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Monday, 23 March 2015 07:30

Annoucement for 2nd GlobCurrent User Consultation Meeting - 4-6 November 2015, IFREMER Brest (France)

We are pleased to invite you at the 2nd GlobCurrent User Consultation Meeting which will be held at Ifremer in Brest on 4th, 5th and 6th November immediately following the 2nd International Meeting on Ocean Surface Currents. This User Consultation Meeting offers an overview of the project progress and an opportunity to influence the future development through evaluation of preliminary products, clarification of user requirements and discussion of how the system will develop.

DUE globcurrent Poster V5

Important deadlines

Submission of abstracts

extended deadline! 5 October2015
GlobCurrent User Consultation Meeting 4-6 November 2015

Registration

There is no registration fee.

For registration, please go to http://globcurrent2015.sciencesconf.org.

Agenda

Wednesday 4 November 2015

08:00 am – Bus Departure from Brest Train Station to Ifremer Institute

08:45-09:30 Registration and Poster set-up

09:30-10:00 C. Donlon and J. A. Johannessen (ESA and NERSC) - GlobCurrent welcome messages

10:00-10:45 M-H Rio (CLS) - Introduction to the 12-year dataset and plans for exploiting new products

10:45-11:15 Coffee Break

11:15-11:45 J-F Piollé (Ifremer) - Individual and assembled data and access methods

11:45-12:15 Short poster introductions

12:30-13:30 Lunch

14:00-14:30 Summary of ESA OSC meeting (C. Donlon and B. Chapron, ESA and Ifremer)

14:30-15:00 F. Collard (ODL) - First tour of the GlobCurrent navigation tool (Syntool)

15:00-15:45 N. Maximenko, C. Maes(IRD) /B. Blanke (CNRS) Ocean Surface Currents : marine debris

15:45-16:15 Coffee Break

16:15-16:45 P. Cornillon (Univ. Rhode Island) - Ocean Fronts

16:45-17:15 A. Stoffelen (KNMI) - Scatterometer new products

17:15-17:45 F. Ardhuin (CNRS) - Waves-wind-current interactions

17:45-18:15 Open discussions

18:30-20:00 Cocktail in the Hall 20:15 pm – Bus Departure for Brest City Centre

 

Thursday 5 November 2015

08:30 am – Bus Departure from Brest Train Station to Ifremer Institute

09:00-9:30 K. Dohan (ESR) - The OSCAR products

09:30-10:00 F. Collard (ODL) - The GlobCurrent case study on ship routing

10:00-10:20 Y. Guichoux (Cerema) - Ship Tracking and ocean surface currents

10:20-10:45 P. Penven (IRD) - The problem of the Agulhas for models + the cyclo-geostrophy correction.

10:45-11:15 Coffee Break

11:15-11:30 M. Lux (Noveltis) - Tidal modelling, some case studies

11:30-11:50 K-F. Dagelstad (MetNo) - A case study to use GlobCurrent products

11:50-12:20 J. Isern-Fontanet (CSIC) - A case study over the Mediterranean Alboran sea

12:20-12:45 J. Molemaker (UCLA, LabexMer) - Gulf of Mexico future campaigns: CARTHE

13:00-14:00 Lunch

14:00-14:30 C. Ubelmann (CLS) - Towards improved SSH products

14:30-15:00 N. Reul (Ifremer) - Sea surface salinity products

15:00-15:45 GlobCurrent (user-led) - Breakout discussions on a) scientific definitions and b) applications

15:45-16:15 Coffee Break

16:15-17:30 Open discussion and Way forward

18:00 pm – Bus Departure for Brest City Centre

 

Friday 6 November 2015

08:30 am – Bus Departure from Brest Train Station to Ifremer Institute

09:00-10:00 F. Collard (ODL) - Second tour of the GlobCurrent navigation tool (Syntool)

10:00-11:00 GlobCurrent Science Team led discussion

11:00-11:30 Coffee Break

11:30-12:30 C. Donlon and J.A. Johannessen (ESA and NERSC) - Final comments and wrap-up

12:30-13:30 Lunch

14:00-17:00 GlobCurrent internal meeting