Ocean Surface Topography Science Team Meeting Event's program

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Ocean Surface Topography Science Team Meeting Event's program
Ocean Surface Topography Science Team Meeting
Steigenberger Inselhotel, Lake Constance, Germany
Tuesday, October 28 2014 - Friday, October 31 2014
Event's program
List of event's sessions
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OSTST Opening Plenary Session
(Tuesday, October 28 2014, 09:00 - 12:45)
Instrument Processing: Corrections
(Tuesday, October 28 2014, 14:00 - 15:45)
Science Results from Satellite Altimetry: Inland waters (multi-mission and long-term monitoring)
(Tuesday, October 28 2014, 14:00 - 15:45)
Instrument Processing: Measurement and retracking (SAR and LRM)
(Tuesday, October 28 2014, 16:15 - 18:00)
Outreach, Education and Altimetric Data Services
(Tuesday, October 28 2014, 16:15 - 18:00)
Precision Orbit Determination
(Wednesday, October 29 2014, 09:00 - 12:30)
Near Real Time Products and Applications and Multi-Mission, Multi-Sensor Observations
(Wednesday, October 29 2014, 09:00 - 10:30)
Tides, internal tides and high-frequency processes
(Wednesday, October 29 2014, 11:00 - 12:30)
Regional and Global CAL/VAL for Assembling a Climate Data Record
(Wednesday, October 29 2014, 14:00 - 18:00)
Science Results from Satellite Altimetry: Finer scale ocean processes (mesoscale and coastal)
(Wednesday, October 29 2014, 14:00 - 15:45)
Science Results from Satellite Altimetry: Regional and basin-scale processes and sea level rise
(Wednesday, October 29 2014, 16:15 - 18:00)
The Geoid, Mean Sea Surfaces and Mean Dynamic Topography
(Thursday, October 30 2014, 09:00 - 10:30)
Quantifying Errors and Uncertainties in Altimetry data
(Thursday, October 30 2014, 09:00 - 10:30)
Poster session
(Thursday, October 30 2014, 11:00 - 18:00)
Round tables
(Thursday, October 30 2014, 14:00 - 15:45)
OSTST Closing Plenary Session
(Friday, October 31 2014, 09:00 - 12:45)
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Tuesday, October 28
08:00 - 09:00
Registration and Presentation upload
OSTST Opening Plenary Session
Ballroom
Tue, Oct 28 2014, 09:00 - 12:45
09:00 - 09:05
Welcoming remarks and meeting overview
Pascal Bonnefond, on behalf of the Project Scientists
09:05 - 09:30
NASA/CNES/EUMETSAT/NOAA/ESA program status
Program Managers (NASA/CNES/EUMETSAT/NOAA/ESA)
09:30 - 09:45
Jason-2 mission overview
Thierry Guinle (CNES)
09:45 - 10:00
Jason-3 status
Gerard Zaouche (CNES)
10:00 - 10:15
Jason-CS news and developments
Richard Francis (ESA/ESTEC)
10:15 - 10:30
Dedication to Jean-Michel Lefevre
Lotfi Aouf (Meteo-France)
10:30 - 11:00
Coffee break
11:00 - 11:10
An Overview of the Activities of the NASA Sea Level Change Team (N-SLCT)
Robert Steven Nerem (University of Colorado), On behalf of the NASA Sea Level Change Team ()
11:10 - 11:20
Two Decades of Global and Regional Sea Level Observations from the ESA Climate Change
Initiative Sea Level Project
Gilles Larnicol (CLS), Anny Cazenave (LEGOS), Michaël Ablain (CLS), JeanFrancois Legeais
(CLS), Yannice Faugere (CLS), Jérôme Benveniste (ESA), Bruno Manuel Lucas (ESA), Salvatore
Dinardo (ESA), Johnny Johannessen (NERSC), Detlef Stammer (University of Hamburg), Gary
Timms (CGI), Pier Knudsen (DTU), Paolo Cipollini (NOC), Monica Roca (isardSAT), Sergei
Rudenko (GFZ), Joana Fernades (FCUP), Magdalena Balmaseda (ECMWF), Graham Quartly
(PML), Luciana Fenoglio-Marc (TUD), Thierry Guinle (CNES)
11:20 - 11:40
Development of the Deep Argo Program
Dean Roemmich (Scripps Institution of Oceanography), Russ Davis (Scripps Institution of
Oceanography), John Gilson (Scripps Institution of Oceanography), Kyle Grindley (Scripps
Institution of Oceanography), Carol Janzen (Sea-Bird Electronics Inc), Gregory Johnson (NOAA
Pacifific Marine Environmental Laboratory), Taiyo Kobayashi (Japan Agency for Marine-Earth
Science and Technology), Nordeen Larson (Sea-Bird Electronics Inc), Serge Le Reste (Institut
Francais de Recherche pour l'Exploitation de la mer), Guillaume Maze (Institut Francais de
Recherche pour l'Exploitation de la mer), Robert Melvin (Teledyne Webb Research), David Murphy
(Sea-Bird Electronics Inc), Ernest Petzrick (Teledyne Webb Research), Stephen Riser (University of
Washington), Jeffrey Sherman (Scripps Institution of Oceanography), Toshio Suga (Japan Agency
for Marine-Earth Science and Technology), Philip Sutton (National Institute of Water and
Atmospheric Research), Michihiko Tachikawa (Tsurumi Seiki Co Ltd), Esmee van Wijk (CSIRO
Marine and Atmospheric Research), Matthew Walkington (National Institute of Water and
Atmospheric Research), Susan Wijffels (CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research), Nathalie
Zilberman (Scripps Institution of Oceanography)
11:40 - 12:00
Impact of mesoscale eddies on the Gulf Stream and shelf ecosystem in the southeastern
United States
Ruoying He (North Carolina State University)
12:00 - 12:20
Satellite altimetry over rivers: from the data processing to thematic applications, with focus on
the Amazon basin
Stephane Calmant (IRD)
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12:20 - 12:35
SWOT Status and Challenges
Lee-Lueng Fu (Jet Propulsion Laboratory), Rosemary Morrow (LEGOS)
12:35 - 12:45
Topics to be discussed in the splinters
John Lillibridge (NOAA)
12:45 - 14:00
Lunch
Instrument Processing: Corrections
Ballroom
Tue, Oct 28 2014, 14:00 - 15:45
Session chairs: Shannon Brown and Estelle Obligis
12:45 - 14:00
Lunch
14:00 - 14:15
First year of the microwave radiometer aboard SARAL : In flight calibration, processing and
validation
Marie-Laure Frery (CLS), Bruno Picard (CLS), Estelle Obligis (CLS), Nathalie Steunou (CNES),
Nicolas Picot (CNES)
14:15 - 14:30
DComb wet tropospheric correction for CryoSat-2 over open and coastal ocean
M. Joana Fernandes (Universidade do Porto, Faculdade de Ciências; CIIMAR), Clara Lazaro
(Universidade do Porto, Faculdade de Ciências; CIIMAR), Alexandra L. Nunes (Instituto Politécnico
do Porto - ISEP; CIIMAR), Nelson Pires (Universidade do Porto, Faculdade de Ciências; CIIMAR)
14:30 - 14:45
The End-of-Mission Climate Quality Calibration for the JMR
Shannon Brown (JPL), Shailen Desai (JPL), Nicholas Lahaye (JPL)
14:45 - 15:00
A rain rate product for AltiKa
Bruno PICARD (CLS), Marie-Laure Fréry (CLS), Mathilde Siméon (CLS), Estelle Obligis (CLS),
Nathalie Steunou (CNES), Nicolas Picot (CNES)
15:00 - 15:15
Potential for High Resolution Wet Path Delay Measurements using High Frequency
Radiometers on Future Altimetry Missions
Shannon Brown (JPL)
15:15 - 15:30
Multi-mission sea state bias modeling: development and assessment
Hui Feng (University of New Hampshire), Doug Vandemark (University of New Hampshire),
Ngan Tran (CLS), Brian Beckley (SGT Inc, GSFC/NASA)
15:45 - 16:15
Coffee break
Science Results from Satellite Altimetry: Inland waters (multi-mission and long-term monitoring)
Red salon
Tue, Oct 28 2014, 14:00 - 15:45
Session chairs: Charon Birkett and Jean-François Crétaux
12:45 - 14:00
Lunch
14:00 - 14:15
Water levels in Danish lakes observed by CryoSat, SARAL/AltiKa, and Envisat
Karina Nielsen (DTU Space), Lars Stenseng (DTU Space), Ole Andersen (DTU Space), Heidi
Villadsen (DTU Space), Per Knudsen (DTU Space)
14:15 - 14:30
Variability of terrestrial freshwater storage from multi-satellite observations in the
Ganges-Brahmaputra River System
Yoann MALBETEAU (Université de Toulouse (UPS), CESBIO), Fabrice Papa (Institut de
Recherche pour le Developpement, IRD, LEGOS, Toulouse, France and IFCWS, Indo-French
Cell for Water Sciences, IRD-IISc Joint International Laboratory Indian Institute of Science,
Bangalore, India), Frederic Frappart (Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées (OMP), GET, Toulouse &
Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées (OMP), LEGOS, Toulouse), Florian Jordy (Universite de Toulouse;
UPS, LEGOS, Toulouse), Vincent Marieu (Universite de Bordeaux ; EPOC, Bordeaux),
Mohammad Shamsudduha (Institute for Risk and Disaster Reduction University College London,
London), Venu Venugopal (Center for Oceanic and Atmospheric Sciences, Indian Institute of
Science, Bangalore ), Muddu Sekhar (Department of Civil Engineering and IFCWS, Indo-French
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Cell for Water Sciences, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore), Guillaume Ramillien (CNRS,
Geoscience Environement Toulouse, OMP-GET, Toulouse), Catherine Prigent (LERMA, CNRS,
Observatoire de Paris, Paris), Filipe Aires (Estellus, Paris), Rajesh Kumar (Pandey NGRI,
Hyderabad), Sujit Bala (Institute of Water and Flood Management Bangladesh University of
Engineering and Technology, Dhaka), Stephane Calmant (Institut de Recherche pour le
Developpement, IRD-LEGOS, Toulouse)
14:30 - 14:45
Multi-mission monitoring of the desiccation of Lake Urmia in Iran
Nico SNEEUW (Institute of Geodesy, University of Stuttgart), Mohammad Tourian (Institute of
Geodesy, University of Stuttgart), Omid Elmi (Institute of Geodesy, University of Stuttgart),
Shirzad Roohi (Institute of Geodesy, University of Stuttgart), Qiang Chen (Institute of Geodesy,
University of Stuttgart), Balaji Devaraju (Institute of Geodesy, University of Stuttgart)
14:45 - 15:00
Hydroclimatic zonation of the Congo basin based on altimetric series distributed throughout the
basin
Mélanie BECKER (UAG/IRD), Stéphane CALMANT (IRD), Joécila SANTOS da SILVA (UEA),
Vincent ROBINET (UAG/IRD), Frédérique SEYLER (IRD)
15:00 - 15:15
Atmospheric corrections for altimetry studies over inland water
M. Joana Fernandes (Universidade do Porto, Faculdade de Ciências; CIIMAR), Clara Lázaro
(Universidade do Porto, Faculdade de Ciências; CIIMAR), L. Nunes Alexandra (Instituto Politécnico
do Porto - ISEP; CIIMAR), Remko Scharroo (EUMETSAT)
15:15 - 15:30
Improving the temporal and spatial resolution of water level time series over Po River (Italy)
obtained by multi-mission satellite altimetry
Mohammad J. Tourian (University of Stuttgart, Institute of Geodesy), Tao Qin (University of
Stuttgart, Institute of Geodesy), Angelica Tarpanelli (Hydrology Research Group @ CNR IRPI,
Perugia), Luca Brocca (Hydrology Research Group @ CNR IRPI, Perugia), Tommaso Moramarco
(Hydrology Research Group @ CNR IRPI, Perugia), Nico Sneeuw (University of Stuttgart, Institute
of Geodesy)
15:30 - 15:45
CryoSat-2 over rivers: a present mission, an insight into the future of altimetry
Nicolas Bercher (LEGOS/CNRS), Stephane Calmant (LEGOS/IRD), Salvatore Dinardo
(ESA/ESRIN/SERCO), Sara Fleury (LEGOS/CTOH/CNRS), François Boy (CNES), Nicolas Picot
(CNES), Jerome Benveniste (ESA/ESRIN)
15:45 - 16:15
Coffee break
Outreach, Education and Altimetric Data Services
Red salon
Tue, Oct 28 2014, 16:15 - 18:00
Session chairs: Vinca Rosmorduc and Margaret Srinivasan
15:45 - 16:15
Coffee break
16:15 - 16:30
New datasets for ODES (Online Data Extraction Service)
Emilie BRONNER (CNES), Frédéric BRIOL (CLS), Gérald DIBARBOURE (CLS), Thierry GUINLE
(CNES), Guillaume VALLADEAU (CLS), Clara NICOLAS (CNES), Fernando NINO
(LEGOS/CTOH), Vinca ROSMORDUC (CLS), Florence BIROL (LEGOS/CTOH)
16:30 - 16:45
New Datasets and Updated Tools at PO.DAAC
Jessica Hausman (JPL),
16:45 - 17:00
NOAA archive and access services for Jason-2/3 products
Deirdre Byrne (NOAA National Oceanographic Data Center), Yongsheng Zhang (NOAA National
Oceanographic Data Center and CICS/ESSIC/UMD)
17:00 - 17:15
SAR Processing on Demand Service for CryoSat-2 at ESA G-POD
Salvatore Dinardo (SERCO/ESRIN), Bruno Lucas (DEIMOS/ESRIN), Jerome Benveniste
(ESA/ESRIN)
17:15 - 17:30
Sea Level and Climate Change Outreach for High School Students
Benjamin Hamlington (Old Dominion University), Robert Leben (University of Colorado at Boulder)
17:30 - 17:45
Recent Advances in NOAA Altimetry Outreach and Education
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Laury Miller (NOAA Laboratory for Satellite Altimetry), John Lillibridge (NOAA Laboratory for
Satellite Altimetry), Eric Leuliette (NOAA Laboratory for Satellite Altimetry), Walter H.F. Smith
(NOAA Laboratory for Satellite Altimetry), Karen Marks (NOAA Laboratory for Satellite Altimetry),
Lori Brown (StormCenter Communications, Inc.)
