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2026 IOVWST Miami, Florida, USA

[  Sponsors  |  Agenda  |  Attendees  |  Discussion Summary  ]

Programmatic Talks

• Organizing Introduction
  Mark Bourassa, Stefanie Linow, and the IOVWST Organizing Committee
• Remarks
  Ben Kirtman

New Products and Updates

• Climate Reanalyses ERA5 -> ERA6 -> ERA7
  Ad Stoffelen
• COAPS Compact Scatterometer Datasets Update
  Amanda Lovett and Mark Bourassa
• Nadir Scatterometry
  David Long
• Comparing LCRES and NR QuikSCAT Coastal Wind Retrievals
  Bryan Stiles, Alex Fore, Alex Wineteer, Svetla Hristova-Veleva, Federica Polverari, and Hector Torres

Meteorology

• Machine Learning Correction of Ocean Forcing Forecasts Using Scatterometer Data
  E. Makarova, M. Portabella, A. Stoffelen, M. García, and M. Sotillo
• Assessing the direct assimilation of scatterometer backscatter over the ocean
  Saleh Abdalla, Sean Healy, Giovanna De Chiara, and Matthew Chantry
• Scatterometer-model wind bias statisticsfor different instruments and other factors
  Rianne Giesen and Ad Stoffelen
• Multi-sensor Worldwide Ocean Winds (MWOW): Enabling Diurnal Variability Studies, Advancing NASA PBL Investigations, and Supporting Synergistic Product Development with INCUS
  Svetla Hristova-Veleva, Bryan Stiles, Federica Polverari, Alex Fore, Alex Wineteer, and Hector Torres

Retrieval Methodologies & Validation, Session 1

• Improving ocean surface vector wind products from satellite observations
  Ad Stoffelen
• Post-launch performance evaluation of EOS06/Oceansat-3 Scatterometer winds using HY-2D, In-situ and NWP model fields
  Sikhakolli Rajesh, Manche Shiva Shankar, PV Nagamani, Aparna N, and Prakash Chauhan
• Retrieval of Ocean Surface Wind Speed for Future Passive Microwave Imager: MWI onboard EPS-SG
  Sisma Samuel, Anton Verhoef, Ad Stoffelen
• Multi-sensor Worldwide Ocean Winds Version 0.2 Product Sensor Performance Characterization
  Bryan Stiles, Federica Polverari, Svetla Hristova-Veleva, Alex Fore, Alex Wineteer, and Hector Torres
• Wind Field Retrieval from L-band SAR Mimicking Future ROSE-L Acquisitions
  G. Grieco, M. Portabella, F. Cossu, E. Makarova, R. Suñe-Gonzalez, A. Mouche, A. Grouazel, Q. Febvre, M. W. Hansen, A. Rabaneda, F. Nunziata, D. Comite, A. Valentino, M. Pinheiro, L. Iannini, and Y. Zhu
• Tehuantepec Gap Wind
  Unknown

Air-Sea Interaction, Session 1

• Influence of the Madden-Julian Oscillation on Marine Heatwaves in the Central Tropical Indian Ocean
  Toshi Shinoda, Lillian Pedraza, and Weiqing Han
• Ocean-Atmosphere Measurements from Uncrewed Surface Vehicles in Hurricanes
  Greg Foltz, Dongxiao Zhang, Lev Looney, Andy Chiodi, Jun Zhang, Chidong Zhang, Edo Mazza, Nan-Hsun Chi, Ned Cokelet, and Lucrezia Ricciardulli
• A Model-Based Study of Power Input to Hurricane Boundary-Layers
  Matthew Weiberg, Mark Bourassa, Chelsea Nam, and Collin Cruz
• Ocean-Atmosphere Energy Exchange and Its Role in Hurricane Intensity
  Jun Zhang, Jason Dunion, Elizabeth Sanabia, Gregory Foltz, David Richter, and Ping Zhu

Air-Sea Interaction, Session 2

• Swell Modulation of Scatterometer Wind Speed Observations
  Sthitapragya Ray, Marco Larrañaga, and Mark Bourassa
• A DNS Study of Momentum and Energy Exchange in Misaligned Wind-Wave Condition
  Jinshi Chen, Nicolo Scapin, and Luc Deike
• Analysis of the Scatterometer Ocean Surface Measurement Dependency on Sea State: An Update
  Federico Cossu, Ana Trindade, Marcos Portabella, Anton Verhoef, and Ad Stoffelen
• Growth Rate and Energy Dissipation in Breaking Waves at High Wind Speeds
  Nicolò Scapin, Jiarong Wu, J. Thomas Farrar, Bertrand Chapron, Stéphane Popinet, and Luc Deike

Retrieval Methodologies & Validation, Session 2

• ASCAT Reprocessing
  S. Linow, N. Khosravi, S. Kok Lupemba, C. Anderson, V. John, and K. Petraityte
• Calibration and Validation of Commercial GNSS-R Data
  Faozi Said, Zorana Jelenak, and Paul S. Chang
• Buoy Validation of Synthetic Aperture Radar Derived Ocean Surface Winds using CMOD4 / CMOD7
  Christopher R. Jackson, Jessie C. Moore Torres, Rachel Lazzaro, Tyler W. Ruff, and Marilyn Yuen Murphy
• Comment on TAO Buoy Wind Calibration Change
  Collin A. Cruz, Mark A. Bourassa, and Shawn R. Smith
• NDBC TAO Wind
  NDBC
• ERA5 Updates on the Impact of TAO Buoy Winds
  Paul Poli, Michael Mayer, and Giovanna De Chiara
• The End-of-Mission COWVR Data Release: Improved Performances of the Environmental Data Product
  Federica Polverari, Mary Morris, and Shannon T. Brown
• Polarimetric Response of the Ocean Surface Over the Full Range of Incidence Angle from 18-35 GHz: Results from the COWVR Pitch Experiment
  Shannon Brown, Mary Morris, Alex Akins, and Federica Polverari
• NDBC TAO Wind
  NDBC

Mission Updates

• Virtual Scatterometer Constellation
  Ad Stoffelen, James Cotton, and Josephine Hall
• Present Status of AMSR3
  Naoto Ebuchi, Misako Kachi, Rigen Shimada, Eri Yoshizawa, Keiichi Ohara, Kazuki Nakata, Kentaro Aida, Takumi Suzuki, Takeshi Miura, and Kazuya Inaoka
• Updates on the Veery Scatterometer Development Program
  Patrick Walton
• Assessment of Wind-Wave Induced Doppler Velocity Using Sentinel-1 and Coastal HF Radar in the Northwestern Mediterranean
  Shilei Wang, Marcos Portabella, and Xiaolong Dong
• Update on CYGNSS Ocean Wind Product: Performance Characterization and General GNSS-R Ocean Wind Properties
  Chris Ruf
• Prospects on GNSS-Reflectometry for Wind Speed Estimation and Numerical Weather Prediction
  Maria Paola Clarizia, Josep Rosello, Nicolas Floury, Mirko Albani, Martin Unwin, Isadora Zampol, Estel Cardellach, Philip Jales, Jessica Cartwright, Sean Healy, Saleh Abdalla, Giovanna De Chiara, Mary Forsythe, James Cotton, and Chris Ruf
• EPS-SG SCA Cal / Val Preparation
  S. Linow, N. Khosravi, S. Kok Lupemba, C. Anderson, and M. Cloarec

Calibration and Applications of Extreme Winds

• CYGNSS Coverage Statistics of Tropical Cyclones
  Brian McNoldy, Sharanya Majumdar, Lisa Bucci, and Wallace Hogsett
• Retrieving Winds in Storms with Radiometers without L- or C-Band
  Lucrezia Ricciardulli and Thomas Meissner
• Validation Challenges SAR-Derived Tropical Cyclone Winds
  Christopher R. Jackson, Jessie C. Moore Torres, Tyler W. Ruff, and Marilyn Yuen Murphy
• Hardware Performance Characterization as a Foundation for Reliable SFMR Extreme Wind Retrievals
  Zorana Jelenak, Heather Holbach, Joe Sapp, Suleiman Alsweiss, Casey Shoup, Seubson Soisuvarn, and Paul Chang
• Rain, Ocean and Atmosphere Radar System (ROARS): The 2025 Hurricane Season
  Paul Chang, Zorana Jelenak, Joe Sapp, Tim Maese, Jim Carswell, and Ricky Roy
• Intercomparison of Satellite Wind Products for Tropical Cyclones
  Victoria Pizzini, Roland Romeiser, and Lisa Bucci

Oceanography

• Stokes Drift and Wind Drift in a Rotating Equilibrium Sea
  R. M. Samelson and S. F. Zippel
• OSCAR Developments, Long Term Trends, and Surface Wave Effects
  Kathleen Dohan
• Frontal Evolution with Wave Forcing
  Mara Freilich, Lulabel Ruiz Seitz, Ryan Creedon, Nick Pizzo, Luc Lenain, and Kayli Matsuyoshi
• Drivers of Marine Heatwaves and Their Decadal Suppression in the Southwest Indian Ocean in Recent Decades
  Weiqing Han

Combining Observations and Theory to Understand Air-Sea Coupling Processes

• Scale-Dependent SAR Normalized Radar Cross Section Distribution
  Y. Liu, G. Grieco, and M. Migliaccio
• Modulation of Trade Wind Precipitation by Sub-Kilometer Boundary Layer Rolls and Convective Cells
  Justin Stopa, Ryan Eastman, Ralph Foster, Doug Vandemark, Alexis Mouche, Bertrand Chapron, Yannik Glaser, and Peter Sadowski
• The Impact of the Ocean Currents in the ASCAT Observation Operator in a Coupled DA Configuration
  Giovanna De Chiara

Air-Sea Interaction, Session 3

• Decomposing Atmospheric Response to Mesoscale Eddies: Roles of Thermal Gradients and Air-Sea Temperature Contrast
  Marco Larrañaga, Sthitapragya Ray, Mark Bourassa, and Lionel Renault
• DopSCA: ESA MOMS Project
  Ad Stoffelen, Alexandre Payez, Paco Lopez-Dekker, and Owen O’Driscoll
• Kinematics of Gravity-Capillary Waves Above an Evolving Underwater Current
  Clara Martin Blanco, Nicolo Scapin, Jiarong Wu, Stéphane Popinet, Tom Farrar, Bertrand Chapron, and Luc Deike
• Structure Function Analysis of SAR Imagery in PBL Roll Conditions and Comparison with In Situ Observations
  Ralph Foster, Make Caruso, Luc Lenain, Tom Farrar, and Hans Graber
• Bridging Mesoscale to Submesoscale Air-Sea Coupling of SST and the Wind
  Alexander Wineteer, Ernesto Rodriguez, Hector Torres, Dragana Perkovic-Martin, Federica Polvarari, Ruzbeh Akbar, Jeroen Molemaker, Delphine Hypolite, and Tom Farrar
• Observations of Finescale SST-Wind Coupling in High-Wind Conditions
  Mingming Shao, Gregory Foltz, Jun Zhang, and Matthieu Le Henaff

Lightning Poster Talks, Session 1

• An Analysis of Tails
  Gregory P. King, Marcos Portabella, and Ad Stoffelen
• What Drives the Spatial Variability of the Stokes Drift?
  Colin Beyers, Bia Villas Bôas, James Clemson, Katie Gonzalez, Gwen Marechal, Matt Mazloff, Rui Sun, and Hector Torres-Gutierrez
• Fiducial Reference Measurements for SAR-Derived Winds
  G. Grieco, F. Cossu, M. Portabella, A. Rabaneda, M. W. Hansen, M. Pinheiro, and A. Valentino
• COWVR Calibration to GMI and Wind Direction Performance
  Richard Lindsley, Katherine Nelson, Frank Wentz, and Thomas Meissner
• The Global L-band Observatory for Water Cycle Studies (GLOWS): Simultaneous Active and Passive Winds
  David G. Long, Rajat Bindlish, and Mark Bailey

Lightning Poster Talks, Session 2

• Antarctic Ice Modeling Improvements for Cross-Sensor Calibration
  Nathan Porter and David Long
• ASCAT UHR Sea Ice Extent Record Extension
  Porter Evans and David Long
• The NASA Scatterometer Climate Record Pathfinder Project
  J. Z. Miller and D. G. Long
• L-Band Radar Backscatter Wind Direction Dependence
  Benjamin J. Fogg and David G. Long
• Impact of Amazon Deforestation on ASCAT Backscatter
  Alex McBride and David Long
• Breaking Down the Effects of Current Feedback Coupling onto the Atmospheric Boundary Layer
  Kamran Chowdhury, Mark Bourassa, Marco Larrañaga, and Jiahua Zhou

2025 IOVWST … Darmstadt, Germany

[  Sponsors  |  Agenda  |  Attendees  |  Discussion Summary  ]

• Programmatic Talks Session

• Welcome to Darmstadt
  Stefanie Linow (EUMETSAT)
• Introduction to IOVWST 2025
  Mark Bourassa (FSU) and Stefanie Linow (EUMETSAT)
• Status and recent developments of the EUMETSAT scatterometer missions
  Stefanie Linow et al.
• IOVWST 2025 Discussion of Goals from Yesterday
  Mark Bourassa
• IOVWST 2025 Discussion of Goals from Yesterday
  Mark Bourassa
• Discussion of Goals from Yesterday
  Mark Bourassa
• Expanding the Impact of Your Research
  Annette deCharon and Mark Bourassa

• Sea State Session

• Ocean Surface Wind Retrieval and Quality Control Near Sea Ice
  Bryan W. Stiles et al.
• Analysis of the scatterometer ocean surface measurement dependency on sea state: an update
  Federico Cossu et al.
• Impact of Swell-induced Tilt on Scatterometer Wind Retrieval
  Sthitapragya Ray et al.
• Wind generated wrinkles on the ocean surface
  Xingou Xu (NSSC,CAS); Stoffelen Ad (KNMI)
• Momentum fluxes and energy dissipation in wind-forced breaking waves
  Nicolo Scapin (Princeton University); Wu, Jiarong (Courant Institute); Farrar, J. Thomas (WHOI), Chapron, Bertrand (IFREMER); Popinet, Stephane (Sorbonne University), Deike, Luc (Princeton University)
• Multilayer simulation of wind-forced breaking wave fields statistics and Langmuir turbulence
  Rui Yang (Princeton University); Wu, Jiarong (NYU); Popinet, Stephane (Sorbonne Université and CNRS); Deike, Luc (Princeton University)
• Kinematics of gravity-capillary waves under an evolving underwater current
  Clara Martin Blanco (Princeton University); Scapin, Nicolo (Princeton University); Wu, Jiarong (Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences); Popinet, Stéphane (CNRS); Farrar, Tom (WHOI); Chapron, Bertrand (Ifremer); Deike, Luc (Princeton University)

• Air/Sea Fluxes Session

• Advancing CYGNSS Derived Ocean Surface Heat Fluxes using a Data-Driven and Physical Model Fusion
  Shakeel Asharaf et al.
• Enhanced Tropical Cyclone ASCAT Winds Guided by SAR-Learned Spatial Structure Functions
  Weicheng Ni et al.
• Satellite-Based Ocean Surface Stress in Ice-Free and Ice-Covered Polar Oceans: Recent Arctic Changes
  Lisan Yu and Chao Liu
• Enhanced Tropical Cyclone PenWP Winds Guided by SAR-Learned Spatial Structure Functions
  Xingou Xu et al.

• Mission Updates

• The passive microwave imaging missions MWI and CIMR and their synergies with SCA
  Robin Ekelund and Francesco De Angelis
• Present status of AMSR3
  Naoto Ebuchi et al.
• Compact Ocean Wind Vector Radiometer: Mission Status and Future Constellations
  Shannon Brown, Mary Morris, Amarit Kitiyakara, Federica Polverari, Steve Swadley, Eric Simon, Hui Christophersen,This work was conducted at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology under contract with NASA. Government sponsorship is acknowledged. Naval Research Laboratory, Monterey, Spencer Farrar, Sayak Biswas, Kieran Smith
• The Veery Small Scatterometer: Development Update
  Patrick Walton et al.
• Evaluation of COWVR as a Cost-Effective Sensor for Providing Climate Data Records of Ocean Vector Winds and Other Air-Sea Variables
  Richard Lindsley et al.
• Near-real-time Sea-surface Wind Derived from the Haiyang-2B/C/D Scatterometer Constellation
  Zou Juhong; National Satellite Ocean Application Service
• Post-launch performance evaluation of EOS-06/Oceansat-3 Scatterometer winds using HY-2D, In-situ and NWP model fields
  Sikhakolli Rajesh (NRSC, ISRO); Manche Shiva Shankar (NRSC, ISRO); Mishra Shashank Kumar (NRSC, ISRO); PV Nagamani (NRSC, ISRO); Goru Srinivasa Rao (NRSC, ISRO); Chauhan Prakash (NRSC, ISRO)
• DopSCA ? ESA MOMS project
  NOT FOUND
• The ODYSEA Satellite Concept: Simultaneous Winds and Surface Currents via Doppler Scatterometry
  10 m Gille, ST (SIO), T Lee, MR Fewings, F Ardhuin, MA Bourassa (FSU), P Chang, Sophie E Cravatte, G Dibarboure, J T Farrar, F Girard-Ardhuin, GA Jacobs, Z Jelenak, F Lyard, JC May, E Rémy, L Renault, E Rodriguez, C Ubelmann, AB Villas Boas, AG Wineteer
• The Global L-band Active/Passive Observatory for Water Cycle Studies (GLOWS): High Resolution L-band Wind Speeds
  Nathan Roberts (BYU); David Long (BYU)

• Lightning Poster Talks: Morning Session

• Comprehensive Validation of Imaging Wind and Rain Atmospheric Profiler Wind Measurements
  Zorana Jelenak et al.
• Evaluation and Applications of Ocean Surface Wind Product From Fengyun-3 and Tianmu-1 GNSS-R Constellations
  Feixiong Huang et al.
• Detecting landscape degradation in the South American Pantanal using ASCAT microwave imaging
  Alex N. McBride; David G. Long
• Cold Pools Spectra Poster
  Gregory King
• Scatterometry Techniques Poster
  Yusuke Ioka
• Let Us Help Tell Your Research Story
  Annette deCharon; Mark Bourassa
• Progress in the Analysis of Antarctica as a Target for Multifrequency Cross Calibration Between ASCAT and NSCAT
  Porter et al.
• OSCAT Simultaneous Wind/Rain Geophysical Model Function
  Fogg et al.
• The Effect of the Stokes Drift on Submesoscale Feature Evolution
  Kayli Matsuyoshi et al.
• Arctic Sea Ice Extent Mapping Using Artificial Intelligence
  Nathan Roberts (BYU)
• C- and Ku-band Enhanced-Resolution Radar Backscatter Image Products
  Julie Z. Miller
• A Theory to Explain Tropical Cyclone Kinetic Energy Spectra
  Gregory King
• Various Titles
  Various Authors
• Simultaneous Wind/Rain OSCAT Geophysical Model Function
  Benjamin Fogg (BYU); Long, David (BYU)
• Detecting Landscape Degradation in the Pantanal Using ASCAT Imaging
  Alex N. McBride (BYU Microwave Earth Remote Sensing Lab), Long, David G. (BYU Electrical and Computer Engineering Department)

• NWP-Related Applications

• Calculating Fluxes from satellite wind data vs buoy wind data
  Shakeel Asharaf
• Evaluation of HSCAT Observations from HY-2B and HY-2C Satellites in KIM Data Assimilation
  Hyemin Shin et al.

• Retrieval Methodologies Session

• Wind and wave signatures in wind scatterometry
  Xingou Xu and Ad Stoffelen
• CANVAS project: A Calibration and Validation tool for SAR
  Alberto Rabaneda et al.
• A Novel Optimization Approach for Ocean Vector Wind Retrievals Using SAR Measurements
  Yuting Zhu and Marcos Portabella
• Review of the NSCAT GMF in Ku-band Scatterometer Wind Retrieval
  Zhixiong Wang et al.
• A Cross-Comparison Validation between Sentinel-3A SRAL Altimeter and Metop ASCAT-B Scatterometer Wind Speed
  Salvatore Dinardo et al.
• Analysis of Wind and Sea State Signatures in Wind Scatterometry - For Further Improvements in High Wind Scatterometry
  Xingou Xu (NSSC,CAS); Stoffelen Ad (KNMI)
• Retrieval of ocean surface wind and current using OSCOM airborne campaign dataset
  Shilei Wang (National Space Science Center (NSSC), CAS, Beijing, China), Portabella, Marcos (Barcelona Expert Center (BEC), Institut de Ciències del Mar (ICM-CSIC), Barcelona, Spain), Dong, Xiaolong (National Space Science Center (NSSC), CAS, Beijing, China), Lin, Wenming (Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology (NUIST), Nanjing, China), Bao, Qingliu (Piesat Information Technology Co.,Ltd., Bejing, China)

• Oceanographic Processes Session

• Machine Learning Approaches for Characterizing Upwelling-Favorable Winds along Complex Coastlines
  Steven Morey
• Near-surface wind and wave drift currents in the coupled air-sea boundary layer
  R. M Samelson

• Air/Sea Interaction Session

• Marine Heatwaves Increased the Risk of Extreme Precipitation Events Along Southwest Coast of India during Indian Summer Monsoon
  D. L. Suhas et al.
• Surface winds, air-sea flux, and SST variability associated with atmospheric rivers over the Arabian Sea
  Toshi Shinoda et al.
• Seasonal dependence of atmospheric river impacts on marine heatwaves
  Suqiong Hu and Shineng Hu
• An Algorithm to Develop a Satellite-Based Atmospheric River Database
  Shineng Hu and Liu Tianying
• Relationship of Precipitation and Marine Atmospheric Boundary Layer (MABL) states as Observed by SAR over the Subtropical Ocean
  Justin Stopa (The University of Hawai`i at Mānoa); Eastman, Ryan (The University of Washington); Vandemark, Doug (The University of New Hampshire); Foster, Ralph (The University of Washington); Mouche, Alexis (IFREMER); Chapron, Bertrand (IFREMER)
• Surface winds, air-sea flux and SST variability associated with atmospheric rivers in the Arabian Sea
  Toshi Shinoda (Texas A&M University - Corpus Christi), Suyang Pei (Texas A&M University - Corpus Christi), Weiqing Han (University of Colorado)

• Retrieval Methodologies & Validation Session 1

• The calibration and reprocessing of the ASCAT-A mission
  Narges Khosravi et al.
• WindRAD scatterometer quality control in rain
  Zhen Li et al.
• Triple Collocation-Based Network for Ocean Surface Wind Speed Retrieval on CYGNSS
  Xinjie Shi et al.
• RSS Updates on Satellite Wind Processing and Validation
  Lucrezia Ricciardulli et al.

• Retrieval Methodologies & Validation Session 2

• Analysis of Coastal Winds Derived From QuikSCAT at OSI-SAF
  Giuseppe Grieco et al.
• Buoy Validation of SAR Derived Ocean Surface Winds using CMOD7
  Christopher Jackson et al.
• Geophysical Model Function to Retrieve Ocean Surface Wind Speeds with High-Resolution X-band Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) Data
  Yuriy Goncharenko (Capella Space Corporation); Jackson, Christopher (Global Ocean Associates); Farquharson, Gordon (Capella Space Corporation)
• ASCAT higher resolution winds closer to the coast
  Anton Verhoef et al.
• Comprehensive Validation Analysis of the Stepped Frequency Microwave Radiometer Data from 2024 Hurricane Season
  Zorana Jelenak et al.
• Analysis of Coastal Winds Derived From QuikSCAT at OSI-SAF
  Giuseppe Grieco (ISMAR-CNR); Portabella, Marcos (Barcelona Expert Center (ICM-CSIC); Cossu, Federico (ICM-CSIC); Stoffelen, Ad (KNMI); Verhoef, Anton (KNMI); Vogelzang, Jur KNMI); Stiles, Bryan (NASA-JPL)
• Height Adjustment of Airborne Doppler Radar Wind Speeds from IWRAP: Estimating 10 m Winds in Atlantic Tropical Cyclones
  Maggie Zoerner, Mark Bourassa, Zorana Jelenak, Heather Holbach

• Meteorological Processes Session

• Improving Ocean Wind Forcing Reanalysis and Forecasting: Machine Learning Approaches for NWP Bias Correction
  Evgeniia Makarova et al.
• Intraseasonal to Decadal Wind Variability from Satellite Observations
  Lucrezia Ricciardulli and Mears
• Inferring Tropical Cyclone Boundary Layer Roll Circulations from SAR
  Ralph Foster (UW); Jelanak, Zorana (NOAA, NESDIS); Sapp, Joe (NOAA NESDIS); Chang, Paul (NOAA NESDIS); Mouche, Alexis (Ifremer); Chapron, Bertrand (IFREMER)
• Characterization of hurricane structure from satellite-derived wind fields
  Florimond, Thomas (Université de Nantes); Marcos Portabella (BEC, ICM-CSIC); Lin, Wenming (NUIST); Washburn, Lucas (Brown University); Cossu, Federico (BEC, ICM-CSIC); Rabaneda, Albert S. (Met Norway)

2024 IOVWST

[  Sponsors  |  Agenda  |  Attendees  |  Discussion Summary  ]

Presentations (the first presentation in each session is a summary talk)

• Session 1: Programmatic Talks

• Welcome to Salt Lake City
  David Long (BYU)
• Introduction From The Organizing Committee
  Mark Bourassa (FSU), Stefanie Linow (EUMESTAT)
• Ocean Vector Winds - a view from Washington & NASA HQ
  Nadya Vinogradova-Shiffer (NASA HQ) (Invited talk)
• Status and recent developments of the EUMETSAT scatterometer missions
  Stefanie Linow (EUMETSAT), N Khosravi, S Kok Lupemba, C Anderson, M Cloarec, S Remus

• Session 2: Short Reviews

• Explaining Equivalent Neutral Winds and Stress Equivalent Winds
  Mark Bourassa, Ad Stofflelen (KNMI)
• Introduction to Scatterometry
  David Long
• Review of GNSS Winds
  Christopher Ruf (University of Michigan)
• Review of SAR Winds
  Justin Stopa, Giuseppe Grieco, Ad Stoffelen, Tyler Ruff
• Review of Radiometric Winds
  Shannon Brown, Lucrezia Ricciardulli and others
• Ocean Surface Winds Constellation
  Ad Stoffelen

• Session 3: Data Issues and Data Sharing

• PO.DAAC Updates: Available Data, Access, Services, and Cloud Capabilities
  Dean Henze (NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology)
• Investigation of calibration changes in the ocean surface wind measurements from the TAO/TRITON buoy array
  Lucrezia Ricciardulli (Remote Sensing Systems), Andrew Manaster, Richard Lindsley
• Sharing Data issues for discussion
  Mark Bourassa
• Sharing data example and issues for discussion
  Ad Stoffelen

• Session 4: Observing System Updates and Remote Sensing Technology

• CYGNSS Improved Wind Speed Product over Tropical Cyclones
  Christopher Ruf, Mohammad Al-Khaldi, Rajeswari Balasubramaniam, Daniel Pascual, April Warnock
• Correction of Faraday Rotation Effects in SCA Data
  C Anderson, JJW Wilson, S Remus, M Cloarec, S Linow (EUMETSAT)
• Simultaneous Winds and Surface Currents via the proposed ODYSEA Doppler Scatterometer
  Sarah Gille (Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego), Tong Lee, Fabrice Ardhuin, Mark Bourassa, Paul Chang, Sophie Cravatte, Gérald Dibarboure, Tom Farrar, Melanie Fewings, Fanny Girard-Ardhuin, Gregg Jacobs, Zorana Jelenak, Florent Lyard, Jackie May, Elisabeth Rémy, Lionel Renault, Ernesto Rodriguez, Clémen
• Calibration and inversion of the backscatter data from the Chinese OSCOM Doppler Scatterometer airborne prototype
  Shilei Wang (National Space Science Center, NSSC-CAS), Marcos Portabella, Xiaolong Dong, Wenming Lin, and Qingliu Bao
• Performance Simulations for Veery, a Small Scatterometer for an Hourly OSVW Constellation
  Patrick Walton (Care Weather Technologies, Inc.), David G. Long, Alex Laraway
• High Resolution L-band Wind speeds from the Global L-band Observatory for Water Cycle Studies (GLOWS)
  David Long, Rajat Bindlish, Jeffrey Piepmeier, and Mark Bailey
• Improving SFMR retrievals in mid-latitude winter storms
  Stephen Frasier (University of Massachusetts), Jezabel Vilardell Sanchez, Joseph Sapp, Zorana Jelenak, Paul Chang
• Coastal Wind Observations with HF Radar: Status and Validation
  Brian Emery (Marine Science Institute, University of California Santa Barbara), Anthony Kirincich
• Evaluation of COWVR as a Cost-Effective Sensor for Ocean Vector Winds and Other Air-Sea Variables
  Richard Lindsley (Remote Sensing Systems), Frank Wentz, Katherine Wentz
• DopSCA
  Ad Stoffelen, Alexandre Payez, Paco Lopez Dekker, and Owen O'Driscoll

• Session 5: Oceanography

• Correction of NWP ocean surface wind biases with machine learning and scatterometer data
  Evgeniia Makarova (Barcelona Expert Center (BEC), Institute of Marine Sciences (ICM-CSIC)), Marcos Portabella, Ad Stoffelen, Ana Trindade
• Validation of QuikSCAT-Derived Coastal Winds
  Giuseppe Grieco (Istituto di Scienze Marine - Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche), Marcos Portabella, Ad Stoffelen, Jur Vogelzang, Anton Verhoef, Stefano Zecchetto, Andrea Zanchetta
• Upwelling along Complex Coastlines from Remotely Sensed Winds
  Steven Morey (Florida A&M University)
• The Role of Madden-Julian Oscillation in Causing Extreme Sea Level Events in Coastal Indonesia during Recent Decades
  Will Kamp, W. Han, S. Kido, L. Zhang and J.P. McCreary
• Swell direction impact to satellite derived sea surface winds
  Faozi Said (Global Science & Technology, Inc / NOAA), Zorana Jelenak, Paul S Chang

• Session 6: What needs to be done or changed to better understand observed extreme winds in the context of satellite observations and weather models?

