Oral Sessions

Friday, September 28 2018

Lagoa Das 7 Cidades

09:00-10:30

Application Development for Operations

Session chairs:

Gerald Dibarboure, Gregg Jacobs, Carolina Nogueira Loddo, Joseph Sienkiewicz

09:00-09:15

Sentinel-3 and Jason-3 NRT Wind and Wave Products: Assessment and Assimilation

Saleh Abdalla (ECMWF, United Kingdom)

09:15-09:30

Significant Wave Height in the Subpolar Seas of the Arctic:  Satellite Radar Altimeter Observations spanning Two Decades

Kyle Duncan (University of Maryland, United States), John Kuhn (NOAA, United States), Sinead Farrell (University of Maryland, United States)

09:30-09:45

Pathways, impacts and fate of marine debris generated by the 2011 tsunami in Japan, derived from a synthesis of numerical models and observational reports

Nikolai Maximenko (IPRC/SOEST, University of Hawaii, United States), Jan Hafner (IPRC/SOEST, University of Hawaii, United States), Masafumi Kamachi (Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, Japan), Amy MacFadyen (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, United States)

09:45-10:00

New Level-3 and Level-4 near-real-time wave products derived from altimetry and SAR

Elodie Charles (CLS, France), Romain Husson (CLS, France), Nicolas Taburet (CLS, France), Alexis Mouche (IFREMER, France)

10:00-10:15

Near-Real Time monitoring of Water Surface Height for inland waters

Lionel Zawadzki (CLS, France), Jean-François Crétaux (LEGOS/CNES, France), Philippe Pacholczyk (CNES, France), Nicolas Taburet (CLS, France), Maxime Vayre (CLS, France), Rémi Jugier (CLS, France), Adrien Paris (CLS, France)

10:15-10:30

Discussion

Teatro Auditorium

09:00-12:30

Regional and Global CAL/VAL for Assembling a Climate Data Record

Session chairs:

Pascal Bonnefond, Shailen Desai, Bruce Haines, Eric Leuliette, Nicolas Picot

09:00-09:15

The Harvest Experiment: Updates from the Platform and Regional Campaigns

Bruce Haines (Jet Propulsion Laboratory, United States), Shailen Desai (Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, United States), Christian Meinig (NOAA Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory, United States), Scott Stalin (NOAA Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory, United States)

09:15-09:30

Absolute altimeter bias results from Bass Strait, Australia

Christopher Watson (University of Tasmania, Australia), Benoit Legresy (CSIRO, Australia), Jack Beardsley (Integrated Marine Observing System, Australia), Matt King (University of Tasmania, Australia)

09:30-09:45

Transponder and Sea-surface Calibration of Satellite altimeters at the Permanent Facility for Altimeter Calibration in west Crete, Greece.

Stelios Mertikas (Technical University of Crete, Greece), Craig Donlon (European Space Agency, The Netherlands), Pierre Femenias (European Space Agency, Italy), Constantin Mavrocordatos (European Space Agency, The Netherlands), Demitris Galanakis (Space Geomatica P.C., Greece), Tommaso Parrinello (European Space Agency, Italy), Francois Boy (CNES, France), Ilias Tziavos (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece), George Vergos (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece), Xenofon Frantzis (Technical University of Crete, Greece), Achilles Tripolitsiotis (Space Geomatica P.C., Greece)

09:45-10:00

Corsica: A 20-Yr Multi-Mission Absolute Altimeter Calibration Site

Pascal Bonnefond (Observatoire de Paris - SYRTE, France), Olivier Laurain (OCA-Geoazur, France), Pierre Exertier (OCA-Geoazur, France), Thierry Guinle (CNES, France), Féménias Pierre (ESA/ESRIN, Italy)

10:00-10:15

Regional in situ CalVal of satellite altimeter range at non-dedicated sites

Mathilde Cancet (NOVELTIS, France), Pascal Bonnefond (OBSPM/SYRTE, France), Bruce Haines (JPL/NASA, USA), Christopher Watson (University of Tasmania, Australia), Florent Lyard (LEGOS/CNRS/OMP, France), Olivier Laurain (OCA/GEOAZUR, France), Pierre Féménias (ESA/ESRIN, Italy)

10:15-10:30

14 years of Absolute calibration of satellite altimeters on Lake Issykkul from GPS field campaigns

Jean-Francois Cretaux (CNES/LEgos, France), Muriel Berge-Nguyen (Legos/CNES, France), Stephane Calmant (Legos/IRD, France), Pascal Bonnefond (SYRTE, Observatoire de Paris, Université PSL, CNRS, Sorbonne Université, LNE, France), Nurzat Jamangulova (IWPH, Kyrgyzstan), Rysbek Satylkanov (IWPH, Kyrgyzstan), Florent Lyard (Legos/CNRS, France), Felix Perosanz (Get/CNES, France), Philippe Maisongrande (Legos/CNES, France)

10:30-11:00

Coffee break

11:00-11:15

Comparisons of Jason-3, Sentinel-3A, Sentinel-3B and tide gauges

Eric Leuliette (NOAA, United States), Amanda  Plagge (NOAA/Global Science and Technology, Inc., United States)