17:45 - 17:50
SatiSphere: an interactive sphere to demonstrate satellites view (Showcase)
Vinca Rosmorduc (CLS), Danielle De Staerke (CNES)
17:50 - 17:55
Oceanography in the future Grenoble Science Museum
Thierry Penduff (CNRS - LGGE), Fabrice Messal (Mercator-Océan, Toulouse)
Instrument Processing: Measurement and retracking (SAR and LRM)
Ballroom
Tue, Oct 28 2014, 16:15 - 18:00
Session chairs: François Boy, Phil Callahan, Robert Cullen (replaced by Marco Fornari) and Walter Smith
15:45 - 16:15
Coffee break
16:15 - 16:27
Progress in Retracking TOPEX for the Climate Data Record
Philip Callahan (Jet Propulsion Laboratory), Brent Williams (Jet Propulsion Laboratory)
16:27 - 16:39
Towards the Jason-3 waveform processing: assessment of the numerical retracking
performances
François Boy (CNES), Jean-Damien Desjonquères (CNES), Nicolas Picot (CNES), JeanChristophe Poisson (CLS), Pierre Thibaut (CLS), Sophie Peyridieu (CLS)
16:39 - 16:51
Reduction of the Sea Surface Height spectral hump using a new retracker decorrelating
ocean estimated parameters (DCORE)
Laïba Amarouche (CLS), lionel zawadzki (AS+), Anne Vernier (CLS), Gerald Dibarboure
(CLS), Sylvie Labroue (CLS), Matthias Raynal (CLS), Jean-Christophe Poisson (CLS)
16:51 - 17:03
CryoSat Plus For Oceans: an ESA Project for CryoSat-2 Data Exploitation Over Ocean Summary of Results and Scientific Roadmap
David Cotton (Satellite Oceanographic Consultants Ltd), Ole Andersen (DTU Space), Francois
Boy (CNES), Mathilde Cancet (Noveltis), Salvatore Dinardo (ESA), Christine Gommenginger
(NOC), Alejandro Egido (STARLAB), Joana Fernandes (University of Porto), Pablo Nilo Garcia
(isardSAT), Bruno Lucas (ESA), Thomas Moreau (CLS), Marc Naeije (TU Delft), Remko Scharroo
(Altimetrics LLC), Lars Stenseng (DTU Space), Jérôme Benveniste (ESA)
17:03 - 17:15
Speckle reduction on SAR waveforms by along-track antenna pattern compensation on
stacks of single look echoes
Michele Scagliola (Aresys), Marco Fornari (ESA-ESTEC), Nicolas Tagliani (Aresys), Andrea Di
Giacinto (Aresys)
17:15 - 17:27
Exploitation of the full SAR-mode signal for different applications
Thomas MOREAU (CLS), Pierre THIBAUT (CLS), Jérémie AUBLANC (CLS), François BOY
(CNES), Nicolas PICOT (CNES)
17:27 - 17:39
A new SAR altimetry waveform model ready for current and forthcoming SAR missions
Cristina Martin-Puig (isardSAT Poland)
Combined with:
A new multi-look methodology for SAR altimetry
Chris Ray (Saint Mary's College and isardSAT), Mònica Roca (isardSAT), Cristina Martin-Puig
(isardSAT), Albert Garcia (isardSAT), Roger Escola (isardSAT)
17:39 - 17:51
The Sentinel-6 (Jason-CS) Poseidon-4 Ground Prototype Processor: Processing Description and
Results with ESA simulated Test Data delivered to users
Mònica Roca (isardSAT Cat), Roger Escolà Jané (isardSAT), Albert Garcia Mondéjar (isardSAT),
Pablo Nilo García Arnauld (isardSAT), Cristina Martin-Puig (isardSAT), Bernat Martínez
(isardSAT), Gorka Moyano (isardSAT), Marco Fornari (ESTEC/ESA), Richard Francis
(ESTEC/ESA), Robert Cullen (ESTEC/ESA)
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Wednesday, October 29
08:00 - 09:00
Registration and Presentation upload
Precision Orbit Determination
Ballroom
Wed, Oct 29 2014, 09:00 - 12:30
Session chairs: Sean Bruinsma, Alexandre Couhert and Frank Lemoine
09:00 - 09:15
Jason-1 and Jason-2 POD Status
John Moyard (CNES), Eva Jalabert (CNES), Alexandre Couhert (CNES), Silvia Rios-Bergantinos
(CS SI), Flavien Mercier (CNES), Sabine Houry (CNES)
09:15 - 09:30
New GSC POD Standards for TOPEX/Poseidon, Jason-1, Jason-2 (OSTM)
Frank Lemoine (NASA GSFC), Nikita P Zelensky (SGT Inc.), Stavros Melachroinos (SGT Inc.),
Douglas S. Chinn (SGT Inc.), Brian Beckley (SGT Inc.), Despina E. Pavlis (SGT Inc.), Jesse
Wimert (SGT Inc.)
09:30 - 09:45
Time-Variable Gravity, Geocenter and Jason-2 Orbit Determination With GPS
Willy Bertiger (JPL), Shailen Desai (JPL), Angie Dorsey (JPL), Bruce Haines (JPL), Felix
Landerer (JPL), Aurore Sibois (JPL), Dah-Ning Yuan (JPL)
09:45 - 10:00
Integer Ambiguity Resolved Precise and Homogeneous Orbits for Jason-1 and Jason-2
Michiel Otten (ESA/ESOC), Claudia Flohrer (ESA/ESOC), Tim Springer (ESA/ESOC), Werner
Enderle (ESA/ESOC)
10:00 - 10:15
Altimeter satellite POD Status at GSC in the context of ITRF2013
Frank Lemoine (NASA GSFC), Douglas S. Chinn (SGT Inc), Nikita P. Zelensky (SGT Inc.), Jennifer
W. Beall (Emergent Space Technologies), Brian D. Beckley (SGT Inc)
10:15 - 10:30
EIGEN-GRGS.RL03.MEAN-FIELD: new mean gravity field model for altimetric satellite orbit
computation
Jean-Michel Lemoine (CNES/GRGS), Stéphane Bourgogne (Géodésie), Richard Biancale
(CNES/GRGS), Sean Bruinsma (CNES/GRGS)
10:30 - 11:00
Coffee Break
11:00 - 11:15
Long-Term Analysis of Possible Remaining Sources of Orbit Error
Alexandre Couhert (CNES), John Moyard (CNES), Eva Jalabert (CNES), Flavien Mercier
(CNES), Denis Hautesserres (CNES), Silvia Rios-Bergantinos (CS SI), Sabine Houry (CNES)
11:15 - 11:30
Assessment of Orbit Quality through the SSH calculation- Towards GDR-E standards
Annabelle OLLIVIER (CLS), Sabine Philipps (CLS), Cécile Renaudie (CLS), Alexandre Couhert
(CNES), Nicolas Picot (CNES)
11:30 - 11:45
Investigation of long-term stability of precise orbits of altimetry satellites
Sergei Rudenko (GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences), Saskia Esselborn (GFZ
German Research Centre for Geosciences), Tilo Schöne (GFZ German Research Centre for
Geosciences), Christian Gruber (GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences), Karl-Hans
Neumayer (GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences)
11:45 - 12:00
Impact of atmosphere loading and geocenter motion modeling on the Jason-2 SLR+DORIS orbit
NIkita Zelensky (SGT Inc), Frank Lemoine (NASA GSFC), Stavros Melachroinos (SGT Inc), Brian
Beckley (SGT Inc), Despina Pavlis (SGT Inc), Jesse Wimert (SGT Inc)
12:00 - 12:15
Calibrated Semi-Empirical Solar Radiation Pressure Models for Altimeter Satellites
Flavien Mercier (CNES), Eva Jalabert (CNES), Alexandre Couhert (CNES)
12:15 - 12:30
Precise Orbit Determination by CNES/CLS IDS Analysis Center in the frame of ITRF2013
Hugues Capdeville (CLS), Laurent Soudarin (CLS), Jean-Michel Lemoine (CNES), Philippe
Schaeffer (CLS)
12:30 - 14:00
Lunch
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Near Real Time Products and Applications and Multi-Mission, Multi-Sensor Observations
Red salon
Wed, Oct 29 2014, 09:00 - 10:30
Session chairs: Emilie Bronner, Gregg Jacobs, John Lillibridge and Julia Figa Saldana
09:00 - 09:15
The Spatial Resolution of AVISO Gridded Sea Surface Height Fields
Dudley Chelton (Oregon State University), Gerald Dibarboure (Collecte Localisation Satellites),
Isabelle Pujol (Collecte Localisation Satellites), Michael Schlax (Oregon State University)
09:15 - 09:30
JPL Gridded Altimetry Products
Joshua Willis (Jet Propulsion Lab), Victor Zlotnicki (Jet Propulsion Lab, Pasadena, CA), Zheng
Qu (Raytheon, Co, Pasadena, CA)
09:30 - 09:45
Improved Representation of Eddies in Realtime Fine-Resolution Forecasting Systems Using MultiScale Data Assimilation of Satellite Altimetry
Zhijin Li (JPL),
09:45 - 10:00
Near Real Time altimetry measurements of the storm surge Bodil, Denmark - comparison with
model and in-situ observations
Kristine S. Madsen (DMI), Jacob L. Høyer (DMI), Luke J. West (NOC), Paolo Cipollini (NOC),
Phillip Harwood (CGI)
10:00 - 10:15
The impact of the assimilation of altimeters and Sentinel-1 wave data in the wave model
MFWAM
Lotfi Aouf (Division Marine et Océanographie Météo-France),
10:15 - 10:30
Near Real Time Application of the SARAL/AltiKa data in Operational Wave and Circulation
Models at ISRO
Suchandra A Bhowmick (Indian Space Research Organization), Smitha Ratheesh (ISRO),
Seemanth M (ISRO), Neeraj Agarwal (ISRO), Rashmi Sharma (ISRO)
10:30 - 11:00
Coffee Break
Tides, internal tides and high-frequency processes
Red salon
Wed, Oct 29 2014, 11:00 - 12:30
Session chairs: Loren Carrere, Florent Lyard, Richard Ray
10:30 - 11:00
Coffee Break
11:00 - 11:15
Consideration of tidal variations in the geocenter on satellite altimeter observations of ocean tides
Shailen Desai (Jet Propulsion Laboratory), Richard Ray (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center)
11:15 - 11:30
FES 2014, a new tidal model on the global ocean
Loren Carrere (CLS Space Oceanography Division), Florent Lyard (Legos), Mathilde Cancet
(Noveltis), Amandine Guillot (CNES)
11:30 - 11:45
Seafloor Topography and Ocean Tides from Satellite Altimetry
Edward Zaron (Portland State University)
11:45 - 12:00
T-UGOm hydrodynamical modeling of the ocean barotropic and baroclinic tides
Florent Lyard (LEGOS/CNRS, Université de Toulouse), Damien
Allain (CNRS)
12:00 - 12:15
Internal Tide Refraction and Attenuation in the North Pacific
Matthew Alford (Scripps Institution of Oceanography), Zhao Zhongxiang (APL/UW), Rainville Luc
(APL/UW), Simmons Harper (UAF), Girton James (APL/UW)
12:15 - 12:30
Global internal tides from multi-satellite altimetry
Zhongxiang Zhao (University of Washington), James Girton (University of Washington), Matthew
Alford (Scripps Institution of Oceanography)
12:30 - 14:00
Lunch
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Regional and Global CAL/VAL for Assembling a Climate Data Record
Ballroom
Wed, Oct 29 2014, 14:00 - 18:00
Session chairs: Pascal Bonnefond, Shailen Desai, Bruce Haines, Eric Leuliette and Nicolas Picot
12:30 - 14:00
Lunch
14:00 - 14:15
Long term absolute calibration from Bass Strait, Harvest, and Corsica sites
Christopher Watson (University of Tasmania), Bruce Haines (Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California
Institute of Technology), Pascal Bonnefond (OCA-GEOAZUR)
14:15 - 14:30
Absolute calibration of SARAL-AltiKa and Jason-2 over Kavaratti Island in Arabian Sea
K. N. Babu (SAC), A. K. Shukla (ISRO), A. B. Suchandra (ISRO), Pascal Bonnefond
(Observatoire de la Côte d'Azur - Géoazur - GRGS), P. Mehra (National Institute of
Oceanography, Goa)
14:30 - 14:45
Latest absolute calibration results for Jason-2 and HY-2 satellites using the Gavdos/Crete
permanent calibration facilities.