• An Overview of the Aircraft TC Measurement: From Present Capabilities to Future Needs
  Zorana Jelenak (NOAA/NESDIS/STAR-UCAR), Mark Bourassa, Paul Chang, Heather Holbach and Ralph Foster
• How do we define wind speed for hurricane force winds?
  Mark Bourassa and Renee Richardson
• Intercalibration and error characterization of satellite and synergistic sea-surface wind products under tropical cyclone conditions
  Federico Cossu (Barcelona Expert Center (BEC), Institute of Marine Sciences (ICM-CSIC)), Evgeniia Makarova, Albert S. Rabaneda, Marcos Portabella, Joe Tenerelli, Nicolas Reul, Ad Stoffelen, Giuseppe Grieco, Joseph Sapp, Zorana Jelenak, and Paul Chang
• Aircraft Scatterometer and Radiometer Measurements within Tropical Cyclone Extreme Rain Bands
  Zorana Jelenak, Joe Sapp, Clayton Byorland, Paul Chang and Casey Shoup
• Using Extreme Value Theory to Study Decadal Trends in Extreme Ocean Surface Winds
  Alexandre Payez (KNMI), Ad Stoffelen, Cees de Valk, Rianne Giesen
• Comparison of ASCAT and SWOT Wind Speeds Near Sea Ice
  Bryan W. Stiles (Jet Propulsion Laboratory), Alexander Fore, Alexander Wineteer, and Benjamin Holt
• Updates on extreme wind measurements with satellite microwave radiometers
  Lucrezia Ricciardulli (Remote Sensing Systems), Thomas Meissner, and Andrew Manaster
• Extreme Winds Observed by Saildrones and the Need for Collaboration with the Satellite Community
  Lev Looney (University of Miami/NOAA AOML), Gregory Foltz, Cheyenne Stienbarger, the NOAA-Saildrone Hurricane Science Team

• Session 7: Air-Sea Interaction

• Wind and Current Matchup: Evaluating the Performance of Ekman Theory in OSCAR
  Kathleen Dohan (Earth & Space Research)
• Observing Upper-Ocean and Surface Properties, Currents and their Gradients at the Submesoscale
  Luc Lenain (SIO/UCSD), Mara Freilich and Nick Pizzo
• Surfactant effects on parasitic capillary wave dynamics
  Zehua Liu (Princeton University), Palas Kumar Farsoiya and Luc Deike
• Direct numerical simulations of coupled turbulent wind-wave flow at high wind speed
  Nicolo Scapin (Princeton University), Jiarong Wu, Stéphane Popinet, Luc Deike
• Air-sea heat fluxes from SAR
  Owen O'Driscoll (TU Delft), Alexis Mouche, Bertrand Chapron, Marcel Kleinherenbrink, Paco López-Dekker
• Wind profile characterization from scatterometry products and sea state parameters
  Albert Rabaneda (Meteorological Institute of Norway)
• Hourly Surface Wind Forcing Products from ERS in the 1990’s
  Ad Stoffelen (KNMI), Rianne Giesen, Jeroen Verspeek

• Session 8: Processes through which currents, SSTs, and waves interact with ocean surface winds to modify air-sea coupling, and the resulting impacts on the atmosphere and ocean

• Near-surface wind and wave drift currents in the coupled air-sea boundary layer
  Roger Samelson (Oregon State University)
• Surface currents and relative-wind stress in coupled ocean-atmosphere simulations of the northern California Current System
  Roger Samelson, S. M. Durski, D. B. Chelton, E. D. Skyllingstad, P. L. Barbour
• A Zero Current Equivalent Wind Correction for Remotely Sensed Wind Products
  Gopal Sundaram (University of Michigan), Christopher Ruf
• Observations and modeling of wind-wave-current interactions at meso and submesoscales
  Bia Villas Boas (Colorado School of Mines), Gwendal Marechal, Nicholas Pizzo, Luc Lenain, Han Wang, Jacques Vanneste, William Young, Matthew Mazloff, and Rui Sun

• Session 9: Meteorology

• A multi-satellite, multi-scale investigation of marine atmospheric boundary layer impacts on low-level cloud variability
  Justin Stopa (The University of Hawaii at Manoa), Ralph Foster, Douglas Vandemark, Hauke Schulz, Ryan Eastman, Alexis Mouche, Bertrand Chapron
• Combining SAR and IWRAP to diagnose the Boundary Layer of Hurricane Larry (2021)
  Ralph Foster (APL/University of Washington), Zorana Jelenak, Joe Sapp, Paul Chang, Alexis Mouche
• Impact of Indian Ocean tropical cyclones on the development of the Madden-Julian Oscillation
  Toshiaki Shinoda (Texas A&M University - Corpus Cristi), Suyang Pei
• Zonostrophic turbulence in hurricanes
  Boris Galperin (College of Marine Science, University of South Florida), A. K. Nickerson, G. P. King, J. A. Zhang, and S. Sukoriansky
• Ocean surface vector winds from ISRO's latest scatterometer on-board Earth Observation Satellite (EOS) - 06
  Abhisek Chakraborty (SAC, ISRO), Pradeep Kumar Thapliyal, Devang M. Mankad, Prantik Chakraborty, Rashmi Sharma, Raj Kumar
• NOAA’s Ultra High Resolution ASCAT Tropical Cyclone Wind Products
  Seubson Soisuvarn (NOAA/NESDIS-UCAR), Suleiman Alsweiss, Zorana Jelenak, Paul S. Chang, Qi Zhu and Christopher R. Jackson
• SAR-learned scatterometer resolution enhancement of tropical cyclones
  Ad Stoffelen (KNMI), Weicheng Ni, Jur Vogelzang, Xingou Xu, Ke Zhao
• Exploiting Seven Scatterometers
  Ad Stoffelen, Anton Verhoef, Zhen Li, Jeroen Verspeek

• Lightning Talks for Posters: Current and Future Ocean Vector Wind Mission Updates

• Quality Control of WindRAD Scatterometer
  Zhen Li (KNMI), Anton Verhoef, and Ad Stoffelen
• Impact study of scatterometer winds on heavy rain forecast in the JMA’s regional forecast model
  Yusuke Ioka (Japan Meteorological Agency)
• Mitigating the Effects of Rain for OSCAT Wind Retrieval
  Benjamin J. Fogg (Brigham Young University), David Long
• Mapping ice slabs in Antarctic ice shelves using L- and C-band satellite radar scatterometry
  Julie Miller (University of Colorado Boulder), David G. Long
• Modeling of a coastal upwelling region using scatterometer based bias corrections of ERA5 winds
  Ethan Wright (COAPS Florida State University), Mark Bourassa
• Integrating COARE 3.5 and Wind-Current Feedbacks into ROMS-WRF Coupling
  L. Fernando Pareja Roman (Rutgers University), John Wilkin
• Subsurface Characteristics of Recent Marine Heat Waves off Central Oregon and Relation to Local Wind Forcing
  Brandy T. Cervantes, Melanie R. Fewings, and Craig M. Risien (Oregon State University)
• Veery Fledglings - Prototype Scatterometry from CubeSats
  Patrick Walton (Care Weather Technologies, Inc.), Alex Laraway, David G. Long, Timothy Lang
• An Analysis of Antarctica as a Target for FIrst Order Cross-Calibration Between NSCAT, ASCAT, and SMAP
  S. Porter and David G. Long

• Lightning Talks for Posters: Planning and Results for Improved Calibration of Extreme Winds and Stress, Climate Data Record Development and Analysis and Meteorological Applications

• Surface Wind Stress and Ekman Circulation in the Polar Oceans – Preliminary results
  Lisan Yu (WHOI)
• Direct Numerical Simulations Of Broadband Waves Forced By Turbulent Wind: A Multiscale Spectral Analysis
  Clara Martin Blanco (Princeton University), Nicolo Scapin, Jiarong Wu, Tom Farrar, Bertrand Chapron, and Luc Deike
• Science Goals Related to Spray Modification of Hurricane Winds and Turbulent Fluxes
  Amelia Bryan (Florida State University), Mark Bourassa
• Intercalibration of SFMR and Tail Doppler Radar Estimates of 10 Meter Mean Winds and One Minute Maximum Winds
  Maggie Zoerner (Florida State University), Mark Bourassa
• Rain Detection and Wind Retrieval Using U-NET on ASCAT Measurements
  Matthew McKinney (BYU) and David G. Long
• Development and Extratropical Applications of the CYGNSS Surface Heat Flux Product
  Juan Crespo (UCLA JIFRESSE), Shakeel Asharaf, Catherine M. Naud, Rosa Luna-Niño, James Booth, and Derek J. Posselt
• A New Climate Data Record of the Ocean Surface Winds and Stress: Focus on the dynamically-significant derivatives
  Svetla Hristova-Veleva, Mark Bourassa, Ethan Wright, Larry o’Neill, Bryan Stile, Federica Polverary, Alex Wineteer
• Retrieval of Ocean Surface Wind Speed for Future Passive Microwave Imager: MWI
  Sisma Samuel (Research Scientist), Anton Verhoef Ad Stoffelen

• Additional Posters

• Science Goals Related to Spray Modification of Hurricane Winds and Turbulent Fluxes
  Amelia Bryan (Florida State University), Mark Bourassa
• Development and Extratropical Applications of the CYGNSS Surface Heat Flux Product
  Juan Crespo (UCLA JIFRESSE), Shakeel Asharaf, Catherine M. Naud, Rosa Luna-Niño, James Booth, and Derek J. Posselt
• Impact study of scatterometer winds on heavy rain forecast in the JMA’s regional forecast model
  Yusuke Ioka (Japan Meteorological Agency)
• Quality Control of WindRAD Scatterometer
  Zhen Li (KNMI), Anton Verhoef, and Ad Stoffelen
• Rain Detection and Wind Retrieval Using U-NET on ASCAT Measurements
  Matthew McKinney (BYU) and David G. Long
• Subsurface Characteristics of Recent Marine Heat Waves off Central Oregon and Relation to Local Wind Forcing
  Brandy T. Cervantes, Melanie R. Fewings, and Craig M. Risien (Oregon State University)
• Veery Fledglings - Prototype Scatterometry from CubeSats
  Patrick Walton (Care Weather Technologies, Inc.), Alex Laraway, David G. Long, Timothy Lang
• Retrieval of Ocean Surface Wind Speed for Future Passive Microwave Imager: MWI
  Sisma Samuel (Research Scientist), Anton Verhoef Ad Stoffelen
• Intercalibration of SFMR and Tail Doppler Radar Estimates of 10 Meter Mean Winds and One Minute Maximum Winds
  Maggie Zoerner (Florida State University), Mark Bourassa

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2023 November IOVWST

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Presentations (the first presentation in each session is a summary talk)

• Day 1: November 30th, 2023

• International Ocean Vector Winds Science Team (IOVWST) and CGMS Ocean Surface Winds Task Group for exploitation of the virtual scatterometer constellation
  Ad Stoffelen
• Introduction to Numerical Assimilation Operational Application of HY-2 Satellite Wind Field Data
  Mingsen Lin
• Status of EUMETSAT Scatterometer missions
  Stefanie Linow
• The latest progress of the Fengyun Meteorological Satellite
  Peng Zhang
• Progress of the Ocean Surface Current Observation Mission (OSCOM)
  Xiaolong Dong
• On the interest of CFOSAT/SWIM wave observations in complement to wind observations
  Danièle Hauser
• QuikSCAT-derived coastal winds
  Giuseppe Grieco
• Extreme Winds from the Ku-band and C-band Wind Scatterometers
  Xingou Xu

• Day 2: December 1st, 2023

• OSCAR: a new airborne instrument to image ocean-atmosphere dynamics at the sub-mesoscale: instrument capabilities and the SEASTARex airborne campaign
  Adrien Martin
• A Review of the GNSS-R Wind Product from the Chinese Fengyun-3 Constellation
  Feixiong Huang
• On the use of machine learning to correct NWP model sea surface wind forecasts with scatterometer data input
  Evgeniia Makarova
• Comparison of wave spectrum assimilation and significant wave height assimilation based on Chinese-French Oceanography Satellite observations
  Chunxiao Wang
• Error characterization of in situ, satellite, and synergistic sea-surface wind products under tropical cyclone conditions
  Federico Cossu
• On the use of wind forcing for wave reanalysis
  Lotfi Aouf
• FY-3E/WindRAD instrument status and calibration accuracy evaluation
  Mei Yuan
• Using Miniaturised Drifters for Satellite Calibration and Validation Tasks
  Alexey Mironov
• Wind Speed and Direction Estimation from Wave Spectra using Deep Learning
  Haoyu Jiang
• The Quality Control Indicator Joss on Ku-band Wind Scatterometry for Different Latitudes with Reference to C-band Observations and Other Measurements
  Xingou Xu
• High-order calibration of WINDRAD scatterometer winds
  Zhen Li
• An operational follow-on for Chinese SCAT onboard HY-2 satellite series
  Shubo Liu
• Oceansat-3 Scatterometer Winds: First Results at KNMI
  Anton Verhoef
• Response of Sea Temperature and Significant Wave Height in the Nearshore Shallow Water Area of Beibu Gulf to Consecutive Tropical Cyclones：A Case Study of 2117 Lion Rock and 2118 Kompasu
  Xiaotong Chen
• Improved tropical cyclone observations by scatterometers, using SAR learning
  Weicheng Ni
• NWP model biases observed by scatterometers and ECMWF coupled data assimilation
  Ad Stoffelen
• Remote Sensing of Tropical Cyclone by SAR and Constellation: Past, Present and Future
  Biao Zhang
• Airborne experiment of the L-band scatterometer for the Chinese Salinity Observation Mission
  Wenming Lin
• Bayesian rain estimation and correction for Ku-band scatterometers
  Ke Zhao

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2023 October IOVWST

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Presentations (the first presentation in each session is a summary talk)

• Session 1: Atmospheric Processes Related to Winds

• Atmospheric Processes Related to Winds
  Ralph Foster (U Washington), Louise Nuijens (TU Delft), Toshiaki Shinoda (TAMU), Justin Stopa (U Hawaii)
• Role of ocean parameters in modulating tropical cyclone intensity and structure
  S. A. Bhowmick, HariKrishnan, Anup Mandal, Neeru Jaiswal, Neeraj Agarwal, Rashmi Sharma and Raj Kumar
• Atmospheric Dynamic Response Ocean Surface Currents over the Gulf Stream
  Jackie C. May and Mark A. Bourassa
• Using scatterometer observations to correct for persistent biases in modelled ocean surface winds
  Rianne Giesen, Ad Stoffelen, Jorge Miguel Fernández, and Anton Verhoef
• Air-sea flux and SST variability associated with atmospheric rivers in the southeast Indian Ocean
  Toshiaki Shinoda, Weiqing Han, Xue Feng
• A Synergist View of the Marine Atmospheric Boundary Layer and Low-Level Clouds
  Justin E. Stopa, Doug Vandemark, Ralph Foster, Chen Wang, Alex Ayet, Alexis Mouche, and Betrand Chapron
• Using SAR Imagery to Diagnose TCBL Structure
  Ralph Foster, Alexis Mouche, Bertrand Chapron
• Influence of shallow precipitating convection on near-surface wind speed, directionality and stress
  Louise Nuijens, Alessandro Savazzi, Gijs de Boer, Pierre-Etienne Brilouet, Geet George, Marie-Lothon and Dongxiao Zhang

• Session 2: Ocean Processes Related to Winds

• Ocean Processes Related to Winds
  Kathleen Dohan (ERS), Luc Lenain (USCD), Roger Samelson (OSU)
• Nonlinear Surface and Local Dynamics in Wind-Driven OSCAR Currents Over Three Decades of Observations
  Kathleen Dohan
• Characterizing the transition to submesoscale dynamics using airborne observations
  Mara Freilich, Luc Lenain, and Sarah Gille
• Upper Ocean Response to Coupling Currents to Wind Stress over the Gulf Stream
  Jackie May and Mark Bourassa
• Near-surface wind and wave drift currents in the coupled air-sea boundary layer
  Roger Samelson

• Session 3: Planned and Suggested Missions

• Planned and Suggested Missions
  Shannon Brown (JPL), Paco Lopez-Dekker (TU Delft), Alex Wineteer (JPL), Dong Xiaolong (MIRSLAB)
• Status of Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer 3 (AMSR3)
  Naoto Ebuchi, Misako Kachi, Rigen Shimada, Eri Yoshizawa, Keiichi Ohara, Hideyuki Fujii, Takeshi Miura, Kazuya Inaoka, and Yasushi Kojima
• Simultaneous Measurements of Winds and Surface Currents from Space: ODYSEA (Ocean Dynamics and Surface Exchange with the Atmosphere)
  Sarah Gille, T. Lee, F. Ardhuin, M. Bourassa, P. Chang, S. Cravatte, T. Farrar, M. Fewings, F. Girard-Ardhuin, G. Jacobs, Z. Jelenak, F. Lyard, J. May, E. Rémy, L. Renault, E. Rodriguez, C. Ubelmann, B.Villas Bôas, and A. Wineteer
• Veery - The Small Satellite Scatterometer: Design and Mission Progress for Versions 0.3 and 1.0
  Patrick Walton, Alex Laraway, and David G. Long
• High Resolution L-band Wind speeds from the Global L-band Observatory for Water Cycle Studies (GLOWS)
  David Long, Rajat Bindlish, Jeffrey Piepmeier, Giovanni De Amici, and Mark Bailey

• Session 4: Science and Data Needs in Coastal Regions

• Science and Data Needs in Coastal Regions
  Melanie Fewings (OSU), Giuseppe Grieco (CNR), Weiqing Han (U CO), and Mark Bourassa (FSU)
• Coastal winds retrievals from QuikSCAT-corrected radar cross sections
  Giuseppe Grieco, Yur Vogelzang, Anton Verhoef, Ad Stoffelen, and Marcos Portabella
• Coastal Upwelling in the Western Bay of Bengal: Role of Local and Remote Windstress
  Sthitapragya Ray, Debadatta Swain, Meer M. Ali and Mark A. Bourassa
• Subsurface Temperature Anomalies off Central Oregon During 2014-2021
  Brandy Cervantes, Melanie Fewings, and Craig Risien

• Session 5: Science and Operational Impacts and Causes of Differences between Remotely Sensed Wind Products and NWP Products

• Science and Operational Impacts and Causes of Differences between Remotely Sensed Wind Products and NWP Products
  Giovanna De Chiara (ECMWF), Ad Stoffelen (KNMI) and Zhixiong Wang (NUIST)
• On the use of machine learning to correct NWP model sea surface wind forecasts with scatterometer data input
  Eugenia Makarova and Marcos Portabella
• Assimilation experiment of HSCAT winds in JMA’s NWP Systems
  Yusuke Ioka
• Estimating Atmospheric Wind from Scatterometer Equivalent Neutral Winds
  Alexander Wineteer, Federica Polverari, Svetla Hristova-Veleva, Bryan Stiles, Mark Bourassa, Shakeel Asharaf, Alexander Fore, and Ernesto Rodriguez

• Session 6: Using >25 Years Wind Record for Science and Applications

• Using >25 Years Wind Record for Science and Applications
  Svetla Hristova-Veleva (JPL/Caltech), Lisan Yu (WHOI), G. King, M. Bourassa (FSU), F. Wentz (RSS), L. Ricciardulli (RSS), A. Stoffelen (KNMI), M. Portabella (CSIC)
• Empirical corrections and quality control of ocean surface winds from scatterometers due to contamination from sea-ice, rain, and other sources
  Bryan W. Stiles, Alexander G. Fore, Alexander G. Wineteer, and Benjamin M. Holt
• A Stable Satellite Wind Data Climate Record for Climate Variability Studies
  Lucrezia Ricciardulli, Andrew Manaster, Thomas Meissner, and Carl Mears
• Estimating Atmospheric Wind from Scatterometer Equivalent Neutral Winds
  Alexander Wineteer, Federica Polverari, Svetla Hristova-Veleva, Bryan Stiles, Mark Bourassa, Shakeel Asharaf, Alexander Fore, and Ernesto Rodriguez
• Comparing Wind Derivative Calculation Methods from Orbital Swath Winds
  Ethan E. Wright, Mark A. Bourassa, Larry W. O’Neill, Alexander Wineteer, and Svetla Histrova-Vevela
• New Climate Data Record of the Ocean Surface Winds, Stress and Their Dynamically-Significant Derivatives – Vorticity and Divergence: Supporting Studies of Trends and Variability in the Large-Scale Circulation
  Svetla Hristova-Veleva, Bryan Stiles, Alexander Fore, Alexander Wineteer, David Moroni, Mark Bourassa, Douglas Vandemark, Larry O'Neill, Shakeel Asharaf, Ethan Wright, Xiaosu Xie, F. Joseph Turk, Marc Emond, P. Peggy Li, Brian Knosp, Quoc Vu, Joseph Jacob, Federica Polverari, and Philip Callahan

• Session 7: Sensing Wind Coupling to Other Variables

• Sensing Wind Coupling to Other Variables
  Ernesto Rodriguez (JPL/Caltech), Marcos Portabella (CSIC), Bia Villas Boas (CO School of Mines), Aneesh Subramanian (U CO)
• High fidelity modeling of surface waves dynamics and statistics
  Luc Deike, Jiarong Wu, Stephane Popinet, Tom Farrar, Bertrand Chapron, and Ernesto Rodriguez
• Observations and modeling of sea state gradients in the meso-to-submesoscale range
  Gwendal Marechal, Bia Villas Bôas, Luc Lenain, Nick Pizzo
• Simultaneous Wind Rain Retrieval Using OSCAT
  Benjamin Fogg and David G. Long
• Rain Detection and Wind Retrieval Using U-NET on ASCAT Measurements
  Matthew McKinney and David Long
• Exploring PBL costal transition and ocean surface properties with an Airborne Doppler Wind Lidar and dropsondes
  Dave Emmitt and Steve Greco
• Butterfly: A Satellite Mission to Transform Our Understanding of the Contribution of Air-Sea Fluxes to Weather and Climate
  Aneesh Subramanian, Carol Ann Clayson and the Butterfly team
• Sea Spray in Hurricanes: Analysis of Impacts on Surface Processes and Wind Calibration
  Daniel E. Wallace, Mark A. Bourassa, Heather M. Holbach and Renee Richardson

• Session 8: Outstanding Issues in Calibration for Routine Conditions

• Outstanding Issues in Calibration for Routine Conditions
  Richards Lindsley (RSS), Zhen Li (KNMI), Ad Stoffelen (KNMI)
• Higher-Order Calibration on WindRAD scatterometer winds
  Zhen Li, Ad Stoffelen, and Anton Verhoef
• An Analysis of Antarctica As a Target For First Order Cross-Calibration Between NSCAT, SMAP, and ASCAT
  Nathan Porter and David G. Long
• Calibration of the ERS scatterometer wind product with NOC and Cone Metrics
  Jeroen Verspeek, Ad Stoffelen, and Anton Verhoef
• Using scatterometer observations to correct for persistent biases in modelled ocean surface winds
  Rianne Giesen, Ad Stoffelen, Jorge Miguel Fernández, and Anton Verhoef