11:15-11:30

Sentinel-3B commissioning: first results from the Level 2 Marine Products

Remko Scharroo (EUMETSAT, Germany), Cristina Martin-Puig (EUMETSAT, Germany), Carolina Nogueira Loddo (EUMETSAT, Germany), Bruno Lucas (HE Space Operations, Germany), Salvatore Dinardo (HE Space Operations, Germany)

11:30-11:45

Performance of the altimetry missions over coastal areas through sea level measurements

Hélène Roinard (CLS, France), Matthias Raynal (CLS, France), Ghita Jettou (CLS, France), Nicolas Picot (CNES, France), Pierre Femenias (ESA, Italy)

11:45-12:00

Evaluating Sentinel-3 SRAL performance near the coast of southwest England

Francesco Nencioli (Plymouth Marine Laboratory, United Kingdom), Graham Quartly (Plymouth Marine Laboratory, United Kingdom), Daniel Conley (University of Plymouth, United Kingdom), Wei Zhang (University of Plymouth, United Kingdom)

12:00-12:15

Quality Assessment of Altimetry Water Surface Height Measurements for inland waters

Lionel Zawadzki (CLS, France), Nicolas Taburet (CLS, France), Adrien Paris (CLS, France), Maxime Vayre (CLS, France), Rémi Jugier (CLS, France), Matthias Raynal (CLS, France), Denis Blumstein (LEGOS/CNES, France), Sophie Le Gac (CNES, France), Jean-François Crétaux (LEGOS/CNES, France), Nicolas Picot (CNES, France)

12:15-12:30

Discussion

Lagoa Do Congro

09:00-10:30

The Geoid, Mean Sea Surfaces and Mean Dynamic Topography

Session chairs:

Ole B. Andersen, Yannice Faugere

09:00-09:15

Analysis of Geomed2 Combined Geoid Models

Sean Bruinsma (CNES, France)

09:15-09:30

First marine gravity field result from Jason-2 Long Repeat Orbit mission

Ole Baltazar Andersen (DTU Space, Denmark), Walter Smith (NOAA, USA), David Sandwell (SIO, USA), Gerald Dibarboure (CNES, France), Hugh Harper (SIO, USA), Alejandro Egido (NOAA, USA), Adili Abulaitijiang (DTU Space, Denmark)

09:30-09:45

What do we need to improve the next Mean Sea Surface?

Philippe Schaeffer (CLS, France), Isabelle Pujol (CLS, France), Elodie Charles (CLS, France), David Sandwell (SIO, USA), Antoine Delepoulle (CLS, FRANCE), Yannice Faugere (CLS, France), Nicolas Picot (CNES, FRANCE), Gerald Dibarboure (CNES, FRANCE)

09:45-10:00

The DTU17 OGMOC mean dynamic topography model – DTU17MDT

Per Knudsen (Professor, Denmark), Ole Andersen (Dr, Danmark), Thomas Fecher (Professor, Denmark), Nikolai Maximenko (Univ Hawaii, USA)

10:00-10:15

New CNES-CLS Mean Dynamic Topography of the global ocean from altimetry, gravity and in-situ data

Marie-Hélène Rio (CLS, France), Sandrine Mulet (CLS, FRANCE), Nicolas Picot (CNES, FRANCE), Gérald Dibarboure (CNES, FRANCE)

10:15-10:30

Discussion

Lagoa Das 7 Cidades

11:00-12:30

Instrument Processing: Propagation, Wind Speed and Sea State Bias

Session chairs:

Shannon Brown, Estelle Obligis

11:00-11:15

A first assessment of Sentinel-3B Microwave Radiometer: intercalibration and performance

Marie-Laure Frery (CLS, France), Mathilde Siméon (CLS, france), Christophe Goldstein (CNES, france), Franck Borde (ESA, Netherlands), Pierre Féménias (ESA, Italy

11:15-11:30

A new synergistic radiometer/altimeter instrument processing algorithm

Tanvir Islam (NASA JPL, United States), Shannon Brown (NASA JPL, USA), Sidharth Misra (NASA JPL, USA)

11:30-11:45

Using radiosonde networks to assess short scale Wet Tropospheric Correction retrieval improvement: illustration with SARAL/AltiKa mission.

Marie-Laure Frery (CLS, France), Bruno Picard (CLS, France), Christophe Goldstein (CNES, France)

11:45-12:00

Improvements on Jason-3 and Sentinel-3 Sea State Bias models using a synergistic approach with SAR Sentinel-1 ocean products

Nelson Pires (University of Porto, Portugal), M. Joana Fernandes (University of Porto, Portugal), Christine Gommenginger (National Oceanography Centre, United Kingdom), Remko Scharroo (EUMETSAT, Germany)

12:00-12:15

Improving the precision of sea level data from satellite altimetry with high-frequency and regional Sea State Bias corrections

Marcello Passaro (DGFI-TUM, Germany), Zulfikar Adlan Nadzir (DGFI-TUM and Sumatera Institute of Technology (Itera), Germany-Indonesia), Graham D Quartly (Plymouth Marine Laboratory, UK)