Stelios Mertikas (Technical University of Crete), Antonis Daskalakis (Space Geomatica Ltd.), Ilias
Tziavos (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki), George Vergos (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki),
Hailong Peng (National Ocean Satellite Applications Service), Xinghua Zhou (First Institute of
Oceanography), Fangli Qiao (First Institute of Oceanography), Vasilis Zervakis (University of the
Aegean)
14:45 - 15:00
Regional CalVal of Jason-2 and Envisat at three calibration sites: Corsica, Harvest and Bass
Strait.
Mathilde Cancet (NOVELTIS), Christopher Watson (University of Tasmania), Bruce Haines
(JPL/NASA), Pascal Bonnefond (OCA/GEOAZUR), Eric Jeansou (NOVELTIS), Florent Lyard
(OMP/CNRS/LEGOS), Pierre Féménias (ESA/ESRIN)
15:00 - 15:15
Absolute calibration of radar altimeters on Lake Issykkul from GPS field campaigns
Jean-Francois Cretaux (Legos / CNES), Stephane Calmant (Legos, IRD), Vladimir Romanovsky
(IWPH), Pascal Bonnefond (OCA, Geoazur), Saadat Tashbaeva (IWPH), muriel Bergé-Nguyen
(Legos, CNES), Philippe Maisongrande (Legos, CNES)
15:15 - 15:30
Comparing Different Alternatives to the Tide Gauge, Altimeter Drift Estimation Problem
Gary T. Mitchum (University of South Florida), Brian Beckley (Goddard Space Flight Center), Eric
Leuliette (NOAA), Dallas Masters (University of Colorado), Mark Merrifield (University of Hawaii),
R. Steven Nerem (University of Colorado), Richard Ray (Goddard Space Flight Center), Philip
Thompson (University of Hawaii)
15:30 - 15:45
Intermission and tide gauge comparisons of CryoSat-2, SARAL/AltiKa and Jason-2
Eric Leuliette (NOAA), Gary Mitchum (University of South Florida)
15:45 - 16:15
Coffee break
16:15 - 16:30
16:30 - 16:45
16:45 - 17:00
Calibrating Global Mean Sea Level over the Satellite-era
Christopher Watson (University of Tasmania), Neil White (CSIRO), John Church (CSIRO), Matt
King (University of Tasmania), Reed Burgette (New Mexico State University)
Analyses of altimetry errors using Argo and GRACE data
Jean-Francois Legeais (CLS, Space Oceanography Division), Pierre Prandi (CLS), Michaël Ablain
(CLS), Nicolas Picot (CNES)
Global Ocean Data Quality Assessment of SARAL/AltiKa GDR products
Pierre Prandi (CLS), Sabine Philipps (CLS), Vincent Pignot (CLS), Nicolas Picot (CNES), JeanDamien Desjonquères (CNES)
17:00 - 17:15
First Assessment of Jason-1 GDR-E Reprocessing over Ocean
Sylvie Labroue (CLS), Sabine Philipps (CLS), Michael Ablain (CLS), Cécile Renaudie (CLS), Pierre
Matton (CLS), Hélène Roinard (CLS), Nicolas Picot (CNES), Emilie Bronner (CNES)
17:15 - 17:30
Global Jason-2 Data Quality Assessment
Michaël Ablain (CLS), Sabine Philipps (CLS), Hélène Roinard (CLS), Nicolas Picot (CNES), JeanDamien Desjonquères (CNES)
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17:30 - 17:45
Global Cross-Calibration of the Jason-1, Jason-2, and SARAL Missions
Shailen Desai (JPL), Bruce Haines (JPL), Rashmi Shah (JPL)
17:45 - 18:00
Cryosat-2 altimeter performance assessment over ocean
Annabelle Ollivier (CLS), Marielle Guibbaud (Eurogiciel), Yannice Faugere (CLS), Sylvie Labroue
(CLS), Nicolas Picot (CNES), François Boy (CNES)
Science Results from Satellite Altimetry: Finer scale ocean processes (mesoscale and coastal)
Red salon
Wed, Oct 29 2014, 14:00 - 15:45
Session chairs: David Griffin and Jacques Verron
12:30 - 14:00
Lunch
14:00 - 14:15
Mesoscale capability of along-track altimeter data in LRM & SARM
Claire Dufau (CLS), Marion Orsztynowicz (LEGOS), Gérald Dibarboure (CLS), Rosemary
Morrow (LEGOS), Pierre-Yves Le Traon (MERCATOR)
14:15 - 14:30
Wavenumber Spectra in Drake Passage from models, altimetry, and ADCP: Connecting
theory to observations
Sarah Gille (Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego), Teresa Chereskin (Scripps
Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego), Bruce Cornuelle (Scripps Institution of
Oceanography, UC San Diego), Matthew Mazloff (Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San
Diego), Cesar Rocha (Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego), Jinbo Wang (Scripps
Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego)
14:30 - 14:45
Seasonal Mesoscale and Submesoscale Eddy Variability along the North Pacific Subtropical
Countercurrent
Bo Qiu (University of Hawaii), Shuiming Chen (University of Hawaii), Patrice Klein (Ifremer),
Hideharu Sasaki (JAMSTEC), Yoshikazu Sasai (JAMSTEC)
14:45 - 15:00
Frontogenesis Predictability in the Gulf Stream
Gregg Jacobs (Naval Research Laboratory), James Richman (Naval Research Laboratory)
15:00 - 15:15
Spatial variability of the annual cycle in coastal sea level: a regional study
Marcello Passaro (GSNOCS University of Southampton / European Space Agency - ESRIN), Paolo
Cipollini (Marine Physics and Ocean Climate Group, National Oceanography Centre, Southampton),
Jérôme Benveniste (European Space Agency - ESRIN)
15:15 - 15:30
Exploring the mesoscale activity in the Solomon Sea: a complementary approach with a
numerical model and altimetric data
Lionel Gourdeau (LEGOS/IRD), Jacques Verron (LGGE/CNRS), Jacques Melet (LEGOS),
William Kessler (NOAA/PMEL), Frédéric Marin (LEGOS/IRD), Bughsin Djath (LEGOS)
15:30 - 15:45
Behaviour of oceanic mesoscale eddies over the Bay of Bengal in contrasting monsoon
years
Subhra Prakash Dey (IIT Kharagpur, India), Mihir K. Dash (IIT Kharagpur), P. C. Pandey (IIT
Bhubaneswar)
15:45 - 16:15
Coffee break
Science Results from Satellite Altimetry: Regional and basin-scale processes and sea level rise
Red salon
Wed, Oct 29 2014, 16:15 - 18:00
Session chairs: Benoit Meyssignac and Steve Nerem
15:45 - 16:15
Coffee break
16:15 - 16:30
Using Sea Surface Height Observations and Climate Models to Quantify Underestimates of
Upper Ocean Warming since 1970
Paul Durack (Program for Climate Model Diagnosis and Intercomparison, Lawrence Livermore
National Laboratory), Peter Gleckler (Program for Climate Model Diagnosis and
Intercomparison, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory), Felix Landerer (Jet Propulsion
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Laboratory, California Institute of Technology), Karl Taylor (Program for Climate Model
Diagnosis and Intercomparison, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)
16:30 - 16:45
From global to regional sea level trends: a joint GRACE and Jason-1/-2 inversion
Bernd Uebbing (University of Bonn, Institute of Geodesy and Geoinformation), Jürgen Kusche
(University of Bonn, Institute of Geodesy and Geoinformation), Roelof Rietbroek (University of
Bonn, Institute of Geodesy and Geoinformation), C K Shum (Ohio State University, Division of
Geodetic Science, School of Earth Sciences)
16:45 - 17:00
Sea level in the Arctic Ocean from ERS, Envisat and CryoSat-2 radar altimetry
Tom Armitage (Centre for Polar Observation and Modelling), Wingham Duncan (Centre for Polar
Observation and Modelling), Ridout Andy (Centre for Polar Observation and Modelling)
17:00 - 17:15
Spatial Variations of the Near-Uniform Sea Level and Ocean Bottom Pressure Fluctuation
Identified in the Arctic Mediterranean
Ichiro Fukumori (Jet Propulsion Laboratory), Ou Wang (Jet Propulsion Laboratory), William Llovel
(Jet Propulsion Laboratory), Ian Fenty (Jet Propulsion Laboratory), Gael Forget (Massachusetts
Institute of Technoloty)
17:15 - 17:30
The role of the North Atlantic winds in driving the variability of the Arctic Ocean sea level
Denis Volkov (CIMAS / University of Miami / NOAA_AOML),
17:30 - 17:45
Comparing coastal and open ocean sea level variability and trend from altimetric data
Angelique Melet (LEGOS / CNES), Marcellin Nonti (LEGOS / Université de Cotonou), Baptiste
Chide (LEGOS / Supaéro), Benoit Meyssignac (LEGOS / CNES), Florence Birol (LEGOS )
17:45 - 18:00
Uncovering an Anthropogenic Sea Level Rise Signal in the Pacific Ocean
Benjamin Hamlington (Old Dominion University), Mathew Stassburg (University of Colorado at
Boulder), Robert Leben (University of Colorado at Boulder), Weiqing Han (University of
Colorado at Boulder), Robert Nerem (University of Colorado at Boulder), Kwang-Yul Kim
(Seoul National University)
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Thursday, October 30
08:00 - 09:00
Registration and Presentation upload
Quantifying Errors and Uncertainties in Altimetry data
Ballroom
Thu, Oct 30 2014, 09:00 - 10:30
Session chairs: Michael Ablain, Joel Dorandeu and Remko Scharroo
09:00 - 09:15
Wavelet analysis of Altika measurements
Jean-Christophe Poisson (CLS), Pierre Thibaut (CLS), Duc Hoang (CLS), François Boy (CNES),
Amandine Guillot (CNES), Nicolas Picot (CNES)
09:15 - 09:30
Spectral analysis of altimetric signal and errors Towards a spectral error budget of Nadir
Altimetric missions
Annabelle Ollivier (CLS), Nathalie Steunnou (CNES), Gerald Dibarboure (CLS)
09:30 - 09:45
What do errors between altimeters tell us about the length of the Jason-3/Jason-CS
calibration phase?
