Technical issues in coastal altimetry, both for conventional and SAR modes, such as: progress on waveform modelling and retracking, Sea State Bias correction in coastal regions, improvements in other corrections, performance assessment of coastal altimetry, calibration and validation of coastal altimetry data and intercalibration amongst various missions.

Applications of coastal altimetry data, both for conventional and SAR modes, alone or in combination with other data and/or models. This includes the use of data from the various data providers and/or reprocessing initiatives such as CTOH,  ALES, REAPER, PEACHI, SARvatore and others. Possible applications comprise coastal sea level variations, coastal currents, coastal wave field, storm surge research, assimilation of data in coastal models and surge models. 

Synergistic and climate studies. Studies addressing the synergies of coastal altimetry with in situ, model and other satellite data (like SAR, SST, ocean colour) and the integration of coastal altimeter data into coastal observing systems, as well as those looking at climate-scale variations of sea level and sea state in the coastal zone, such as in the ESA Sea Level and Sea State Climate Change initiative, are particularly welcome.

The Workshop will take place on 13-15 June and will be preceded by a one-day Coastal Altimetry Training course on 12 June.