12:15-12:30

Discussion

Lagoa Do Congro

11:00-12:30

Tides, internal tides and high-frequency processes

Session chairs:

Loren Carrere, Florent Lyard, Richard Ray

11:00-11:12

The non-stationarity scattering rate: a new metric to study non-stationary internal tides

Maarten Buijsman (University of Southern Mississippi, United States), Jay Shriver (Naval Research Laboratory, USA), Brian Arbic (University of Michigan, USA), James Richman (Florida State University, USA)

11:13-11:25

Bathymetry improvement and tidal modeling at regional scales in the NEA and in Indonesia

Mathilde Cancet (NOVELTIS, France), Florence Toublanc (NOVELTIS, France), Florent Lyard (LEGOS/CNRS/OMP, France), Gérald Dibarboure (CNES, France), Nicolas Picot (CNES, France), Thierry Guinle (CNES, France)

11:26-11:38

Simultaneous Estimation of Tides and Topography in the Weddell Sea

Edward Zaron (Portland State University, United States)

11:39-11:51

Progress and challenges of the Dynamic Atmospheric Correction for altimetry over last 25 years

Loren Carrere (CLS, France), Damien Allain (CLS, LEGOS, FRANCE), Florent Lyard (LEGOS, FRANCE), Yannice Faugère (CLS, FRANCE), Romain Baghi (CLS, FRANCE), Jean-Michel Lachiver (CNES, FRANCE

11:52 - 12:04

Impact of waves on storm surges in the North Sea: model evaluation against altimeter

Lucia Pineau-Guillou (Ifremer/LOPS, France), Marie-Noëlle Bouin (Meteo-France/LOPS, France), Fabrice Ardhuin (CNRS/LOPS, France), Florent Lyard (CNRS/LEGOS, France)

12:05-12:17

Numerical modelling of non-tidal ocean dynamics for the reduction of spatio-temporal aliasing in global grids of sea-level anomalies from radar altimetry

Henryk Dobslaw (Deutsches GeoForschungsZentrum, Germany), Saskia Esselborn (GFZ Potsdam, Germany)

12:17-12:30

Discussion

12:30-14:00

Lunch

14:00-15:00

Poster Session 2

15:00-15:30

Coffee break

Teatro Auditorium

15:30-18:00

OSTST Closing Plenary Session

Session chairs:

Pascal Bonnefond, Craig Donlon, Eric Leuliette, Remko Scharroo, Josh Willis

15:30-17:10

Splinters meeting summaries

15:30-15:40

Application development for Operations summary

15:40-15:50

Instrument processing (Propagation, Wind Speed and Sea State Bias) summary

15:50-16:00

Instrument processing (Measurement and retracking) summary

16:00-16:10

Outreach, Education & Altimetric data services summary

16:10-16:20

Precision Orbit Determination summary

16:20-16:30

Quantifying Errors and Uncertainties in Altimetry Data summary

16:30-16:40

Regional and Global CAL/VAL for Assembling a Climate Data Record summary

16:40-16:50

The Geoid Mean Sea Surfaces and Mean Dynamic Topography summary

16:50-17:00

Tides, internal tides and high-frequency processes summary

17:00-17:10

11th Coastal Altimetry Workshop summary

Paolo Cipollini (Telespazio VEGA/ECSAT, United Kingdom)

17:10-17:20

Jason/GDR status and plans

Nicolas Picot (CNES, France)

17:20-18:00

Discussion, summary and recommendation

Posters

Thursday, September 27 2018, 18:00-20:00

Friday, September 28 2018, 14:00-15:00

Foyer, Salao Nobre & tent

Instrument Processing: Measurement and Retracking

Session chairs: Francois Boy, Phil Callahan, Robert Cullen, Jean-Damien Desjonqueres, Alejandro Egido, Cristina Martin-Puig, Walter H.F. Smith

IPM_001

S6 P4 GPP: Fully Focused Delay-Doppler Processing applied on RAW and RMC data- Preliminary results

Eduard Makhoul (isardSAT), Mònica  Roca (isardSAT), Roger  Escola (isardSAT), Albert Garcia-Mondéjar (isardSAT), Gorka Moyano (isardSAT), Pablo Garcia (isardSAT), Marco Fornari (RHEA/ESTEC), Mieke  Kuschnerus (ESTEC/ESA), Robert Cullen (ESTEC/ESA)

IPM_002

A trade-off analysis of Fully Focused SAR processing algorithms for high PRF altimeters

Michele Scagliola (Aresys), Pietro Guccione (Politecnico di Bari)

IPM_003

Can fully-focused or unfocused SAR delay doppler altimeter range data provide enhanced detection of coastal currents?