Eric Leuliette (NOAA/NESDIS Laboratory for Satellite Altimetry), John Lillibridge
(NOAA/NESDIS Laboratory for Satellite Altimetry), Walter H. F. Smith (NOAA/NESDIS
Laboratory for Satellite Altimetry)
09:45 - 10:00
Chasing Errors: Attempting to Further Reduce Uncertainty in the Altimeter Climate Record
Dallas Masters (University of Colorado), R. Steven Nerem (University of Colorado), James Choe
(University of Colorado)
10:00 - 10:15
Toward an improved evaluation of errors in merged DUACS/AVISO Sea Level products at
mesoscale
Isabelle Pujol (CLS Space Oceanography Division), Claire Dufau (CLS), Yannice Faugere (CLS),
Nicolas Picot (CNES), Emilie Bronner (CNES)
10:15 - 10:30
Impact of the assimilation of high-frequency data in a regional model
Mounir Benkiran (CLS), Claire Dufau (CLS), Jean-Michel Lellouche (Mercator Ocean), Yann
Drillet (Mercator Ocean)
10:30 - 11:00
Coffee break
The Geoid, Mean Sea Surfaces and Mean Dynamic Topography
Red salon
Thu, Oct 30 2014, 09:00 - 10:30
Session chairs: Ole B. Andersen and Yannice Faugere
09:00 - 09:15
New mean dynamic ocean topography derived from a synthesis of satellite altimeter, gravity, and
scatterometer data and trajectories of Lagrangian drifters
Nikolai Maximenko (IPRC/SOEST, University of Hawaii), Per Knudsen (Technical University of
Denmark), Luca Centurioni (Scripps Institution of Oceanography), Ole Andersen (Technical
University of Denmark), Jan Hafner (IPRC/SOEST, University of Hawaii), Oleg Melnichenko
(IPRC/SOEST, University of Hawaii)
09:15 - 09:30
How well can we measure the ocean's mean dynamic topography from space?
Rory Bingham (University of Bristol), Keith Haines (University of Reading), Daniel Lea (Met Office)
09:30 - 09:45
The new ESA/GOCE geoid model from the direct method and its impact on the computation of
the Mean Dynamic Topography
Sean Bruinsma (CNES), Sandrine Mulet (CLS), Marie-Helene Rio (CLS)
09:45 - 10:00
Slope Correction for Ocean Radar Altimetry
Walter Smith (NOAA Lab for Satellite Altimetry), David Sandwell (University of California Scripps
Institution of Oceanography)
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10:00 - 10:15
Linking Conventional and SAR Altimetry with Cryosat-2: An assessment over the whole
mission
Sylvie Labroue (CLS), Matthias Raynal (CLS), Thomas Moreau (CLS), Annabelle Ollivier
(CLS), Philippe Schaeffer (CLS), François Boy (CNES), Nicolas Picot (CNES)
10:15 - 10:30
What Cryosat-2 revealed about existing MSS models in coastal regions
Ole Baltazar Andersen (Dr), Lars Stenseng (Dr), Per Knudsen (Professor)
10:30 - 11:00
Coffee break
Poster session
Ballroom: poster number 1-100 and 159-169 (please refer to Posters’ list)
Foyer: poster number 101-158 (please refer to Posters’ list)
Thu, Oct 30 2014, from 11:00 to 12:30 and from 16:15 to 18:00
See Posters’ list for details
10:30 - 11:00
Coffee break
12:30 - 13:45
Lunch
15:45 - 16:15
Coffee break
Round tables
See below the room for each splinter
Thu, Oct 30 2014, 13:45 - 15:45
12:30 - 13:45
Lunch
13:45 - 14:45
Regional and Global CAL/VAL for Assembling a Climate Data Record: Ballroom
Instrument Processing: Red salon
The Geoid, Mean Sea Surfaces and Mean Dynamic Topography: Blue salon
Tides, internal tides and high-frequency processes: White salon
14:45 - 15:45
Quantifying Errors and Uncertainties in Altimetry data: Ballroom
Near Real Time Products and Applications and Multi-Mission, Multi-Sensor Observations: Red salon
Precision Orbit Determination: Blue salon
Outreach, Education and Altimetric Data Services: White salon
15:45 - 16:15
Coffee break
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Friday, October 31
08:00 - 09:00
Registration and Presentation upload
OSTST Closing Plenary Session
Ballroom
Fri, Oct 31 2014, 09:00 - 12:45
09:00 - 11:30
Splinters meeting summaries
Splinters chairs
09:00 - 09:10
Regional and Global CAL/VAL for Assembling a Climate Data Record
09:10 - 09:20
Precision Orbit Determination
09:20 - 09:30
Instrument processing: Corrections
09:30 – 09:40
Instrument processing: Measurement and retracking
09:40 - 09:50
Near Real Time Products and Applications
09:50 - 10:00
Outreach, Education & Altimetric data services
10:00 - 10:10
The Geoid Mean Sea Surfaces and Mean Dynamic Topography
10:10 - 10:20
Quantifying Errors and Uncertainties in Altimetry Data
10:20 - 10:30
Tides, internal tides and high-frequency processes
10:30 - 11:00
Coffee break
11:00 - 11:10
Science Results from Satellite Altimetry
11:10 - 11:20
Coastal Altimetry Workshop – Paolo Cipollini
11:20 - 11:30
SARAL/AltiKa Workshop – Jacques Verron
11:30 - 12:00
Discussion, summary and recommendation
Chairs: Hans Bonekamp, Pascal Bonnefond, John Lillibridge, Lee-Lueng Fu, Rosemary Morrow,
Josh Willis
12:00 - 12:10
The Plastic Islands in the Atlantic Ocean
Group of students (Collége Esquinance à la Réole)
12:10 - 12:20
Théthys investigation in the Mediterranean Sea
Group of students (Lycée Monteil à Rodez)
12:20 - 12:30
Topex Reprocessing/GDR-C
Philip Callahan (JPL)
12:30 - 12:40
Jason/GDR-E
Nicolas Picot (CNES)
12:45 - 14:00
Lunch
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Posters
Ballroom: poster number 1-100 and 159-169 (please refer the number in the list below)
Foyer: poster number 101-158 (please refer the number in the list below)
Precision Orbit Determination
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Long-Term Analysis of Possible Remaining Sources of Orbit Error II
Alexandre Couhert (CNES), John Moyard (CNES), Eva Jalabert (CNES), Flavien Mercier (CNES),
Denis Hautesserres (CNES), Silvia Rios-Bergantinos (CS-SI), Sabine Houry (CNES)
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Satellite Precise Orbit Determination Using Real-Time and Near Real-Time GPS Products Eva
Jalabert (CNES), Denis Laurichesse (CNES), Sabine Houry (CNES), Alexandre Couhert (CNES)
3
New GSC POD Standards for TOPEX/Poseidon, Jason-1, Jason-2 (OSTM) -- II
Frank Lemoine (NASA GSFC), Nikita P. Zelensky (SGT Inc.), Stavros Melachroinos (SGT Inc.), Douglas
S. Chinn (SGT Inc.), Brian D. Beckley (SGT Inc.), Despina E. Pavlis (SGT Inc.), J Wimert (SGT Inc.)
Near Real Time Products and Applications and Multi-Mission, Multi-Sensor Observations
4
Assessment of Several Cryosat-2 Wind and Wave Products
Saleh Abdalla (ECMWF)
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New altimetry products over shelf and coastal zone from the eSurge processor.
Paolo Cipollini (National Oceanography Centre), Luke West (National Oceanography Centre), Helen
Snaith (British Oceanographic Data Centre), Phillip Harwood (CGI), Craig Donlon (ESA/ESTEC)
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NOAA Operational Satellite Derived Oceanic Heat Content Products
David Donahue (NOAA/NESDIS), Eileen Maturi (NOAA/NESDIS), Nick Shay (RSMAS - University of
Miami), Jodi Brewster (RSMAS - University of Miami), Jerry Guo (SSAI), Abraham Yuk (SSAI)
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NOAA's Jason-2/OSTM Products
David Donahue (NOAA/NESDIS), John Lillibridge (NOAA/NESDIS), Yongsheng Zhang (NOAA),
Donald Richardson (SSAI), Abraham Yuk (SSAI)
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Ssalto/DUACS 2014 upgrades: 4 satellites in the Real time system and a new processing Yannice
Faugere (CLS), Isabelle Pujol (CLS), Claire Dufau (CLS), Frederic Briol (CLS), Antoine Delepoulle
(CLS), Nicolas Picot (CNES), Emilie Bronner (CNES)
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Characterisation of current NRT altimetry applications
Julia Figa-Saldana (EUMETSAT), Hans Bonekamp (EUMETSAT), John Lillibridge (NOAA), Remko
Scharroo (EUMETSAT)
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Altimetry data for regional applications: the CTOH database.
Nicolas Fuller (CTOH/LEGOS), Florence Birol (CTOH/LEGOS), Fernando Niño (CTOH/LEGOS),
Florent Lyard (LEGOS), Sara Fleury (CTOH/LEGOS), Damien Allain (LEGOS), Rosemary Morrow
(CTOH/LEGOS)
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Oceanography and the search for Malaysia Airlines MH370
David Griffin (CSIRO), Madeleine Cahill (CSIRO), Peter Oke (CSIRO), Andreas Schiller (CSIRO)
12
Near Real Time Monitoring of Earth's Climate Using Satellite Altimetry and Reconstructed Sea Level
Bob Leben (University of Colorado Boulder), Ben Hamlington (Old Dominion University)
13
Operational Use of HY-2A in SSALTO/Duacs
Nicolas PICOT (CNES), Jean Michel LACHIVER (CNES), Yannice Faugere (CLS)
14
GlobCurrent: What's it all about?
Graham Quartly (PML), Johnny Johannessen (NERSC), Bertrand Chapron (IFREMER), Fabrice
Collard (Ocean Data Lab), Rick Danielson (NE|RSC), Craig Donlon (ESA), Gilles Larnicol (CLS),
Cristina Martin-Puig (isardSAT), Jean-Francois Piolle (IFREMER)
Marie-Hélène Rio (CLS), Jamie Shutler (PML)
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Altimeter products for the Sentinel-6/Jason-CS mission
Remko Scharroo (EUMETSAT), Hans Bonekamp (EUMETSAT), Christelle Ponsard (EUMETSAT),
Carolina Nogueira Loddo (EUMETSAT)
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Signal processing simulations of the SWIM wave data
Céline Tison (CNES), Danièle Hauser (CNRS INSU LATMOS), Lauriane Delaye (CNRS INSU
LATMOS), Thierry Koleck (CNES), Milena Planells (CNES), Nicolas Lamquin (affiliation), Lofti Aouf
(Météo France), Patrick Castillan (CNES)
Tides, internal tides and high-frequency processes
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Can ENSO-related tidal modulations be explained using a barotropic tidal model?