• Session 9: Towards Consensus on Extreme Winds

• Towards Consensus on Extreme Winds
  Paul Chang (NOAA), Heather Holbach (FSU), Marcos Portabella (CSIC), Lucrezia Ricciarduli (RSS) and Mark Bourassa (FSU)
• Sea Spray in Hurricanes: Analysis of Impacts on Surface Processes and Wind Calibration
  Daniel E. Wallace, Mark A. Bourassa, Heather M. Holbach and Renee Richardson
• Error characterization of in situ, satellite, and synergistic sea-surface wind products under tropical cyclone conditions
  Federico Cossu, Evgeniia Makarova, Albert S. Rabaneda, Marcos Portabella, Joe Tenerelli, Nicolas Reul, Ad Stoffelen, Giuseppe Grieco, Joseph Sapp, Zorana Jelenak, Paul Chang
• Tropical Cyclone Resolution Enhancement for ASCAT Winds
  Weicheng Ni, Ad Stoffelen, Kaijun Ren, Jur Vogelzang, Yanlai Zhao and Wuxin Wang
• Monitoring Tropical Cyclone Winds with Microwave Radiometers
  Lucrezia Ricciardulli, Andrew Manaster, and Thomas Meissner

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2022 IOVWST

• Sponsors
• Agenda
• Attendees
• Concluding Discussions and Decisions

• Presentations/Posters (In agenda order)

  1. Discussion of Satellite Missions to Measure Winds and Currents

     • 2022 Meeting kick off
       Mark Bourassa and Stefanie Linow
     • An Instrument for Measuring Winds and Currents
       Ernesto Rodriguez and Alexander Wineteer
     • Science priorities for a winds and currents mission
       Sarah Gille
     • Navy Applications
       Gregg Jacobs and TBD
     • NOAA Applications
       Paul Chang and TBD
     • Impact of Dynamic Coupling from Currents to Wind Stress over the Gulf Stream
       Jackie May (Naval Research Laboratory - Stennis Space Center, MS) and Mark Bourassa
     • Wind and Current Coupling: Large Impacts but Large Uncertainties
       Lionel Renault
     • Update on the Harmony and SeaStar Missions
       Ad Stoffelen

  2. Mission Updates

     • Status of EUMETSAT scatterometer missions
       Stefanie Linow (EUMETSAT), Narges Khosravi, Craig Anderson, Marc Cloarec
     • Compact Ocean Wind Vector Radiometer Mission Status
       Shannon Brown (Jet Propulsion Laboratory), Mary Morris and Amarit Kitiyakara
     • Update on Oceansat-3
       Raj Kumar-Sharma

  3. Tropical Cyclones

     • Next Generation Hurricane Boundary Layer Observations During The 2021 Hurricane Season By IWRAP
       Paul Chang (NOAA/NESDIS/STAR), Zorana Jelenak, Joe Sapp, Jim Carswell, Casey Shoup, Qi Zhu, Steve Frasier, Steve Guimond
     • Physics of the Ocean-Atmosphere Coupling in Extreme Winds
       Stephen Guimond (UMBC and NASA/GSFC), S. Sroka, D. Protzko, J. Sapp, Z. Jelenak and P. Chang
     • Assessment of Saildrone extreme wind measurements in Hurricane Sam using MW satellite sensors
       Lucrezia Ricciardulli (Remote Sensing Systems), Gregory Foltz (NOAA/AOML), Andrew Manaster (RSS), Thomas Meissner (RSS)
     • Towards a Theory of Turbulence Spectra of Tropical Cyclones
       Boris Galperin (College of Marine Science, University of South Florida), Alexander K. Nickerson, Gregory P. King, Jun A. Zhang, and Semion Sukoriansky
     • Estimating Boundary Layer Eddy Viscosity in Tropical Cyclones from Synthetic Aperture Radar Images
       Ralph Foster (Applied Physics Laboratory, University of Washington), Alexis Mouche, Bertrand Chapron

  4. Coastal Applications

     • Marine Heat Waves in the Chile-Peru Current System: Role of Sea-Surface Physical Processes in Mixed-Layer Temperature Changes
       Melanie Fewings (Oregon State University), Kylene M. Cooley, James A. Lerczak, Larry A. O’Neill, and Kevin S. Brown
     • Toward Coincident Winds and Currents with Coastal HF Radar
       Brian Emery (UCSB Marine Science Institute), and Anthony Kirincich
     • QuikSCAT radar cross section correction for improved coastal winds retrieval
       Giuseppe Grieco (Institute of Marine Sciences - CNR), Ad Stoffelen, Jur Vogelzang, Anton Verhoef, and Marcos Portabella

  5. Discussion of new Wind-Related Products and Calibration

     • Creating an extended and consistent ESDR of the ocean surface winds, stress and their dynamically-significant derivatives for the period 1999-2022 - a MEaSUREs-funded project: A subset of new products now available to the IOVWST
       Svetla Hristova-Veleva (Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology), B. Stiles, A. Fore, A. Wineteer, D. Moroni, M. Bourassa, D. Vandemark, L. O'Neill, T. Kilpatrick, S. Asharaf, E. Wright, X. Xie, F. J. Turk, M. Emond, P. P. Li, B. Knosp, Q. Vu, J. Jacob, F. Polverari, P. Callahan, R. S. Dunbar, E. Rodriguez
     • Rain Contamination Corrected ScatSAT Ocean Wind Vector Product
       Bryan Stiles (Jet Propulsion Laboratory), Alexander Fore, Alexander Wineteer, and Svetla Hristova-Veleva
     • Recent Update on Operational Use of Scatterometer Winds in JMA’s Mesoscale NWP System
       Yusuke Ioka (Japan Meteorological Agency)
     • Development of a 11-year ERA* high resolution ocean forcing dataset
       Evgeniia Makarova (Institute of Marine Sciences (ICM-CSIC)), Ana Trindade, Giuseppe Grieco, Marcos Portabella, Rianne Giesen, Ad Stoffelen, Anton Verhoef
     • Inter-calibration of scatterometers and radiometers under extreme wind conditions using NOAA hurricane hunter flight data
       Alberto Rabaneda (Barcelona Expert Centre (BEC), Institute of Marine Sciences (ICM-CSIC)), Marcos Portabella, Giuseppe Grieco, Federica Polverari, Ad Stoffelen, Joseph Sapp, Zorana Jelenak, Paul Chang
     • Improved Rain Screening Methods for Advanced Quality Control and Wind-Rain Estimation Models for Ku-band Wind Scatterometry
       Xingou Xu (Chinese Academy of Sciences), Ad Stoffelen, Anton Verhoef and Ke Zhao
     • Estimating Sea Surface Local Wind Variability from ASCAT-derived information
       Wenming Lin (Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology), Marcos Portabella
     • A look at v1.2 NOAA CyGNSS wind retrieval performance through the use of tropical cyclone composite imagery
       Faozi Said (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration/Global Science & Technology), Zorana Jelenak, Paul S. Chang
     • Intercalibration of HY-2/SCAT and MetOp/ASCAT scatterometer winds
       Zhixiong Wang (NUIST), Juhong Zou, Qian Feng, Wenming Lin, Ad Stoffelen
     • Intercalibration of the Virtual Scatterometer Constellation
       Ad Stoffelen (KNMI), Jeroen Verspeek, Anton Verhoef, Zhen Li, with help from CGMS OSW TG / CEOS OSVW VC

  6. Boundary-layer Processes

     • Global identification of atmospheric surface layer stratification states through the imprint of boundary layer coherent structures on the sea-surface roughness
       Justin Stopa (The University of Hawaii at Manoa), Chen Wang, Douglas Vandemark, Ralph Foster, Alexis Mouche, Bertrand Chapron
     • Wind drift in a homogeneous equilibrium sea
       Roger Samelson (CEOAS, Oregon State University)
     • Wind work at the air-sea interface: A modeling study in anticipation of future space missions
       Hector Torres (JPL,Caltech), Patrice Klein, Jinbo Wang, Alexander Wineteer, Bo Qiu, Andrew Thompson, Ernesto Rodriguez, Dimitris Menemenlis, Hong Zhang, Ehud Strobach, Mar Flexas, and Dragana Perkovic-Martin
     • Tropical Oceanic Cold Pools in High-Resolution Cloud Resolving Model Compared with Satellite Scatterometers
       Piyush Garg (Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont IL), Stephen W. Nesbitt, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign; Timothy J. Lang, NASA MSFC; George Priftis, University of Alabama Huntsville
     • Annual Modulation of Diurnal Winds in the Tropical Oceans
       Donata Giglio (University of Colorado Boulder), Sarah T. Gille, Bruce D. Cornuelle, Aneesh C. Subramanian, F. Joseph Turk, Svetla Hristova-Veleva, Devon Northcott
     • Analysis of Ocean Wind Vector Divergence And Vorticity Co-Variability In The Pacific Ocean Through Steady State Ekman Balance
       Robert Jacobs (Oregon State University), Larry O'Neill
     • Anchoring of the Gulf Stream Convergence Zones by the storm track and sea surface temperatures
       Niklas Schneider (University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa), Ryusuke Masunaga, Bruce Cornuelle, Larry O’Neill, Thomas Kilpatrick, Masami Nonaka, Justin Small and Shang-Ping Xie
     • Impact of Boundary Layer on Biomass Burning Aerosol Transportation in Coastal Regions within Tropics
       Georgrios Priftis (University of Alabama in Huntsville), Udayshankar Nair, Timothy J. Lang

• Asynchronous Presentations

  • Winds and Currents

    • Difficulty and partial success in diagnosing cross-equatorial surface currents from satellite: Yanai-mode tropical instability waves
      Shang-Ping Xie (UC San Diego)
    • Wind and Wave Effects on Surface Currents from Doppler Scatterometry
      Ernesto Rodriguez (Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology), J. Tom Farrar, Paul Siqueira, Max Adam, James Edson, Anthony Kirincich
    • Ocean Current Gradients Modify the Atmosphere
      Mark A. Bourassa and Jackie May
    • On The Characterization of The Ka-Band Ocean Surface Backscatter Using Doppler Scatterometer Measurements From The Air-Sea Interaction Tower Experiment
      Federica Polverari (Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology), Alexander Wineteer, Ernesto Rodriguez, Dragana Perkovic-Martin, Paul Siqueira, J. Thomas Farrar, J. Max Adam, James Edson
    • Impact of Ocean Currents on Wind Stress in the Tropical Indian Ocean
      Neethu Chacko, Meer M Ali and Mark A Bourassa

  • Mission Update

    • Latest Status of the AMSR Series
      Naoto Ebuchi, Misako Kachi, Rigen Shimada, Eri Yoshizawa, Hideyuki Fujii, Keiichi Ohara, Marehito Kasahara, Kazuya Inaoka, and Yasushi Kojima
    • The status of OSCOM mission
      Xiaolong Dong

  • Tropical Cyclone

    • Estimation of tropical cyclone location and intensity using HY-2B scatterometer data
      Wenming Lin (Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology), Siqi Liu, Marcos Portabella, Carla Chevillard
    • Global L-band Observatory for Water Cycle Studies (GLOWS): L-band Active/Passive Ocean Observations
      Professor David Long (Brigham Young University), Rajat Bindlish, Giovanni De Amici, Jeffrey R. Piepmeier, and Mark Bailey
    • Operational SFMR Algorithm Update: Rain Impacts
      Heather M. Holbach (COAPS, Florida State University)

  • Coastal Applications

    • In situ measurements of short wave directional spectra in an open shelf coastal environment: finding the lower bound for radar-based wind extraction methods.
      Anthony Kirincich (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution), Brian Emery, University of California at Santa Barbara
    • NOAA ASCAT Near Real-Time Coastal Winds
      Paul Chang (NOAA/NESDIS/STAR), Seubson Soisuvarn, Zorana Jelenak, Qi Zhu
    • A land-corrected ASCAT coastal wind product
      Jur Vogelzang (KNMI), Ad Stoffelen

  • Discussion of new Wind-Related Products and Calibration

    • Compact Ocean Wind Vector Radiometer Mission Current Calibration Status
      Dr. Sidharth Misra (JPL CalTech), Maryam Salim, Jinzheng Peng, Jeffrey Piepmeier, Shannon Brown
    • Tropical Cyclone Inner-Core Structure Enhancement in Scatterometer Data with 2DVAR
      Weicheng Ni (The Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute (KNMI)), Ad Stoffelen, Jur Vogelzang, Kaijun Ren
    • The Cross-Calibrated Multi-Platform (CCMP) Analysis Version 3.0
      Carl Mears (Remote Sensing Systems), Tong Lee, Susan Wijffels and Frank Wentz
    • New dual frequency rotating fan-beam scatterometer WindRAD status
      Zhen Li (knmi), Ad Stoffelen, Anton Verhoef
    • Triple collocation analysis of 4D wind observations
      Federico Cossu (Institute of Marine Sciences (ICM-CSIC)), Marcos Portabella, Wenming Lin, Ad Stoffelen, Jur Vogelzang, Gert-Jan Marseille, Siebren de Haan
    • Three decades of global trends in microwave backscatter correlates with urban building volume and city-level GDP
      Steve Frolking (University of New Hampshire), Richa Mahtta, Tom Milliman, Karen C. Seto
    • An analysis of Antarctica as a target for first order cross-calibration between QuikSCAT, OSCAT, and ASCAT
      Nathan Porter (Brigham Young University) and David G. Long
    • Calibration of the ERS scatterometer wind product with NOC and cone metrics
      Jeroen Verspeek (KNMI Royal Dutch Meteorological Institute), Ad Stoffelen, Anton Verhoef
    • Developing a Simultaneous Wind and Rain Geophysical Model for OSCAT
      Benjamin Fogg (Brigham Young University) and David G. Long
    • Using Vorticity Spectra to Compare Noise Characteristics from Scatterometer Based Wind Records
      Ethan Wright (COAPS - Florida State University), Mark Bourassa
    • Involving Ocean Vector Wind Products in Undergraduate Education
      Aaron Paget (Concord University)
    • Evaluation of blended wind products and its implications for off-shore wind power estimation
      Tong Lee (Jet Propulsion Laboratory), Carl Mears, Xiaochun Wang
    • Calibration Drift in AMSR-2 Brightness Temperatures: The Effect on Wind Speed and SST
      Frank Wentz (Remote Sensing Systems), Andy Manaster, Richard Lindsley
    • AMSR-2 All-weather Wind Speed Product
      Suleiman Alsweiss (Global Science & Technology, Inc. ), Zorana Jelenak, Paul S. Chang
    • PO.DAAC Data in the Cloud: Access, Services, and Available Data
      David Moroni (JPL)

  • Oceanographic Applications

    • Rain and SST correction to the Scatsat-1 derived winds
      Abhisek Chakraborty (Space Applications Centre, Indian Space Research Organization), Atul Kumar Varma and Raj Kumar
    • Modeling and Analysis of the Ka-band Ocean Surface Radar Cross Section Using the Doppler Scatterometer Measurements from the Air Sea Interaction Tower Experiment
      Federica Polverari (Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology), Alexander Wineteer, Ernesto Rodriguez, Dragana Perkovic-Martin, Paul Siqueira, J. Thomas Farrar, and J. Max Adam, James Edson
    • Quadruple collocation analysis of buoy, scatterometer, and NWP winds
      Jur Vogelzang (KNMI), and Ad Stoffelen
    • A Comparasion Of Quality Indicators for Ku-Band Wind Scatterometry & For Typhoons Lekima and Krosa
      Xingou Xu (National Space Science Center, Chinese Academy of Sciences), Ad Stoffelen, Marcos Portabella, Wenming Lin, and Xiaolong Dong

  • Boundary-layer Processes

    • The impact of surface oil on ocean surface winds
      Yangxing Zheng (Florida State University, USA), Mark A. Bourassa, Daneisha Blair
    • Analysis of Surface Heat Flux Anomalies to Understand Recent Northeast Pacific Marine Heatwave Events
      Yi-Wei Chen (Oregon State University) and Larry O'Neill
    • Log-Profile Analysis of the Near-Surface Layer and Air-Sea Turbulent Fluxes in Hurricanes using Dropsondes
      Daniel Wallace (EOAS & COAPS, Florida State University), Mark A. Bourassa, and Heather M. Holbach
    • Variability in atmospheric circulation over the Bering Sea and its impact on air-sea heat fluxes
      Emily Hayden (Oregon State University), and Larry W. O'Neill
    • Extratropical cyclones fundamentally shape the maritime wind climatology
      Larry O'Neill (Oregon State University), Ralph Milliff and Dudley Chelton
    • Influence of Surface Current on Vertical Distribution of Potential Vorticity Flux
      Xu Chen (Florida A&M University), William Dewar, Eric Chassignet, Mark Bourassa, and Steve Morey
    • Impact of Boundary Layer on Biomass Burning Aerosol Transportation in Coastal Regions within Tropics
      Georgrios Priftis (University of Alabama in Huntsville), Udayshankar Nair, Timothy J. Lang
    • Correlating extremes in wind divergence with extremes in rain over the Tropical Atlantic
      Gregory P. King, Marcos Portabella, Wenming Lin, and Ad Stoffelen
    • Observing Oceanic Plastic with ASCAT Ultra High Resolution Backscatter
      Harrison Garrett (Brigham Young University) and David G. Long

2021 IOVWST

• Sponsors
• Agenda
• Attendees
• Concluding Discussions and Decisions

• Presentations/Posters (In agenda order)

  1. How can we make improvements to the constellation and what can we do with it?

     • Statement from the session Chairs
       Stefanie Linow and Raj Kumar
     • Importance of high quality coastal wind measurements
       Raj Kumar, Paul Chang, Stefanie Linow, Ad Stoffelen
     • WMO CGMS Scatterometer Actions
       Ad Stoffelen (KNMI), Paul Chang, Raj Kumar, Stefanie Linow, Regis Bordes and Steve Wanzong (Invited talk)
     • The Future of Satellite Microwave Radiometers for Measuring Ocean Winds
       Frank Wentz (Remote Sensing Systems), Thomas Meissner, Lucrezia Ricciardulli
     • Challenges and Solutions to Increasing Quantity and Diurnal Coverage of Scatterometer Ocean Vector Wind Measurements
       Patrick Walton (Brigham Young University), David Long, and Timothy Lang

  2. User guidance on the different climate records; where do OVW products agree, disagree, and how to make this visible?

     • Statement from the session Chairs
       Ad Stoffelen and Frank Wentz
     • Intercalibration Of ASCAT Scatterometers on METOP-A, -B, And -C For A Stable Wind Climate Data Record
       Lucrezia Ricciardulli (Remote Sensing Systems) and Frank Wentz
     • Hurricane Ocean Wind Speeds (Invited talk)
       Ad Stoffelen (KNMI), Gert-Jan Marseille, Weicheng Ni, Alexis Mouche, Federica Polverari, Marcos Portabella, Wenming Lin, Joe Sapp, Paul Chang, Zorana Jelenak
     • Strengths and weakness of using multi-instrument, multi-mission climate data records to understanding how the Earth System is changing
       Svetla Hristova-Veleva (Jet Propulsion Laboratory)

  3. Air-Sea Fluxes and their impacts on the Ocean and Atmosphere

     • Statement from the session Chairs
       Mark Bourassa and xx
     • The Submesoscale Ocean Dynamics Experiment (S-MODE)
       Tom Farrar (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)
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     • Objectives of an Air-Sea Interaction Observing Strategy: If we can't close the ocean heat budget, what can we do?
       Sarah Gille, Meghan Cronin, Chelle Gentemann, Carol Anne Clayson, Mark Bourassa, Shannon Brown, Tom Farrar, Tong Lee, Kelly Lombardo, Rhys Parfitt, Hyodae Seo, Aneesh Subramanian, and Victor Zlotnicki
     • Simultaneous Measurements of Winds and Currents: a status report (invited talk)
       E. Rodríguez (Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology) & the WaCM team, and F. Ardhuin (Laboratoire d’Océanographie Physique et Spatiale (LOPS)) & the STREAM team
     • Butterfly: revealing the ocean's impact on our weather and climate
       C. Gentemann (Farallon Institute), C.A. Clayson, T. Lee, S. Brown, A. Subramanian, M. Bourassa, K. Lombardo, R. Parfitt, H. Seo, S. Gille, T. Farrar, J. Whitaker, D. Kleist, P. Browne, C. Harris, H. Tomita, A. Bentamy
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     • Distributed system solutions for NASA air-sea coupling (invited talk)
       Nadya Vinogradova Shiffer

• Asynchronous Presentations

  • Atmosphere and Ocean Coupling

    • Simultaneous Measurements of Winds and Currents: a status report (invited talk)
      E. Rodríguez (Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology) & the WaCM team, and F. Ardhuin (Laboratoire d’Océanographie Physique et Spatiale (LOPS)) & the STREAM team
    • Effects of spatial resolution and temporal offset of air-sea boundary-layer variables on turbulent heat flux estimates
      Tong Lee (Jet Propulsion Laboratory), Chelle Gentemann, Carol Anne Clayson, Mark Bourassa, Shannon Brown, J. Thomas Farrar, Kelly Lombardo, Sarah Gille, Rhys Parfitt, Hyodae Seo, Aneesh Subramanian, and Victor Zlotnicki
    • Evaluating the role of air-sea interactions in Bering Sea warming
      Emily Hayden (Oregon State University -- CEOAS), Melanie R. Fewings, Larry W. O'Neill
    • Impact of Global Ocean Surface Flux Product, J-OFURO3
      Kunio Kutsuwada (School of Marine Science and Technology, Tokai University), Hiroyuki TOMITA, Shin’ichirou KAKO, Tsutomu HIHARA, Masahisa KUBOTA
    • Anchoring of the Gulf Stream Convergence Zones by the storm track and sea surface temperatures
      Niklas Schneider (University of Hawai'i at Mānoa), Ryusuke Masunaga, Bruce Cornuelle, Larry O’Neill, Thomas Kilpatrick, Masami Nonaka, Justin Small and Shang-Ping Xie
    • Observed Wind and SST Variability off the California Coast during Summertime High Wind Events
      Weiguang (Roger) Wu (MIT-WHOI Joint Program), Ana Beatriz Villas Bôas (Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego), Professor Sarah Gille (Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California San Diego)
    • The Seasonal Cycle of Significant Wave Height in the Ocean: Local vs Remote Forcing
      Luke Colosi (Scripps Institution of Oceanography), Ana B. Villas Bôas, and Sarah Gille
    • Development of offshore surface roughness length parameterization over deep seas
      Alberto Rabaneda (Barcelona Expert Centre (BEC), Institute of Marine Sciences (ICM-CSIC))

  • Current and Future Ocean Vector Wind Mission Updates

    • Present Status of GCOM-W/AMSR2 and GOSAT-GW/AMSR3
      Naoto Ebuchi (Hokkaido University), Misako Kachi, Marehito Kasahara, Hideyuki Fujii, Rigen Shimada, Keiichi Ohara, Takashi Maeda, Kazuya Inaoka, Yasushi Kojima
    • Status of EUMETSAT scatterometer missions
      Stefanie Linow (EUMETSAT), C Anderson
    • The European Next Generation Scatterometer (SCA) - Status of Processing and Products
      Craig Anderson (EUMETSAT), J.J.W. Wilson, S. Linow, F. Ticconi
    • Compact Ocean Wind Vector Radiometer on ISS Mission Status
      Shannon Brown, Sidharth Misra, Amarit Kitiyakara, and Mary Morris
    • Veery, a Small Scatterometer Intended for a Constellation
      Patrick Walton (Brigham Young University), David Long, and Timothy Lang
    • Time-varying empirical probability densities of Southern Ocean surface winds: Leading modes linked to SAM, the annual cycle, and product differences
      Momme Hell (UCSD/SIO), Bruce D. Cornuelle, Sarah T. Gille, Nicholas J. Lutsko
    • The impact of high-frequency wind variability on mixed-layer physics
      Natalie Freeman (University of Colorado Boulder), Donata Giglio, Sarah Gille, Momme Hell

  • Waves, Currents and Ice

    • Tracking Iceberg A68 on a Collision Course with South Georgia Island
      Professor David Long (Brigham Young University)

  • New Products and Applications

    • A New Dataset of Tropical Cyclone Winds from Microwave Radiometers
      Andrew Manaster (Remote Sensing Systems), Thomas Meissner, Lucrezia Ricciardulli
    • A land-corrected ASCAT coastal wind product
      Jur Vogelzang (KNMI), Ad Stoffelen
    • An evaluation of the latest NOAA CyGNSS wind product in the tropical cyclone environment
      Faozi Said (Global Science & Technology/National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration), Zorana Jelenak, Paul S. Chang
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    • Status on the wind processing of CFOSAT scatterometer
      Wenming Lin (Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology), Xiaolong Dong, Marcos Portabella, Shuyan Lang, Jianqiang Liu
    • NWP Ocean Calibration for the CFOSAT wind scatterometer and wind retrieval evaluation
      Zhen Li (Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute), Ad Stoffelen, Jeroen Verspeek, Anton Verhoef
    • Wind field from SAR over the Venice lagoon, Italy
      Stefano Zecchetto (National Research Council of Italy), Andrea Zanchetta
    • On Improved UHR Ambiguity Selection Algorithms
      Professor David Long (Brigham Young University), and Greg Schachterle
    • Wind direction retrieval from SAR images using ResNet
      Andrea Zanchetta (Hong Kong Baptist University), and Stefano Zecchetto
    • HY-2B and HY-2C winds and services from the OSI SAF
      Anton Verhoef (KNMI Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute), Ad Stoffelen, Rianne Giesen, Juhong Zou, Zhixiong Wang, Simon Elliott, and David Long
    • Discrete Band-Limited Signal Reconstruction from Irregular Samples
      Professor David Long (Brigham Young University)
    • Recent Update on Operational Use of Scatterometer Winds in JMA’s Global NWP System
      Shin Koyamatsu (Japan Meteorological Agency)
    • PO.DAAC Data in the Cloud: Current Status and Strategic Direction
      David Moroni (JPL)
    • Estimating Sea Surface Vorticity from the RapidScat Scatterometer Ku-Band NRCS by Using Coincident Sub-Footprint Scale Winds and Dual Polarization Analysis
      David E. Weissman (Hoffstra University)

