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 ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● 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) 1 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) 2 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 3 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 4 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) 5 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 6 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 7 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) 8 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 9 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) 10 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) 11 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 12 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 13 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 1 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) 2 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) 5 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) 6 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) 7 NOAA's Jason-2/OSTM Products David Donahue (NOAA/NESDIS), John Lillibridge (NOAA/NESDIS), Yongsheng Zhang (NOAA), Donald Richardson (SSAI), Abraham Yuk (SSAI) 8 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) 9 Characterisation of current NRT altimetry applications Julia Figa-Saldana (EUMETSAT), Hans Bonekamp (EUMETSAT), John Lillibridge (NOAA), Remko Scharroo (EUMETSAT) 10 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) 11 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) 15 Altimeter products for the Sentinel-6/Jason-CS mission Remko Scharroo (EUMETSAT), Hans Bonekamp (EUMETSAT), Christelle Ponsard (EUMETSAT), Carolina Nogueira Loddo (EUMETSAT) 14 16 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 17 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) 24 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) 25 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) 26 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 27 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) 28 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) 29 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), 15 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) 33 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) 34 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) 37 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) 16 44 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) 49 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) 50 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) 17 57 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 18 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) 74 75 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 19 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) 20 99 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) 21 114 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 22 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) 142a CTOH altimetry products (L1 to L4) for ocean and continental surfaces applications 23 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) 151 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) 24 158 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) 166 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)) 169 Wave frequency estimation under low-wind conditions Xi Feng Wang (ESST, Kyushu University), Kaoru Ichikawa (RIAM, Kyushu University) 25