Joint Meeting of Ocean Sciences and Surface Water Hydrology in Support of

Wide-Swath Altimetry Measurements

Hosted by:

Lee-Lueng Fu, Hydrosphere Mapper, llf@pacific.jpl.nasa.gov

Doug Alsdorf, WATER, alsdorf.1@osu.edu

October 30th and 31st in Washington D.C.

Scroll down for links to suggested reading materials and web pages.

Information regarding the meeting hotel, airports, travel, maps, etc. is located after the list of participants.

October 30th Monday - All Day

7:45 - 9:00: Continental Breakfast at the meeting room

 

9:00 - 9:15:  Welcome and opening remarks, Lee Fu, Doug Alsdorf

                     Define our meeting goals and expected outcomes

 

9:15 - 10:45: Overview of Wide-Swath Science and Technology 

9:15 - 9:45:  Science & Applications of the WATER Mission Concept, Doug Alsdorf

9:45 - 10:15:  Science & Applications of the Global Hydrosphere Mapper Concept, Lee Fu

10:15 - 10:45:  Wide-Swath Technology, Ernesto Rodriguez

 

10:45 - 11:00: Coffee Break

 

11:00 - 12:00: Space Agency Wide-Swath Activities

11:00 - 11:20:  Overview of the NASA Science Plan, Lucia Tsaoussi

11:20 - 11:40:  NASA Support for Wide-Swath, Tony Freeman

11:40 - 12:00:  CNES Activities Supporting Wide-Swath, Eric Thouvenot, Herve Jeanjean

 

12:00 - 5:25: Action Item Discussions: Science Thrusts & Requirements

12:00 - 12:25:  Sampling Issues for Sub-Mesoscale Oceanic Processes,

Jim McWilliams [Monday only]

12:25 - 1:30:  Lunch Break

 

1:30 - 1:55: Ocean Currents and Eddies (version with movie), Dudley Chelton

1:55 - 2:20: Ocean Biogeochemical Processes, David Glover [Monday only]

2:20 - 2:45: Needs for Understanding Coastal Zone Processes, Ted Strub

2:45 - 3:05: Performance of a Wide Swath Altimeter to Control a Model of North Sea

Dynamics, Baptiste Mourre

3:05 - 3:20: Coffee Break

 

3:20 - 3:45: Ocean and Coastal Zone Wide-Swath Navy Applications, Gregg Jacobs

3:45 - 4:10: Surface Water Virtual Mission, Dennis Lettenmaier

4:10 - 4:35: Needs for Understanding Flooding Dynamics, Paul Bates

4:35 - 5:00: Arctic Hydrology and Climate Change, Larry Smith

5:00 - 5:25: Wetland Dynamics and Carbon Fluxes, John Melack

 

5:25: Discussion will be held Tuesday morning

 

October 31st Tuesday: Morning Only

7:45 - 8:30: Continental Breakfast at the meeting room

 

8:30 - 9:15: Discussion to Form Consensus on Science Thrusts & Requirements:

led by Lee Fu, Doug Alsdorf

 

9:15 - 11:30: Action Item Discussions: Mission Orbits & Data Requirements

9:15 - 10:00: Orbit Selection Issues for Ocean Sciences, Don Chambers, Richard Ray

10:00 - 10:15: Orbits and the Global Distribution of Rivers, Lakes, and Wetlands,

Ernesto Rodriguez

10:15 - 10:35: Issues with Data Downlink Rates, Tony Freeman

 

10:35 - 10:50: Coffee Break

 

10:50 - 11:10: Issues with Rain Rates and Overpass Times, Ernesto Rodriguez

11:10 - 11:30: Discussion to Form Consensus on Mission Orbits & Data Requirements

led by Lee Fu, Doug Alsdorf

 

 

11:30 - 12:00: Action Item Discussions: Next Steps

(1)  Writing of Meeting Report, leading to publishable manuscript, on the consensus of science thrusts, science requirements, mission orbits, data requirements, and participating agencies.

(2)  Fall AGU Wide-Swath Session; opportunity for further discussions with much broader community.

(3)  Determine next meeting. Should it be timed with funding opportunity, or with need for very broad community support, or during an international meeting?