  • Meteorological Applications

    • Evaluating the Detection of Mesoscale Outflow Boundaries using Scatterometer Winds at Different Spatial Resolutions
      Georgios Priftis (University of Alabama in Huntsville), Timothy J. Lang, Garg Piyush, Richard Lindsley, Stephen W. Nesbitt and Themis Chronis
    • Estimating the Impact of Satellite Winds for Tropical Cyclone Forecasts Using Ensemble Forecast Sensitivity Approach
      Noel Chawang (Indian Institute of Space Science and Technology (IIST), Valiamala) and Govindan Kutty
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    • Regional effects of scatterometer sampling and weather in ERA* performance through Monte-Carlo simulations
      A. Trindade (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya), M. Portabella, A. Stoffelen
    • Monte-Carlo simulations Impact of INSAT-3D AMVs in WRF-HYBRID (ENSEMBLE-3DVAR) data assimilation system for the simulation of monsoon over the month of July 2016
      Rekha Bharali Gogoi (North Eastern Space Applications Centre), Govindan Kutty and Arup Borgohain
    • Scatterometer Winds in the Lee of the Hawaiian Islands
      Professor David Long (Brigham Young University), Nolan Hutchings, and Thomas Kilpatrick
    • The Diurnal Cycle of Tropical Oceanic Mesoscale Cold Pools from NASA RapidScat and Buoy Network
      Piyush Garg (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign), Stephen W. Nesbitt, Timothy J. Lang, and George Priftis
    • Utilization of SCATSAT-1 scatterometer observations for Vegetation and soil moisture studies
      Manoj Kumar Mishra (Space Physics Laboratory, Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre, ISRO), and C. Suresh Raju
    • Towards triple collocation analysis of 4D wind observations
      Federico Cossu (Barcelona Expert Centre, Institute of Marine Sciences, CSIC), Marcos Portabella, Wenming Lin, Ad Stoffelen, Gert-Jan Marseille, Jur Vogelzang, and Isabel Monteiro
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    • Hurricane Ocean Wind Speeds
      Ad Stoffelen (KNMI), Gert-Jan Marseille, Weicheng Ni, Alexis Mouche, Federica Polverari, Marcos Portabella, Wenming Lin, Joe Sapp, Paul Chang and Zorana Jelenak
    • Comparing Winds near Tropical Oceanic Precipitation Systems with and without Lightning
      Timothy Lang (NASA MSFC)
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    • Warning for Oceanic Extra-tropical Storms of Hurricane Force Strength – a Twenty Year Perspective
      Joseph Sienkiewicz (NOAA Ocean Prediction Center)
    • A Newly Developed Form Drag Derived from Sea Spray Influenced Surface Wind Stress at Hurricane Force Winds
      Renee Richardson (Florida State University (FSU)/Center for Ocean-Atmospheric Prediction Studies (COAPS)), Mark A. Bourassa, Steven L. Morey
    • An Analysis of the Near-Surface Layer in Hurricanes Using Dropsondes
      Daniel Wallace (Florida State University COAPS & EOAS), Mark Bourassa, and Heather Holbach
    • Analyzing Gaps in Hurricane Rain Coverage to Inform Future Satellite Proposals
      Justin P. Stow (Florida State University), Mark A. Bourassa, and Heather M. Holbach
    • SFMR Algorithm Updates
      Heather Holbach (FSU, NGI, NOAA/AOML/HRD)
    • UMass Simultaneous Frequency Microwave Radiometer (USFMR) instrument description, current and future work
      Jezabel Vilardell Sanchez (UMass Amherst MIRSL), Joseph W. Sapp, Zorana Jelenak, Paul S. Chang, and Stephen J. Frasier
    • Steps Toward Incorporating Nonlinear Mean Flow Model in Tropical Cyclone Surface Pressure Retrieval
      Ralph Foster (University of Washington)

  • Oceanographic Applications

    • Rain and SST correction to the Scatsat-1 derived winds
      Abhisek Chakraborty (Space Applications Centre, Indian Space Research Organization), Atul Kumar Varma and Raj Kumar
    • Modeling and Analysis of the Ka-band Ocean Surface Radar Cross Section Using the Doppler Scatterometer Measurements from the Air Sea Interaction Tower Experiment
      Federica Polverari (Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology), Alexander Wineteer, Ernesto Rodriguez, Dragana Perkovic-Martin, Paul Siqueira, J. Thomas Farrar, and J. Max Adam, James Edson
    • Quadruple collocation analysis of buoy, scatterometer, and NWP winds
      Jur Vogelzang (KNMI), and Ad Stoffelen
    • A Comparasion Of Quality Indicators for Ku-Band Wind Scatterometry & For Typhoons Lekima and Krosa
      Xingou Xu (National Space Science Center, Chinese Academy of Sciences), Ad Stoffelen, Marcos Portabella, Wenming Lin, and Xiaolong Dong

  • Coastal Working Group contributions

    • Towards QuikSCAT coastal winds at OSI-SAF
      Giuseppe Grieco (Institute of Marine Sciences (ICM), CSIC ), M. Portabella, A. Stoffelen, A. Verhoef, and J. Vogelzang
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    • Marine heat waves in the Chile-Peru Eastern Boundary Upwelling System: rates of change in sea-surface temperature anomalies near a major upwelling center
      Kylene Cooley (Oregon State University, College of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences), Melanie R. Fewings, James Lerczak
    • Seasonality in the Ocean Warming Response to Wind Relaxations off the Western United States
      Melanie Fewings (Oregon State University), Kevin S. Brown (Oregon State University), and Carlos Moffat (University of Delaware)
    • Along-shore structure of marine heat wave events along the California Current System
      Gwendolyn Larson (University of Delaware), Carlos Moffat, Melanie R. Fewings, and Kevin S. Brown
    • Evaluation of the ERA* Ocean Forcing Product Under Storm Surge Conditions in the Adriatic Sea
      Eugenia Makarova (CSIC), Marcos Portabella, and Ana Trindade

  • Climate Data Record Development and Analysis

    • The JPL SCATSAT Climate Quality Data Product
      Alexander Fore (Jet Propulsion Laboratory), Bryan Stiles, Sermsak Jaruwatanadilok, and Ernesto Rodriguez
    • Toward a consistent C- and Ku-band scatterometer ocean vector wind data record
      Bryan Stiles (Jet Propulsion Laboratory), Alexander Fore, Svetla Hristova-Veleva, and Alexander Wineteer
    • Improvements to the Cross-Calibrated Multi-Platform (CCMP) analysis
      Carl Mears (Remote Sensing Systems), Tong Lee, Susan Wijffels and Frank Wentz
    • Characterizing Buoy Wind Speed Error in Extreme Conditions with ASCAT and ERA5
      Ethan Wright (COAPS Florida State University) and Mark Bourassa
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  • Climate Working Group contributions

    • Creating an extended and consistent ESDR of the ocean surface winds, stress and their dynamically-significant derivatives for the period 1999-2022 - a MEaSUREs-funded proposal: Developing and evaluating the harmonized retrievals of wind and stress
      SVETLA HRISTOVA-VELEVA (Jet Propulsion Laboratory), Mark Bourassa, Alexander Fore, Thomas Kilpatrick, David Moroni, Larry O'Neill, Ernesto Rodriguez, Bryan Stiles, F. Joseph Turk, Douglas Vandemark, Alexander Wineteer, Shang-Ping Xie, P. Peggy Li, Brian Knosp, Quoc Vu, Philip Callahan, Roy S. Dunbar, Marc Emond, Ethan Wright, Robin Vane, and Joseph Jacob
    • Distinct impacts of short- and long-time fluctuations of Indian Ocean surface wind fields on Indian summer monsoon rainfall at regional scales
      Yangxing Zheng (Center for Ocean-Atmospheric Prediction Studies, Florida State University), Mark A. Bourassa, and M. M. Ali

2019 IOVWST

• Sponsors
• Agenda
• Attendees
• Concluding Discussions and Decisions

• Presentations/Posters (In agenda order)

  1. Programmatic Talks

     • Welcome to Portland
       Doug Vandemark (Univ. of New Hampshire)
     • Meeting Introduction
       Mark Bourassa (Florida State University)
     • NASA HQ Update
       Eric Lindstrom and Nadya Vinogradova-Shiffer (NASA HQ; Invited talk)
     • The Ocean Surface Vector Wind Satellite Constellation: Status, Health and Future?
       Paul Chang (NOAA/NESDIS/Center for Satellite Applications and Research), Stefanie Linow, and Rashmi Sharma
     • ISRO Update and Discussion of the Actual Constellation
       Raj Kumar (ISRO; Invited talk)
     • Status of EUMETSAT scatterometer missions
       Stefanie Linow (EUMETSAT; Invited talk)

  2. Current and Future Ocean Vector Wind Mission Updates

     • On wind retrieval biases, GMFs, and backscatter calibration
       Ad Stoffelen (KNMI), Anton Verhoef, Zhen Li and Zhixiong Wang
     • Preliminary Results of Scatterometer of CFOSAT (New Talk)
       Xiaolong Dong (National Space Science Center, Chinese Academy of Sciences), Di Zhu, Wenming Lin, Risheng Yun, Shuyan Lang and Lei Zhang
     • Sea surface winds from the combined scatterometer and altimeter backscatter measurements of HY-2A satellite
       Xiuzhong Li (School of Marine Sciences, Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology), Wenming Lin, Baochang Liu and Zhixiong Wang
     • Compact Ocean Wind Vector Radiometer Mission Status
       Shannon Brown (Jet Propulsion Laboratory), Paolo Focardi, Amarit Kitiyakara, Frank Maiwald, Oliver Montes, Sharmila Padmanabhan, Richard Redick, Damon Russell, and James Wincentsen
     • Estimation of Surface Current Vorticity and Divergence from a Future Winds and Currents Mission (WaCM)
       Dudley Chelton and Ernesto Rodriguez (Oregon State University)

  3. Planning and Results for Improved Calibration of Extreme Winds and Stress

     • Future Updates to the Operational SFMR Algorithm
       Heather Holbach (FSU, NGI, NOAA/AOML/HRD)
     • Investigation of winds near the ocean surface using airborne Doppler Wind Lidar and dropsondes (Invited)
       G. David Emmitt and Steve Greco (Simpson Weather Associates)
     • Preliminary inter-comparison of hurricane hunter and buoy wind observations under high wind conditions, using collocations with ASCAT
       Federica Polverari (Institute of Marine Sciences (ICM-CSIC)), Wenming Lin, Joseph Sapp, Marcos Portabella, Paul Chang, Zorana Jelenak, Ad Stoffelen, Alexis Mouche and Gerd-Jan van Zadelhoff
     • SMAP based Training of All-Weather Wind Speed Retrievals from WindSat and AMSR
       Thomas Meissner (Remote Sensing Systems), Lucrezia Ricciardulli and Frank Wentz
     • Validation of Scatterometer and Radiometer High Winds Using Oil Platform Anemomters
       Andrew Manaster (Remote Sensing Systems), Lucrezia Ricciardulli, and Thomas Meissner

  4. Climate Data Record Development and Analysis

     • Accuracy and Stability of Satellite Winds for Tropical Climate Variability Studies
       Lucrezia Ricciardulli (Remote Sensing Systems), Carl Mears, Frank Wentz and Antonietta Capotondi
     • Characterizing ERA-interim and ERA5 surface wind biases using ASCAT
       Ad Stoffelen (KNMI) and Maria Belmonte Rivas
     • Identification and Characterization of Tropical Atmospheric Near-Surface Cold Pools using Space-borne Scatterometer
       Piyush Garg (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign), Stephen W. Nesbitt, Timothy J. Lang, Themis Chronis, George Priftis, Jeffrey D. Thayer and Deanna A. Hence
     • Revisiting the Effects of Rain on Ku-band Scatterometers
       Carl Mears (Remote Sensing Systems), Lucrezia Ricciardulli, Frank J. Wentz
     • Using ASCAT Overlaps to Develop Rain flagging and Corrections for ScatSAT Winds
       Bryan W. Stiles (Jet Propulsion Laboratory) and Alexander Fore
     • Creating an extended and consistent ESDR of the ocean surface winds, stress and their dynamically-significant derivatives for the period 1999-2022: Step 1 -Product Formulation
       Svetla Hristova-Veleva (Jet Propulsion Laboratory), Mark Bourassa, Alexander Fore, Thomas Kilpatrick, David Moroni, Larry O'Neill, Ernesto Rodriguez, Bryan Stiles, Francis Turk, Douglas Vandemark, Alexander Wineteer and Shang-Ping Xie

  5. New Products and Applications (part 1)

     • Doppler capabilities of MetOp-SG SCA
       Ad Stoffelen (KNMI), Prof. Peter Hoogeboom and Dr. Paco Lopez Dekker
     • Automated Detection of Extratropical Storms from SMAP Winds
       Lucrezia Ricciardulli (Remote Sensing Systems) and Thomas Meissner
     • Coherent Turbulence in the Boundary Layer of Intense Hurricanes
       Stephen Guimond (UMBC and NASA/GSFC), Joe Sapp and Stephen Frasier
     • Wind stress along the U.S. East Coast from Coastal QuikSCAT v4.0 fields
       Melanie Fewings (Oregon State University), Craig Risien and Kevin Brown
     • Evaluation of All-weather Sea Surface Wind Speed Product from GCOM-W/AMSR2 spaceborne microwave radiometer
       Naoto Ebuchi

  6. New Products and Applications (part 2)

     • Inconsistencies in scatterometer wind products based on ASCAT and OSCAT-2 collocations
       Zhixiong Wang (Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology), Ad Stoffelen, Wenming Lin and Anton Verhoef
     • First assessment of the CFOSAT scatterometer wind quality
       Wenming Lin (Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology), M. Portabella, S. Lang, Z. Wang and Y. He
     • CFOSAT NWP Ocean Calibration
       Zhen Li (KNMI), Ad Stoffelen and Jeroen Verspeek
     • Preliminary Results of the HY-2B Scatterometer
       Juhong Zou (National Satellite Ocean Application Service), Mingsen Lin, Yi Zhang, Zhixiong Wang, Wenming Lin, Ad Stoffelen, and Anton Verhoef
     • The JPL SCATSAT Near Real Time Data Product: Calibration, Validation, and Latency
       Alexander Fore (Jet Propulsion Laboratory), Alexander Fore, Bryan Stiles, Sermsak Jaruwatanadilok, and Ernesto Rodriguez
     • Latest Datasets and Services at the PO.DAAC
       David Moroni (Jet Propulsion Laboratory)
     • Evaluation of ASCAT superobbing products for NWP data assimilation
       Giovanna De Chiara (ECMWF), W. Lin, M. Portabella, J. Vogelzang, L. Isaksen, and A. Stoffelen

  7. Atmosphere and Ocean Coupling

     • Fundamental Response Patterns of the Observed Wind Response to Ocean-Mesoscale Sea Surface Temperatures
       Niklas Schneider (University of Hawaii at Manoa)
     • Air-Sea mechanical coupling at submesoscale regime: Direct observations and numerical insights
       Hector Torres (Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology), Patrice Klein, Ernesto Rodriguez, Dimitris Menemenlis, Alex Wineteer, Lia Siegelman, Andrew Thompson, and Mar Flexas
     • Quantifying Air-Sea Interactions with Ka-Band Doppler Scatterometry
       Alexander Wineteer (Jet Propulsion Laboratory), Ernesto Rodríguez, Hector Torrez, Patrice Klein and Dimitris Menemenlis
     • Wind Drift Currents from Remote Sensing
       Ernesto Rodriguez (Jet Propulsion Laboratory/Caltech), Alexander Wineteer and Steven Morey
     • Upper-ocean response to alongshore winds off the California coast
       Bia Villas Boas (Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California San Diego), Sarah Gille and Weiguang (Roger) Wu
     • Wind drift and air-sea coupling in simulations of the northern California Current System
       Professor Roger Samelson (CEOAS, Oregon State University), D. B. Chelton and E. D. Skyllingstad

  8. Ocean Applications

     • Validation of Ultra High Resolution Winds in the Lee of the Hawaiian Islands
       David Long (Brigham Young University), Nolan Hutchings, Thomas Kilpatrick and Shang-Ping Xie
     • Wind-driven mixing on the Greenland shelf
       Dmitry Dukhovskoy (FSU), Mark Bourassa
     • CYGNSS Observations of Ocean Winds and Waves at NOAA
       Zorana Jelenak (NOAA/NESDIS/Center for Satellite Applications and Research), Faozi Said, Jeonghwan Park, Seubson Soisuvarn and Paul S. Chang
     • Surface Currents from Ultra-Thin Drifters compared to HF Radar and Drogued Drifter Measurements
       Steven Morey (Florida A&M University), Nicolas Wienders, Dmitry S. Dukhovskoy, and Mark A. Bourassa
     • Estimating dynamic SSH anomalies from surface ocean vector current observations: A feasibility study for the proposed WaCM
       Larry O'Neill (Oregon State University), Ernesto Rodriguez, Dudley Chelton, and Roger Samelson

  9. Meteorological Applications

     • Operational Use of ASCAT Coastal Winds in JMA Mesoscale NWP System
       Shin Koyamatsu (Japan Meteorological Agency)
     • Examining Cold Pool Signatures of Oceanic Systems Using ASCAT Wind Retrievals of Varying Resolution
       Georgios Priftis (University of Alabama in Huntsville), Timothy J. Lang, Piyush Garg, Richard Lindsley, Stephen W. Nesbitt and Themis Chronis
     • Development of a New MABL Model for OVW Sea-level Pressure Retrieval, OLE Modeling and Assessing Momentum Entrainment
       Ralph Foster
     • Using new global Sentinel SAR data to investigate organized eddies in the marine boundary layer
       Douglas Vandemark (Univ. of New Hampshire), Chen Wang, Ralph Foster, Alexis Mouche and Bertrand Chapron
     • Systematic scatterometer wind errors around coastal mountains
       Thomas Kilpatrick (Scripps Institution of Oceanography), Shang-Ping Xie, Hiroki Tokinaga, David Long and Nolan Hutchings

  10. Observational Requirements for Wind and Stress Science and Applications

      • Summary of Vector-related Applications and Requirements for in the OceanObs19 Winds and Stress Paper
        Mark Bourassa and Ad Stoffelen
      • Challenges for measuring transient mesoscale winds and link to WMO OSCAR
        Ad Stoffelen (KNMI)
      • Requirements for Ice and Land Applications
        David G. Long (BYU)
      • Diurnal and high-frequency winds
        Sarah Gille

  11. Issues and Solutions to Improving Air-Sea Coupling in Observations and Models

      • Towards an improved Ku-band pencil-beam scatterometer wind quality control under moist convection conditions
        Marcos Portabella (Institute of Marine Sciences (ICM-CSIC)), Wenming Lin, Ad Stoffelen, Anton Verhoef and Zhixiong Wang
      • Improvement of the ERA* ocean forcing product: Benefits from the scatterometer constellation
        Ana Trindade (Polytechnic University of Catalonia (UPC)), Marcos Portabella, Ad Stoffelen, Wenming Lin and Anton Verhoef
      • Update and model sensitivity to stress parameterizations and comparison to ASCAT equivalent neutral winds
        Mark Bourassa (FSU, COAPS & EOAS) and Qi Shi
      • Local winds vs swell: Wave-wind interactions and the impact on scatterometer measurements
        Sarah Gille (Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California San Diego), Sarah Gille, Mary Konopliv, Magdalena Carranza, Luke Colosi, Bia Villas Boas and Momme Hell
      • Effect of sampling difference on satellite-buoy wind consistency
        Tong Lee (Jet Propulsion Lab)

  12. Conclusions and End of Meeting Summary

      • Thursday Meeting Conclusions
        Bourassa et al
      • Friday Meeting Conclusions
        Bourassa et al
      • End of Meeting Summary
        Bourassa et al

• Posters (In agenda order)

  • The European Next Generation Scatterometer – SCA
    Dr. Craig Anderson (EUMETSAT), S Linow, JJW Wilson, F Ticconi.
  • Extreme Winds from the Soil Moisture Active Passive Mission
    Dr. Alexander Fore (Jet Propulsion Laboratory), Simon Yueh, Wenqing Tang, Bryan Stiles, and Akiko Hayashi
  • A Comparison of Scatterometers and Buoys in High Wind Conditions
    Ethan Wright (Florida State University, COAPS & EOAS) and Mark Bourassa
  • Volume Scattering Models for Scatterometer Cross-Calibration
    David Long (Brigham Young University) and Evan Chrisney
  • Satellite-to-In Situ Wind Data Collocation Using the Distributed Oceanographic Match-Up Service Prototype
    Jocelyn Elya (FSU, COAPS), Ed Armstrong, Mark A. Bourassa, Thomas Cram, Maya DeBellis, Frank Greguska, Thomas Huang, Joseph Jacob, Zaihua Ji, Homer McMillan, Nga Quach, Shawn R. Smith, Vardis M. Tsontos, Steven Worley, and Elizabeth Yam
  • Latitudinal Circulation Analysis Through Ocean Wind Vector Derivative Fields
    Robert Jacobs (Oregon State University) and Larry O'Neill
  • Comparing ASCAT and CYGNSS winds near tropical convection
    Timothy Lang (NASA MSFC), George Priftis, Piyush Garg, and Steve Nesbitt
  • The Diurnal Cycle of ASCAT-Identified Cold Pools and associated Convective Systems in the Maritime Continent and South China Sea
    Stephen Nesbitt (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign), Piyush Garg, Timothy J. Lang, George Priftis and Themis Chronis
  • Analysis of the 10 - 20 Day Intraseasonal Oscillations in the Indian Ocean Using Surface Winds from Composite Satellite Data
    Yangxing Zheng (Florida State University-COAPS), Mark A. Bourassa and Heather L. Roman-Stork
  • Investigations of Neural Network-based Ultra High-resolution Wind Retrieval for ASCAT
    David Long (Brigham Young University) and Jordan Brown
  • Using Scatterometer Data to Assess Patterns and Rates of Global Urban Growth
    Professor Steve Frolking (University of New Hampshire) and Tom Milliman
  • Development and Early Results of the Surface Heat Flux Product for the CYGNSS Mission
    Juan Crespo (Jet Propulsion Laboratory) and Derek J. Posselt
  • Ocean GNSS-R delay-Doppler maps asymmetries induced by specular point inaccuracies
    Giuseppe Grieco (Koninklijk Nederlands Meteorologisch Instituut), Dr. Ad Stoffelen, Dr. Marcos Portabella and Dr. Olaf Tuinder
  • Using FASTEM to monitor SMOS brightness temperature over the ocean
    Giovanna De Chiara (ECMWF), Lars Isaksen, Stephen English
  • Application of Coincident Sub-Footprint Scale Winds to Observe the Effect of Sea Surface Vorticity on the RapidScat Scatterometer Ku-Band NRCS
    David Weissman (Hofstra University) and Mark A. Bourassa
  • NOAA Ocean Winds Science team NRT Satellite Ocean Winds Processing System Overview
    Qi Zhu ( NOAA/NESDIS/Center for Satellite Applications and Research), Seubson Soisuvarn, Faozi Said, Joe Sapp, Jeonghwan Park, Zorana Jelenak and Paul S. Chang
  • The COAPS Simplified Daily Scatterometer Swath Datasets
    Jocelyn Elya (Center for Ocean-Atmospheric Prediction Studies) and Mark A. Bourassa
  • Update to Identification of the ITCZ Using Ocean Vector Wind Fields During SPURS-2
    Aaron C. Paget (Concord University), James B. Edson and Carol Anne Clayson
  • Cross-Polarized Ku-band Scatterometer Measurements of the Sea Surface in Extreme Winds
    Joe Sapp (NOAA/NESDIS/STAR), Zorana Jelenak, Paul Chang and Steve Frasier
  • Sentinel-1 SAR, CyGNSS, and Airborne Scatterometer and Radiometer Measurements of Hurricane Michael
    Joe Sapp (NOAA/NESDIS/STAR), Alexis Mouche, Olivier Archer, Faozi Said, Yili Zhao, Zorana Jelenak, Paul Chang and Steve Frasier
  • Investigating the Effects of Sea Spray on Surface Wind Stress and Waves under Hurricane Conditions
    Renee Richardson (Florida State University, COAPS & EOAS), Mark Bourassa and Steven L. Morey
  • Observational Analysis of Extratropical Cyclone Interactions with Northeast Pacific Sea Surface Temperature Anomalies
    Briana Phillips (Oregon State University) and Larry O'Neill
  • Seasonality and regional characteristics of sea-surface wind responses to mesoscale SST features revealed by the transfer function
    Ryusuke Masunaga (IPRC, University of Hawaii at Manoa), and Professor Niklas Schneider
  • Diurnal variability in tropical surface winds, convergence and the associated precipitation
    Dr. Joe Turk (Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology) and Svetla Hristova-Veleva
  • Accuracy of wind observations from open-ocean buoys: Correction for flow distortion
    Michael Schlundt (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution), Tom Farrar; Sebastien Bigorre; Al Plueddemann; and Bob Weller

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2018 IOVWST

• Sponsors
• Agenda
• Attendees
• Group Photograph

• Presentations (In agenda order)

  1. Programmatic Talks

     • Welcome to Institute of Marine Sciences (ICM-CSIC)
       Marcos Portabella (ICM-CSIC)
     • Meeting Introduction
       Mark Bourassa (Florida State University)
     • Global Change Observation Mission (GCOM)
       Haruhisa Shimoda (Tokai University)
     • The Ocean Surface Vector Wind Satellite Constellation: Status, Health and Future?
       Paul Chang (NOAA/NESDIS/Center for Satellite Applications and Research), Rashmi Sharma and Stefanie Linow
     • Update on NASA and Global Ocean Observing System (GOOS) Programs
       Nadya Vinogradova-Shiffer and Eric Lindstrom (NASA HQ) (Invited talk)
     • EUMETSAT Status Update
       Stefanie Linow (Invited talk)

  2. Ocean Applications

     • Toward predicting the spatial pattern of mid-latitude marine heat waves based on the imprinting of regional wind anomalies
       Melanie Fewings (University of Connecticut), Kevin S. Brown, University of Connecticut
     • Characterizing Submesoscale Ocean Currents using a Doppler Scatterometer
       Ernesto Rodriguez (JPL/Caltech), Alexander Wineteer, Dragana Perkovic-Martin
     • Wind-driven circulation on the Arctic shelves
       Dmitry Dukhovskoy (COAPS FSU) and Mark Bourassa
     • Upwelling hot spot in the Southern California Bight
       Thomas Kilpatrick (Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UCSD), Shang-Ping Xie and Niklas Schneider
     • When Mixed Layers Are Not Mixed: Using Vector Wind Products to Evaluate Storm Recurrence and Upper Ocean Mixing
       Sarah Gille (Scripps Institution of Oceanography), Magdalena M. Carranza, Peter J. S. Franks, Kenneth S. Johnson, Robert Pinkel, James B. Girton

  3. Rain-Related Topics

     • Sensitivity of the Time-Mean Mid-Latitude Surface Circulation to Strong Storms
       Larry O'Neill (Oregon State University) and Ralph Milliff
     • A model-base assessment of the impacts of sampling differences on satellite-buoy wind consistency in convective regions
       Tong Lee (Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology)
     • Rain Impact on SFMR Measurements
       Heather Holbach (FSU, NGI, NOAA/AOML/HRD), Bradley W. Klotz, Mark A. Bourassa
     • Improvements in the Version 2.0 RapidScat Ocean Vector Winds Climate Product
       Bryan Stiles (Jet Propulsion Laboratory), Alexander Fore, Lucrezia Ricciardulli, Alexander G. Wineteer, Svetla Hristova-Veleva, Ernesto Rodriguez, Frank Wentz, and David Long
     • Examining convective signatures in scatterometer data
       Timothy Lang (NASA MSFC), Piyush Garg, Georgios Priftis, Steve Nesbitt, Themis Chronis, Richard Lindsley
     • Examination of the Daily Modes of Wind Variability Near Tropical Convection
       Joe Turk (Jet Propulsion Laboratory), Svetla Hristova-Veleva
     • Correlating extremes in wind and stress divergence with extremes in rain over the Tropical Atlantic
       Gregory King (Institut de Ciencies del Mar (ICM - CSIC) and University of South Florida), Marcos Portabella, Wenming Lin, and Ad Stoffelen