Hui Feng (University of New Hampshire), Alejandro Egido (NOAA – Laboratory for Satellite Altimetry), Doug Vandemark (University of New Hampshire), Claire Dufau (CLS Space Oceanography, Toulouse)

IPM_004

Impact of the Sentinel-3 SRAL PTR Width Drift on the L2 Marine Measurement

Salvatore Dinardo (HE SPACE), Remko Scharroo  (EUMETSAT), Cristina Martin-Puig (EUMETSAT), Bruno Lucas (HE SPACE), Carolina Loddo (EUMETSAT)

IPM_005

Sea State Climate Change Initiative: first steps of the Algorithm Development Team

Marcello Passaro (DGFI-TUM), Graham D Quartly (Plymouth Marine Laboratory), Yves Quilfen (Ifremer), Monica Roca (Isardsat), Pierre Thibaut (CLS), Fabrice Ardhuin (Laboratoire d'Oceanographie Physique et Spatiale (LOPS), Univ. Brest, CNRS, Ifremer), Craig Donlon (European Space Agency ESTEC/EOP-SME), Paolo Cipollini (Telespazio VEGA UK for ESA Climate Office ECSAT), Ellis Ash (Satellite Oceanographic Consultants)

IPM_006

Performance of ICE-1 vs ICE-3 in retrieving water levels over rivers with Jason-2

Taina Conchy (UEA), Adrien Paris (CLS), Stéphane Calmant (IRD), Joécila Santos da Silva (UEA)

IPM_007

Validation of 400+ SARAL (ICE-1) water level series over rivers

Joécila Santos da Silva (UEA), Daniel Medeiros Moreira (CPRM), Taina Conchy (UEA), Stéphane Calmant (IRD), Adrien Paris (CLS)

 IPM_008

Evaluation of retracker bias due to waveform fitting method

Chris Ray (Saint Mary's College of California/isardSAT), Monica Roca (isardSAT), Eduard Makhoul Varona (isardSAT)

IPM_009

Reprocessing of the Poseidon-1 French Altimeter

Pierre Thibaut (CLS), Hélène Roinard (Collecte Localisation Satellite), Nicolas Picot (CNES), Thierry Guinle (CNES)

IPM_010

Calibration Data for Retracking TOPEX Data

Philip Callahan (Jet Propulsion Laboratory), Jean-Damien Desjonqueres (Jet Propulsion Laboratory), Shailen Desai (Jet Propulsion Laboratory), Matthieu Talpe (Jet Propulsion Laboratory), Joshua Willis (Jet Propulsion Laboratory)

Outreach, Education and Altimetric Data Services

Session chairs: Jessica Hausman, Vinca Rosmorduc, Margaret Srinivasan

ODS_001

NOAA Scientific Data Stewardship for Ocean Surface Topography Mission (OSTM)/Jason-2 and Jason-3 Products

Yongsheng Zhang (NCEI/NESDIS/NOAA), Xuepeng Zhao (NCEI/NESDIS/NOAA), huai-min Zhang (NCEI/NESDIS/NOAA)

ODS_002

CLASH Capteurs de Lycéens pour la calval d'un satellite Hydrométrique

Martine Bousquet (lycée charles de gaulle), Stephane Ccalmant (LEGOS–CNRS)

ODS_003

Overview of New "Jason-Series Missions Applications Program"

Annette deCharon (ODYSEA LLC), Leslie Smith (Your Ocean Consulting LLC), Margaret Srinivasan (Jet Propulsion Laboratory)

ODS_004

Access to Sentinel-3 Marine Center data

Bruno Lucas (HE Space/EUMETSAT), Remko Scharroo (EUMETSAT), Carolina Nogueira Loddo (EUMETSAT), Cristina Martin-Puig (EUMETSAT), Salvatore Dinardo (HE Space/EUMETSAT), Vincenzo Santacesaria (EUMETSAT), Melad Nassar (CS/EUMETSAT), Ilaria Parodi (SCISYS/EUMETSAT)

ODS_005

CTOH altimetry products (L1 to L4) for ocean, ice and continental surfaces applications

Sara Fleury (LEGOS/CTOH), Florence Birol (LEGOS/CTOH), Fabien Blarel (LEGOS/CTOH), Denis Blumstein (LEGOS/CNES), Frédéric Frappart (LEGOS/CTOH), Kévin Guerreiro (LEGOS/CTOH), Fabien Léger (LEGOS/CTOH), Rosemary Morrow (LEGOS/CTOH), Fernando Niño (LEGOS/CTOH)

ODS_006

Goodbye FTP, How to Access Data at PO.DAAC

Jessica Hausman (JPL)

Precision Orbit Determination

Session chairs: Sean Bruinsma, Alexandre Couhert, Frank Lemoine

POD_001

On the long-term stability of altimetry satellites orbits

Sergei Rudenko (DGFI-TUM), Denise Dettmering (DGFI-TUM), Mathis Bloßfeld (DGFI-TUM), Saskia Esselborn (GFZ), Tilo Schöne (GFZ)

POD_002

Assessment of Orbit Quality through the SSH calculation   Towards GDR-F orbit standards

Annabelle Ollivier (CLS), Maeva Dalila (CLS), Alexandre Couhert (CNES), Nicolas Picot (CNES)

Quantifying Errors and Uncertainties in Altimetry data

Session chairs: Michael Ablain, Joel Dorandeu, Remko Scharroo

ERR_001

Inherent uncertainties within altimetric Global Mean Sea Level time series

Martin Scharffenberg (CEN - University of Hamburg), Detlef Stammer (CEN - University of Hamburg)

ERR_002

Estimating Trend and Acceleration Uncertainties of Global Mean Sea Level Evolution over the 25-Year Altimetry Era