 

 

Links to Suggested Reading Materials, for Meeting Preparation:

WatER Submission to NRC Decadal Review Panel (3.5 Mb PDF)

Hydrosphere Mapper Submission to NRC Decadal Review Panel (0.5 Mb PDF)

Mapping Ocean Surface Topography at 1 km Resolution (1.2 Mb PDF)

U.S. WatER Web Page

E.U WatER Web Page

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

List of Invited Meeting Attendees: (dated 25 October 06)

OS = Ocean Sciences; H = Hydrology; Y=Yes; N=No; Y/N = Maybe

 

Name

Email

Specialty

Attending

Anny Cazenave

anny.cazenave@cnes.fr

OS H

Y

Balazs Fekete

balazs.fekete@unh.edu

H

Y

Baptiste Mourre

mourre@icm.csic.es

OS

Y

Byron Tapley

tapley@csr.utexas.edu

OS

Y

Bob Su

b_su@itc.nl

H

 

Bill Emery

emery@ccar.colorado.edu

OS

Y

C.K. Shum

ckshum@osu.edu

OS

Y

Charles Vorosmarty

charles.vorosmarty@unh.edu

H

N

Charon Birkett

cmb@nemo.gsfc.nasa.gov

H remote sensing

Y

Cheryl Ann Blain

cheryl.ann.blain@nrlssc.navy.mil

U.S. Navy

Y

Dara Entekhabi

darae@MIT.EDU

H

 

David Glover

dglover@whoi.edu

OS

Y

David Sandwell

dsandwell@ucsd.edu

OS

 

Delwyn Moller

delwyn.moller@jpl.nasa.gov

Wide Swath Technology

N

Dennis Lettenmaier

dennisl@u.washington.edu

H modeling

Y

Detlef Stammer

stammer@ifm.uni-hamburg.de

OS

N

Diane Evans

Diane.L.Evans@jpl.nasa.gov

JPL

Y

Don Chambers

chambers@csr.utexas.edu

OS orbit selection

Y

Donald Anderson

donald.anderson-1@mail.nasa.gov

NASA HQ

N

Doug Alsdorf

alsdorf.1@osu.edu

H remote sensing

Y

Dudley Chelton

chelton@coas.oregonstate.edu

OS ocean sampling

Y

Eric Lindstrom

eric.j.lindstrom@nasa.gov

NASA HQ

Y

Eric Thouvenot

Eric.Thouvenot@cnes.fr

CNES

Y

Eric Wood

efwood@princeton.edu

H modeling remote sensing

Y

Ernesto Rodriguez

ernesto.rodriguez@jpl.nasa.gov

Wide Swath Technology

Y

Francois Parisot

francois.parisot@eumetsat.int

Eumetsat

N

Frederic Frappart

ffrappar@uci.edu

H

Y

Gregg Jacobs

Gregg.Jacobs@nrlssc.navy.mil

U.S. Navy

Y

Hans Bonekamp

hans.bonekamp@eumetsat.int

Eumetsat

Y

Harley Hurlburt

Harley.Hurlburt@nrlssc.navy.mil

U.S. Navy

Y

Herve Jeanjean

herve.jeanjean@cnes.fr

CNES

Y

James McGuire

james.mcguire@noaa.gov

NOAA NPOESS IPO

Y

Jared Entin

jared.k.entin@nasa.gov

NASA HQ

Y

Jay Famiglietti

jfamigli@uci.edu

H modeling remote sensing

Y

Jim McWilliams

jcm@atmos.ucla.edu

OS

Y

John Melack

melack@bren.ucsb.edu

H wetlands remote sensing

Y

John LaBrecque

John.LaBrecque@nasa.gov

NASA HQ

 

Kathie Kelly

kkelly@apl.washington.edu

OS

N

Larry Smith

lsmith@geog.ucla.edu

H remote sensing

Y

Laury Miller

Laury.Miller@noaa.gov

NOAA OS

Y

Lee Fu

llf@pacific.jpl.nasa.gov

OS

Y

Lucia Tsaoussi

lucia.s.tsaoussi@mail.nasa.gov

NASA HQ

Y

Mark Drinkwater

Mark.Drinkwater@esa.int

ESA HQ

N

Nelly Mognard

nelly.mognard@cnes.fr

H remote sensing

Y

Mike Freilich

mhf@coas.oregonstate.edu

NASA HQ

Y

Paul Bates

Paul.Bates@bristol.ac.uk

H hydrodynamic modeling

Y

Paula Bontempi

paula.s.bontempi@nasa.gov

NASA HQ

 

Pascal Kosuth

pascal.kosuth@teledetection.fr

H

 

Pedro Restrepo

pedro.restrepo@noaa.gov

H NOAA

N

Peter Troch

patroch@hwr.arizona.edu

H

N

Peter Hildebrand

peter.hildebrand@nasa.gov

H

 

Pierre-Yves Le Traon

Pierre.Yves.Le.Traon@ifremer.fr

IFREMER

 

Richard Ray

richard.ray@nasa.gov

OS tidal aliasing

Y

Stan Wilson

Stan.Wilson@noaa.gov

NOAA

Y

Steve Nerem

nerem@colorado.edu

OS

Y

Steven Neeck

steven.neeck@mail.nasa.gov

NASA HQ

Y

Ted Strub

tstrub@coas.oregonstate.edu

OS coastal and eddy

Y

Tony Freeman

Anthony.Freeman@jpl.nasa.gov

JPL

Y

Victor Zlotnicki

Victor.Zlotnicki@jpl.nasa.gov

OS

Y

Yi Chao

Yi.Chao@jpl.nasa.gov