  4. Report from the Coastal Working Group and Discussion

     • Summary of progress and issues (invited talk)
       Melanie Fewings
     • Improvements in the Version 4.0 QuikSCAT Ocean Vector Winds
       Bryan Stiles (Jet Propulsion Laboratory), Alexander Fore, Lucrezia Ricciardulli, Alexander G. Wineteer, Svetla Hristova-Veleva, Ernesto Rodriguez, Frank Wentz, and David Long

  5. ASCAT-Related Products and Updates

     • Cone Metrics for ASCAT
       Anton Verhoef (KNMI Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute), Jeroen Verspeek (presenting), Maria Belmonte Rivas and Ad Stoffelen
     • Characterizing the differences between ASCAT and ECMWF reanalysis winds (ERAint, ERA5)
       Maria Belmonte Rivas (KNMI - Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute) and Ad Stoffelen

  6. High Wind Speed and Surface Stress (Part 1)

     • Evaluating several key issues in satellite wind stress validation
       Doug Vandemark (Univ. of New Hampshire), James Edson and Marc Emond
     • Scale-dependence of observed wind stress response to ocean- mesoscale surface temperatures
       Niklas Schneider (University of Hawaii)
     • SMAP Radiometer-Only Tropical Cyclone Intensity and Size
       Alexander Fore (Jet Propulsion Laboratory), Simon Yueh, Wenqing Tang, Bryan Stiles, Akiko Hayashi
     • Extreme Wind Speed Measurements from NASA’s SMAP L-Band Radiometer
       Thomas Meissner (Remote Sensing Systems), Lucrezia Ricciardulli, Frank Wentz, Andrew Manaster, Charles Sampson
     • Validation of scatterometer and radiometer high winds using oil platform anemometers
       Lucrezia Ricciardulli (Remote Sensing Systems), Andrew Manaster, Thomas Meissner

  7. High Wind Speed and Surface Stress (Part 2)

     • Scatterometer, Radiometer and Altimeter Observations of High Wind Events - Tropical Cyclones
       Zorana Jelenak (NOAA/NESDIS/STAR-UCAR), Seubson Soisuvarn, Joe Sapp, Faozi Said, Qi Zhu and Paul S. Chang
     • C-band High and Extreme Force Speeds (CHEFS)
       Ad Stoffelen (KNMI), Alexis Mouche, Marcos Portabella, Wenming Lin,Federica Polverari, Gerd-Jan van Zadelhoff, Paul Chang, Zorana Jenenak, Joseph Sapp, Jean-Raymond Bidlot, and Mark Bourassa
     • Towards a consolidated wind reference for assessing scatterometer high and extreme-force wind capabilities
       Federica Polverari (Institut de Ciencies del Mar (ICM - CSIC)), Wenming Lin, Joe Sapp, Marcos Portabella, Ad Stoffelen, Alexis Mouche, Gerd-Jan van Zadelhoff, Anton Verhoef, Jos De Kloe, Paul Chang, Zorana Jelenak, Jean-Raymond Bidlot, and Mark Bourassa

  8. Atmosphere and Ocean Coupling

     • Time and length scales of upper ocean response to winds
       Kathleen Dohan (Earth and Space Research)
     • Air-Sea Coupling and Fluxes: Wind-Wave-Current in High-Impact Weather and Implications for Earth System Modeling and Prediction
       Shuyi Chen (Department of Atmospheric Sciences, University of Washington), Milan Curcic, Benjamnin Barr, Brandon Kerns
     • Coupling ocean currents and waves with wind stress over the Gulf Stream
       Mark Bourassa (COAPS & EOAS, Florida State University), Qi Shi

  9. Doppler Scatterometry Products and Updates

     • Measuring Ocean Vector Winds with a Ka-Band Pencil Beam Doppler Scatterometer
       Alexander Wineteer (JPL), Ernesto Rodriguez, Dragana Perkovic- Martin and Bryan Stiles
     • Summary of the Winds and Currents Mission Workshop
       Mark Bourassa (Florida State University), Ernesto Rodrigues and Sarah Gille
     • EPS-SG SCA Doppler capability
       Ad Stoffelen (KNMI) and Peter Hoogeboom

  10. CFOSAT and FengYun-3E Products and Updates

      • System Characteristics Design of WindRadar on FengYun-3E Meteorological Satellite
        Honggang Yin
      • Simulation of Wind Performance in Tropical Cyclone for China's Future Dual-frequency Scatterometer WindRAD
        Fangli Dou (National Satellite Meteorological Center), Honggang Yin, and Jian Shang
      • Assessment of the CFOSAT Scatterometer Backscatter and Wind Quality
        Wenming Lin (School of Marine Sciences, Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology), Xiaolong Dong, Marcos Portabella, Xing-ou Xu, Di Zhu, Zhixiong Wang, and Yijun He
      • Wind Field Retrieving for Scat Onboard CFOSAT Based On PCA Method
        Xingou Xu (The Key Laboratory of Microwave Remote Sensing, NSSC, CAS) and Xiaolong Dong
      • CFOSAT Level 1B simulator and wind processor retrieval result comparison with WindRad
        Zhen Li (Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute) and Ad Stoffelen

  11. Meteorological Applications

      • Temporal and spatial variability of Wind Intensifications assessed from scatterometers
        Isabel Monteiro (IPMA - Portuguese Institute for the Sea and the Atmosphere), Jur Vogelzang, KNMI- Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute
      • Mesoscale wind data assimilation
        Ad Stoffelen (KNMI), Gert-Jan Marseille and Jur Vogelzang
      • Modulation of diurnal winds in the tropical oceans
        Donata Giglio (University of California San Diego), Bruce D Cornuelle, Devon M Northcott, Sarah T Gille
      • Degradation of the scatterometer wind data probably due to ships
        Stefano Zecchetto (National Council of Researches, Institute of Atmospheric Sciences and Climate) and Francesco De Biasio
      • QNSE Theory of Turbulence in Rotating Fluids and the Nastrom& Gage Spectrum
        Boris Galperin (University of South Florida)

  12. Climate Data Record Development and Analysis

      • Report from Climate and Applications working (Invited talk)
        Frank Wentz and Ad Stoffelen
      • Intercalibration of the C-band scatterometer record using cone metrics
        Maria Belmonte Rivas (KNMI), A. Stoffelen, A. Verhoef, J. Verspeek and J. Vogelzang
      • Ku Band geophysical model functions and SST
        Ad Stoffelen (KNMI), Zhixiong Wang and Jur Vogelzang
      • SST impact on RapidScat and QuikSCAT measurements
        Lucrezia Ricciardulli (Remote Sensing Systems) and Frank Wentz

  13. ScatSAT-1 Products and Updates

      • On the development of geophysical model functions for Ku-band scatterometer wind retrievals: SCATSAT-GMF
        Zhixiong WANG (Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology), Ad Stoffelen, Anton. Verhoef, HE Yijun, ZHANG Biao, LIN Wenming and Marcos Portabella
      • Calibration, Validation and Status of OSI SAF ScatSat-1 products
        Anton Verhoef (KNMI Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute), Jeroen Verspeek and Ad Stoffelen
      • SCATSAT-1 Calibration and Data Quality
        Alexander Fore (Jet Propulsion Laboratory), Bryan Stiles, Sermsak Jaruwatanadilok, and Ernesto Rodriguez

  14. Global Navigation Satellite System Products and Updates

      • GNSS-R ocean properties by Delay Doppler Map stare processing
        Giuseppe Grieco (Koninklijk Nederlands Meteorologisch Instituut (KNMI)), Ad Stoffelen, Marcos Portabella, Maria Belmonte Rivas and Wenming Lin
      • Validation of CYGNSS winds using microwave scatterometers/radiometers
        Lucrezia Ricciardulli (Remote Sensing Systems), Thomas Meissner, Frank Wentz
      • Comprehensive Analysis of CYGNSS Wind Products
        Zorana Jelenak (NOAA/NESDIS/STAR-UCAR), Faozi Said, Seubson Soisuvarn, Paul S Chang

  15. COWVR and Other Products and Updates

      • Evaluation of COWVR as a Cost-Effective Sensor for Ocean Vector Winds and Other Air-Sea Variables
        Frank Wentz (Remote Sensing Systems), Lucrezia Ricciardulli, Thomas Meissner, Carl Mears
      • A novel azimuth cut-off implementation to improve sea surface wind retrievals from SAR images
        Marcos Portabella (Institute of Marine Sciences (ICM-CSIC)), Valeria Corcione, Giuseppe Grieco, Ferdinando Nunziata, Maurizio Migliaccio
      • Latest Datasets and Services at the PO.DAAC
        David Moroni (Jet Propulsion Laboratory)

• Posters

  1. Coastal Applications
     • Determination and use of the wind field from SAR in coastal areas
       Stefano Zecchetto (National Council of Researches, Institute of Atmospheric Sciences and Climate)
     • A Web-Based Toolkit for Satellite-Derived Coastal Upwelling Analyses
       Steven Morey (Florida State University)
  2. Meteorological Applications
     • Offshore transport of coastal water in the California Current System due to winds and mesoscale eddies
       Caitlin Amos (University of Georgia), Renato M. Castelao
  3. Climate Data Record Development and Analysis
     • Validation of AMSR-2 Oceanic Environmental Data Records Using Tropical Cyclone Composite Fields
       Joe Sapp (NOAA/NESDIS/STAR), Suleiman Alsweiss, Zorana Jelenak, Paul Chang
  4. New Products and Applications
     • Creating an extended and consistent ESDR of the ocean surface winds, stress and their dynamically-significant derivatives for the period 1999-2022: A MEaSUREs proposal
       Dr. Svetla Hristova-Veleva (Jet Propulsion Laboratory), Mark Bourassa, Alexander Fore, Thomas Kilpatrick, David Moroni, Larry O'Neill, Ernesto Rodriguez, Bryan Stiles, Francis Turk, Douglas Vandemark, Shang-Ping Xie
     • Improvements in the climate data record of QuikSCAT and RapidScat as seen in the latest reprocessing
       Svetla Hristova-Veleva (Jet Propulsion Laboratory), B. Stiles, L. Ricciardulli, A. Fore, A. Wineteer, E. Rodriguez
     • The influence of in situ wind measurements on CCMP winds
       Carl Mears (Remote Sensing Systems), Lucrezia Ricciardulli and Frank Wentz
     • A Consistent Rain Flag for Ocean Vector Winds
       Bryan W. Stiles and Alexander G. Fore
  5. Meteorological Applications
     • Preliminary study of ScatSat-1 OVW assimilation in JMA’s global NWP system
       Masami Moriya (Japan Meteorological Agency)
  6. Current and Future Ocean Vector Wind Mission Updates
     • Comparison of Cross-Polarized C-band Airborne Scatterometer and Spaceborne SAR Measurements of the Sea Surface in High Winds
       Joe Sapp (NOAA/NESDIS/STAR), Alexis Mouche, Zorana Jelenak, Paul Chang, Steve Frasier
  7. Atmosphere and Ocean Coupling
     • Quantifying the Effect of Rain-Induced Sub-Footprint Scale Variability on the RapidScat Ku-band NRCS
       David Weissman (Hofstra University)
     • Detailed investigation of the role of buoy wind errors in buoy- scatterometer disagreement
       Michael Schlundt (WHOI), J. Tom Farrar; James B. Edson; Sebastien Bigorre; Doug Vandemark; Marc Emond
     • Investigating the Effects of Sea Spray on Surface Wind Stress and Waves under Hurricane Conditions
       Renee Richardson (Florida State University) and Mark Bourassa
     • The Role of Oceanic Processes in the Initiation of Indian Summer Monsoon Intraseasonal Oscillations over the Indian Ocean
       Jason West (University of Colorado Boulder), Weiqing Han, Yuanlong Li
     • Detailed investigation of the role of buoy wind errors in buoy-scatterometer disagreement
       Michael Schlundt (WHOI), J. Tom Farrar; James B. Edson; Sebastien Bigorre; Doug Vandemark; Marc Emond
     • Observational Analysis of Extratropical Cyclone Interactions with Northeast Pacific Sea Surface Temperature Anomalies
       Briana Phillips (Oregon State University ), Larry O'Neill
  8. Waves, Currents and Ice
     • ASCAT UHR Processing Enhancements
       David Long (Brigham Young University), Jordan Brown, and Harrison Garrett

2017 IOVWST

• Sponsors
• Agenda
• Attendees
• Concluding Discussions and Decisions

• Presentations (In agenda order)

  1. Programatic Talks

     • Welcome to Scripps
       Sarah Gille (Scripps Institution of Oceanography)
     • Meeting Introduction
       Mark Bourassa (Florida State University)
     • Update on NASA and Global Ocean Observing System (GOOS) Programs
       Eric Lindstrom (NASA HQ) (Invited talk)

  2. Current and Future Ocean Vector Wind Mission Updates

     • The Ocean Surface Vector Wind Constellation: Status, Health and Future?
       Paul Chang (NOAA/NESDIS/Center for Satellite Applications and Research), and Rashmi Sharma
     • CYGNSS Mission Update
       Christopher Ruf (University of Michigan), Scott Gleason, Faozi Said, Golf Soisuvarn, Zorana Jelenak, Paul Chang, Darren McKague and Rajeswari Balasubramaniam
     • Evaluation of the CYGNSS GNSS-R signal sensitivity to ocean parameters and wind retrieval performance
       Faozi Said (NOAA/NESDIS/Center for Satellite Applications & Research), Seubson Soisuvarn, Zorana Jelenak and Paul S. Chang
     • SCATSAT Data Quality and Initial Results
       Alexander Fore (JPL), Bryan Stiles, and Ernesto Rodriguez
     • Evaluation of Marine Surface Vectors observed by SCATSAT-1 Scatterometer
       Naoto Ebuchi (Hokkaido University)
     • Wind Retrieval for the DopplerScatt Airborne Mission
       Alex Wineteer (Jet Propulsion Laboratory), Bryan Stiles and Ernesto Rodriguez
     • Water Cycle Observation Mission (WCOM) and its Potentials for Ocean Surface Wind Vector Measurement
       Xiaolong Dong (National Space Science Center, Chinese Academy of Sciences) and Jiancheng Shi
     • Compact Ocean Wind Vector Radiometer/ORS-6 Mission: A New Small Satellite Mission for Ocean Winds
       Shannon Brown (Jet Propulsion Laboratory), Paolo Focardi, Amarit Kitiyakara, Frank Maiwald, Oliver Montes, Sharmila Padmanabhan, Richard Redick, Damon Russell, and James Wincentsen
     • CFOSAT Rotating Fan-beam Scatterometer Simulation Performance Evaluation and WindRad simulation comparison
       Zhen Li (KNMI), Ad Stoffelen and Jos de Kloe
     • Future Prospects for Estimation of Surface Ocean Velocity and Vorticity from a Winds and Currents Mission
       Dudley Chelton (OSU), Roger Samelson, Tom Farrar, Jeroen Molemaker and Jim McWIlliams

  3. Gridded Products

     • Level 3 (gridded) scatterometer products: making the case for and designing them
       Svetla Hristova-Veleva (Jet Propulsion Laboratory; UCAL/JIFRESSE), Ernesto Rodriguez, Bryan Stiles, F. Joseph Turk, and Ziad Haddad
     • The Cross-Calibrated Multi-Platform (CCMP) Ocean Vector Wind Analysis (V2.0)
       Carl Mears (Remote Sensing Systems), Lucrezia Ricciardulli, Joel Scott, Ross Hoffman, S. Mark Leidner, Bob Atlas and Frank Wentz
     • Factors influencing the skill of synthesized satellite wind products in the tropical Pacific
       Tong Lee (JPL), Shayne McGregor, Alex Sen Gupta, Dietmar Dommenget, Mike McPhaden4, and Billy Kessler
     • A Gridded Product That Uses Dynamical and Thermodynamical Constraints
       Mark Bourassa (COAPS & EOAS, Florida State University), and Stephen VanGorder
     • Validation and intercomparison for high resolution gridded product of surface wind vectors over the global ocean
       Kunio Kutsuwada (Tokai University), Hiroyuki TOMITA, Shin’ichirou KAKO, Tsutomu HIHARA, Masahisa KUBOTA and Yu TAKAHASHI

  4. Climate Data Record Development and Analysis

     • Intercalibration of the C-band scatterometer record using cone metrics
       Maria Belmonte Rivas (KNMI), A. Stoffelen, A. Verhoef, J. Verspeek and J. Vogelzang
     • Ku Band geophysical model functions and SST
       Ad Stoffelen (KNMI), Zhixiong Wang and Jur Vogelzang
     • SST impact on RapidScat and QuikSCAT measurements
       Lucrezia Ricciardulli (Remote Sensing Systems) and Frank Wentz

  5. New Products and Applications

     • Latest Datasets and Services at the PO.DAAC
       David Moroni (Jet Propulsion Laboratory)
     • Summary of the High Winds SMOSSTORMS (Extreme Winds) Workshop
       Mark Bourassa (COAPS & EOAS, Florida State University), James Cotton, Nicholas Reul, Fabrice Collard and Craig Donlan
     • High Wind Observations within Extratropical Cyclones as Observed by Different Spaceborne Radiometers and Scatterometers
       Zorana Jelenak, (NOAA/NESDIS/Center for Satellite Applications and Research), Paul S. Chang, Faozi Said and Joseph Sienkiewicz
     • Reprocessing the Tropical Cyclone SFMR database: Procedures and Evaluation (Invited New Talk)
       Bradley Klotz, (UM/CIMAS and NOAA/HRD), Heather Holbach (FSU COAPS, NGI, NOAA/AOML/HRD) and Allen Garcia (FIU)
     • Validation of SMAP radiometer extreme wind speed data product with rapid scatterometer and stepped frequency microwave radiometer
       Alexander Fore (JPL), Simon Yueh, Wenqing Tang, Bryan Stiles, and Akiko Hayashi
     • Bringing Consistency into High Wind Measurements with Spaceborne Microwave Radiometers and Scatterometers
       Thomas Meissner (Remote Sensing Systems), Lucrezia Ricciardulli, and Frank Wentz
     • Hurricane observations by C-Band SAR and L-Band Radiometer
       Alexis Mouche (Ifremer), Biao Zhang, Bertrand Chapron and Romain Husson
     • A wind geophysical model function for the TDS-1 GNSS-Reflectometry observations
       Wenming Lin (Institute of Marine Sciences (ICM-CSIC)) and Marcos Portabella
     • Platform measurements of Ka-band sea surface radar Doppler characteristics
       Semyon Grodsky (UMD), Yu. Yu. Yurovsky, V. N. Kudryavtsev, S. A. Grodsky, and B. Chapron
     • Measuring Winds and Currents with DopplerScatt
       Ernesto Rodriguez (Jet Propulsion Laboratory/CalTech), Dragana Perkovic, Bryan Stiles, Tamas Gal, Noppasin Niamsuwan, and Alexander Wineteer
     • Improvements in Ku-band scatterometer wind ambiguity removal using ASCAT-based empirical background error correlations
       Ad Stoffelen (KNMI) and Jur Vogelzang
     • QuikSCAT High Precision Wind Speed Cross Sections 2010-2017
       Bryan Stiles (Jet Propulsion Laboratory), Alex G. Fore, Alex Wineteer, and R. Scott Dunbar
     • Evaluating and Comparing SeaWinds Backscatter Image Formation Algorithms
       David Long (Brigham Young University)

  6. Report from the Coastal Working Group and Discussion

     • Summary of progress and issues (invited talk)
       Melanie Fewings

  7. Oceanographic Applications

     • Atmospheric Intraseasonal Oscillation (ISO) during Indian Summer Monsoon: Effect of barrier layer on SST and convection
       Weiqing Han (The University of Colorado), Yuanlong Li, W. Wang, M. Ravichandran, T. Lee and T. Shinoda
     • The contribution of wind stress curl weakening to recent marine heat waves along North American coastlines
       Melanie Fewings (University of Connecticut), Christopher Gotschalk, University of California, Santa Barbara and Kevin S. Brown
     • Towards improved estimates of upper ocean energetics: Science motivation for the simultaneous measurement of ocean surface vector winds and currents
       Dimitris Menemenlis (California Institute of Technology, Jet Propulsion Laboratory), M. M. Flexas, P. Klein, A. F. Thompson, H. S. Torres and J. Wang
     • GMF development for C-band scatterometers
       Jeroen Verspeek (KNMI), Ad Stoffelen, Jur Vogelzang and Lucrezia Ricciardulli
     • Coastal Upwelling Index Databases Derived from Satellite Winds
       Steven Morey (Florida State University)

  8. Report from the Stress Group and Discussion

     • Deriving wind stress from satellite wind products – working group update (invited talk)
       Doug Vandemark (University of New Hampshire), James Edson

  9. Meteorological Applications

     • Identification of the ITCZ Using Ocean Vector Wind Fields During SPURS-2
       Aaron Paget (University of Connecticut) and James B. Edson
     • Hurricane Inflow Estimates from QuikSCAT Neural Net Wind Speed Retrievals
       Ralph Foster (Applied Physics Laboratory, University of Washington), Jun Zhang and Peter Black
     • Estimating CYGNSS vector winds applying a variational analysis method to simulated CYGNSS ocean surface wind speed retrievals
       Ross Hoffman (AOML/CIMAS and AER), S. Mark Leidner, Robert Atlas and B. Annane
     • Impact of Simulated CYGNSS Ocean Surface Winds on Tropical Cyclone Analyses and Forecasts in a Regional OSSE Framework
       Robert Atlas (NOAA AOML), Bachir Annane, Brian D. McNoldy, S. Mark Leidner; Ross N. Hoffman, and Sharon J. Majumdar
     • Towards a new ASCAT wind product for assimilation in global NWP
       Marcos Portabella (Institut de Ciencies del Mar (ICM-CSIC)), Wenming Lin and Ad Stoffelen, Giovanna De Chiara
     • Assessing the sensitivity of the ECMWF 4D-Var assimilation system to different ASCAT wind product resolutions
       Giovanna De Chiara (ECMWF), Wenming Lin, Marcos Portabella and Ad Stoffelen
     • Interaction between Ocean Eddies and Wind Stress Near Mid-latitude Ocean Fronts - a Revisit with Scatterometer Data
       W Timothy Liu (Jet Propulsion Laboratory) and Xiaosu Xie
     • Diurnal Wind Variability in the Tropics: Non-Stationarity on Seasonal to Interannual Timescales
       Sarah Gille (Scripps Institution of Oceanography), Devon Northcott and Donata Giglio
     • Diurnal convection–wind coupling in the Bay of Bengal
       Thomas Kilpatrick (Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UCSD), Shang-Ping Xie and Tomoe Nasuno
     • Comparison of different methodologies in vertical wind extrapolation for satellite wind retrievals
       Alberto Rabaneda (University of Strathclyde) and Matthew Stickland
     • Evaluation of Multi-Satellite Surface Winds of MJO over the Indian Ocean using DYNAMO in-situ Observations
       Shuyi S. Chen (RSMAS/University of Miami) and Brandon Kerns

  10. Atmosphere and Ocean Coupling

      • Scale dependence of air-sea interaction: what are we missing?
        Tom Farrar (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution), Larry O'Neill, Hyodae Seo and Ted Durland
      • Observed Structure and Characteristics of Cold Pools over Tropical Oceans using Scatterometer Vector Wind Retrievals
        Piyush Garg (Department of Atmospheric Sciences, University of Illinois Urbana Champaign), Stephen W. Nesbitt, Timothy J. Lang, Themis Chronis, Jeffrey D. Thayer and Deanna A. Hence
      • Dynamics of the wind stress response to ocean mesoscale surface temperatures
        Niklas Schneider (International Pacific Research Center, University of Hawaii)
      • Towards an improved wind quality control for RapidSCAT
        Wenming Lin and Marcos Portabella
      • Investigating the Seasonal and Diurnal Cycles of Ocean Vector Winds, Precipitation, and Lightning near the Philippines
        Timothy Lang (NASA MSFC), Weixin Xu and Steve Rutledge
      • The role of wind gusts in upper ocean diurnal variability
        Donata Giglio (University of California San Diego), Sarah T. Gille, Aneesh C. Subramanian, San Nugyen, and Devon Northcott
      • Consistency of QuikSCAT and ASCAT wind measurements in depicting the variability of the South Pacific Convergence Zone
        Tong Lee (JPL) and Autumn Kidwell
      • Theoretical Modeling of Dual-Frequency Scatterometer Response: Improving Ocean Wind and Rainfall Effects
        Federica Polverari (Institut de Ciencies del Mar (ICM - CSIC)), Svetla M. Hristova-Veleva, Francis J. Turk, Nazzareno Pierdicca, Luca Pulvirenti and Frank S. Marzano
      • A combined wind retrieval model over ocean for HSCAT and HRAD onboard the HY-2A satellite under rainy conditions
        Xingou Xu (National Space Science Center, Chinese Academy of Sciences), Xiaolong Dong, Yun Li, Wenming Lin and Di Zhu
      • CYGNSS Sampling of Low-latitude Extratropical Cyclones and Surface Heat Flux Estimates
        Juan Crespo (University of Michigan), Derek Posselt, Catherine Naud and Charles Bussy-Virat

• Posters

  1. Meteorlogical Applications

     • Further Examination of Diurnal and Sub-Diurnal Wind Vector Variability using the Constellation of Scatterometers and Radiometers
       Joe Turk (Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology) and Svetla Hristova-Veleva
     • Oceanic convective systems: ASCAT and NEXRAD retrieval analysis
       Timothy Lang (NASA MSFC), Georgios Priftis, Themis Chronis and Steve Nesbitt
     • The impact of RapidScat ocean vector winds assimilation in JMA’s global NWP system
       Masami Moriya (Japan Meteorological Agency)
     • Turbulent kinetic energy of the ocean winds over the Kuroshio Extension from QuikSCAT winds (1999-2009) (New Talk)
       Gregory King (Institute of Marine Sciences (ICM-CSIC)), Kai Yu and Changming Dong
     • Distinctive features of ocean surface winds over Indian Ocean between strong and weak Indian summer monsoons
       Yangxing Zheng (Florida State University), Mark A. Bourassa and M. M. Ali
     • Preliminary evaluation of ScatSat winds
       Lucrezia Ricciardulli (Remote Sensing Systems), Richard Lindsley and Frank Wentz

  2. Gridded Products

     • Temporal scales characterization of Southern Ocean's CCMP vector winds
       Magdalena Carranza (Scripps Institution of Oceanography) and Sarah T. Gille