Michael Ablain (CLS), Lionel Zawadzki (CLS), Rémi Jugier (CLS), Benoit Meyssignac (LEGOS), Anny Cazenave (LEGOS), Nicolas Picot (CNES)

ERR_003

Estimating altimetry Mean Seal Level trend uncertainties in coastal areas

Lionel Zawadzki (CLS), Rémi Jugier (CLS), Michaël Ablain (CLS), Florence Birol (LEGOS), Benoît Meyssignac (LEGOS), Anny Cazenave (LEGOS)

ERR_004

On the resolution of ocean altimetry maps

Maxime Ballarotta (CLS), Clement Ubelmann (CLS), Marie-Isabelle Pujol (CLS), Guillaume Taburet (CLS), Florent Fournier (CLS), Jean-Francois Legeais (CLS), Yannice Faugère (CLS), Antoine Delepoulle (CLS), Dudley Chelton (Oregon State University), Gerald Dibarboure (CNES), Nicolas Picot (CNES)

ERR_005

Altimetric wavenumber spectra: noise floors and resolution capability

Oscar Vergara (LEGOS/CNRS), Rosemary Morrow (LEGOS), Isabelle Pujol (CLS Space Oceanography), Gerald Dibarboure (CNES), Clement Ubelmann (CLS Space Oceanography)

ERR_006

Error and Uncertainties in Wideband Signals of Opportunity (SoOp) Altimetry

Soon Chye Ho (Purdue University), Rashmi Shah (Jet Propulsion Lab), James L. Garrison  (Purdue University), Zhijin Li (Jet Propulsion Lab)

ERR_007

How Sentinel-3 tandem phase contributes to Sentinel-3 error budget

Sylvie Labroue (CLS), Matthias Raynal (CLS), Pierre Féménias (ESA), François Boy (CNES), Franck Borde (ESA)

ERR_008

Validation of Icesat Measurements over the Amazon River

Daniel Medeiros Moreira (CPRM), Stéphane Calmant (LEGOS/IRD), Félix Perosanz (GET/CNES), Jean-François Cretaux (LEGOS/CNES), Adrien Paris (CLS), Joécila Santos da Silva (UEA), Frédérique Seyler (Espace/IRD), Otto Rotunno Filho (UFRJ)

ERR_009

Uncertainty Characterization with FRM Standards for Satellite Altimetry Calibration: Lessons from the past and roadmap to the future.

Stelios Mertikas (Technical University of Crete), Craig Donlon (European Space Agency/ESTEC), Pierre Féménias (European Space Agency/ESRIN), Demitris Galanakis (Space Geomatica P.C.), Xenophon Fratzis (Technical University of Crete), Achilles Tripolitsiotis (Space Geomatica P.C.)

Application Development for Operations

Session chairs: Gerald Dibarboure, Gregg Jacobs, Carolina Nogueira Loddo, Joseph Sienkiewicz

APOP_001

On the assimilation of high frequency altimeters wave data in coastal wave model

Lotfi Aouf (Division Marine et Océanographie Météo-France), Alice Dalphinet (Meteo-France), Sergei Badulin (Shirshov Institute of Oceanography)

APOP_002

On the update of swell dependency for SAR mode altimetry of Sentinel-3

Lotfi Aouf (Division Marine et Océanographie Météo-France), Alice Dalphinet (Meteo-France)

APOP_003

A new 25 year mesoscale eddy trajectory atlas on AVISO

Antoine Delepoulle (cls), Yannice Faugere (cls), Dudley Chelton (OSU)

APOP_004

Ocean meso scale in the Copernicus Marine Environment Monitoring Service global ocean eddy-resolving physical analysis, forecasting and reanalysis

Yann Drillet (Mercator Océan), Jean-Michel Lellouche (Mercator Océan), Romain Bourdallé-Badie (Mercator Océan), Olivier Le Galloudec (Mercator Océan), Eric Greiner (CLS), Gilles Garric (Mercator Océan), Charly Regnier (Mercator Océan), Marie Drevillon (Mercator Océan), Clement Bricaud (Mercator Océan)

APOP_005

An interactive website for enhancing the Open-Loop Tracking Command (OLTC) of conventional altimeters for inland waters observation

Sophie Le Gac (CNES), François Boy (CNES), Nicolas Picot (CNES), Denis Blumstein (LEGOS/Univ. Toulouse/CNES/CNRS/IRD), Sylvain Biancamaria (LEGOS/Univ. Toulouse/CNES/CNRS/IRD), Jean-François Crétaux (LEGOS/Univ. Toulouse/CNES/CNRS/IRD), Stéphane Calmant (LEGOS/Univ. Toulouse/CNES/CNRS/IRD), Manon Verdier (NOVELTIS), Franck Borde (ESA/ESTEC), Pierre Féménias (ESA/ESRIN)

APOP_006

4DVAR Assimilation of simulated wide-swath altimeter data into a high resolution ocean model

Hans Ngodock (NRL), Matthew Carrier (NRL), Scott  Smith (NRL)

APOP_007

Value added Sentinel-3A sea level products by the Marine Altimetry L2P-L3 Service available since June 2017