Adam Devlin (Portland State University), Edward Zaron (Portland State University)
18
Interactions of Tides and Mesoscales in a High-Resolution Numerical Ocean Model
Edward Zaron (Portland State University)
19
Mapping Internal Tides using a data-assimilative reduced gravity model
Gary Egbert (Oregon State University), Lana Erofeeva (Oregon State University)
20
Evaluating uncertainties and multi-wave interference patterns in internal tides observed by satellite
altimetry
James Girton (University of Washington), Zhongxiang Zhao (University of Washington), Matthew
Alford (University of Washington)
21
Tidal modelling in the west coast of India
Laurent Testut (LEGOS/LIENSs), A.S. Unnikrishnan (NIO)
22
Analysis of the 58.77-days signal observed on the MSL derived from Jason and TOPEX data Lionel
Zawadzki (CLS, Space Oceanography Division), Michaël Ablain (CLS, Space Oceanography
Division), Loren Carrere (CLS, Space Oceanography Division), Nicolas Picot (CNES), Mathilde
Cancet (Noveltis), Florent Lyard (LEGOS), Joana Fernandes (Faculdade de Ciências, Universidade
do Porto), Richard Ray (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center)
23
Estimation of the amplitude and variability of internal tides on the global ocean thanks to multimission altimetry
Loren CARRERE (CLS), Mattias Raynal (CLS), Florent Lyard (LEGOS)
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Geographical and temporal variability of internal tides eigen-modes characteristics
Louis de Montera (LEGOS), Florent Lyard (LEGOS/CNRS), Ariane Koch-Larrouy (LEGOS/IRD), Nadia
Ayoub (LEGOS/CNRS)
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Internal Tides signature in frequency-wavenumber SSH spectra
Marion Orsztynowicz (LEGOS), Claire DUFAU (CLS), Loren CARRERE (CLS), Rosemary MORROW
(LEGOS), Gérald DIBARBOURE (CLS), Pierre-Yves LE TRAON (MERCATOR OCEAN)
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Case study on minor tides - modeling, computation or estimation?
Wolfgang Bosch (DGFI), Denise Dettmering (DGFI), Christian Schwatke (DGFI), Francesca Panzetta
(DGFI)
Regional and Global CAL/VAL for Assembling a Climate Data Record
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Comparison of sea-surface heights from altimetry and GNSS kinematic data offshore Vanuatu
Valerie Ballu (LIENSs/CNRS/ULR), Pierre Sakic (LIENSs/ULR), Stéphane Calmant (LEGOS/IRD),
Pierre Valty (IGN/LAREG), Pascal Bonnefond (OCA/GeoAzur), Marie-Noelle Bouin
(CNRM/MeteoFrance)
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Corsica: a multi-mission absolute calibration site
Pascal Bonnefond (OCA-GEOAZUR), Olivier Laurain (OCA-GEOAZUR), Pierre Exertier (OCAGEOAZUR), Thierry Guinle (CNES), Pierre Femenias (ESA/ESRIN)
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New technological development for CAL/VAL activities
MICHEL Calzas (CNRS), Cedric Brachet (CNRS), Christine Drezen (CNRS), Lionel Fichen (CNRS),
Christophe Guillerm (CNRS), Antoine Guillot (CNRS), Laurent Testut (LEGOS/LIENSs), Pascal
Bonnefond (OCA/Geoazur)
30
The new IOP and GOP Ocean Products from CryoSat-2
Paolo Cipollini (National Oceanography Centre), Helen Snaith (British Oceanographic Data Centre),
Jérôme Bouffard (ESA/ESRIN), Pierre Féménias (ESA/ESRIN), Tommaso Parrinello (ESA/ESRIN)
31
Sea level variations and topography of the Arcachon Bay using satellite altimetry
Frédéric Frappart (Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées), Alexandra Spodar (EPOC), Vincent Marieu (EPOC),
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Jean-Paul Parisot (EPOC), Hervé Deriennic (EPOC)
32
Absolute calibration of Jason-2 and Saral during the 2013 Ibiza calibration campaign
Frédéric Frappart (GET-OMP), Nicolas Roussel (GET-OMP), Richard Biancale (CNES), Juan José
Martinez Benjamin (UPC), Félix Perosanz (CNES), Jorge Garate Pasquin (ROA), José Martin Davila
(ROA), Begoña Perez Gomez (Puertos del Estado), Carlos Gracia Gomez (UPC), Rogelio Lopez Bravo
(UPC), Ana Tapia Gomez (UPC), José Antonio Gili Ripoll (UPC), Juan Carlos Gonzalez Gonzalez (UPC),
Mario Salazar Lino (Unviversity of Porto), Manuel Hernández-Pajares (UPC), M. Mercedes Sanz Conde
(UPC), Ignasi Berenguer Valles Casanova (UPC)
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Transponder calibration of the Cryosat-2 altimetric mission and the permanent altimeter calibration
site for the Sentinel-3 missions
Stelios Mertikas (Technical University of Crete), Tommaso Parrinello (European Space Agency,
ESRIN), Antonis Daskalakis (Space Geomatica Ltd.), Constantin Mavrocordatos (European Space
Agency, ESTEC), Marco Fornari (European Space Agency, ESTEC), Pierre Femenias (European
Space Agency, ESRIN)
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The Harvest Experiment: Toward a Seamless Multidecadal Altimeter Calibration Record
Bruce Haines (Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology), George Born (University of
Colorado), Shailen Desai (Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology), Rashmi Shah
(Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology)
35
Recent Cryosat-2 and SARAL calibration and validation results
Marc Naeije (TUDelft), Ernst Schrama (TUDelft), Remko Scharroo (Eumetsat)
36
Envisat ocean altimetry performance assessment. Update news of the historical dataset- getting
ready for future reprocessing
Annabelle OLLIVIER (CLS), Marielle Guibbaud (Eurogiciel), Stephanie Urien (CLS), Nicolas Picot
(CNES), Pierre Femenias (ESA)
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Tide Gauge Benchmark Monitoring - The IGS TIGA Project
Tilo Schöne (GFZ Potsdam), International GNSS Service (IGS) TIGA Working Group ()
38
Altimetry using Ku-band signals of opportunity
Rashmi Shah (Jet Propulsion Laboratory), Bruce Haines (Jet Propulsion Laboratory), James Garrison
(Purdue University)
39
CAL/VAL activities at Aix Island
Laurent Testut (LIENSs/LEGOS), Valérie Ballu (LIENSs), Belen Martin-Miguez (CETMAR)
40
Quality assessment of altimeter data through tide gauge comparisons
Guillaume Valladeau (CLS), Pierre PRANDI (CLS), Michael ABLAIN (CLS), Nicolas PICOT (CNES),
Jean-Damien DESJONQUERES (CNES)
41
Updated Results from the Australian In-Situ Calibration Sites: Bass Strait and Storm Bay
Christopher Watson (University of Tasmania), Neil White (CSIRO), John Church (CSIRO), Jack Beardsley
(University of Tasmania), Benoit Legresy (CSIRO), Matt King (University of Tasmania)
Science Results from Satellite Altimetry: Finer scale ocean processes (mesoscale and coastal)
42
Near-shore surface winds along the coast of Peru/Chile as derived from altimetry
Orlando Astudillo (LEGOS, Laboratoire d'Etudes en Géophysique et Océanographie Spatiales, Toulouse,
France - CEAZA, Center for Advanced Studies in Arid Zones, La Serena, Chile), Boris Dewitte (LEGOS,
Laboratoire d’Etudes en Géophysique et Océanographie Spatiales, Toulouse, France), Frédéric Frappart
(LEGOS, Laboratoire d’Etudes en Géophysique et Océanographie Spatiales, Toulouse, France), Marcel
Ramos (CEAZA, Center for Advanced Studies in Arid Zones, La Serena, Chile), Luis Bravo (CEAZA,
Center for Advanced Studies in Arid Zones, La Serena, Chile), Katerina Goubanova (LEGOS,
Laboratoire d’Etudes en Géophysique et Océanographie Spatiales, Toulouse, France), Jorge Vazquez
(JPL, Jet Propulsion Laboratory/California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, USA), José Rutllant
(Department of Geophysics, University of Chile, Santiago, Chile)
43
Toward variational assimilation of SARAL/Altika altimeter data in a North Atlantic circulation model at
eddy-permitting resolution: assessment of a NEMO-based 4D-VAR system
Pierre-Antoine Bouttier (OSUG/LGGE, CNRS), Jean-Michel Brankart (LGGE/CNRS), Guillem
Candille (LGGE/CNRS), Arthur Vidard (LJK/INRIA), Eric Blayo (LJK/Université de GrenobleAlpes), Jacques Verron (LGGE/CNRS), Pierre Brasseur (LGGE/CNRS)
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Ensemble assimilation of JASON/ENVISAT and JASON/AltiKA altimetric observations with
stochastic parameterization of the model dynamical uncertainties.
Guillem Candille (LGGE/CNRS), Pierre-Antoine Bouttier (OSUG - LGGE/CNRS), JeanMichel Brankart (LGGE/CNRS), Pierre Brasseur (LGGE/CNRS)
45
Mesoscale eddies in the South Atlantic Bight and the Gulf Stream Recirculation Region:
Vertical structure
Renato Castelao (University of Georgia)
46
Importance of characterising the dynamic circulation from altimetry to understand marine
ecosystems of Kerguelen
Cedric Cotte (Sorbonne Universités UPMC-CNRS-IRD-MNHN, LOCEAN), Francesco d'Ovidio
(Sorbonne Universités UPMC-CNRS-IRD-MNHN, LOCEAN), Christophe Guinet (CEBC-CNRS),
Nolwen Behagle (IRD, UMR Lemar), Gildas Roudaut (IRD, UMR Lemar), Patrice Brehmer (IRD,
UMR Lemar), Erwan Josse (IRD, UMR Lemar), Yves Cherel (CEBC-CNRS)
47
Lagrangian analysis of satellite altimetry
Francesco d'Ovidio (CNRS), Cedric Cotté (MNHN), Francesco Nencioli (MIO)
48
A novel Lagrangian index to compare altimetry products: insights from drifting floats and
animal tracking
Alice Della Penna (LOCEAN-IPSL/Univ Paris Cite'- Paris 7/IMAS), Silvia De Monte (Lab «
Ecology and Evolution», CNRS UMR 7625), Christophe Guinet (CEBC-CNRS), Francesco d
d'Ovidio (LOCEAN - IPSL, CNRS/UPMC/IRD/MNHN)
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Exploring the observability of high-resolution satellite altimetry with a regional model of the
Solomon Sea
Bughsin DJATH (LGGE, CNRS, Grenoble/LEGOS, IRD, Toulouse), Jacques VERRON
(LGGE, CNRS, Grenoble), Alexandre GANACHAUD (LEGOS, IRD, Toulouse), Lionel
GOURDEAU (LEGOS, IRD, Toulouse), Bernard BARNIER (LGGE, CNRS, Grenoble), JeanMarc MOLINES (LGGE, CNRS, Grenoble)
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Characterization of mesoscale eddies in the Western Mediterranean Sea: perspectives from
models and observations
Romain Escudier (IMEDEA-LGGE), Lionel Renault (UCLA), Ananda Pascual (IMEDEA (CSICUIB)), Pierre Brasseur (LGGE)
51
Mesoscale Features in Surface Currents
Kathleen Dohan (Earth and Space Research), Jonathan M. Lilly (NorthWest Research
Associates)
52
Impact of altimetric data assimilated in a eddy-permitting, coupled physical-biogeochemical
model of the North Atlantic ocean
Florent GARNIER (CNRS/UJF/LGGE, MEOM team), Guillem CANDILLE (CNRS/UJF/LGGE,
MEOM team), Pierre BRASSEUR (CNRS/UJF/LGGE, MEOM team), Jean-Michel BRANKART
(CNRS/UJF/LGGE, MEOM team), Jacques VERRON (CNRS/UJF/LGGE, MEOM team)
53
The Evolution of Phytoplankton Communities in Gulf Stream Meanders and Eddies
Peter Gaube (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution), Dennis McGillicuddy (Woods Hole
Oceanographic Institution)
54
Wavemill: a new mission for high-resolution mapping of total ocean surface current vectors
Christine Gommenginger (National Oceanography Centre), Adrien C.H. Martin (National
Oceanography Centre), Bertrand Chapron (Ifremer), Jose Marquez (Starlab), Byron Richards
(Airbus Defence & Space), Marco Caparrini (Starlab), Geoff Burbidge (Airbus Defence &
Space), David Cotton (Satellite Oceanographic Consultants Ltd)
55
Evaluating GNSS-Reflectometry for mesoscale ocean altimetry and ocean wind retrieval with GEROSISS, UK TechDemoSat-1 and CYGNSS.
