Programme

27-Oct - 28-Oct 2015

Noordköping, Sweden

High Level Agenda

Monday 6 July 2016

Programme (20 October 2015)
Day 1: Tuesday, 27 October 2015
8:00-8:30	Registration
8:35	Introduction
8:35	Ulrika Willén	SMHI, Sweden		Welcome and introduction
8:50	Bojan Bojkov	ESA, Italy		EO challenges in the Arctic and high-latitudes and the workshop objectives
9:20	Ralf Döscher	SMHI, Sweden		Challenges for climate science in the Arctic
9:40	Dennis Nazarenko	LOOKNorth, Canada		Overview of the first APVE Workshop: Canadian perspective
10:00	Yves Crevier	CSA, Canada		Coordination Framework for Satellite-Based EO Monitoring in the Government
10:20-10:45	Cofee Break
10:45	Cryosphere Session (1/2) - Chair: C. Duguay
10:45	Kari Luojus	Finnish Meteorological Institute, Finland		Integrated Monitoring of the Land Cryosphere Utilizing Active and Passive, Optical and Microwave Instruments
11:00	Thomas Nagler	ENVEO, Austria		Advancements in Snow and Ice Monitoring by the Sentinel Satellite Constellation
11:15	Birgit Heim (On Behalf of Annett Bartsch)	AWI, Germany		Permafrost long-term monitoring sites (Arctic and Antarctic) as focus areas for monitoring by satellite data
11:30	Michael Linden-Vørnle	National Space Institute, Denmark		Arctic infrastructure using satellites and unmanned systems
11:45	Land Session (1/2) - Chair: G. Leblanc
11:45	David Gustafsson	SMHI, Sweden		Assessment of in-situ and satellite based snow cover data for improving land to ocean discharge predictions with a pan-arctic hydrological model
12:00	Sébastien Saunier	TPZ/Magellium, France		The use of Landsat MSS historical data in the case of climate studies
12:15	Raymond Soffer	NRC, Canada		The Mer Bleue Arctic Simulation Study (MBASS)
12:30	Birgit Heim	AWI, Germany		User and Expert-supported Validation and Evaluation Experiments for high-latitude permafrost landscapes: ESA DUE PERMAFROST (2009-2012) and ongoing programs EnMAP, PAGE21, HGF-EDA
12:45-13:45	Lunch
13:45	Lake and Coastal Session (1/2) - Chair: P. Kowalczuk
13:45	Claude R. Duguay		University of Waterloo, Canada	Development of Arctic Lake Ice Products from MODIS and VIIRS Data
14:05	Dmytro Kyryliuk		Stockholm University, Sweden	Total suspended matter derived from MERIS data as indicator of coastal process extent in the Baltic Sea
14:25	Elina Kari		Stockholm University, Sweden	Retrieval of suspended particulate matter from turbidity model development, validation, and application to MERIS data over the Baltic Sea
14:40	Atmosphere (1/2) - Chair: R. Preusker
14:40	Susanne Crewell		University of Cologne, Germany	(AC)3: A German initiative to study ArctiC Amplification: Climate Relevant Atmospheric and SurfaCe Processes, and Feedback Mechanisms
15:00	Kathleen Wilmot(On behalf of Ralf Bennartz)		Vanderbilt University, US	High-latitude satellite product validation at Summit-Greenland
15:20-15:45	Coffee Break
15:05	Salomon Eliasson		SMHI, Sweden	The CMSAF CLARA-A2 satellite dataset simulator - a general description and demonstration assessing EC Earth modelled Arctic cloud response to changing sea-ice cover
15:20	Karl-Göran Karlsson		SMHI, Sweden	Performance of Arctic cloud products in the CLARA-A2 AVHRR dataset
16:30	Discussion
17:30	End of day 1
17:30-19:00	Icebreaker
19:00	Non-hosted dinner

Programme (20 October 2015)
Day 2: Wednesday 28 October 2015
	Review from Day 1
8:30	Bojan Bojkov	ESA, Italy	Overview and outcomes from Day 1
8:40	Cryosphere (2/2) - Chair: D. Gustafsson
8:40	David Small	University of Zurich, Switzerland	Sentinel-1 Backscatter Composite Products for Wet Snow Mapping
8:55	Jacob L. Høyer	Danish Meteorological Institute, Denmark	Validation of satellite ice surface temperature using field campaign observations in the Arctic
9:10	Steffen Tietsche	European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts, UK	Using satellite products to evaluate Arctic sea ice in the new ECMWF ocean reanalysis ORAP5
9:25	Discussion
9:35	Atmosphere session (2/2) - Chair: S. Crewell
9:35	Daniel Klaus	Alfred Wegener Institute, Germany	New insight of Arctic cloud parameterisation from regional climate model simulations, satellite-based and drifting station data
9:50	René Preusker	FUB, Germany	Water Vapour and cloud observations in the Arctic
10:05	Joseph Sedlar	Stockholm University, Sweden	Should we trust AIRS thermodynamic profiles over the remote Arctic Ocean?
10:20	Abhay Devasthale	SMHI, Sweden	Towards improved understanding of the vertical structure of the Arctic atmosphere: Contributions from the A-Train convoy and relevancy for ESA missions
10:35	Discussion
10:50-11:05	Coffee Break
11:05	Lake and Coastal Session (2/2) - Chair: C. Duguay
11:05	Miroslaw Darecki	Institute of Oceanology Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland	Remote sensing of the euphotic zone depth in stratified Arctic waters.
11:25	Tiit Kutser	University of Tartu, Estonia	Validation of ocean colour products in inland and coastal waters of Northern Europe
11:55	Piotr Kowalczuk	Institute of Oceanology Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland	Bio-optical properties of the West Spitsbergen Shelf. The baseline for the validation and uncertainty characterisation of Earth Observation products in the European Arctic.
12:10	Brigit Heim	AWI, Germany	From Ocean Colour to Organic Carbon
12:30-13:30	Lunch
13:30	Land Session (2/2) - Chair: F. Gascon
13:30	George Leblanc (On behalf of N.T Roulet)	NRC, Canada	Long-term measurements of the ecology, hydrology and carbon biochemistry of a northern peatland – projects for remote sensing calibration
13:45	George Leblanc	NRC, Canada	Airborne hyperspectral vegetation products over Mer Bleue Canada: its use as a surrogate northern bog
14:00	Said Kharbouche	Mullard Space Science Laboratory, UK	Assessment of different Satellite reflectance Products over the Arctic Region from the NASA CAR instrument
14:15	H. Peter White	NRCAN, Canada	Spectral image simulation of the Mer Bleue Arctic surrogate study site (MBASSS) and ISDAv2
14:30	Discussion
15:30-15:45	Coffee Break
15:45	Conclusions and recommendations – Way forward Chairs: B. Bojkov and U. Willén
17:30	End