  3. Atmosphere/Ocean Coupling

     • Scatterometer Observations of the Northern Red Sea Mountain-gap Wind Jets
       Viviane Menezes (WHOI), Tom Farrar and Amy Bower
     • Use of active and passive microwave ocean datasets to infer air-sea interfacial processes using new Southern Ocean buoy data
       Doug Vandemark (University of New Hampshire), Marc Emond and Bertand Chapron
     • Towards improved estimates of upper ocean energetics: Science motivation for the simultaneous measurement of ocean surface vector winds and currents
       Hector Torres (JPL/California institute of Technology), M. M. Flexas, P. Klein, D. Menemenlis, A. F. Thompson, and J. Wang
     • Coupling ocean currents and wind stress in a two-way fashion
       Qi Shi (Florida State University) and Mark Bourassa

  4. Climate Data Record Development and Analysis

     • The Calibrated Enhanced-Resolution Passive Microwave Brightness Temperature Earth System Data Record
       David Long (Brigham Young University) and Mary Jo Brodzik
     • A Consolidated Database of Antarctic Iceberg Positions, Sizes, and Rotation Angles
       David Long (Brigham Young University) and Jeff Budge
     • Determining the decadal trend patterns in ocean-surface winds (1987-2016)
       Lisan Yu (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)
     • Analysis of RapidScat Mid-Swath Directional Discontinuity
       Bryan Stiles (Jet Propulsion Laboratory), Alex G. Fore, Alex Wineteer, Lucrezia Ricciardulli, Frank Wentz, and Ernesto Rodriguez
     • RapidScat Recalibration and Reprocessing Status
       Alexander Fore (JPL), Bryan Stiles, Alexander Wineteer, and Ernesto Rodriguez
     • Ocean state diagnostics from scatterometers
       Ad Stoffelen (KNMI), Ana Trindade, Jos de Kloe and Marcos Portabella
     • QuikSCAT decadal climatology in the context of multi-decadal variability and change
       Shang-Ping Xie (Scripps Institution of Oceanography)
     • Studies of the Effects of Rain on the Performance of the SMAP Radiometer Surface Salinity Estimates and Applications to Remote Sensing of River Plumes
       David E. Weissman (Hofstra University) and Steven L. Morey (COAPS/FSU)

  5. New Products and Applications

     • RapidScat Radiometer Collocations – A New RapidScat Dataset
       Alex Wineteer (JPL), Lucrezia Ricciardulli, Bryan Stiles and Alex Fore
     • Update to “Diurnal variations of σ0 over land from RapidScat Observations”: Monitoring vegetation dynamics in the Amazon
       Aaron Paget (University of Connecticut), Tim van Emmerik, Susan Steele-Dunne and Nick van de Giesen
     • Daily Scatterometer datasets in a Near Uniform Format
       Mark Bourassa (COAPS & EOAS, Florida State University), Jocelyn Elya, Aaron Kemmer, Shawn R. Smith, William McCall and Arturo Valery Uzcategui
     • Estimating the Pointing Precision, Antenna Pattern, and Spatial Response Function of RapidScat Using Island Targets
       David Long (Brigham Young University) and Sam Bury
     • Comparisons of wind speed retrievals from an airborne microwave radiometer (AMPR) with satellite-based observations during the OLYMPEX/RADEX field campaign
       Timothy Lang (NASA MSFC) and Sayak Biswas
     • Preliminary Scatterometer Wind Retrievals From the SCATSAT-1 Mission
       Seubson Soisuvarn (NOAA/NESDIS/Center for Satellite Applications and Research), Seubson Soisuvarn, Faozi Said, Zorana Jelenak, Qi Zhu and Paul S. Chang
     • Stepped frequency microwave radiometer retrieval error characterization
       Joseph Sapp (NOAA/NESDIS/Center for Satellite Applications and Research), Suleiman Alsweiss, Zorana Jelenak, and Paul S. Chang
     • A Platform to Provide International and Inter-Agency Support for Data and Information Quality Solutions and Best Practices
       David Moroni (Jet Propulsion Laboratory), Hampapuram Ramapriyan and Ge Peng

  6. Costal Working Group

     • QuikSCAT Coastal Wind Products
       Bryan Stiles (Jet Propulsion Laboratory), Alex G. Fore, P. Ted Strub, and Corinne James
     • Coastal QuikSCAT Winds over Eastern Boundary Currents
       Ted Strub (Oregon State University), Corinne James (CEOAS), Bryan Stiles (JPL) and Alexander Fore (JPL)
     • Drivers of SST frontal variability in the California Current System
       Renato Castelao (University of Georgia) and Hao Luo
     • Surface Wind Stress and Wave Sensitivity to Sea Spray in Tropical Cyclones
       Renee Richardson (FSU/COAPS), Mark A. Bourassa, and Steven L. Morey

  7. Oceanographic Applications

     • Small-Scale and Inertial Wave OSCAR Currents
       Kathleen Dohan (Earth and Space Research)
     • Intermittent Wind Forcing of the North Pacific Subpolar Gyre Circulation
       Larry O'Neill (Oregon State University)
     • NOAA Ocean Winds Science Team NRT Satellite Ocean Winds Processing System Overview
       Qi Zhu (NOAA/NESDIS/Center for Satellite Applications and Research), Mark Romer, Seubson Soisuvarn, Faozi Said, Joe Sapp, Zorana Jelenak and Paul S. Chang

2016 IOVWST

• Sponsors
• Agenda
• Attendees
• Presentations (In agenda order):
  1. Programmatic Talks
     • Registration and poster setup
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     • Welcome
       Naoto Ebuchi (Hokkaido University)
     • Meeting Introduction
       Mark Bourassa (Florida State University)
     • Global Change Observation Mission (GCOM)
       Haruhisa Shimoda (Tokai University)
     • Ocean Satellite Programs in China
       Mingsen Lin (National Satellite Ocean Application Service), Qingtao Song
     • Status overview of the European Scatterometer activities
       Julia Figa-Saldana (EUMETSAT) and Klaus Scipal (ESTEC)
     • The Ocean Surface Vector Wind Constellation: Status, Health and Future?
       Paul Chang (NOAA/NESDIS), Julia Figa-Saldana, Rashmi Sharma
     • Introduction to the CEOS Virtual Constellation for Sea Surface Temperature (SST-VC) and Group for High Resolution Sea Surface Temperature (GHRSST)
       Misako Kachi (Earth Observation Research Center, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA)), Kenneth S. Casey, Anne Ocarroll, Victor Zlotnicki, Craig Donlon, Helen Beggs, Christo Whittle, PK Thapliyal, Peter Minnett, Gary Corlett
  2. Climate Data Record Development and Analysis
     • ASCAT-A And ASCAT-B Cross-Validation
       Craig Anderson (EUMETSAT), J Figa-Saldaña, JJW Wilson and F Ticconi
     • Climate-Quality Intercalibration of Scatterometer Missions
       Lucrezia Ricciardulli (Remote Sensing Systems), Frank Wentz
     • Intercalibration of Visual Winds from VOS and Scatterometer Winds
       Mark A. Bourassa (Florida State University), Keqiao Li, Mark A. Bourassa, and Shawn R. Smith
     • The Impact of Sampling on Accuracy of Trends in Extreme Winds
       Jason Keefer (Florida State University) and Mark A. Bourassa
     • The CETB Climate Record: 1978 to the Present
       David Long (Brigham Young University), Mary Jo Brodzik
     • Extending the Ocean Wind CDR Using Multi-Sensor Wind Speed Intercalibration
       Frank Wentz (Remote Sensing Systems), Lucrezia Ricciardulli
     • ON CLIMATE DATA RECORDS, TRENDS AND EXTREMES
       Ad Stoffelen (KNMI), Maria Belmonte Rivas, Anton Verhoef, Tim Bijsterbosch, Federica Aveta, Jur Vogelzang, Jeroen Verspeek, Jos de Klo
     • Sustained Satellite Surface Vector Wind Observations for Studies of El Nino
       David Halpern (Jet Propulsion Laboratory)
     • Report from Climate Working Group
       F. Wentz and Ad Stoffelen
  3. Current and Future Ocean Vector Wind Mission Updates
     • RapidScat Update
       Glen Havens and Lee Poulson
     • SMAP Observations of Ocean Surface Wind
       Simon Yueh (Jet Propulsion Laboratory), Alexander Fore, Wenqing Tang, Akiko Hayashi, Bryan Stiles, Fuqing Zhang, and Yonghui Weng
     • The Design and Performance of the SCA Radar carried by the METOP-SG Satellites
       Julian Wilson (EUMETSAT)
     • An Analysis Of Tropical Cyclones In The Northwest Pacific Ocean Using HY-2 Satellite Observations
       Yi Zhang (National Satellite Ocean Application Service), Qingtao Song, MingSen Lin
     • Winds and Currents Mission (WaCM) Update
       Mark Bourassa and many others
     • The Prospects for Future Estimation of Mesoscale and Submesoscale Vorticity by Doppler Scatterometry
       Tom Farrar (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution), Dudley B. Chelton, Roger M. Samelson, Michael G. Schlax, and Jeroen Molemaker
     • Tuesday End of day Wrap Up
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  4. New Products and Applications (part 1)
     • An Improved Wind Quality Control For Ku-Band Scatterometers
       Wenming Lin (Institute of Marine Sciences (ICM-CSIC)), Marcos Portabella, Ad Stoffelen, Anton Verhoef, Shuyan Lang, Mingsen Lin, Youguang Zhang
     • Wind Retrieval for Rainy Ocean Surface Using HY-2 Scatterometer Data and TRMM/GPM Rainfall Estimates
       Xingou Xu (The CAS Key Laboratory of Microwave Remote Sensing, National Space Scinece Center, Chinese Academy of Sciences), Xiaolong Dong, Shuyan Lang, Di Zhu
     • Ocean Vector Winds in Storms from the SMAP L-Band Radiometer
       Thomas Meissner (Remote Sensing Systems), Lucrezia Ricciardulli, Frank Wentz
     • Addressing the rain effects on the ocean scattering: a theoretical model of the ocean surface backscattering coefficient in presence of both wind and rain
       Federica Polverari (DIET and CETEMPS),F. S. Marzano; L. Pulvirenti; N. Pierdicca; B. W. Stiles; S. M. Hristova-Veleva; and F. J. Turk
     • Ocean surface scattering investigations at L-band
       Doug Vandemark (UNH/EOS), S. Yueh, Tsang, B. Chapron, F. Nouguier
     • Cross-Polarized C-band Scatterometer Measurements of the Sea Surface in Extreme Winds
       Joe Sapp (NOAA/NESDIS/STAR), Suleiman Alsweiss, Zorana Jelenak, Paul Chang, Steve Frasier*, Tom Hartley*
     • Combined Active / Passive Retrievals of Ocean Vector Wind and Sea Surface Salinity with SMAP
       Alexander Fore (Jet Propulsion Laboratory), Simon Yueh, Wenqing Tang, Bryan Stiles, Akiko Hayashi
     • High resolution estimates of soil moisture from ASCAT
       David Long (Brigham Young University), David B. Lindell
     • The gridded sea surface wind data product of the Chinese HY-2 satellite and its application in analysis of extreme sea state
       Xiaomin Ye (National Satellite Ocean Application Service), Qingtao Song, Mingsen Lin, Fei Liao
     • Earth Science Data Systems Data Quality Working Group: Year Two Summary
       David Moroni (JPL/PO.DAAC)
     • GCOM-W AMSR2 research products
       Takashi Maeda (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, Earth Observation Research Center), Mieko Seki, Tomoyuki Nomaki, Keiji Sekiya, and Misako Kachi
     • NOAA’s SFMR Reprocessing for High Ocean Winds
       Suleiman Alsweiss (NOAA/NESDIS/STAR), Suleiman Alsweiss, Joe Sapp, Zorana Jelenak, Paul Chang and James Carswell
     • Evaluating Diurnal Wind Variability in the Tropics
       Sarah Gille (Scripps Institution of Oceanography), Donata Giglio, San Nguyen, Devon Northcott, Aneesh Subramanian
     • NetCDF-CF Standard Name Proposal for Sigma-0 Datasets
       Ad Stoffelen, Anton Verhoef, Christoph Reimer, David F Moroni, David G Long, Ernesto Rodriguez, Francesca Ticconi, Frank Wentz, Julia Figa Saldana, Marcos Portabella, Mark Bourassa, Xavier Neyt
     • Dependency of the Sentinel-1 SAR azimuth wavelength cut-off on significant wave height and wind speed
       Giuseppe Grieco (Italian Space Agency), Wenming Lin, Marcos Portabella, Maurizio Migliaccio, Francesco Nirchio
     • The GNSS Reflectometry Response to the Ocean Surface Winds
       Zorana Jelenak, Seubson Soisuvarn, Faozi Said and Paul Chang
     • JAXA’s Ocean Environment Monitoring Activities and Himawari Monitor
       Misako Kachi (Earth Observation Research Center, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA)), Yukio Kurihara, HiroshiMurakami, Norimasa Ito, Yasumasa Miyazawa
     • Construction of New Gridded Product of Surface Wind Vectors over the Global Ocean by Multiple Satellite Observations
       Kunio Kutsuwada (Tokai University), Hiroyuki Tomita, Masahisa Kubota, Tsutomu Hihara, Shin-ichiro Kako
     • Report from Coastal Working Group
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  5. New Products and Applications (part 2)
     • The Cross-Calibrated Multi-Platform (CCMP) Ocean Vector Wind Analysis (V2.0)
       Lucrezia Ricciardulli (Remote Sensing Systems), Joel Scott, Carl Mears, Ross Hoffman^, Bob Atlas*, and Frank Wentz
     • Discovering a Decade of Coastal Winds From Scatterometers- Preliminary Data Set
       Bryan Stiles (Jet Propulsion Laboratory), Alex G. Fore, P. Ted Strub, and Corinne James
     • RapidScat Reprocessing and Data Status
       Alexander Fore (Jet Propulsion Laboratory), Bryan Stiles, Ernesto Rodgriguez
     • Latest Datasets and Services at the PO.DAAC
       David Moroni (JPL/PO.DAAC),
     • Reconciliation of C and Ku-band Geophysical Model Functions
       Ad Stoffelen (KNMI), Z. Wang, J Verspeek, J. Vogelzang, A. Verhoef, L. Ricciardulli
     • Resolution enhancement for ASCAT
       Jur Vogelzang (KNMI) and Ad Stoffelen
     • Singularity analysis: A poweful technique for scatterometer wind data processing
       Marcos Portabella (Institute of Marine Sciences (ICM-CSIC)), Wenming Lin, Ad Stoffelen, Antonio Turiel, Greg King, AntonVerhoef
     • Discussion related to New Products and Applications
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     • Report from the Stress Working Group
       Jim Edson
     • End of Day wrap up
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  6. Atmosphere and Ocean Coupling and Ocean Applications (Part 1)
     • A strategy to quantify characteristics of updraft and downdraft events associated with oceanic Mesoscale Convective Systems using ASCAT winds and MSG rain
       Gregory King (Institute of Marine Sciences (ICM-CSIC)), Wenming Lin, Marcos Portabella, Ad Stoffelen, Antonio Turiel and Anton Verhoef
     • Surface and Atmospheric Boundary Layer Responses to Diurnal Variations of Sea Surface Temperature in an NWP model
       Ms. Rachel Weihs (Florida State University ), Mark Bourassa
     • An Investigation of the Stability Dependence of SST-Induced Vertical Mixing Over the Ocean in the Operational Met Office Model
       Qingtao Song (National Satellite Ocean Application Service), Dudley Chelton, Steve Esbensen, and Andrew Brown
     • Testing linear dynamics of frontal air-sea interaction
       Niklas Schneider (International Pacific Research Center, University of Hawaii at Manoa),
     • Characterization of the variability of the South Pacific Convergence Zone using satellite and reanalysis wind products
       Tong Lee (Jet Propulsion Laboratory), Autumn Kidwell, Young-Heon Jo, Xiao-Hai Yan
     • High-Impact Weather Prediction: Evaluation Using Ocean Vector Winds for Coupled Air-Sea Modeling of the MJO
       Shuyi Chen (RSMAS/University of Miami), Brandon Kerns
     • Global Observation of Wind Jets Using RapidScat, QuikSCAT, ASCAT, OSCAT and TMI
       Ernesto Rodriguez (JPL/CalTech)
     • The 2015-16 El Niño evolution and teleconnections inferred from RapidScat, ASCAT and ECMWF winds: does diurnal variability affect the characterization of El Nino-related wind anomaly?
       Svetla Hristova-Veleva (Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology), Tong Lee, Bryan Stiles, Ernesto Rodriguez, F. Joseph Turk, Ziad Haddad
     • Indian Ocean dynamical influence on tropical intraseasonal oscillations: satellite observations from 1998—2012
       Jason West (University of Colorado Boulder), Weiqing Han
     • Examining the Constellation of Scatterometers and Radiometers for Diurnal and Sub-Diurnal Wind Vector Variability
       Joe Turk (Jet Propulsion Laboratory/California Institute of Technology), Svetla Hristova-Veleva
     • Evaluation of Coastal Scatterometer Products
       P. Ted Strub (Oregon State University), Corinne James, Bryan Stiles and Alexander Fore
     • Causes of regional sea-surface temperature anomalies during U.S. West Coast wind relaxations: The relative importance of surface heat flux and wind stress curl anomalies
       Melanie Fewings (University of Connecticut), Kayla R. Flynn (first author), Melanie R. Fewings (presenting author), Libe Washburn, Christopher Gotschalk
     • Winds, eddies and fronts in Eastern Boundary Currents
       Renato Castelao (University of Georgia), Yeping Yuan, Hao Luo
     • Investigation of active and passive microwave ocean datasets to infer air-sea interfacial processes
       Doug Vandemark (UNH/EOS), B. Chapron, Y. Quilfen, H. Feng, and A. Mouche
  7. Atmosphere and Ocean Coupling and Ocean Applications (part 2)
     • On the Roughness of the Ocean under High Wind Conditions
       James Edson (University of Connecticut), Aaron Paget, Doug Vandemark, Marc Emond
     • Relation between wind and stress under tropical cyclones
       W Timothy Liu (Jet Propulsion Laboratory), Wenqing Tand and Xiaosu Xie
     • OAFlux high-resolution ocean-surface vector wind time series (1987 – 2016): New insights into wind-ocean interaction on meso to planetary scales
       Lisan Yu (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)
     • Interannual Variability of Global Coastal Upwelling Inferrred from a Satellite Wind-Derived Coastal Upwelling Index Database
       Steven Morey (COAPS-FSU)
     • Towards a Scatterometer-Based High Resolution Ocean Wind Forcing
       Ana Trindade (Instituto de Ciencias del Mar (ICM-CSIC)), Marcos Portabella, Ad Stoffelen, Wenming Lin and Jos de Kloe
     • Using Swath Data for Small Scale Wind-Driven Currents in OSCAR
       Kathleen Dohan (Earth and Space Research)
     • Wind stress and curl anomalies along western North America during the extreme warm ocean events of 2014-16
       Melanie Fewings (University of Connecticut), Christopher Gotschalk
  8. Meteorological Applications (part 1)
     • Development of a tool for offshore wind resource assessment by satellites for wind industry
       Alberto Rabaneda (University of Strathclyde), Matthew Stickland
     • Evaluation of ocean surface winds from reanalyses in the Nordic Seas
       Dmitry Dukhovskoy (FSU), M.A. Bourassa, J. Steffen, G. N. Petersen
     • Progress in Calculating Tropical Cyclone Inflow from OVW Observations
       Ralph Foster (Applied Physics Laboratory, University of Washington), Jun Zhang, NOAA/HRD, Miami, FL; Peter Black, MontereyCA, Peter Black, Monterey CA
     • Using scatterometer-measured vector winds to study high-impact weather events
       Timothy Lang (NASA Marshall Space Flight Center), Themis Chronis, George Priftis, Steve Nesbitt, Piyush Garg
     • Space Based L-Band Scatterometer and Radiometer Studies of Coincident Ocean Surface Winds and Rain Using SMAP
       David Weissman (Hofstra University)
     • Circumventing rain contamination in scatterometer wind observations
       Thomas Kilpatrick (Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UCSD), Shang-Ping Xie
     • Oceanic heavy rainfall: Role of near-surface dynamic forcing versus thermodynamic profiles
       Timothy Lang (NASA Marshall Space Flight Center), Piyush Garg, Steven Nesbitt, Themis Chronis
     • Combined scatterometer and ground radar observations of convective storms
       Timothy Lang (NASA Marshall Space Flight Center), George Priftis, Themis Chronis
     • Shear-Relative Boundary Layer Kinematic Asymmetries Observed in Atlantic Hurricanes
       Kyle Ahern (COAPS - Florida State University), Mark A. Bourassa, Robert E. Hart
     • ASCAT and RapidScat Vector Winds Comparison
       Aaron Paget (University of Connecticut), Jim Edson
     • Update on ASCAT ocean vector wind assimilation in JMA’s NWP systems
       Masami Moriya (Japan Meteorological Agency)
     • Update of scatterometer winds usage at Météo-France
       Christophe Payan (Météo-France)
     • Wind retrieval performance analysis of CFOSAT rotating fan beam scatterometer
       Zhen Li (KNMI), Ad Stoffelen, Jos de Kloe
     • The Avoidance of High Winds and Seas by Ships Transiting the Pacific and Atlantic
       Joseph Sienkiewicz (NOAA/NWS Ocean Prediction Center), Lt. Joseph Phillips, Ashley Miller
     • Quality Analysis And Process Of Wind Profiler Data On Rain Condition
       LIAO Fei (Guangzhou Meteorology Observatory), Deng Hua
     • Possible predictors for the RI and evolution of hurricanes from near-coincident satellite observations of the structure of precipitation and surface winds: Hurricane Joaquin
       Svetla Hristova-Veleva, Ziad Haddad, Bryan Stiles, Tsae-Pyng Shen, Noppasin Niamsuwan, F. Joe Turk, P.Peggy Li, Brian Knosp, Quoc Vu, Bjorn Lambrigtsen, William Poulsen
  9. Meteorological Applications (part 2)
     • Behavior and Trends of the Extratropical Transition Process and the Influence of External Environmental Factors: Progress Update
       Zorana Jelenak (NOAA/NESDIS), Faozi Said, Paul S. Chang, Seubson Soisuvarn, Joseph Sienkiewicz
     • Towards An Improved Assimilation Of ASCAT-Derived Winds Into Global NWP
       Wenming Lin (Institute of Marine Sciences (ICM-CSIC)), Giovanna de Chiara, Marcos Portabella, Ad Stoffelen, Anton Verhoef, Jur Vogelzang
     • Towards an improved assimilation of scatterometer winds
       Giovanna De Chiara (ECMWF), Massimo Bonavita
     • Scatterometer Response to Ocean Surface Winds and Waves
       Dr. Seubson Soisuvarn (NOAA/NESDIS), Faozi Said, Zorana Jelenak, Paul S. Chang
  10. Posters
      • Climate Data Record Development and Analysis
        • Intercalibration of Visual Winds from VOS and Scatterometer Winds
          Mark A. Bourassa (Florida State University), Keqiao Li, Mark A. Bourassa, and Shawn R. Smith
        • The Impact of Sampling on Accuracy of Trends in Extreme Winds
          Jason Keefer (Florida State University) and Mark A. Bourassa
        • The CETB Climate Record: 1978 to the Present
          David Long (Brigham Young University), Mary Jo Brodzik
      • New Products and Applications
        • Combined Active / Passive Retrievals of Ocean Vector Wind and Sea Surface Salinity with SMAP
          Alexander Fore (Jet Propulsion Laboratory), Simon Yueh, Wenqing Tang, Bryan Stiles, Akiko Hayashi
        • High resolution estimates of soil moisture from ASCAT
          David Long (Brigham Young University), David B. Lindell
        • The gridded sea surface wind data product of the Chinese HY-2 satellite and its application in analysis of extreme sea state
          Xiaomin Ye (National Satellite Ocean Application Service), Qingtao Song, Mingsen Lin, Fei Liao
        • Earth Science Data Systems Data Quality Working Group: Year Two Summar
          David Moroni (JPL/PO.DAAC)
        • GCOM-W AMSR2 research products
          Takashi Maeda (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, Earth Observation Research Center), Mieko Seki, Tomoyuki Nomaki, Keiji Sekiya, and Misako Kachi
        • NOAA’s SFMR Reprocessing for High Ocean Winds
          Suleiman Alsweiss (NOAA/NESDIS/STAR), Suleiman Alsweiss, Joe Sapp, Zorana Jelenak, Paul Chang and James Carswell
        • Evaluating Diurnal Wind Variability in the Tropics
          Sarah Gille (Scripps Institution of Oceanography), Donata Giglio, San Nguyen, Devon Northcott, Aneesh Subramanian
        • NetCDF-CF Standard Name Proposal for Sigma-0 Datasets
          Ad Stoffelen, Anton Verhoef, Christoph Reimer, David F Moroni, David G Long, Ernesto Rodriguez, Francesca Ticconi, Frank Wentz, Julia Figa Saldana, Marcos Portabella, Mark Bourassa, Xavier Neyt
        • Multi-sensor Scatterometer Sea Ice Age and Extent
          David Long (Brigham Young University), David B. Lindell, Jordan Hill
      • Atmosphere and Ocean Coupling and Ocean Applications
        • The 2015-16 El Niño evolution and teleconnections inferred from RapidScat, ASCAT and ECMWF winds: does diurnal variability affect the characterization of El Nino-related wind anomaly?
          Svetla Hristova-Veleva (Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology), Tong Lee, Bryan Stiles, Ernesto Rodriguez, F. Joseph Turk, Ziad Haddad
        • Indian Ocean dynamical influence on tropical intraseasonal oscillations: satellite observations from 1998—2012
          Jason West (University of Colorado Boulder), Weiqing Han
        • Examining the Constellation of Scatterometers and Radiometers for Diurnal and Sub-Diurnal Wind Vector Variability
          Joe Turk (Jet Propulsion Laboratory/California Institute of Technology), Svetla Hristova-Veleva
        • Evaluation of Coastal Scatterometer Products
          P. Ted Strub (Oregon State University), Corinne James, Bryan Stiles and Alexander Fore
        • Causes of regional sea-surface temperature anomalies during U.S. West Coast wind relaxations: The relative importance of surface heat flux and wind stress curl anomalies
          Melanie Fewings (University of Connecticut), Kayla R. Flynn (first author), Melanie R. Fewings (presenting author), Libe Washburn, Christopher Gotschalk
        • Winds, eddies and fronts in Eastern Boundary Currents
          Renato Castelao (University of Georgia), Yeping Yuan, Hao Luo
        • Investigation of active and passive microwave ocean datasets to infer air-sea interfacial processes
          Doug Vandemark (UNH/EOS), B. Chapron, Y. Quilfen, H. Feng, and A. Mouche
      • Meteorological Applications (part 1)
        • Oceanic heavy rainfall: Role of near-surface dynamic forcing versus thermodynamic profiles
          Timothy Lang (NASA Marshall Space Flight Center), Piyush Garg, Steven Nesbitt, Themis Chronis
        • Combined scatterometer and ground radar observations of convective storms
          Timothy Lang (NASA Marshall Space Flight Center), George Priftis, Themis Chronis
        • Shear-Relative Boundary Layer Kinematic Asymmetries Observed in Atlantic Hurricanes
          Kyle Ahern (COAPS - Florida State University), Mark A. Bourassa, Robert E. Hart
        • ASCAT and RapidScat Vector Winds Comparison
          Aaron Paget (University of Connecticut), Jim Edson
        • Update on ASCAT ocean vector wind assimilation in JMA’s NWP systems
          Masami Moriya (Japan Meteorological Agency)
        • Update of scatterometer winds usage at Météo-France
          Christophe Payan (Météo-France)
        • Wind retrieval performance analysis of CFOSAT rotating fan beam scatterometer
          Zhen Li (KNMI), Ad Stoffelen, Jos de Kloe
        • The Avoidance of High Winds and Seas by Ships Transiting the Pacific and Atlantic
          Joseph Sienkiewicz (NOAA/NWS Ocean Prediction Center), Lt. Joseph Phillips, Ashley Miller
        • Quality Analysis And Process Of Wind Profiler Data On Rain Condition
          LIAO Fei (Guangzhou Meteorology Observatory), Deng Hua
        • Possible predictors for the RI and evolution of hurricanes from near-coincident satellite observations of the structure of precipitation and surface winds: Hurricane Joaquin
          Svetla Hristova-Veleva, Ziad Haddad, Bryan Stiles, Tsae-Pyng Shen, Noppasin Niamsuwan, F. Joe Turk, P.Peggy Li, Brian Knosp, Quoc Vu, Bjorn Lambrigtsen, William Poulsen