Christine Gommenginger (National Oceanography Centre), Giuseppe Foti (National
Oceanography Centre), Jens Wickert (Helmholtz Centre Potsdam GFZ), Martin Unwin (Surrey
Satellite Technology Ltd)
56
Assimilation and statistical modelling of altimetry in a coastal storm surge forecast system
Kristine S. Madsen (DMI), Jacob L. Høyer (DMI), Weiwei Fu (University of California), Lars
Jonasson (DMI)
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On the sensitivity of the generalised linear Rossby wave theory to uncertainties in the
determination of the background mean flow: updated results
Angela Maharaj (Climate Change Research Centre and ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate
System Science), Chaehyeon Chelsea Nam (School of Earth and Environmental Sciences,
Seoul National University ), Remi Tailleux (Department of Meteorology, University of Reading)
58
Using satellite altimetry and Argo floats data to study the vertical structure of mesoscale eddies in
the four major Eastern Boundary Upwelling Systems
Cori Pegliasco (LEGOS), Alexis Chaigneau (Institut de Recherche pour le Développement),
Rosemary Morrow (Laboratoire d\'Etudes en Géophysique et Océanographie Spatiales), Yves
Morel (Laboratoire d\'Etudes en Géophysique et Océanographie Spatiales)
59
New release of Ssalto/DUACS products: 21 years of high resolution Sea Level products
reprocessed
Isabelle Pujol (CLS Space Oceanography Division), Yannice Faugere (CLS), Gerald Dibarboure
(CLS), Guillaume Taburet (CLS), Nicolas Picot (CNES), Emilie Bronner (CNES)
60
ODES (Online Data Extraction Service) for coastal studies
Vinca Rosmorduc (CLS), Florence Birol (Legos), Frederic Briol (CLS), Emilie Bronner (CNES),
Gerald Dibarboure (CLS), Thierry Guinle (CNES), Clara Nicolas (CNES), Fernando Nino
(Legos), Guillaume Valladeau (CLS)
61
Ocean current variability in the Sub-tropical North Atlantic in 2012-2013
Anna Sommer (LOCEAN/UPMC), Marie-Hélène Rio (CLS), Isabelle Pujol (CLS), Gilles
Reverdin (LOCEAN), Nicolas Kolodziejczyk (LOCEAN)
62
The Fate of Fresh Water from the La Plata River in the SW Atlantic: Synergistic Use of Altimeter
and Other Satellite Data with Model Fields
P Ted Strub (Oregon State University), Matano Ricardo (Oregon State University), James
Corinne (Oregon State University), Combes Vincent (Oregon State University)
63
A simulated study of the impact of wide-swath altimetry measurements on the quality of ocean
mesoscale features retrieved by 3DVar
Tsuyoshi Wakamatsu (Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology), Yoichi
Ishikawa (Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology), Yosuke Fujii
(Meteorological Research Institute), Norihisa Usui (Meteorological Research Institute), Kei
Sakamoto (Meteorological Research Institute), Tsurane Kuragano (Meteorological Research
Institute), Masafumi Kamachi (Meteorological Research Institute), Osamu Isoguchi (Remote
Sensing Technology Center of Japan), JAXA COMPIRA team (Japan Aerospace Exploration
Agency)
64
Perspectives of the counter-wind current in the northern South China Sea in winter by
assimilative modelling
Jiping Xie (Nansen Environmental and Remote Sensing Center), Jiang Zhu (Institute of
Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences), Laurent Bertino (Mohn Sverdrup Center,
Nansen Environmental and Remote Sensing Center), Francois Counillon (Mohn Sverdrup
Center, Nansen Environmental and Remote Sensing Center)
65
Estimates of near-surface coastal currents from along-track altimeter data: a case study in the South
Atlantic Bight
Yeping Yuan (University of Georgia), Renato Castelao (University of Georgia)
Science Results from Satellite Altimetry: Regional and basin-scale processes and sea level rise
66
Empirical wind-driven models of sea surface height and their use for reconstructing sea
surface height fields from incomplete data
Alexey Kaplan (LDEO of Columbia University)
67
Assessment of the 20th century global mean sea level rise in CMIP5 historical runs using
observations
Angelique Melet (LEGOS / CNES), Benoit Meyssignac (LEGOS), Robin Chevrier (LEGOS), Xavier
Fettweis (Université de Liège), Marzeion Ben (Innsbruck University), Elsa Bourgeois (LEGOS), Anny
Cazenave (LEGOS), David Salas y Mélia (CNRM-GAME)
68
Impact of recent mass flux and revised time variable gravity realizations on regional
geocentric sea level estimates
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Brian Beckley (SGT Inc./NASA GSFC), Frank Lemoine (NASA GSFC), Nikita Zelensky (SGT
Inc.), Xu Yang (SGT Inc.), Richard Ray (NASA GSFC), Gary Mitchum (University of South
Florida), Martina Ricko (SGT Inc.), Scott Luthcke (NASA GSFC)
69
On the internal and external forcing of sea level variability in the Black Sea
Denis Volkov (CIMAS/University of Miami/NOAA-AOML), Felix Landerer (Jet Propulsion
Laboratory, California Institute of Technology)
70
Global sea level reconstructions from tide gauge and satellite altimetry data
Francisco M. Calafat (National Oceanography Centre, UK), Michael N. Tsimplis (National
Oceanography Centre, UK), Don P. Chambers (College of Marine Science, University of South
Florida)
71
Variability of the ACC transport across the Kerguelen plateau from current meter data and
altimetry: relation with the wind forcing.
Frederic Vivier (CNRS/ LOCEAN-IPSL), Young-Hyang Park (MNHN / LOCEAN-IPSL), Wilbert
Weijer (Los Alamos National Laboratory), Julien Le Sommer (CNRS / MEOM-LGGE), Hela Sekma
(LEGOS)
72
Upper Ocean Dynamics and Air-Sea Interaction drivers of the North Pacific Decadal
Variability
Gary Lagerloef (Earth & Space Research), Scott Springer (Earth & Space Research)
73
Analyzing the freshwater balance over the subtropical North Atlantic domain using OSCAR
satellite surface currents, Aquarius satellite salinity, SPURS field measurements, and some
simplified approaches
Gary Lagerloef (Earth & Space Research), Hsun-Ying Kao (Earth & Space Research),
Kathleen Dohan (Earth & Space Research)
Low-frequency variability of Western Boundary Currents in the turbulent ocean: intrinsic
modes and atmospheric forcing
Guillaume Sérazin (CNRS-LGGE/CERFACS), Thierry Penduff (CNRS-LGGE), Laurent Terray
(CNRS-CERFACS), Sandy Grégorio (CNRS-LGGE), Bernard Barnier (CNRS-LGGE), Jean-Marc
Molines (CNRS-LGGE)
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Spatial and temporal variability of the South Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation
Gustavo Jorge Goni (NOAA/AOML), Shenfu Dong (University of Miami CIMAS and NOAA AOML),
Francis Bringas (NOAA/AOML)
76
Sea level budget over the GRACE and Argo era : can we constrain the deep ocean
contribution?
Habib B. Dieng (LEGOS-CNES), Anny Cazenave (LEGOS-CNES), Hindumathi Palanisamy
(LEGOS-CNES), Benoit Meyssignac (LEGOS-CNES)
77
Detection/attribution studies on the regional sea level variability during the 20th and 21st century in
the Pacific Ocean
Hindumathi Palanisamy (CNES-LEGOS), Anny Cazenave (CNES-LEGOS), Benoit Meyssignac
(CNES-LEGOS), Robin Chevrier (CNES-LEGOS), Thierry Delcroix (IRD-LEGOS)
78
Analysis of large southern icebergs using altimeter waveforms
Jean Tournadre (IFREMER), Frédérique Rémy (CNRS LEGOS), Fanny Girard-Ardhuin (IFREMER),
Nicolas Bouhier (IFREMER)
79
A wave investigation in the tropical Atlantic Ocean using satellite altimetry data and Hilbert transform
based methods
Jean Luc Mélice (LOCEAN UMR CNRS/IRD/UPMC/MNHN), Sabine Arnault (LOCEAN UMR
CNRS/IRD/UPMC/MNHN)
80
Sea level variations since 1900 derived from altimertry and tide gauges
Jens Schroeter (Alfred-Wegener-Institute), Manfred Wenzel (Alfred-Wegener-Institute)
81
Meridional Heat and Salinity Transport Anomalies in the Atlantic Ocean
Kathryn Kelly (University of Washington)
82
Using sea level to probe ocean-atmosphere interactions in the North Atlantic
LuAnne Thompson (University of Washington)
83
Regional Sea Level Rise in the North Sea
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Luciana Fenoglio-Marc (Technische Universität Darmstadt), S. Dangendorf (University Siegen), M.
Becker (TU Darmstadt), J. Jensen (University Siegen), T. Wahl (University Siegen)
84
Estimating the velocity and transport of Western Boundary Current Systems
Nathalie Zilberman (Scripps Institution of Oceanography), Dean Roemmich (Scripps Institution of
Oceanography), Sarah Gille (Scripps Institution of Oceanography)
85
Meridional asymmetry in rates of sea level change from altimetry
Philip Thompson (University of Hawaii), Mark Merrifield (University of Hawaii)
86
Response of the CNRM-CM5 coupled model to an enhanced Greenland fresh water flux
Philippe Rogel (URA1875/CERFACS/CNRS), Mathieu Hamon (Mercator-Ocean)
87
Absolute sea-level rise along coastal Bangladesh
Pierre Valty (IGN France), Valérie Ballu (laboratoire LIENSS, Université de la Rochelle), Stéphane
Calmant (LEGOS/IRD), Laurent Testut (LIENSS, Université de la Rochelle), CK Shum (Ohio State
University), Steven Tseng (Ohio State University)
88
Expectations for the Evolution of Global Mean Sea Level During the 2014-2015 El Niño Event
Robert Steven Nerem (University of Colorado), C. Boening (), B. Hamlington (), J. Fasullo ()
F. Landerer (), M. Merrifield (), G. Mitchum (), J. Willis ()
89
Regional Variability of the 20th century sea level rise from Ocean-Atmosphere Coupled Climate
Models
Robin Chevrier (CNES/LEGOS), Benoit Meyssignac (LEGOS/CNES), Xavier Fettweis (Liege
University), Ben Marzeion (Innsbruck University), Giorgio Spada (Urbino University), Elsa Bourgeois
(CNES/LEGOS), Angelique Melet (LEGOS/CNES), Anny Cazenave (LEGOS/CNES)
90
Yearly Mean Distribution of Sea Levels in the North Sea Since 1900
Saskia Esselborn (GFZ, Helmholtz-Centre Potsdam), Frauke Albrecht (Center for Climate and
Resilience Research (CR2), University of Concepción), Tilo Schöne (GFZ
Helmholtz-Centre Potsdam), Zhiguo Deng (GFZ, Helmholtz-Centre Potsdam)
91
Sea Level Variations in the North Atlantic During the Last Decade
Saskia Esselborn (GFZ, Helmholtz-Centre Potsdam), Tilo Schöne (GFZ, Helmholtz-Centre
Potsdam)
92
Wind-Forced versus Eddy-Driven Regional Sea Level Rise in the North Pacific Ocean Shuiming
Chen (University of Hawaii at Manoa), Bo Qiu (University of Hawaii at Manoa), Shinichiro Kida
(Application Laboratory, JAMSTEC)
93
Warming of subsurface waters of the subtropical North Atlantic Ocean
Sirpa Hakkinen (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center)
94
A new Green function approach to the 3D from 2D problem
Remi Tailleux (UNIVERSITY OF READING)
95
Eddy-driven low-frequency variability: physics and observability through altimetry
Thierry Penduff (CNRS - LGGE), Guillaume Sérazin (LGGE (Grenoble) and CERFACS (Toulouse)),
Brian Arbic (Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor,
Michigan), Malte Mueller (University of Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia), James G. Richman
(Oceanography Division, Naval Research Laboratory, Stennis Space Center, Mississippi), Jay F.
