A Workshop on “Mesoscale and Submesoscale
Oceanic Processes: Explorations with Wide-Swath Interferometry
Radar Altimetry”
AGENDA
April 28, Monday
8:00 Continental breakfast
8:30 Sarah Gille, Lee-Lueng Fu – Welcome remarks, logistics, agenda review
8:45
Eric Lindstrom – NASA’s perspectives on the planning of the SWOT
Overview of the SWOT
science objectives
9:00 Lee-Lueng Fu – Background of SWOT opportunities and science challenges
9:30 Doug Alsdorf – Overview of hydrology objectives and requirements
Review of altimetry
observations
9:45 Carl Wunsch - Introduction
10: 15 Break
10:45 Dudley Chelton - Resolution of existing data
11:15 Detlef Stammer - Currents and eddy kinetic energy
11:45 Pierre-Yves La Traon and Patrice Klein – Wavenumber spectrum
12:15 Lunch
1:30 Rosemary Morrow - Eddies and fronts
2:00 Dudley Chelton – Eddies and waves
2:30 Sarah Gille - Currents/mixing/southern ocean
3:00 Break
3:30 Bo Qiu - Eddy-mean flow interaction
4:00 Rob Scott - Energy cascade
Discussions
4:30 Question #1
5:30 Adjourn
6:00 Dinner Reception (at Walter Munk’s home)
April 29, Tuesday
8:00 Continental breakfast
Review of theoretical topics
8:30 Raffaele Ferrari - Introduction
9:00 Rick Salmon - Interior ocean turbulence and SSH
9:30 Patrice Klein - Surface ocean turbulence and SSH
10:00 Jeroen Molemaker - Ocean turbulence and energy dissipation
10:30 Break
11:00 Paola Cessi – Ocean turbulence and boundary currents
11:30 Peter Rhines – Ideas from laboratory experiments
12:00 Marina Levy - Upper ocean turbulence and biogeochemistry
implications
12:30 Adrian Martin - Altimetry and biogeochemistry: and
observational perspective
1:00 Lunch
Discussions
2:00 Question #2
Measurement system
and sampling
3:00 Ernesto Rodriguez – SWOT technology and expected performance
3:30 Steve Nerem -Orbit sampling
4:00 Break
4:30 Marina Levy – A new approach to stirring
Discussions
4:45 Question #3
5:30 Adjourn
8:00 Continental breakfast
Effects of tides, internal
and surface waves
8:30 Richard Ray – Tides and their effects on altimetry measurement
9:00 Brian Arbic – Effects of internal tides
9:30 Ken Melville- Effects of surface waves
10:00 Break
Discussions
10:30 Question #4
11 :00 Question # 5
11 :30 Question #6
12 :00 Wrap up
12 :30 Adjourn