_v2201208, Perth_J2_v2201208, Perth_J2C2_v2201208, Perth_J1J2C2_v3201205, Perth_J1J2C2_v3201208, Perth_J1J2N1C2_v2201208, Perth2201205
  David Griffin (CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research)
• Could Satellite Altimetry Have Improved Early Detection and Warning of the 2011 Tohoku Tsunami?
  Ben Hamlington (Colorado Center for Astrodynamics Research)

The Geoid, Mean Sea Surfaces and Mean Dynamic Topography

• The geodetic mission phase of Jason-1: Benefits for regional marine gravity field modeling
  Denise Dettmering (DGFI)
• Assessment of the first three generations of GOCE geoid models through their induced surface geostrophic currents
  Jose M. Sanchez-Reals (University of Alicante, Spain)
• CryoSat-2 SARIN Mesoscale Observations of the Kuroshio Current
  Natalia Galin (CPOM, University College London)
• Mapping of the Absolute Dynamic Topography from multi-satellite along track Sea Surface Height and GOCE geoid height: a direct method
  Sandrine Mulet (CLS)
• Dominance of Eastward Currents in Southern Hemisphere  Oceans: the Impact of GOCE Data
  Viviane Menezes (University of Tasmania)
• Southern Ocean 4-D circulation: combining altimeter and Argo float data
  Animation
  Uriel Zajaczkovski (Scripps Institution of Oceanography)
• Observing System Evaluation for the Black Sea: Focus on ARGO floats and altimetry during 2005-2012
  Sebastian Grayek (CMCR)

Friday, September 28, 2012

Instrument Processing (Part I): Wet and Dry troposphere, Ionosphere and Sea State Bias

• Impact of GDR_D standards on SSB corrections
  Ngan Tran (CLS)
• An improved objective analysis scheme of scanning radiometer measurements to compute the water vapor path delay for altimetry
  Jacques Stum (CLS)
• Jason-CS Radiometer Options (and Discussion)
  Robert Cullen (ESA-ESTEC)
• Discussion on Jason-Cs Radiometer Options
  All participants

Instrument Processing (Part IIa): LRM/SAR, retracking

• Finer, Better, Closer: Advanced capabilities of SAR altimetry in the open ocean and the coastal zone
  Chirstine Gommenginger (NOC)
• Cryosat Processing Prototype, LRM and SAR Processing on CNES side
  François Boy (CNES)
• Numerical Solution for the Retracking  Algorithm: Performances on Conventional Altimeter Waveforms
  Pierre Thibaut (CLS)

Precision Orbit Determination (Part I)

• Welcome and splinter introduction
  Luca Cerri (CNES)
• Jason-1 and Jason-2 POD Status
  Alexandre Couhert (CNES)
• Improved Orbit Standards for Altimeter Satellite POD at GSFC
  Frank. G. Lemoine (NASA GSFC)
• 20-Years of Precision Orbit Determination For Altimetry With GPS
  Willy Bertiger (JPL)

Quantifying Errors and Uncertainties in Altimetry Data (Part I)

• Investigating and reducing the differences between the satellite altimetry-based Global Mean Sea Level time series provided by the different processing groups
  Anny Cazenave (LEGOS)
• Determining errors in the climate data record
  Eric Leuliette (NASA)
• Error characterization of the global and regional Mean Sea Level evolution for climate applications
  Michaël Ablain (CLS)
• Apparent Sea Level Variability and Trends Arising From the Choice of Orbit
  Saskia Esselborn (GFZ)

Instrument Processing (Part IIb): LRM/SAR, retracking

• A Comparison of Altimeter Noise from Double Retracked Geosat, ERS-1, Envisat, CryoSat and Jason-1 Data
  David Sandwell (Scripps Institute of Oceanography)
• Precise Estimates of Ocean Surface Parameters from CryoSat
  Katharine Giles (CPOM, University College London)
• Pulse-to-pulse correlation in CryoSat SAR echoes from ocean surfaces: implications for optimal pseudo-LRM waveform averaging
  Walter H. F. Smith (NOAA)
• An analytical model for Doppler altimetry and its estimation algorithm
  Abderrahim Halimi (University of Toulouse, IRIT-ENSEEIHT-TéSA)
• Reaching sub-centimetre range noise on Jason-CS with the Poseidon-4 continuous SAR interleaved mode
  Laurent Phalippou (Thales Alenia Space, France)
• Jason-CS Altimeter Options and Discussion
  Robert Cullen (ESA-ESTEC)
• Discussion and Recommendations
  All participants

Precision Orbit Determination (Part II)

• ESOC Integer Ambiguity Resolved Precise and Homogeneous Orbits for Jason-1 and Jason-2
  Michiel Otten (ESA-ESOC)
• Influence of time varying geopotential models and ITRF realizations on precise orbits of altimetry satellites and derived  mean sea level
  Sergei Rudenko (GFZ)
• Assessment of Orbit Quality through the SSH calculation
  Sabine Phillips (CLS)
• Reducing the dependency of precise orbits for altimeter missions from the Time Varying Gravity field
  Luca Cerri (CNES)

Quantifying Errors and Uncertainties in Altimetry Data (Part II)

• Error estimates for a data assimilation system: what modelers really need
  Peter Oke (CSIRO)
• Error specification on SLA observations in the Mercator assimilation systems
  Elisabeth Rémy (Mercator Océan)
• Altimetry errors in sea surface height at wavelengths less than 100 km
  Lee-Lueng Fu (JPL)
• Spatial and temporal characteristics of the errors in Jason-2 and Jason-1 sea surface height measurements
  Rui M. Ponte (Atmospheric and Environmental Reasearch)
• Error Estimation of Altimeter Wind Speed an Significant Wave Height
  Saleh Abdalla (ECMWF)

Summaries and Recommendations

• Cryosat: data access
  Jérôme Benveniste on behalf of Tommaso Parrinello (ESA)
• HY-2 Altimetry Products Quality Assessment
  Peng Hailong (NSOAS)

• Regional and Global CAL/VAL for assembling a Climate Data Record Summary
• Precision Orbit Determination Summary
• Instrument Processing Summary
• Near Real Time Products and Applications Summary
• Outreach, Education and Altimetric Data Services Summary
• The Geoid, Mean Sea Surfaces and Mean Dynamic Topography Summary
• Quantifying Errors and Uncertainties in Altimetry Data Summary
• Tides, internal tides and high-frequency processes

• GDR Product discussion and Recommendations
  Nicolas Picot (CNES)

• OSTST Recommendations

• Coastal Altimetry Workshop summary and recommendations
  Paolo Cipollini (NOC)