Shriver (Oceanography Division, Naval Research Laboratory, Stennis Space Center, Mississippi),
Andrew J. Morten (Department of Physics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan), Robert B.
Scott (Institute for Geophysics, Jackson School of Geosciences, The University of Texas at Austin)
96
Intrinsic low-frequency (co)variability of SLA, MOC, and SST: impacts of mesoscale turbulence
and wind forcing.
Thierry Huck (LPO - UBO, Brest), Olivier Arzel (LPO - UBO, Brest), Florian Sévellec (NOCS,
Southampton), Thierry Penduff (CNRS - LGGE)
97
Seasonal and Interannual Variations of the European Slope Current
Weidong Xu (Plymouth Marine Laboratory), Peter Miller (PML), Graham Quartly (PML), Robin
Pingree (PML)
98
Deep ocean contributions to sea level rise and Earth's energy budget
William LLOVEL (JPL/NASA/UCLA), Josh WILLIS (JPL/NASA), Felix LANDERER (JPL/NASA),
Ichiro FUKUMORI (JPL/NASA)
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Wind stress and heat flux contributions to decadal temperature changes and sea level on the North
Atlantic ocean over 1993-2011 based on ECCO solutions and its adjoint
William LLOVEL (JPL/NASA/UCLA), Ichiro Fukumori (JPL/NASA), Ou Wang (JPL/NASA), Ian Fenty
(JPL/NASA), Gael Forget (MIT)
100
Multidecadal regional sea level shifts in the Pacific
Y. Tony Song (JPL/NASA), J.-H. Moon (JPL/NASA), P. D. Bromirski (SIO/UCSD), A. J. Miller
(SIO/UCSD)
Instrument Processing: Corrections
101
Relation of AltiKa Sigma0, Wave Height, and Rain Flag to ECMWF Wind Speed
Alex Wineteer (NASA/JPL-Caltech), Philip Callahan (NASA/JPL-Caltech)
102
SARAL/ALTIKA wet tropospheric correction: retrieval stategies and performances
Bruno PICARD (CLS), Marie-Laure Fréry (CLS), Estelle Obligis (CLS), Laurence Eymard (IPSL),
Nathalie Steunou (CNES), Nicolas Picot (CNES)
103
Microwave radiometer aboard SARAL/ALtiKa : Correction of 37GHz channel
Marie-Laure Frery (CLS), Bruno Picard (CLS), Estelle Obligis (CLS), Nathalie Steunou (CNES),
Christophe Goldstein (CNES), Nicolas Picot (CNES)
104
The REAPER project: Bringing ERS Altimetry data set to ENVISAT standards
Pierre Femenias (ESA), Steve Baker (MSSL), David James Brokley (MSSL), Mònica Roca (isardSAT),
Remko Scharroo (Eumetsat), François Soulat (CLS), Peggy Fischer (ESA), Frédéric Paul (Ifremer)
Instrument Processing: Measurement and retracking (SAR and LRM)
105
DIODE/DEM (OLTC) tracking mode performances over inland waters.
Mathilde Cancet (NOVELTIS), Sandrine Bijac (NOVELTIS), Emmanuel Augé (NOVELTIS), Eric Jeansou
(NOVELTIS), François Boy (CNES), Jean-Damien Desjonquères (CNES), Nicolas Picot (CNES)
106
Validation of Open-Sea CRYOSAT-2 20 Hz Data in SAR Mode in the German Bight Area from 2010
to 2014
Salvatore Dinardo (SERCO/ESRIN), Luciana Fenoglio (TU Darmstadt), Remko Scharroo
(EUMETSAT), Bruno Lucas (DEIMOS/ESRIN), Matthias Becker (TU Darmstadt), Jerome Benveniste
(ESA/ESRIN)
107
SAR Altimetry at 80 Hz
Salvatore Dinardo (SERCO/ESRIN), Bruno Lucas (DEIMOS/ESRIN), Jerome Benveniste (ESA/ESRIN)
108
A Fully Analytical SAR Altimetry Retracker for the Estimation of Geophysical Parameters
Alejandro Egido (Starlab Barcelona S.L.), Chris Ray (Starlab Barcelona S.L.), Salvatore Dinardo
(SERCO-ESA), Marco Caparrini (Starlab Barcelona S.L.), Bruno Manuel Lucas (DEIMOS-ESA), David
Cotton (Satoc), Benveniste Jerome (ESA)
109
Sentinel-6 (Jason-CS) Poseidon4: Test data examples for Users
Marco Fornari (ESA/ESTEC), Rob Cullen (ESA/ESTEC), Monica Roca (isardSAT)
110
SAR altimetry over the ocean and the coastal zone: the new frontier
Christine Gommenginger (National Oceanography Centre), Salvatore Dinardo (SERCO, ESA/ESRIN),
Paolo Cipollini (National Oceanography Centre), Helen Snaith (National Oceanography Centre), David
Cotton (SatOC Ltd), Jérôme Benveniste (ESA)
111
State of Knowledge for SAR altimetry over ocean & the case for Interleaved SAR altimetry on Jason-CS
Christine Gommenginger (National Oceanography Centre), R. Keith Raney (2kR-LLC), Cristina MartinPuig (isardSAT), Laiba Amarouche (Collecte Localisation Satellites), Hans Bonekamp (EUMETSAT)
112
Jason-2 POSEIDON3 DIODE/DEM tracking mode performance impact over oceans and coastal
areas
Cristina Martin-Puig (isardSAT CAT / NOAA Laboratory for Satellite Altimetry), Eric Leuliette (NOAA
Laboratory for Satellite Altimetry ), John Lillibridge (NOAA Laboratory for Satellite Altimetry )
113
Assessment of innovative algorithms for CryoSat-2 in the frame of the CP4O project
Thomas MOREAU (CLS), Sylvie LABROUE (CLS), Matthias RAYNAL (CLS), François BOY (CNES),
Nicolas PICOT (CNES), Abderrahim HALIMI (ENSEEIHT), David COTTON (SATOC), Christine
GOMMENGINGER (NOC), Alejandro EGIDO (STARLAB), Remko SCHARROO (EUMETSAT), Salvatore
DINARDO (SERCO/ESRIN), Bruno Manuel LUCAS (DEIMOS/ESRIN), Jérôme BENVENISTE (ESA)
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Impact of the oversampling method on the radar altimeter estimates
Thomas MOREAU (CLS), Pierre THIBAUT (CLS), Jérémie AUBLANC (CLS), François BOY (CNES),
Nicolas PICOT (CNES)
115
A new multi-look methodology for SAR altimetry
Chris Ray (Saint Mary's College and isardSAT), Mònica Roca (isardSAT), Cristina Martin-Puig
(isardSAT), Albert Garcia (isardSAT), Roger Escola (isardSAT)
116
Validation of Jason-2 coastal retrackers using high frequency radar surface currents on the US west
coast
Carolyn Roesler (University of Colorado at Boulder), William Emery (University of Colorado at
Boulder), Robert Leben (University of Colorado at Boulder)
117
On the performance of CryoSat-2 SAR and LR mode over inland water bodies
Shirzad Roohi (Universität Stuttgart, Geodätisches Institut), Nico Sneeuw ( Universität Stuttgart,
Geodätisches Institut )
118
CryoSat Level1b SAR/SARin: quality improvements towards BaselineC
Michele Scagliola (Aresys), Marco Fornari (ESA-ESTEC), Nicolas Tagliani (Aresys), Andrea Di
Giacinto (Aresys), Tommaso Parrinello (ESA-ESRIN)
119
Sentinel-3 Topography Mission Readiness
Bernd Seitz (ESA), Constantin Mavrocordatos (ESA)
120
Waveform retracking for improving altimetry results over African lakes
Bernd Uebbing (University of Bonn, Institute of Geodesy and Geoinformation), Ehsan Forootan
(University of Bonn, Institute of Geodesy and Geoinformation), Jürgen Kusche (University of
Bonn, Institute of Geodesy and Geoinformation)
121
CryoSat-2 multiple waveform retracking over inland waters
Heidi Villadsen (DTU Space), Ole B. Andersen (DTU Space), Lars Stenseng (DTU Space),
Karina Nielsen (DTU Space), Per Knudsen (DTU Space)
Science Results from Satellite Altimetry: Inland waters (multi-mission and long-term monitoring)
122
Altimetry over the Madagascar rivers
Johary AMDRIAMBELSON (LGET-IOGA + LEGOS), S. RAKATONDRAOMPIANA
(LGET-IOGA), Stéphane calmant (IRD), Adrien PARIS (affiliation)
123
A scheme proposal for real time coherence tests of river water level derived from satellite
altimetry
Nicolas Bercher (LEGOS/CNRS), Stephane Calmant (LEGOS/IRD)
124
Comparison of Jason-2/OSTM, SARAL, and ICESat-1 instrument performance with
relevance to research/operational programs focussed on continental waters.
Charon Birkett (University of Maryland), Bjerklie David (USGS), Carabajal Claudia (SGT at
NASA/GSFC), Beckley Brian (SGT at NASA/GSFC), Yang Xu (Hunter) (SGT at NASA/GSFC),
Reynolds Curt (USDA/FAS/OGA)
125
MAPS: the Multi-mission Altimetry Processing Software
Frédéric Frappart (GET-OMP), Marieu Vincent (EPOC-OASU), Calmant Stéphane
(LEGOS-OMP), Seyler Frédérique (US ESPACE-DEV)
126
Hdrodynamical modelling of the spatial and temporal variations of the surface slope gained by
satellite altimetry along the Xingu river
Pierre-André GARAMBOIS (LEGOS), Stéphane CALMANT (IRD), Jérome MONNIER (INSA),
Joécila SANTOS da SILVA (UEA), Adrien PARIS (LEGOS), Rodrigo PAIVA (OSU), Sylvain
BIANCAMARIA (CNRS)
127
Climate Monitoring and Modeling Lake and Reservoir Level
Ricko Martina (SGT, Inc.), Charon Birkett (University of Maryland), Jean-François Crétaux
(LEGOS), James Carton (University of Maryland), Brian Beckley (SGT, Inc.), Xu Yang (SGT, Inc.)
128
AltiHydroLab.fr: A new venture project about hydrology and rivers monitoring from space!