2015 IOVWST

• Sponsors
• Agenda
• Attendees
• Presentations (In agenda order):
  1. Programmatic Talks
     • Welcome
       Mark Bourassa (Florida State University)
     • The Ocean Surface Vector Wind Constellation: Status, Health and Future?
       Paul Chang (NOAA/NESDIS), Julia Figa Saldana, B.S. Gohil
     • NASA Program Status - Ocean Vector Winds Science Team
       Eric Lindstrom (NASA Headquarters)
     • Status overview of the European Scatterometer activities
       Julia Figa-Saldana (EUMETSAT) and Klaus Scipal (ESTEC)
     • ISRO's Scatterometery Programme
       Raj Kumar (Space Applications Centre) Tapan Misra, Prantik Chakraborty, B S Gohil, Kirti Padia
  2. Oceanographic Applications
     • Evaluation of wind stress curl and divergence represented by CMIP5 models using QuikSCAT and atmospheric reanalysis products
       Tong Lee (Jet Propulsion Laboratory)
     • OSCAR Mixed Layer and Surface Currents
       Kathleen Dohan (Earth and Space Research)
     • The Ocean Response to Wind Relaxations off California, U.S.A.
       Melanie Fewings (University of Connecticut - Avery Point) Libe Washburn, Clive E. Dorman, Christopher Gotschalk, Kevin S. Brown, Ke Chen, John Bane, Maria Aristizabal, Dylan Oldenburg
     • Poster Highlights
       
     • Poster Highlight: The role of wind forcing on sea surface temperature frontal variability in Eastern Boundary Currents
       Renato Castelao (University of Georgia), Yuntao Wang; Yeping Yuan
  3. Climate working group
     • Climate WG Summary
       Frank Wentz (Remote Sensing Systems), Ad Stoffelen (Invited)
  4. Climate Data Record Development and Analysis
     • From tandem missions to RapidScat – uncovering the diurnal signal in the large-scale circulations. Implications for the climate record of the ocean surface winds.
       Svetla Hristova-Veleva (JPL) Ernesto Rodriguez, Ziad Haddad, Bryan Stiles, F. Joseph Turk
     • A long-term ocean wind and stress vector CDR
       Ad Stoffelen (KNMI), Anton Verhoef, Jur Vogelzang, Jos de Kloe, Maria Belmonte, Jeroen Verspeek
     • Bringing Consistency Among Scatterometer Winds Using Radiometer Observations
       Lucrezia Ricciardulli (Remote Sensing Systems), and Frank Wentz
     • An analysis of the data quality and long term trends in the reprocessed radar backscatter from ASCAT-A
       Craig Anderson (EUMETSAT), J Figa-Saldaña, R Huckle, JJW Wilson, F Ticconi, J Miller, C Duff & H Bauch
     • A 17-Year Climate Record of Diurnal Winds Derived from the TRMM Microwave Imager
       Frank Wentz (Remote Sensing Systems), Lucrezia Ricciardulli
     • Poster Highlights
       
     • Poster Highlight: Satellite Observation Requirements for Global Trends in Extreme Wind Speed and Wave Height
       Jason Keefer (COAPS, Florida State University), and Dr. Mark A. Bourassa
     • Poster Highlight: A 15-year multiyear/first-year Arctic sea ice climate record from OSCAT and QuikSCAT
       David Long (Brigham Young University) David B. Lindell
     • Poster Highlight: OSCAT Sea Ice Extent Product
       David Long (Brigham Young University) Jordan Hill Waves
     • Towards Homogenization of Scatterometer Wind Retrievals
       Abderrahim Bentamy (IFREMER), Semyon A. Grodsky, Bertrand Chapron, and Anis Elyouncha
     • Decadal change in ocean surface wind circulation: 1988-2014
       Lisan Yu (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution) and 5 collaborators
     • Assessment of the corrected CMOD5.n ocean backscatter model using ERS scatterometer data
       Anis Elyouncha (Royal Military Academy), and Xavier Ney
     • Towards the characterization and removal/mitigation of scatterometer wind sampling errors
       Ana Trindade (Institut de Ciencies del Mar (ICM-CSIC)) M. Portabella, W. Lin, A. Stoffelen and A. Verhoef
     • Surface Zonal Wind Patterns Along the Equator During El Niño and La Niña in 2000-2015
       David Halpern (Jet Propulsion Laboratory)
     • The role of ocean dynamical processes in determining intraseasonal SST Variability in the tropical Indian Ocean: with implication on MJO initiation
       Weiqing Han (Department of atmospheric and oceanic sciences, University of Colorado, Boulder, Co 80309) and Yuanlong Li
  5. Current and future Ocean Vector Wind Mission Updates
     • CYGNSS Mission Update
       Chris Ruf (University Of Michigan) Paul Chang, Maria Paola Clarizia, Scott Gleason, Zorana Jelenak, and Aaron Ridley
     • Update on the Winds and Currents Mission (WaCM)
       Mark Bourassa (COAPS & EOAS, Florida State University) Ernesto Rodriguez, Dudley Chelton, Tom Farrar, David Long, Thomas Kilpatrick, Nikolai Maxeminko, Roger Samuelson, Frank Wentz, Shang-Ping Xie
     • Submesoscale and Mesoscale Ekman Pumping on Scales Shorter than 100 km
       Dudley Chelton (Oregon State University)
     • Simulation and Feasibility Study of Spaceborne Doppler Scatterometer for Ocean Surface Currents and Winds
       Xiaolon Dong (National Space Science Center, Chinese Academy of Sciences) Qingliu Bao, Di Zjhu
     • L-Band High Resolution Remote Sensing of Ocean Surface Winds
       Simon Yueh (Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology) Alexander Fore, Wenqing Tang, and Bryan Stiles
     • A Method for Quality Assessment of Scatterometer-retrieved wind fields
       Zengzhou Hao (The Second Institute of Oceanography, SOA) Delu Pan, Fang Gong and Tianyu Wang
     • Poster Highlights
       
     • Evaluation and Validation of RapidScat Ocean Surface Vector Winds
       FAOZI SAID (Global Science & Technology Inc // NOAA NESDIS) Seubson Soisuvarn, Paul S. Chang, Zorana Jelenak, Joseph Sienkiewicz, Michael Brennan
     • SFMR Reprocessing for High Ocean Winds
       Suleiman Alsweiss (NOAA/NESDIS/STAR) Joe Sapp, Zorana Jelenak, Paul Chang and James Carswell
     • X-factor and the spatial response functions of QuikSCAT and RapidScat
       David Long (Brigham Young University) Nathan M. Madsen, and John Neidfeldt
     • Evaluation and Validation of Simulated CYGNSS Winds over Large Range of Tropical Cyclones
       Seubson Soisuvarn (NOAA/NESDIS/STAR-UCAR) Faozi Said, Zorana Jelenak, Paul S. Chang
     • The Simulation And Performance Analysis Of The CFOSAT RFSCAT
       Risheng Yun (National Space Science Center, Chinese Academy of Sciences) XingouXu, Xiaolong Dong, Di Zhu
     • Evaluation of Ocean Vector Wind Data from ISS/RapidScat
       Naoto Ebuchi (Hokkaido University)
     • On the Quality of HY-2A Scatterometer Wind
       Wenming Lin (Institut de Ciencies del Mar (ICM - CSIC)) Marcos Portabella, Ad Stoffelen; Anton Verhoef; Youguang Zhang; Mingsen Lin;Juhong Zou; Shuyan Lang
     • Analysis of Radio Frequency Interference in ASCAT Backscatter Measurements
       Julia Figa-Saldana (EUMETSAT) Francesca Ticconi, Craig Anderson, Julian J.W.Wilson
     • RapidScat Initial Results for Cross-Calibration and Diurnal Cycles
       Ernesto Rodriguez (JPL/CalTech) S. Hristova-Veleva
  6. Meteorological Applications
     • Diurnal wind variability observed by RapidSCAT and comparison to model simulations
       Thomas Kilpatrick (Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UCSD) Shang-Ping Xie, Sarah Gille
     • Using scatterometer-measured vector winds to study high-impact weather events
       Timothy Lang (NASA Marshall Space Flight Center) Steven W. Nesbitt, Stella L. Choi, Themis Chronis, George Priftis
     • Improving High-Impact Tropical Weather Prediction Using Ocean Vector Wind Data and a High-Resolution Coupled Atmosphere-Wave-Ocean Model
       Shuyi Chen (RSMAS/University of Miami) and Brandon Kerns
     • Estimates of Near-surface Inflow in Tropical Cyclones From Satellite Scatterometers
       Ralph Foster (APL, University of Washington) Jun Zhang (NOAA/HRD, Miami, FL); Peter Black (Monterey CA)
     • National Hurricane Center Ocean Vector Wind Update
       Michael Brennan (NOAA/NWS/NCEP/National Hurricane Center)
     • Hurricane Force Winds in Extratropical Cyclones
       Joseph Sienkiewicz (NOAA/NWS Ocean Prediction Center) Benjamin Albright
     • Study for utilizing high wind speed data on JMA’s Global NWP system
       Masami Moriya (Japan Meteorological Agency)
     • Scatterometer winds at Météo-France: usage and new datasets
       Christophe Payan (Meteo-France and CNRS), and Vincent Chabot
     • Poster Highlights
       
     • Offshore wind energy planning map for the Aegean Sea based on Envisat ASAR
       Charlotte Hasager (DTU Wind Energy) Dr. Merete Badger
     • Intermittency of surface convergence in mid-latitude storm tracks
       Larry O'Neill (Oregon State University) Tracy Haack, Eric Skyllingstad, Dudley Chelton
     • ASCAT observations of downdrafts from mesoscale convective systems
       Thomas Kilpatrick (Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UCSD) Shang-Ping Xie
     • Scatterometer surface winds for offshore wind energy applications
       Ioanna Karagali (DTU Wind Energy)
     • Neural Network Models of Sea Surface Rainrate Estimation from SeaWinds Data
       David Weissman (Hofstra University), Simona Doboli, and Anthony Esposito
     • Wind stress at the ocean surface from AltiKa measurements
       MM Ali (COAPS/FSU), Mark A. Bourssa, Suchandra A. Bhowmick, Rashmi Sharma and K. Niharika
     • Contribution of Monthly and Regional Rainfall to the Strength of Indian Summer Monsoon
       Yangxing Zheng, M. M. Ali, and Mark A. Bourassa
     • Update on the Scatterometer Impact Studies at ECMWF
       Giovanna De Chiara (ECMWF), S. J. English, J.R. Bidlot, P.A.E.M. Janssen
     • An Improved 2DVAR Ambiguity Removal For ASCAT Wind Inversion
       Marcos Portabella (Institut de Ciencies del Mar (ICM-CSIC)), Wenming Lin, Jur Vogelzang, Ad Stoffelen, Anton Verhoef
     • Discussion
       
  7. Stress Working Group
     • Stress Summary
       Jim Edson (UCONN)
     • Surface Stress for Hurricane Winds
       Mark Bourassa (COAPS & EOAS, Florida State University) Jason Keefer, Mark Powell, Nicole Theberge
     • Ocean wind stress as measured using satellite radiometer and scatterometer platforms
       Doug Vandemark (Univ. of New Hampshire, EOS) and J. Edson, M. Emond
     • Drag coefficient in tropical cyclones
       W Timothy Liu (Jet Propulsion Laboratory) Wenqing Tang, Xiaosu Xie
  8. Atmosphere and Ocean Coupling
     • Air-sea coupling in an eastern boundary current region
       Eric Skyllingstad (Oregon State University) R. M. Samelson, D. B. Chelton
     • Characterization of the frontal air-sea interaction by spectral response functions
       Niklas Schneider (International Pacific Research Center, University of Hawaii) Kazuyoshi Kikuchi
     • Impact Of Sub-Cell Wind Variability On ASCAT Wind Quality
       Marcos Portabella (Institut de Ciencies del Mar (ICM-CSIC)) Wenming Lin, Ad Stoffelen, Jur Vogelzang, Anton Verhoef
     • Poster Highlights
       
     • Modeling the diurnal variability of SST
       Ioanna Karagali (DTU Wind Energy) Jacob L. HØyer, and Craig J. Donlon
     • Annual variation of sea surface temperature in the central North Pacific
       Masahisa Kubota (School of Marine Science and Technology, Tokai University) and Tsutomu Hihara
     • Wave and Wind Direction Effects on Ocean Surface Emissivity Measurements
       Heather Holbach (COAPS & EOAS Florida State University) Eric Uhlhorn, Mark Bourassa
     • High-Frequency Wind and Sea Surface Height Variability in the Tropics
       Tom Farrar (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution) Theodore S. Durland
     • Extreme Coastal Wind Events - What Doesn't the Scatterometer See?
       P. Ted Strub (Oregon State University) Corinne James
     • ASCAT Near-Coastal Wind Retrieval with Land Fraction Thresholding
       David Long (Brigham Young University) Richard D. Lindsley
     • Implications of Scatterometry in Polar Mesocyclone Surface Turbulent Flux Simulations and Reanalysis
       Kyle Ahern and Mark Bourassa
  9. Coastal Applications Working Group
     • Introduction for Coastal Working Group
       Melanie Fewings
     • A modified coastal upwelling index accounting for non-local forcing
       Steven Morey (COAPS-FSU)
     • Impact of fine-scale wind stress curl structures on coastal upwelling dynamics: The Benguela system as a case study
       Fabien Desbiolles (LPO (CNRS-Iferemer-IRD-UBO) & LOS (Ifremer)) Bruno Blanke, Abderrahim Bentamy
     • Highlights of the ASCAT high resolution processing workshop
       Ad Stoffelen (KNMI) Julia Figa
     • Bringing Winds Closer to the Coast with QuikSCAT and RapidScat
       Alexander Fore (Jet Propulsion Laboratory) Bryan Stiles, Ted Strub, Ernesto Rodriguez
  10. New Products and Applications
      • Diurnal Wind Variability from RapidScat
        Sarah Gille (Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California San Diego), San Nguyen, Devon Northcott, Jasper Nutt, Aneesh Subramanian
      • All-Weather ISS RapidScat Wind Speeds
        Bryan Stiles (Jet Propulsion Laboratory) Alex G. Fore, W. Lee Poulsen and Svetla Hristova-Veleva
      • New Ocean Vector Wind Datasets and Services at the NASA PO.DAAC
        David Moroni (JPL - PO.DAAC)
      • Poster Highlights
        
      • NASA Working Group for Best Practices in Data Quality
        David Moroni (JPL - PO.DAAC)
      • A multi-scale L3 gridding of 12.5km QuikSCAT L2B V3 data
        T. Mike Chin (JPL / CalTech) David Moroni, Michelle Gierach, Tony Lee
      • Examining the Variability of Ocean Surface Winds and Precipitation from Near-Coincident RapidScat and GPM Constellation Radiometer Data
        Joe Turk (Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology) Svetla Hristova-Veleva
      • Calibration of RapidScat over Land
        David Long (Brigham Young University) Nathan M. Madsen
      • A Parameterized ASCAT Measurement Spatial Response Function
        Richard Lindsley (Brigham Young University) Craig Anderson, David Long
      • Construction and Intercomparisons of Gridded Data Sets of Global Surface Wind Vector Field by Satellite Scatterometers
        Kunio Kutsuwada (Tokai University) Suguru Kameda
      • Adjustment of Visually Observed Ship Winds (Beaufort winds) in ICOADS
        Keqiao Li, Mark A. Bourassa, Shawn R. Smith
      • Diurnal variations of 0 over land from RapidScat Observations
        David Long (Brigham Young University) Aaron C. Paget, Nathan M. Madsen
      • A new GMF for estimating whitecap coverage from Ku-band scatterometers
        Aaron Paget (Microwave Earth Remote Sensing, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT)
      • Combining wind and rain in spaceborne scatterometer observations: modeling the splash effects in the sea surface backscattering coefficient
        Federica Polverari (Sapienza University of Rome - Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology) F. S. Marzano; L. Pulvirenti; N. Pierdicca; S. M. Hristova-Veleva; F. J. Turk
      • Improvement of the CMOD GMF for C-Band Scatterometers
        Ad Stoffelen (KNMI), Jeroen Verspeek, Lucrezia Ricciardulli, Gerd-Jan van Zadelhoff
      • ASCAT-6.25 product quality
        Jurriaan Vogelzang (KNMI) Ad Stoffelen (KNMI) and Richard Lindsley (BYU, MERS lab)
      • Relating MSG Rain over the Tropical Atlantic with ASCAT Derived Surface Divergence and Vorticity
        Gregory King (Institute of Marine Sciences (ICM-CSIC)) Wenming Lin, Marcos Portabella, Ad Stoffelen, Anton Verhoef
      • Cross-Polarized C-band Scatterometer Measurements of the Sea Surface in Moderate Winds
        Joe Sapp (NOAA/NESDIS/STAR/SOCD) Suleiman Alsweiss, Zorana Jelenak, Paul Chang, Steve Frasier, James Carswell
      • Discussion
        
  11. End Of Meeting
      • 2015 Wrap Up
        
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2014 IOVWST

• Sponsors
• Agenda
• Attendees
• Photo
• Presentations (In agenda order):
  1. Introduction
     • Words from the local host
       Abderrahim Bentamy
     • Ifremer: French Research Institute for the Exploitation of the Sea
       Nicole Devauchelle
     • Introduction from the organizing committee
       Mark Bourassa (FSU)
     • CEOS OSVW-Virtual Constellation Update
       Paul Chang (NOAA/NESDIS), Julia Figa, and B.S. Gohil
     • Status overview of the European scatterometer activities
       Julia Figa Saldana (EUMETSAT), and K. Scipal (ESA/ESTEC)
     • Update on QuikSCAT, RapidSCAT, and the OVWST re-competition
       Eric Lindstrom (NASA HQ)
  2. Atmosphere and Ocean Coupling
     • The atmospheric response to weak SST fronts
       Niklas Schneider (International Pacific Research Center, University of Hawaii) and Bo Qiu (Department of Oceanography, University of Hawaii)
     • Surface Flux Modification by Wind Response to SSTs
       Mark Bourassa (Florida State University) and John Steffen
     • Spatial variances of wind fields and their relation to second-order structure functions and spectra
       Jur Vogelzang (KNMI), Gregory King, and Ad Stoffelen
     • Near-surface wind-current coupling, identified in satellite and in situ observations
       Nikolai Maximenko (IPRC, University of Hawaii)
     • Can GRACE-constrained ocean circulation estimates be used to evaluate and adjust QuikSCAT wind stress retrievals?
       Dimitris Menemenlis (Jet Propulsion Laboratory), Hong Zhang, David Moroni, and Carmen Boening
  3. Stress
     • IOVWST Wind Stress Working Group
       