Sabine Philipps (CLS), Isabelino Denis (CNES), Marine Lievin (CLS), Marie-Isabelle Pujol (CLS), Michael Ablain (CLS), Carolina Nogueira Loddo (EUMETSAT)

APOP_008

Satellite altimeter combined measurements and local persistent  small-scale ocean-atmosphere  signatures

Yves Quilfen (LOPS/IFREMER), Bertrand Chapron (LOPS/IFREMER)

APOP_009

Jason-2 and Jason-3 Near-Real Time Products Latency over the Past Year

Donald Richardson (Columbus Technology), David Donahue (NOAA)

Regional and Global CAL/VAL for Assembling a Climate Data Record

Session chairs: Pascal Bonnefond, Shailen Desai, Bruce Haines, Eric Leuliette, Nicolas Picot

CVL_001

The progress and outlook of the international cooperation program on satellite altimeter calibration between China-Greece

Xinghua Zhou (First Institute of Oceanography, State Oceanic Administration,Qingdao), Lei Yang (First Institute of Oceanography, State Oceanic Administration,Qingdao)

CVL_002

Calibration results of multiple satellite altimetry missions from Qianliyan permanent Cal/Val facilities

Lei Yang (First Institute of Oceanography, State Oceanic Administration,Qingdao), Xinghua Zhou (First Institute of Oceanography, State Oceanic Administration,Qingdao)

CVL_003

A new inverted echo sounder for satellite altimetry calibration and validation.

Benoit Legresy (Climate Science Centre, CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia), Christopher Watson (School of Technology, Environments and Design, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia)

CVL_004

Assessment of optimal coastal altimetric corrections in a flat coastal environment around the Aix island sea-level observatory, France

Laurent Testut (LIENSs/LEGOS), Maryia Velikova (LIENSs), Valérie Ballu (LIENSs), Pascal Bonnefond (Obserbatoire de Paris / SYRTE), Olivier Laurain (OCA/Géoazur), Xavier Bertin (LIENSs)

CVL_005

In situ calibration of satellite altimetric missions at the German Bight and Baltic Sea coasts

Luciana Fenoglio (University of Bonn), Bernd Uebbing (University of Bonn), Salvatore Dinardo (Eumetsat), Christopher Buchhaupt (Darmstadt Technical University), Remko Scharroo (Eumetsat), Jürgen Kusche (University of Bonn), Joanna Staneva (Helmholtz-Zentrum Geesthacht), Matthias Becker (Darmstadt Technical University), Jerome Benveniste  (ESA/ESRIN)

CVL_006

The performance of satellite altimetry currents in a wide continental shelf

Loreley Lago (INIDEP), Martin Saraceno (Centro de Investigaciones del Mar y la Atmósfera (CIMA) CONICET/UBA), Patricia Martos (INIDEP), Raul Guerrero (INIDEP), Alberto Piola (Departamento de Oceanografía, Servicio de Hidrografía Naval (SHN)), Christine Provost (Laboratoire d’Océanographie et du Climat: Experimentation et Approches Numériques), Guillermina Paniagua (Centro de Investigaciones del Mar y la Atmósfera (CIMA) CONICET/UBA), Ramiro Ferrari (Centro de Investigaciones del Mar y la Atmósfera (CIMA) CONICET/UBA), Camila Artana (Laboratoire d’Océanographie et du Climat: Experimentation et Approches Numériques)

CVL_007

Cal/Val activities of satellite altimetry for Hydrology in Brazil

Daniel Moreira (CPRM- Geological Survey of Brazil), Stéphane Calmant (IRD/LEGOS), Felix Perosanz (CNES/GRGS), Jean-François  Cretaux (CNES/LEGOS), Joecila Silva (UEA), Adrien Paris (CLS), Otto  Rotunno Filho (COPPE/UFRJ), Pierre-André Garambois (INSA), Bernardo Oliveira (CPRM- Geological Survey of Brazil), Fábio Costa (CPRM- Geological Survey of Brazil)

CVL_008

Evolution of the performances of radar altimetry missions from ERS-2 to Sentinel-3A over : the example of the Inner Niger Delta

Cassandra Normandin (UMR CNRS 5805 EPOC), Frédéric Frappart  (GET/OMP/LEGOS), Adama Telly  Diepkilé (DER Math-Informatique), Vincent Marieu (EPOC, UMR 5805), Eric Mougin (GET), Fabien Blarel (LEGOS), Bertrand Lubac (EPOC, UMR 5805), Nadine Braquet (IRSTEA/IRD), Abdramane Ba (LOSSA)

CVL_009

Relative range bias drifts revealed by a multi-mission crossover analysis: from TOPEX to Sentinel-3

Denise Dettmering (Deutsches Geodätisches Forschungsinstitut der Technischen Universität München (DGFI-TUM)), Christian Schwatke (Deutsches Geodätisches Forschungsinstitut der Technischen Universität München (DGFI-TUM))

CVL_010

Monitoring Jason-3 sea surface height measurement stability for global and regional sea level estimates

Brian Beckley (SGT Inc./NASA GSFC), Xu Yang (SGT Inc.), Gary Mitchum (University of South Florida), Richard Ray (NASA GSFC), Frank Lemoine (NASA GSFC), Nikita Zelensky (SGT Inc.), Bryant Loomis (NASA GSFC)

CVL_011

A new CAL/VAL proposition based on the sea level budget in the center of mass.