Nicolas Bercher (LEGOS/CNRS)
129
Recent developments in Hydroweb database
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Jean-Francois Cretaux (Legos, CNES), adalbert Arsen (Legos), Marie-Claude Gennero (legos CNES),
Muriel Berge-Nguyen (Legos, CNES), Philippe Maisongrande (legos, CNES)
130
Distributed rating curves in the Amazon bassin
Adrien PARIS (LEGOS), Rodrigo PAIVA (OSU), Joécila SANTOS da SILVA (UEA), Stéphane
CALMANT (IRD), Walter COLLISCHONN (UFRGS), Sisouvanh KITTAVONG (LEGOS),
Marie-Paule BONNET (IRD), Frédérique SEYLER (IRD)
131
ODES (Online Data Extraction Service) for hydrology
Vinca Rosmorduc (CLS), Florence Birol (Legos), Frederic Briol (CLS), Emilie Bronner (CNES),
Gerald Dibarboure (CLS), Thierry Guinle (CNES), Clara Nicolas (CNES), Fernando Nino (Legos),
Guillaume Valladeau (CLS)
132
Detection of flood events from CryoSat-2 altimetry
Heidi Villadsen (DTU Space, Technical University of Denmark), Karina Nielsen (DTU Space,
Technical University of Denmark), Ole B. Andersen (DTU Space, Technical University of
Denmark), Lars Stenseng (DTU Space, Technical University of Denmark), Per Knudsen (DTU
Space, Technical University of Denmark)
133
Time series over the Brahmaputra and Ganges rivers from Envisat, CryoSat-2 and
SARAL/AltiKa altimetry
Heidi Villadsen (DTU Space, Technical University of Denmark), Ole B. Andersen (DTU Space,
Technical University of Denmark), Lars Stenseng (DTU Space, Technical University of Denmark),
Karina Nielsen (DTU Space, Technical University of Denmark), Per Knudsen (DTU Space,
Technical University of Denmark)
134
Database for Hydrological Time Series of Inland Waters (DAHITI)
Christian Schwatke (Deutsches Geodätisches Forschungsinstitut (DGFI)), Denise Dettmering
(DGFI), Wolfgang Bosch (DGFI), Franziska Göttl (DGFI), Eva Börgens (DGFI)
135
High resolution river surface roughness characterization for neart-nadir Ka band
interferometry CAL/VAL
Jean Negrel (LEGOS/CNRS), Jean-Francois Cretaux (LEGOS/CNES), Stéphane Calmant
(LEGOS/IRD)
Outreach, Education and Altimetric Data Services
136
NASA and NOAA Collaborative Altimetric Data Information and Access Webpage
Jessica Hausman (JPL), Yongsheng Zhang (University of Maryland NODC-CIES/ESSIC), Deirdre Byrne
(NOAA NODC)
137
Satellite Altimeter Demonstration Experiments for Outreach and Education
Bob Leben (University of Colorado Boulder), Justus Leben (Colorado Center for Astrodynamics
Research), Ben Hamlington (Old Dominion University)
138
Sentinel-3 SAR Altimetry Toolbox - Scientific Exploitation of Operational Missions (SEOM) Program
Element
Bruno Lucas (Deimos (ESRIN)), Jérôme Benveniste (European Space Agency), Salvatore Dinardo
(Serco/ESRIN)
139
AVISO+, the new reference web portal for altimetry
Vinca Rosmorduc (CLS), Florence Birol (Legos), Emilie Bronner (CNES), Thierry Guinle (CNES),
Rosemary Morrow (Legos), Fernando Nino (Legos)
140
Aviso products & services: what's new?
Vinca Rosmorduc (CLS), Emilie Bronner (CNES), Caroline Maheu (Akka), Francoise Mertz (CLS)
141
OpenADB: An Open Altimeter Database providing high-quality altimeter data and products
Christian Schwatke (Deutsches Geodätisches Forschungsinstitut (DGFI)), Denise Dettmering (Deutsches
Geodätisches Forschungsinstitut (DGFI)), Wolfgang Bosch (DGFI), Franziska Göttl (DGFI), Eva Börgens
(DGFI)
142
SWOT in the GLOBE Program: Hydrology science in the classroom
Margaret Srinivasan (Caltech Jet Propulsion Laboratory), Danielle DeStaerke (CNES), Dixon Butler
(GLOBE Program), Tamlin Pavelsky (University of North Carolina)
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CTOH altimetry products (L1 to L4) for ocean and continental surfaces applications
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Sara Fleury (LEGOS), Florence Birol (LEGOS), Denis Blumstein (LEGOS), Fernando Niño (LEGOS),
Nicolas Fuller (LEGOS), Marine Rogé (LEGOS), Rosemary Morrow (LEGOS), Fabien Blarel (LEGOS),
Benoit Legresy (LEGOS), Frédéric Frappart (LEGOS)
The Geoid, Mean Sea Surfaces and Mean Dynamic Topography
143
Validating space-based time-variable dynamic ocean topography by surface currents observed
by ARGO floats and surface drifters
Wolfgang Bosch (DGFI), Felix Müller (DGFI), Denise Dettmering (DGFI), Christian Schwatke (DGFI)
144
Improving the geoid: Combining altimetry and mean dynamic topography in the California Coastal
Ocean
Sarah Gille (Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego), Matthew Mazloff (Scripps Institution of
Oceanography, UC San Diego), Bruce Cornuelle (Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego)
145
Combining a Global GOCE Derived MDT with In-situ Observation for Regional Enhancement of the
Mean Dynamic Topography.
Per Knudsen (DTU Space), Ole Andersen (DTU Space)
146
GOCE User Toolbox and Tutorial
Per Knudsen (DTU Space), Jerome Benveniste (ESA/ESRIN)
147
Southern Ocean Velocity and Geostrophic Transport Fields Estimated by Combining Jason Altimetry
and Argo Data
Michael Kosempa (University of South Florida), Don Chambers (University of South Florida)
148
Assessment of the Dynamic Topographies in the Arctic Ocean by comparing different methods
(direct versus classical method)
Sandrine MULET (CLS), Marie-Hélène RIO (CLS), Yannice FAUGERE (CLS)
149
Potential use of HF radar and SAR velocities for regional High Resolution Mean Dynamic
Topography Estimation
Marie-Helene Rio (CLS), Claire Dufau (CLS), Romain Husson (CLS), John Wilkin (Institute of Marine and
Coastal Sciences, Rutgers), Alexis Mouche (Ifremer), Emilie Bronner (CNES)
150
New Global Marine Gravity from CryoSat-2 and Jason-1 Reveals Buried Tectonic Structure
David Sandwell (Scripps Institution of Oceanography), Dietmar Müller (The University of Sydney), Walter,
H. F. Smith (NOAA Laboratory for Satellite Altimetry), Emannuel Garcia (Scripps Institution of
Oceanography), Richard Francis (ESA/ESTEC)
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Seasonal variations of the geostrophic ocean surface circulation inferred from the
combination of altimetry and GOCE data
Isabel Vigo (Universidad de Alicante), Jose M. Sanchez-Reales (Universidad de Alicante), Mario Trottini
(Universidad de Alicante)
Quantifying Errors and Uncertainties in Altimetry data
152
Confidence envelop of the global MSL time series deduced from TOPEX, Jason-1 and Jason-2
altimeter missions.
Michaël ABLAIN (CLS), Lionel Zawadzki (CLS)
153
Using the Radon Transform to detect anisotropic error sources
Gerald Dibarboure (CLS), Jean-Christophe Poisson (CLS)
154
Improving altimetry in the Arctic
Graham Quartly (Plymouth Marine Laboratory), Diane Knappett (PML), Andrey Kurekin (PML)
155
Sea level response to pressure and wind forcing in a shallow estuary: Validation of two barotropic
models with tide gauge and altimetry data
Laura Ruiz Etcheverry (CIMA/CONICET-UBA), Martin Saraceno (CIMA/CONICET-UBA)
156
Sea Level ECV quality assessment via global Ocean model assimilation
Martin Scharffenberg (CEN - IFM Hamburg), Detlef Stammer (CEN - IFM Hamburg)
157
A Statistical Simulation Model for Global Mean Sea Level from Altimetry and Tide Gauge
Reconstructions
Yingli Zhu (University of South Florida), Gary T. Mitchum (University of South Florida), Don Chambers
(University of South Florida), Benjamin Hamlington (University of Colorado), Mark Merrifield (University of
Hawaii), R. Steven Nerem (University of Colorado), Philip Thompson (University of Hawaii)
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Impact of present and future altimetric missions on ocean forecasts
Simon Verrier (Mercator-Ocean), Elisabeth Remy (Mercator-Ocean), Pierre-Yves Le Traon (MercatorOcean)
Others (poster only)
159
SENTINEL-3 STM Payload Data Ground Segment (PDGS) Overview
Pierre Féménias (ESA), Carolina Nogiuera Loddo (EUMETSAT), Alessandra Buongiorno (ESA), Hilary
Wilson (EUMETSAT), Vincenzo Santacesaria (EUMETSAT), Roberto Sciarra (ESA)
160
Reconstruction of Sea Salinity Profiles from surface parameters in the tropical Atlantic using Neural
Networks.
M'Baye Gueye (LTI/ESP), Sabine Arnault (LOCEAN UMR CNRS/IRD/UPMC/MNHN), Awa Niang
(LTI/ESP), Sylvie Thiria (LOCEAN UMR CNRS/IRD/UPMC/MNHN)
161
Evaluation of ARGO network for monitoring eddies using space-time correlation scale statistically
estimated from 20-year SLA data
Tsurane Kuragano (Meteorological Research Institute), Yosuke Fujii (Meteorological Research
Institute), Masafumi Kamachi (Meteorological Research Institute)
162
ERS2-ENVISAT cross-validation during the tandem phase
Benoit LEGRESY (LEGOS-CNRS), Fabien BLAREL (LEGOS-CNRS), Fernando NIÑO (LEGOSIRD)
163
Envisat and Icesat comparison over the Antarctic ice sheet :
Aurélie Michel (CNES/CLS/LEGOS)
164
A new ERS2 level 2 product at CTOH
Fernando NIÑO (LEGOS-IRD), Fabien BLAREL (LEGOS-CNRS), Benoit LEGRESY (LEGOSCNRS), Sara FLEURY (LEGOS-CNRS)
165
Sentinel-3 Surface Topography Mission (STM) User Data Products
Carolina Nogueira Loddo (EUMETSAT), Remko Scharroo (EUMETSAT), Hilary Wilson
(EUMETSAT), Laiba Amarouche (CLS), Philippe Sicard (CLS), Pierre Féménias (ESA), Alessandra
Buongiorno (ESA)
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GGOS Theme 3: Understanding and Forecasting Sea-Level Rise and Variability
Tilo Schöne (GFZ Potsdam), CK Shum (Division of Geodetic Science, School of Earth Sciences, Ohio),
Mark Tamisiea (National Oceanography Centre, Liverpool), Phil Woodworth (National Oceanography
Centre, Liverpool)
167
SMALT - soil moisture from Altimetry
Richard Smith (EAPRS laboratory), Mark Salloway (EAPRS Laboratory), Philippa Berry (University of
Newcastle Upon Tyne), Wolfgang Wagner (TUWien), Sebastian Hahn (TUWien), Alejandro Egibo
(STARLAB), Bruno Manuel Lucas (ESA/DEIMOS), Salvatore Dinardo (ESA/SERCO), Jerome
Benveniste (ESA ESRIN)
168
Current Status of the Japanese Altimetry Mission, COMPIRA
Akihisa Uematsu (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA)), Norimasa Ito (Japan Aerospace
Exploration Agency (JAXA)), JAXA COMPIRA team (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency
(JAXA))
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Wave frequency estimation under low-wind conditions
Xi Feng Wang (ESST, Kyushu University), Kaoru Ichikawa (RIAM, Kyushu University)
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