GlobColour Project - The European Service for Ocean Color - Workshops and Forum

Workshops and Forum

Villefranche-sur-mer

workshop GlobColour / Medspiration user consultation meeting

Villefranche-sur-mer workshop

GlobColour 1st user consultation meeting
Medspiration 4th user consultation meeting

Auditorium of the Citadel, Villefranche sur mer, France

AGENDA AND PRESENTATIONS

Day 1. Monday, December 4, 2006

MONDAY, December 4, 2006

• Session 1 : Progress with the GlobColour Service

9h30	9h50	Simon Pinnock, ESA/ESRIN : GlobColour context and motivation
9h50	10h10	Odile Hembise, ACRI-st : overall project organisation and achievements after one year
10h10	10h30	Samantha Lavender, UoP : in situ database and sensor characterisation results
10h30	11h00	Break
11h00	11h20	David Antoine, LOV : trade-off analysis
11h20	11h40	Gilbert Barrot, ACRI-st : the GlobColour products
11h40	12h10	Ralf Quast, Brockman Consult : the GlobColour tools
12h10	14h00	Lunch Break

• Session 2 : Progress with the Medspiration Service

14h00	14h15	Olivier Arino, ESRIN : ESA's original vision for Medspiration
14h15	14h30	Ian Robinson, NOCS : Overview of Medspiration activities since June 2006
14h30	14h50	Jean-François Piollé, IFREMER : Report on Medspiration operations, data delivery, related issues
14h50	15h10	David Poulter, NOCS : Developments of the HR-DDS, and information about SST measurement quality and variability
15h10	15h25	Fabrice Collard, BOOST : New vehicles for transmitting Medspiration data (Google Earth)
15h25	15h50	Break
15h50	16h10	Edward Armstrong, JPL : Distribution of Medspiration products through the GDAC at JPL.
16h10	16h30	Craig Donlon, Met Office : Medspirations role within the international GHRSST-PP
16h30	16h50	Gary Corlett, Univ. Leicester : Improving the SSES inputs to AATSR L2P products
16h50	17h10	John Stark, Met Office : Progressing OSTIA into an operational phase

TUESDAY, December 5, 2006

• Session 3 : Applications of Medspiration products

9h00	9h20	Jacob Høyer, DMI, SST analyses in the northern seas
9h20	9h40	Jean Tournadre, IFREMER : SST analyses and their applications
9h40	10h00	Pierre Le Borgne, Météo-France, Use of L2P data in the MERSEA analyses
10h00	10h20	Jean Tournadre, IFREMER : Coastal cases making use of SST and chl satellite maps
10h20	10h40	Break

• Session 4 : Ocean Color Data merging

10h40	11h00	Andr é Morel, LOV : Verifying the coherency of OC products before merging them and developing applications
11h00	11h20	St é phane Maritorena, ICESS/UCSB : the GSM merging technique; previous achievements and application to GlobColour
11h20	11h40	Janet W Campbell, UNH : Assessing Errors when building Ocean Color Climate Data Records
11h40	12h00	V é ronique Garon, LEGOS : Merging SeaWiFS and MODIS/Aqua ocean color data in the global ocean using weighted averaging and objective analysis
12h00	12h20	Fr é d é ric Mlin, JRC : An optically-based technique for producing merged water leaving radiances; Validation and application for the Mediterranean basin
12h20	12h40	lunch break

• Session 5 : Parallel activities and applications

13h30	13h50	Robert Frouin, Scripps/UCSB : PAR algorithm applied to MERIS and other ocean colour sensors
13h50	14h10	Rosalia Santoleri, CNR : The colour of the Mediterranean Sea: global versus regional bio-optical algorithms evaluation and development of regional chlorohyll dataset in the framework of MERSEA
14h10	14h30	Cyril Moulin, LSCE : Determination of phytoplankton functional types (PFTs) from ocean colour
14h30	14h50	Samantha Lavender, UoP: Applications of the GlobColour PPS and FPS
14h50	15h10	Roberto Aloisi, AAS: Marcoast - Marine and coastal services
	The presentation below will be given in the "TREGOUBOFF" room, at the Villefranche Observatory, just before an aperitive is served
17h00	17h30	Pôle de comptitivit Mer: connection between workshop outcomes and present local, regional and national inititatives - open discussion
17h30		Welcome drink in the "Salle des filets" of the Villefranche Observatory
20h00		Dinner

WEDNESDAY, December 6, 2006

• Session 6 : GlobColour and Medspiration : Service developments in response to user requirements

9h00	9h20	Rosa Barciela, Met Office : Assimilating SST and Ocean colour into ocean forecasting models
9h20	9h40	Ken Casey, NOAA : Requirements for Medspiration inputs to the GHRSST Reanalysis project
9h40	10h00	Ian Robinson, NOCS : Towards establishing the Medspiration Service within the GMES Marine Core Services
10h00	10h30	Break
10h30	10h50	Odile Hembise, ACRI : Towards establishing the GlobColour Service within the GMES Marine Core Services
10h50	10h10	Craig Donlon, Met Office : Sustaining the Medspiration/Globcolor legacy into the next decade
11h10	11h30	Helge Rebhan, ESA/ESTEC : Sentinel 3
11h30	12h50	Olivier Arino, Simon Pinnock, ESA/ESRIN : Concluding remarks

Workshop closed

The European Service for Ocean Colour - GlobColour is an ESA Data User Element Project