Alejandro Blazquez (LEGOS-CNES), Benoit Meyssignac (LEGOS/CNES), Jean Michel Lemoine (CNES), Alexandre Couhert (CNES), Flavien Mercier (CNES)

CVL_012

Jason-3 and Jason-2 mission performance

Hélène Roinard (CLS), Sabine PHILIPPS (CLS), Nicolas PICOT (CNES)

CVL_013

Results from Inter-Satellite and Independent Calibration and Validation for Jason-3

Jean-Damien Desjonqueres (NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory), Matthieu  Talpe (NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory), Shailen Desai (NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory), Bruce  Haines  (NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory), Rashmi  Shah  (NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory

CVL_014

Calibration and Validation of Jason-2 over the First Full Cycle of the Long-Repeat Orbit

Matthieu Talpe (Jet Propulsion Laboratory), Jean-Damien Desjonqueres (Jet Propulsion Laboratory), Shailen Desai (Jet Propulsion Laboratory), Bruce Haines (Jet Propulsion Laboratory)

CVL_015

Calibration and Validation of Reprocessed TOPEX Geophysical Data Records

Shailen Desai (Jet Propulsion Laboratory), Philip Callahan (Jet Propulsion Laboratory), Jean-Damien Desjonqueres (Jet Propulsion Laboratory), Bruce Haines (Jet Propulsion Laboratory), Matthieu Talpe (Jet Propulsion Laboratory), Joshua Willis (Jet Propulsion Laboratory), Glenn Shirtliffe (Jet Propulsion Laboratory), Nicolas Picot (Centre Nationale des Etudes Spatiales), Thierry Guinle (Centre Nationale des Etudes Spatiales), Helene Roinard (Collecte Localisation Satellites), Michael Ablain (Collecte Localisation Satellites)

CVL_016

Global Ocean Data Quality Assessment of SARAL/AltiKa

GHITA JETTOU (CLS)

CVL_017

Sentinel-3A mission : a high quality data set for altimetry over ocean

Matthias Raynal (CLS), Sylvie Labroue (CLS), Pierre Féménias (ESA/ESRIN), Scharoo Remko (EUMETSAT)

CVL_018

A new altimetry data validation approach based on Data Mining and Machine learning techniques

Romain Bergougnoux (NOVELTIS), Sophie Le Gac (CNES), Charlotte Garcia (CNES), Eric Jeansou (NOVELTIS), Mathilde Cancet (NOVELTIS), Florence Toublanc (NOVELTIS), Sylvain Brunato (NOVELTIS)

The Geoid, Mean Sea Surfaces and Mean Dynamic Topography

Session chairs: Ole B. Andersen, Yannice Faugere

GEO_001

The DTU18 MSS Mean Sea Surface – Technical description

Ole Baltazar Andersen (Dr), Per Knudsen (DTU Space-Denmark), Lars Stenseng (DTU Space)

GEO_002

Evaluation of two years of Sentinel-3A and first Sentinel-3B and impact of and on Mean Sea Surfaces and ocean tide corrections

Ole Baltazar Andersen (Dr), Heidi Randall (Dr)

GEO_003

Improvements and limitations of recent mean sea surface models: importance for Sentinel-3 and SWOT

Marie Isabelle Pujol (CLS), Philippe Schaeffer (CLS), Yannice Faugère (CLS), François-Xavier Davanne (CLS), Gerald Dibarboure (CNES), Nicolas Picot (CNES)

Instrument Processing: Propagation, Wind Speed and Sea State Bias

Session chairs: Shannon Brown, Estelle Obligis

IPC_001

Progress in the Wet Tropospheric Correction for Altimetry:  Jason-3 to Sentinel-6 and Beyond

Shannon Brown (JPL), Tanvir Islam (JPL)

IPC_002

A Wet Tropospheric Correction for Global Mean Sea Level application computed  from CM SAF FCDR Microwave Imager Radiances

Bruno Picard (CLS), Mickaël Ablain (CLS), Benoît Meyssignac (LEGOS), Rémy Roca (LEGOS)

IPC_003

Improving the continuity of the Jason SSB time-series

Ngan Tran (CLS), Gérald Dibarboure (CNES), Nicolas Picot (CNES)

IPC_004

Modelling the height dependence of the wet path delay using ERA5 model-level fields

Telmo Vieira (University of Porto, Faculty of Sciences), M. Joana Fernandes (University of Porto, Faculty of Sciences), Clara Lázaro (University of Porto, Faculty of Sciences)

IPC_005

Characteristics of atmospheric attenuation events for Ka-band altimetry

Bruno Picard (CLS), Marie-Laure Frery (CLS), Nicolas Picot (CNES), Gérald Dibarboure (CNES), Nathalie Steunou (CNES)

