EGU 2012 SMOS Ocean User Meeting

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EGU 2012 SMOS Ocean User Meeti...

EGU 2012 SMOS Ocean User Meeting

14-Apr - 14-Apr 2012

Vienna, Austria

At the European Geosciences Union (EGU) 2012 conference, ESA jointly organised the SMOS Ocean User Meeting with leading scientists in the field. The aim of the meeting was twofold, namely to:

Inform and prepare SMOS Sea Surface Salinity (SSS) data users of the content, quality and the caveats of the data available from the operational processing and the reprocessing of SMOS Level 2 SSS data and to raise awareness of issues in the Level 1 Brightness Temperatures and how they progress to Level 2 SSS data.
To gather detailed feedback from data users across various areas of interest.

The meeting was attended by approximately 30 to 40 people.

Download presentations:

Topic	Speaker	Time
Briefing to ocean salinity data users
Introduction and scope of this meeting - File size [271 kb]	S. Mecklenburg	5 mins
SMOS MIRAS instrument performance and status of level 1 data processing - File size [850 kb]	M. Martin-Neira (ESA)	20 mins
Status of the level 2 ocean salinity retrieval - File size [1,045 kb]	J. Font / J. Boutin (LOCEAN) N. Reul (IFREMER)	15 mins
Level 3 and 4 data products based on SMOS data - File size [5,532 kb]	N. Reul (IFREMER) for CATDS A. Turiel (CSIC) for CP34	20 mins
User feedback on
Global Level 3 SMOS ocean salinity assessment Global Level 3 Ocean Salinity from SMOS: The NOC Experience - File size [5,903 kb]	Ch. Gommenginger (NOC, UK)	10 - 15 mins
Validation of a new SMOS salinity L3 product - File size [908 kb]	J.Köhler, D.Stammer (University of Hamburg)	10 - 15 mins
Data assimilation Proposed use of satellite salinity data in the FOAM ocean forecasting system: validation and data assimilation - File size [753 kb]	N. McConnell (UK Metoffice)	10 - 15 mins
Surface salinity data to validate ocean simulations and data assimilation experiments in the North-eastern Atlantic Ocean - File size [897 kb]	J. Ballabrera (UTM-CSIC)	10 - 15 mins
Use of SMOS-derived surface salinity products to improve the quality of ocean estimates obtained by Mercator Océan using assimilative ocean models - File size [451 kb]	E. Dombrowsky (Mercator Océan)	10 - 15 mins
Bio-geochemical use Spatial and temporal coherence between Amazon River discharge, salinity, ocean color variables in western tropical Atlantic surface waters - File size [1,113 kb]	J. Salisbury and D. Vandemark (UNH), N. Reul and B. Chapron (IFREMER)	10 - 15 mins
Salinity retrieval in warm waters Seasonal cycle of the low-salinity pool off Panama, Eastern Pacific, from in situ and SMOS data - File size [930 kb]	G .Alory (LEGOS)	10 - 15 mins
Rain impact on SMOS SSS intertropical convergence zone of the Pacific: SOLAS - File size [388 kb]	J.Boutin (LOCEAN)	10 - 15 mins
Summary discussion - File size [83 kb]		15 mins