Tides, internal tides and high-frequency processes

Session chairs: Loren Carrere, Florent Lyard, Richard Ray

TID_001

Unstructured Ocean Loading Atlas

Damien Allain (OMP/LEGOS), Pascal Gégout (GET - CNRS), Jean-Paul Boy (EOST-IPGS), Florent Lyard (LEGOS - CNRS)

TID_002

A validation of  FES2014 tidal currents using High Frequency Radars data on the US East Coast

Loren Carrere (CLS), Florianne Sailly (CLS), Florent Lyard (LEGOS)

TID_003

Turning on the tides in the global CMEMS ocean model:  sensitivity to numerical choices

Romain Bourdalle-Badie (mercator ocean), Jerome Chanut (mercator ocean), Loren Carrere (CLS), Florent Lyard (Legos), Benoit Tranchant (CLS), Yann Drillet (mercator ocean)

TID_004

An updated EOT model: first impressions from the North Sea

Gaia Piccioni (DGFI-TUM), Denise Dettmering (DGFI-TUM), Christian Schwatke (DGFI-TUM), Wolfgang Bosch (DGFI-TUM), Florian Seitz (DGFI-TUM)

TID_005

A new set of in-situ tidal constants based on the GESLA dataset

Gaia Piccioni (DGFI-TUM), Denise Dettmering (DGFI-TUM), Wolfgang Bosch (DGFI-TUM), Florian Seitz (DGFI-TUMM)

TID_006

Tidal analysis of Cryosat-2 data over ice-free regions of the Arctic Ocean

Richard Ray (NASA/GSFC)

TID_007

The mode-2 M2 internal tide

Zhongxiang Zhao (University of Washington)

Others (poster only)

Session chairs: Pascal Bonnefond, Craig Donlon, Eric Leuliette, Remko Scharroo, Josh Willis

OTH_001

A SAR altimetry End-to-End simulation and processing chain

Michele Scagliola (Aresys), Luca Maestri (Aresys), Lisa Recchia (Aresys), Davide Giudici (Aresys)

OTH_002

Sentinel-6 altimeter Level-2 Ground Prototype Processor

Thomas Moreau (CLS), Sébastien Figerou (CLS), Thomas Forgue (CLS), Jérémie Aublanc (CLS), Marco Fornari (ESA), Mieke Kuschnerus (ESA), Robert Cullen (ESA), François Boy (CNES), Gilles Tavernier (CNES), Gerard Zaouche (CNES)

OTH_003

Linking Sea Surface Height Variations with Hydrographic Variability around the Greenland Ice Sheet to Improve Understanding of Sea Level Rise

Ian Fenty (JPL), Steve Nerem (Colorado Center for Astrodynamics Research)

OTH_004

Performance of Sentinel-3A for the Observation of Water Level Variations of Rivers and Lakes

Eva Boergens (DGFI-TUM), Christian Schwatke (DGFI-TUM), Denise Dettmering (DGFI-TUM)

OTH_005

Analysis of TC's wake with multisensors observations and analytical model

Clément Combot (IFREMER), Yves Quilfen (IFREMER), Bertrand Chapron (IFREMER), Alexis Mouche (IFREMER)

OTH_006

Analyzing Oceanic Turbulence Using Structure Functions and Advanced Turbulence Theories via Satellite Altimetry

Boris Galperin (University of South Florida)

OTH_007

On the zonal wavenumber-frequency spectra of SSH

Uriel Zajaczkovski (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution), J. Thomas Farrar (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution), Steven R. Jayne (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution), Theodore S. Durland (Oregon State University)

OTH_008

Satellite altimetry and current-meter velocities in the Malvinas Current: Volume transport and modes of variations at 44.7°S.

Ramiro Ferrari (Centro de Investigaciones del Mar y la Atmósfera.), Martin  Saraceno (Centro de Investigaciones del Mar y la Atmósfera.), Guillermina F. Paniagua  (Centro de Investigaciones del Mar y la Atmósfera.), Christine  Provost  (LOCEAN)

OTH_009

Optimal SSH Mapping for Eddies and Mesoscale Currents

Kathleen Dohan (Earth and Space Research), Jonathan Lilly (NorthWest Research Associates)

OTH_0010

Coastally trapped intra-seasonal waves along African coasts: an attempt to estimate their thermal impacts

Alban Lazar (LOCEAN-IPSL-UPMC), Sane Badara (LPAOSF-ESP-UCAD), Malick Wade (LSAO, UGB), Léa Poli (LOCEAN-IPSL-UPMC)

OTH_0011

Estimation of vertical velocities associated with large scale dynamics in the Atlantic ocean.

Alban Lazar (LOCEAN-IPSL, Sorbonne Université), Magnim Gnamah (LOCEAN-IPSL, Sorbonne Université), Siny Ndoye (LPAOSF-ESP-UCAD)

OTH_0012

Investigating the efficiency of satellite altimetry to reproduce water levels variability in various coastal regions

Edward Salameh (LEGOS), Antoine Soloy (jet propulsion laboratory), Frédéric Frappart (Observatoire Midi Pyrénées), Imen Turki (Morphodynamique Continentale et Côtière (M2C)), Benoit Laignel (Morphodynamique Continentale et Côtière (M2C)