     • Overview of Wind Stress Working Group
       James B. Edson (University of Connecticut)
     • Effects of cloud snow in climate models on ocean surface wind stress and SST in the Pacific sector
       Tong Lee (Jet Propulsion Laboratory), J.-L. Frank Li, W.-L. Lee, D. E. Waliser, Tong Lee, Justin P. Stachnik, Eric Fetzer, and Carmen Boening
     • New Applications of Scatterometry
       MM Ali (NRSC), Mark Bourassa, David Long, and Jocelyn Elya
  4. Oceanographic Applications
     • Wind-Driven Motions of the Upper Ocean Mixed Layer
       Kathleen Dohan (Earth and Space Research)
     • Wind-induced Upwelling in the Kerguelen Plateau Region
       Sarah T. Gille, Magdalena Carranza, Rémi Cambra, and Rosemary Morrow
     • Covariability Of Equatorial Winds And Sea Surface Height
       Theodore Durland (CEOAS, Oregon State University), J. Thomas Farrar, Dudley B. Chelton, and Michael G. Schlax
     • Uncertainty in Ocean Surface Winds over the Nordic Seas
       Dmitry Dukhovskoy (FSU) and Mark Bourassa
     • Wind Relaxations in the California Current Upwelling System
       Melanie R. Fewings, Libe Washburn, Clive E. Dorman, Christopher Gotschalk, Kevin S.Brown1, Ke Chen, and John Bane
     • The influence of non-wind based parameters on estimating the active and total whitecap coverage globally
       Aaron Paget (Brigham Young University) and Mark A. Bourassa
     • Statistical Emulation of High Resolution SAR Wind fields from low-resolution model predictions
       Liyun He Guelton (IFREMER), Bertrand Chapron, and Ronan Fablet
  5. Ice Applications
     • Long-Term Sea Ice Monitoring With Scatterometers at IFREMER/CERSAT
       Fanny Girard-Ardhuin (IFREMER)
  6. Meteorological Applications
     • Improvements in ambiguity removal of scatterometer winds
       Jur Vogelzang (KNMI), Ad Stoffelen, Wenming Lin, and Marcos Portabella
     • Satellite estimates of time-averaged surface wind divergence and vorticity in rain-free and all-weather conditions
       Larry O'Neill (Oregon State University), Ted Durland, Tracy Haack, and Dudley Chelton
     • Impact of East Asian Winter and Australian Summer Monsoons on the Enhanced Surface Westerlies over the Western Tropical Pacific Ocean Preceding the El Nino Onset
       Yangxing Zheng (COAPS, Florida State University), Renhe Zhang, and Mark A. Bourassa
     • Exploring the relationship between surface wind convergence and convective rainfall in the tropics
       Thomas Kilpatrick (Scripps Institution of Oceanography) and Shang-Ping Xie
     • Deuterated Water and Suface Vector Winds in a Madden-Julian Oscillation Event
       Ralph Milliff (CIRES, University of Colorado), Lesley L. Smith, David C. Noone, and Max Berkelhammer
     • Assimilation of Scatterometer Winds At METEO-FRANCE
       Payan Christophe (CNRM and Game, Météo France and CNRS)
     • Scatterometer Winds At ECMWF: Operational Status And Research Activities
       Giovanna De Chiara (ECMWF), Jean-Raymond Bidlot, Stephen J. English, and Peter A.E.M. Janssen
     • Scatterometer Wind Assimilation at the Met Office
       James Cotton (Met Office)
     • Scatterometer Utilization in JMA's global numerical weather prediction (NWP) system
       Masami Moriya (Japan Meterological Agency)
     • Assimilation of scatterometer winds in HARMONIE for wave and surge forecasting near the coast
       Ad Stoffelen (KNMI) and Gert-Jan Marseille
  7. New Products and Applications
     • Analysis of the C-band spaceborne scatterometers thermal noise
       Anis Elyouncha (Royal Military Academy) and Xavier Neyt
     • Analysis of Turbulent Flux Quality
       Stefano Zecchetto (National Research Council of Italy) and C. Accadia
     • Retrieving Surface Wind Direction from Neural-Net Wind Speed Retrievals in Tropical Cyclones
       Ralph Foster (University of Washington) and Jerome Patoux
     • Scatterometer and NWP model data in regional seas
       Stefano Zecchetto (National Research Council of Italy) and C. Accadia
     • Multi-Scatterometer Hurricane Winds: Optimized Tropical Cyclone Winds from ASCAT, OceanSAT-2, and QuikSCAT
       Bryan Stiles (Jet Propulsion Laboratory), Alex G. Fore, W. Lee Poulsen, Svetla Hristova-Veleva, and Michael J. Brennan
     • Measurements of Air-Sea Interaction from the HY-2A Scatterometer
       Dudley Chelton (Oregon State University), Qingtao Song, Larry W. O'Neill, Marcos Portabella, Wenming Lin, and Ad Stoffelen
     • Wind Retrieval from Synthetic Aperture Radar Operating at Cross Polarization
       Jochen Horstmann (Helmholtz Zentrum Geesthacht), S. Falchetti, C. Wackerman, M. Caruso and H. Graber
  8. Climate (Working Group)
     • Climate Working Group Task List
       Frank Wentz
     • Charter for IOVWST Climate Working Group
       Frank Wentz
     • Standards in the evaluation of scatterometer products
       Ad Stoffelen (KNMI)
     • ASCAT and SeaWinds Ocean Surface Vector Winds Along the Equator
       David Halpern (Jet Propulsion Laboratory) and Lucrezia Ricciardulli
     • Climate signals in the ocean surface winds: Using QuikSCAT, ASCAT, and OSCAT to detect trends in the Hadley cell width and intensity and to study their intra-seasonal, seasonal and diurnal variability
       Svetla Hristova-Veleva (JPL), Ziad Haddad, Ernesto Rodriguez, and Bryan Stiles
  9. Coastal Applications (Working Group)
     • Upwelling events at the western African coast related to synoptic atmospheric structures: An analysis with satellite observations
       Fabien Desbiolles (LOS), B. Blanke, and A. Bentamy
     • Discovering a Decade of Coastal Winds From Scatterometers
       Bryan Stiles (Jet Propulsion Laboratory), Alex G. Fore, P. Ted Strub, Corinne James, Michelle Gierarch, and Sermsak Jaruwatanadilok
     • Understanding variability of global coastal upwelling using satellite scatterometer winds
       Steven Morey (Florida State University)
  10. Current and Future Ocean Vector Wind Mission Updates
      • CFOSAT (Chinese-French Oceanic SATellite): an innovative mission combining surface ocean wind and wave measurements from Ku-Band scatterometry
        Daniele Hauser (LATMOS/CNRS-UVSQ), Liu Jianqiang, Dong Xialong, Zhu Di, Tison C., Lambin J., Amiot, T., Castillan P., Mouche A., Chapron B., Ardhuin F., Lefèvre JM., Aouf L., and Mahfouf JF
      • Calibration of HY-2A Satellite Scatterometer with Ocean and Considerations of Calibration of CFOSAT Scatterometer
        Xiaolong Dong (CAS Key Laboratory of Microwave Remote Sensing, National Space Science Center, CAS), Jintai Zhu, Risheng Yun, and Di Zhu
      • Evaluation of the HY-2A scatterometer wind quality
        Wenming Lin (Institut de Ciencies del Mare CSIC), Marcos Portabella, Ad Stoffelen, Anton Verhoef, Antonio Turiel, Qingtao Song, Xingwei Jiang, and Dudley B. Chelton
      • Global Change Observation Mission (GCOM) (invited)
        Haruhisa Shimoda (JAXA)
      • Progress Towards the Ku/Ka-band Scatterometer Missions
        Mark Bourassa (Florida State University), Robert Gaston, David G. Long, Nikolai Maximenko, Ernesto Rodriguez, Frank Wentz, Shang-Ping Xie, and Dudley Chelton
      • DopplerScat: A Pencil-Beam Scatterometer and Surface Current Instrument
        Ernesto Rodriguez (Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology), M.M. Flexas, D. Menemenlis, D. Perkovic-Martin, and A. F. Thompson
      • CYGNSS Mission Update
        Chris Ruf (AOSS/University of Michigan), Robert Atlas, Paul Chang, Maria Paola Clarizia, Zorana Jelenak, Sharan Majumdar, and Aaron Ridley
      • Two-Look Polarimetric (2LP) Microwave Radiometers for Ocean Vector Wind Retrieval
        Frank Wentz (Remote Sensing Systems), Kyle Hilburn. and Thomas Meissner
      • Aquarius Wind Speed Retrievals and Implications for SMAP Ocean Vector Winds
        Alexander Fore (Jet Propulsion Laboratory), Simon Yueh, Wenqing Tang, Julian Chaubell, Gregory Neumann, Akiko Hayashi, and Adam Freedman
      • The METOP-SG Satellites & the SCA Radar
        Franco Fois (ESA) and John Julian William Wilson (EUMETSAT), C.C.Lin, M. Loiselet, C. Anderson, F. Ticconi K.Scipal, A. Stoffelen, and J. Figa
      • RapidScat
        Ernesto Rodriguez (JPL), B. Stiles, A. Fore, D. Perkovic-Martin, S. Durden, and S. Boland
  11. Climate Data Record Development and Analysis
      • Trends in 15 years (1993-2007) of satellite-derived oceanic evaporation
        Alberto Mestas-Nunez (NSF), Frank Kelly, Abderrahim Bentamy, and Kristina Katsaros
      • Assessment of the impact of large sub-cell wind variability on ASCAT wind data quality
        Marcos Portabella (Institut de Ciencies del Mar (ICM-CSIC)), Wenming Lin, Ad Stoffelen, Antonio Turiel, and Anton Verhoef
      • Field assessment of ocean wind stress derived using active and passive microwave sensors
        Doug Vandemark (UNH/EOS), James Edson, Marc Emond, and Bertrand Chapron
      • Progress and Future Plans on an Ocean Vector Wind Climate Record
        Lucrezia Ricciardulli (Remote Sensing Systems) and Frank Wentz
      • Climate data records from OSI SAF scatterometer winds
        Anton Verhoef (KNMI), J. de Kloe, J. Verspeek, J. Vogelzang, and A. Stoffelen
      • A High-Resolution Ocean-Surface Vector Wind Analysis (1987 onward) Merged from Satellite Scatterometers and Microwave Radiometers: Methodology, Approach, Challenges, and Uncertainty Estimation
        Lisan Yu (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)
      • Utilization of multi-satellite data for construction of high-temporal resolution data and high-accuracy daily-mean data
        Masahisa Kubota (Tokai University), Atsushi Okuro, Shin'ichiro Kako
  12. Posters
      • Surface Curl and Ekman Upwelling Modification by Wind Response to SSTs
        Mark Bourassa (Florida State University) and Paul J. Hughes
      • Coupled surface winds and ocean diurnal variability using WRF
        Rachel Weihs (Center for Ocean-Atmospheric Prediction Studies, Florida State University) and Mark Bourassa
      • The Influence of Small Scale SST Gradients on Tropical Cyclone Development
        Russell Glazer (Florida State University - COAPS), Mark Bourassa, and Robert Hart
      • Second-order structure function analysis of SeaWinds and ASCAT winds over the Tropical Pacific
        Gregory King (Gulbenkian Institute of Science), Jur Vogelzang, and Ad Stoffelen
      • Upscale and downscale energy transfer over the tropical Pacific revealed by scatterometer winds
        Gregory King (Gulbenkian Institute of Science), Jur Vogelzang, and Ad Stoffelen
      • Comparison of ASCAT and SeaWinds Velocity Difference PDFs
        Gregory P. King, Jur Vogelzang, and Ad Stoffelen
      • Atmospheric forcing data sets to drive eddy-resolving global ocean general circulation models
        Raphael Dussin, Bernard Barnier, and Anne Marie Treguier
      • The CYGNSS Mission Level 2 Wind Speed Retrieval Algorithm
        Maria-Paola Clarizia (University of Michigan), Christopher Ruf, Andrew O'Brien, and Scott Gleason
      • The swell impact on HY-2 SCAT wind product quality
        He Wang (National Ocean Technology Center)
      • CFOSAT Scatterometer Doppler processing and Data Product Development
        Risheng Yun (Key Laboratory of Microwave Remote Sensing (MIRS,CAS),Center for Space Science and Applied Research(CSSAR,CAS),Chinese Academy of Sciences), Xiaolong Dong, Di Zhu, and Xinou Xu
      • An evaluation of simulated CYGNSS winds in tropical cyclone conditions
        Faozi Said (NOAA), Seubson Soisuvarn, Zorana Jelenak, and Paul S. Chang
      • Improved ASCAT and OSCAT Spatial Response Functions for Enhanced Resolution Processing
        David G. Long (BYU), Richard Lindsley, Nathan Madsen, and Aaron Paget
      • Tropical Cyclone Winds Validation from the OSCAT Neural Network Winds
        Seubson Soisuvar, Zorana Jelenak, Suleiman Alsweiss, and Paul Chang
      • Estimation of Sea Surface Rainrate from SeaWinds Data Using Neural Network Methods
        David E. Weissman, Simona Doboli, and Anthony Esposito
      • Wave and Wind Direction Effects on SFMR Brightness Temperatures
        Heather Holbach (FSU COAPS), Eric Uhlhorn, and Mark Bourassa
      • Scatterometer High Wind Observations
        Zorana Jelenak (NOAA/NESDIS/STAR-UCAR), Joseph Siekievicz, Suleiman Alsweiss, and Paul S. Chang
      • GNSS-Reflectomety: A Cost-Effective Solution for Global Ocean Winds
        Foti G.,Gommenginger C., Robertson C., Shaw A.
      • The eSurge-Venice project: how scatterometer data can improve the storm surge forecasting in the Gulf of Venice
        Stefano Zecchetto (National Research Council of Italy), F. De Biasio, A. della Valle, G. Umgiesser, M. Bajo, S. Vignudelli, and C. Donlon
      • An Analytical Model for the Cross-Polar Scattering of Microwave Radiation from Ocean
        Franco Fois (TUDelft), P. Hoogeboom (TUDelft), F. Le Chevalier (TUDelft), and A. Stoffelen (KNMI)
      • Coastal Winds over the Patagonia Shelf
        Paul Strub (Oregon State University) and Corinne James
      • Towards ASCAT Backscatter Correction in Rain
        Wenming Lin (Institut de Ciencies del Mare CSIC), Marcos Portabella, Ad Stoffelen, and Anton Verhoef
      • An analysis of the data quality and long term trends in the reprocessed radar backscatter from ASCAT-A
        Craig Anderson (EUMETSAT), J Figa-Saldaña, R Huckle, JJW Wilson, F Ticconi, J Miller, C Duff, and H Bauch
      • New Ocean Wind and Scatterometry Datasets and Interoperability Services at the NASA PO.DAAC
        David Moroni (NASA/JPL)
      • Observations of urban land targets using QuikSCAT L1B sigma0 data
        Aaron Paget (Brigham Young University) and David G. Long

2013 IOVWST

• Sponsors
• Agenda
• Attendees
• Presentations (In agenda order):
  1. Introduction
     • Introduction from the organizing committee
       Mark Bourassa (FSU)
     • CEOS OSVW Virtual Constellation Update
       Dr. Paul Chang (NOAA/NESDIS), Julia Figa and B.S. Gohil
     • NASA Programmatic Perspectives: Present Status and the Way Forward
       Dr. Eric Lindstrom (NASA HQ)
     • ASCAT backscatter: Mission overview and current developments
       Ms. Julia Figa Saldana (EUMETSAT)
  2. First Results from OSCAT, HY2A and MetOp-B
     • Intercomparison of Four Ocean Vector Wind Products from OCEANSAT-2 Scatterometer
       Professor Naoto Ebuchi (Hokkaido University)
     • Calibration and Validation of the Advanced Scatterometer on Metop-B
       Dr. Craig Anderson (EUMETSAT), Julia Figa Saldana, and Julian Wilson
     • Tandem ASCAT winds and climatologies
       Dr. Ad Stoffelen (KNMI), Anton Verhoef, Jeroen Verspeek, Jur Vogelzang and Tilly Driesenaar
     • Wind product developments for the ASCAT, OSCAT and HY2A scatterometer constellation
       Dr. Ad Stoffelen (KNMI), Anton Verhoef, Jeroen Verspeek, Jur Vogelzang and Tilly Driesenaar
     • Validation of GCOM-W1 geophysical product using in-situ ocean observation
       Masahisa Kubota, Tsutomu Hihara, Atsushi Okuro, and Hiroyuki Tomita
  3. Calibration/Validation and Climate Records
     • Cross calibration between QuikSCAT and Oceansat-2
       Dr. Sermsak Jaruwatanadilok (Jet Propulsion Laboratory), Bryan W. Stiles, and Alexander Fore
     • Production and Validation of QuikSCAT Climate Data Product, and Extension of Climate Data Record with OceanSat-2 at Jet Propulsion Laboratory
       Dr. Alexander Fore (JPL), Bryan Stiles, Alexandra Chau, Brent Williams, Sermsak Jaruwatanadilok, R. Scott Dunbar, and Ernesto Rodríguez
     • Challenges of Integrating Multiple Scatterometer Observations into a Climate Data Record: The Effect of Diurnal Variability
       Lucrezia Ricciardulli (Remote Sensing Systems), and Frank Wentz
     • Platform and Across Swath Comparison of Vorticity Spectra from QuikSCAT, ASCAT, and OSCAT Scatterometers
       Heather Holbach (COAPS, Florida State University), and Mark A. Bourassa
     • C-band scatterometers inter-calibration: from ERS-1 to Metop-B
       Anis Elyouncha (Royal Military Academy of Belgium) and Xavier Neyt
     • Towards An Improved ASCAT Wind Product Under Rain Conditions
       Dr. Marcos Portabella (Instituto de Ciencias del Mar (ICM-CSIC)), Wenming Lin, Ad Stoffelen, Antonio Turiel, Anton Verhoef, and David Weissman
     • Comparisons of ocean surface wind speeds from CALIPSO, AMSR-E and CloudSat measurements
       Dr. Yongxiang Hu (NASA Langley Research Center), Damien Josset and Sharon Rodier
     • Coincident, High Resolution Measurements of Ocean Surface Rain in Support of Improved ASCAT-Retrieved Winds
       Dr. David Weissman (Hofstra University), T. Johnson, J.Wolf, M.Portabella, W.Lin, A.Stoffelen and A.Verhoef
     • On The Characteristics Of ASCAT Wind Direction Ambiguities
       Dr. Wenming Lin (Institut de Ciències del Mar (ICM-CSIC)), Marcos Portabella, Ad Stoffelen, and Anton Verhoef
     • Detection of the Weakening Westerly Winds in the Pacific Ocean using Satellite-derived Wind Data Set/J-OFURO in Recent Decade
       Dr. Kunio Kutsuwada (Tokai University), Suguru Kameda and Koh Kamemura
  4. Oceanography
     • Some thoughts on the resolution of satellite sampling patterns, with application to QuikSCAT
       Dr. Tom Farrar (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution), Michael Schlax, Dudley Chelton, and Theodore Durland
     • Toward the assimilation of multiple satellite vector wind data products in a global, eddying, ocean and sea ice model
       Dr. Dimitris Menemenlis (Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology), Hong Zhang, and David Moroni
     • Influence of group velocity on the relative distributions of equatorial wind forcing and oceanic response
       Dr. Ted Durland (CEOAS, Oregon State University), and Dr. J. Thomas Farrar
     • Intraseasonal variability of sea surface height in the Bay of Bengal: Remote v.s local wind forcing
       Professor Shang-Ping Xie (Scripps Institution of Oceanography), Xuhua Cheng, and Julian P. McCreary
     • Sensitivity of Ocean Processes in the Nordic Seas to Surface Winds Inferred from the 1/12° Arctic Ocean HYCOM-CICE
       Dmitry Dukhovskoy (FSU COAPS), and Mark Bourassa
     • Poleward Shift of Southern Hemisphere Surface Westerly winds: New Insights into interactions between wind stress and the Antarctic Circumpolar Current
       Dr. Lisan Yu (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institutiton)
     • Global Coastal Upwelling/Downwelling Estimates from SeaWinds
       Dr. Steven Morey (COAPS/FSU)
     • Improving the Turbulence in Time-Dependent OSCAR Wind-Driven Surface Currents
       Dr. Kathleen Dohan (Earth and Space Research)
  5. Surface Fluxes
     • Impacts of Sea Surface Temperature Gradients and Surface Roughness Changes on the Motion of Surface Oil: A Simple Idealized Study
       Dr. Yangxing Zheng (FSU-COAPS), Mark A. Bourassa, and Paul Hughes
     • New release of oceanic scatterometer and radiometer turbulent air-sea fluxes
       Dr. Abderrahim Bentamy (IFREMER), S. Grodsky; K. Katsaros; A. Mestas-Nuñez; J. Hanafin; B. Blanke; and F. Desbiolles
     • 25-Year Consistent Record of High-Resolution Satellite-based Ocean Surface Turbulent Heat and Momentum Fluxes
       Dr. Lisan Yu (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institutiton), and Xiangze Jin
     • Estimating the active and total whtiecap coverage globally using satellite-derived winds
       Mr. Aaron Paget (COAPS, Florida State University), and Mark A. Bourassa
  6. Future Missions
     • The NASA EV-2 Cyclone Global Navigation Satellite System (CYGNSS) Mission (Invited)
       Professor Christopher Ruf (University of Michigan)
     • Cyclone Global Navigation Satellite System (CYGNSS) Wind Retrieval Performance (Invited)
       Professor Christopher Ruf (University of Michigan)
     • Global Change Observation Mission (GCOM) (Invited)
       Professor Haruhisa Shimoda
     • The Scientific Goals of the RapidScat Mission (Invited)
       Dr. Ernesto Rodriguez (JPL/CalTech)
     • ISS-RapidScat Mission, Instrument and Expected Performance (Invited)
       Dragana Perkovic-Martin, Stephen L. Durden, Alexander Fore, Bryan W. Stiles, Gregory A. Sadowy, Simon A. Collins, Howard J. Eisen, Yuhsyen Shen (presented by Ernesto Rodriguez)
     • Wind Measurements from Combined Active and Passive L-Band Sensors
       Dr. Thomas Meissner (Remote Sensing Systems), Lucrezia Ricciardulli, Frank Wentz
  7. New Products
     • Global 12-year Scatterometer Tropical Cyclone Wind Data Set from QuikSCAT and OceanSAT-2: Validation and Trends in Tropical Cyclone Intensity, Intensification, Size, and Shape
       Dr. Bryan Stiles (Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology), Alex G. Fore, Tsae-Pyng J. Shen, W. Lee Poulsen, Michael J. Brennan, and Svetla Hristova-Veleva
     • Cross-Calibrating OSCAT Land Sigma-0 to Extend the QuikSCAT Land Sigma-0 Climate Record
       Professor David Long (Brigham Young University)
     • Intercomparison of C- and Ku-band scatterometer winds
       Dr. Abderrahim Bentamy (IFREMER), Semyon A. Grodsky, Bertrand Chapron, James A. Carton
     • Evaluation of modeled diurnally varying sea surface temperatures and the influence of surface winds
       Ms. Rachel Weihs (COAPS), and Mark A. Bourassa
     • Towards a Climate Data Record of Ocean Vector Winds: The New RSS ASCAT
       Dr. Lucrezia Ricciardulli (Remote Sensing Systems), Frank Wentz
     • A satellite surface wind product benefiting from boundary-layer physics
       Professor Mark Bourassa (COAPS, Florida State University), Paul J. Hughes and David Moroni
     • Direct retrieval of stress from scatterometer measurement compared with stress derived from wind retrieval
       Dr. W. Timothy Liu (Jet Propulsion Laboratory), Wenqing Tang and Xiaosu Xie
  8. Meteorology
     • Operational Use of ASCAT-A, ASCAT-B, and OSCAT OVW in NOAA Ocean Prediction Center Operations
       Mr. Joseph Sienkiewicz (NOAA Ocean Prediction Center), Gregory McFadden, Paul Chang, Zorana Jelenak
     • Status of Scatterometer Winds Assimilation at ECMWF
       Dr. Giovanna De Chiara (ECMWF), Peter Janssen
     • The development of applying Metop-B/ASCAT to JMA global analysis
       Mr. Masami Moriya (Japan Meteorological Agency)
     • Extratropical Cyclone Hurricane Force Winds
       Dr. Zorana Jelenak (NOAA/NESDIS/STAR-UCAR), Paul S Chang; Joseph Sienkiewicz, Jerome Patoux, and Qi Zhu
     • National Hurricane Center Ocean Vector Wind Update
       Dr. Michael J. Brennan ( NOAA/NWS/NCEP National Hurricane Center)
     • Analysis of Co-located Synthetic Aperture Radar and QuikSCAT Neural-Net Surface Wind Vectors Retrieved in Tropical Cyclones
       Ralph Foster (APL, University of Washington), Jerome Patoux, Bryan Stiles, Jochen Horstmann, Chris Wackerman, Roland Romeisser, Hans Graber, Mike Caruso
     • Estimating Winds from Synthetic Aperture Radar in Typhoon Conditions
       Jochen Horstmann (Center for Maritime Research and Experimentation), C. Wackerman, R. Foster, M. Caruso, R. Romeiser, and H. Graber
     • Signatures of upscale and downscale energy transfer in the near-surface winds over the Tropical Pacific
       Dr. Ad Stoffelen (KNMI), Dr. Gregory P. King, Dr. Jur Vogelzang
     • Dynamics and variability of surface wind speed and divergence over mid-latitude ocean fronts
       Dr. Larry O'Neill (Oregon State University), Tracy Haack, and Simon de Szoeke
     • The Response of Surface Wind, Wind Stress and Pressure to SST Variability on Monthly to Seasonal Time Scales
       Professor James Edson (University of Connecticut), Amanda Plagge and Doug Vandemark
  9. Posters
     • Construction and Validation of Gridded Data Sets of Global Surface Wind Field by Satellite Scatteromete
       Mr. Suguru Kameda (Tokai University Graduate School of Marine Science and Technology), Kunio Kutsuwada
     • A Kinematic Analysis of the MJO by Wind Partitioning
       Dr. Jerome Patoux (University of Washington), Ángel Adames-Corraliza, Jérôme Patoux, and Ralph C. Foster
     • Scatterometer Representations of Wind Fields in the Coastal Ocean Along the U.S. West Coast
       Professor P. Ted Strub (CEOAS, Oregon State University) and Corinne James
     • Long-Term Trends, and Lack of Climate Variability, in Upwelling Wind Relaxations off California
       Professor Melanie Fewings (University of Connecticut – Avery Point), Libe Washburn, Clive E. Dorman, Christopher Gotschalk

2012 IOVWST

• Sponsors
• Agenda
• Attendees
• Discussion Summary
• Presentations (In agenda order):
  1. Introduction
     • Introduction from the organizing committee
       Mark Bourassa (FSU)
     • The Local Host
       Ad Stoffelen
     • CEOS OSVW Virtual Constellation Status and Next Steps
       Dr. Paul Chang (NOAA/NESDIS), Hans Bonekamp and B.S. Gohil
     • NASA Programmatic Perspectives: Present Status and the Way Forward
       Dr. Peter Hacker (NASA HQ) and Dr. Eric Lindstrom
     • GCOM Mission Overview
       Prof. H. Shimoda (JAXA)
     • ASCAT on Metop: status and plans
       Dr. Hans Bonekamp (EUMETSAT), Craig Anderson, Julia Figa, Julian Wilson
     • Oceansat-2 Scatterometer - Status and Value added Products
       Dr. Raj Kumar (Indian Space Research Organization), Suchandra A Bhowmick, Abhisek Chakraborty, and A S Kiran Kumar
     • Validation of HY2A Scatterometer data
       Dr. Qingtao Song, Xiaolong Dong
  2. First Results from OSCAT, HY2A and MetOp-B
     • OCEANSAT Scatterometer Winds By Eumetsat
       Dr. Ad Stoffelen (KNMI), Anton Verhoef, Jeroen Verspeek, Yun Richeng
     • The JPL Ku-Band Scatterometer Data Product
       Dr. Alex Fore (Jet Propulsion Laboratory), Bryan Stiles, Alexandra Chau, Brent Williams, Sermsak Jaruwatanadilok, R. Scott Dunbar, and Ernesto Rodriguez
     • NOAA OSCAT Ocean Surface Vector Wind Products
       Dr. Zorana Jelenak (NOAA/NESDIS - UCAR), Seubson Soisuvarn, Suleiman Alsweiss, Qi Zhu, Micah Baker and Paul S. Chang
     • Scatterometer Wind Services at KNMI
       Dr. Ad Stoffelen (KNMI), Tilly Driesenaar, Anton Verhoef, Jeroen Verspeek, Jur Vogelzang and Marivi Tello
     • Evaluation of Marine Surface Vectors observed by Oceansat-2 Scatterometer
       Professor Naoto Ebuchi (Hokkaido University)
     • OSCAT backscatter drift evaluation using ocean and natural land targets
       Dr. Sermsak Jaruwatanadilok (Jet Propulsion Laboratory), Bryan W. Stiles, Alexander Fore, and R. Scott Dunbar
  3. New Products
     • Multiple Scatterometer Hurricane Winds Ten years of optimized QuikSCAT cyclone winds validated against best track speeds, H*WIND and SFMR, and initial OceanSAT-2 cyclone winds
       Dr. Bryan Stiles (Jet Propulsion Laboratory), Rick Danielson, W. Lee Poulsen, Michael J. Brennan, and Svetla M. Hristova-Veleva
     • Towards An Optimal Noise Versus Resolution Trade-Off In Wind Scatterometry
       Dr. Brent Williams (Jet Propulsion Laboratory)
     • Status Update on PO.DAAC's OVW Products and Services
       Mr. David Moroni (JPL)
     • Development of Consistent Geophysical Model Functions for Different Scatterometer Missions: Ku and C-band
       Dr. Lucrezia Ricciardulli (Remote Sensing Systems), Frank J. Wentz
     • QSCAT2012 Geophysical Model Function
       Dr. Alexandra Chau (Jet Propulsion Laboratory), Bryan Stiles, R. Scott Dunbar, Ernesto Rodriguez
     • The Ice Contamination Ratio Method: Accurately Retrieving Ocean Winds Closer to the Sea Ice Edge While Eliminating "Ice Winds"
       Professor David Long (Brigham Young University)
  4. Surface Fluxes
     • QuikSCAT-based evaluation of CMIP3 and CMIP5 models
       Dr. Tong Lee (Jet Propulsion Laboratory), Duane Waliser, Frank Li, and Michelle Gierach
     • Buoyance Parameterization in Stress Generation
       Dr. W Timothy Lie (Jet Propulsion Laboratory), Xiaosu Xie
     • Identifying Loci for Ocean Forecast Model Error from Ensembles of Surface Winds based on QuikSCAT and COAMPS
       Dr. Ralph Milliff (CIRES, University of Colorado), Dr. Polly Smith, Prof. Andrew M. Moore and Prof. Christopher A. Edwards
  5. Oceanography
     • Covariability of Wind and Sea Surface Height in the Tropical Pacific: Part 1 and 2
       Dr. Tom Farrar (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution), Theodore Durland
     • Self - Induced Ekman Pumping Over Oceanic Mesoscale Eddies
       Professor Dudley Chelton (Orgeon State University), Peter Gaube
     • Bayesian sea-ice detection in the ASCAT Wind Data Processor
       Mr. Jeroen Verspeek (KNMI), Maria Belmonte, Ad Stoffelen, Anton Verhoef and Jur Vogelzang
     • Modeled sensitivity of the upper-ocean properties in the Nordic Seas to wind forcing
       Dr. Dmitry Dukhovskoy (COAPS FSU), Dr. Mark Bourassa
     • Time Dependent Wind-Driven Surface Currents
       Dr. Kathleen Dohan (Earth and Space Research)
     • Constraining a global, eddying, ocean and sea ice model with scatterometer data
       Dr. Dimitris Menemenlis (Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology), David Moroni, Hong Zhang
     • Spatial Variability of upwelling on a shelf with complex geometry inferred from scatterometry
       Dr. Steve Morey (COAPS-FSU)
  6. Future Missions
     • Development Status of the Wind Scatterometer for EPS Second Generation
       Dr. Chung-Chi Lin (ESA - ESTEC), F. Fois, M. Betto, H. Barre and G. Mason, ESA-ESTEC; S. Banfi and P. Schluessei, EUMETSAT
     • Polarization options for ASCAT Second Generation
       Dr. Maria Belmonte Rivas (Atmospheric Chemistry Division - National Center for Atmospheric Research), Ad Stoffelen, Gerd-Jan van Zadelhoff
     • Preliminary Considerations About the Calibration of a Ku-Band Rotating Fan-Beam Scatterometer of CFOSAT
       Dr. Xiaolong Dong (CAS Key Laboratory of Microwave Remote Sensing, National Space Science Center/Center for Space Science and Applied Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences), Jintai Zhu, Risheng Yun, Di Zhu
     • Wide-Swath Simultaneous Measurements of Winds and Surface Currents
       Dr. Ernesto Rodriguez (JPL/Cal Tech)
     • Applications of L-Band Scatterometry and Radiometry to Aquarius and SMAP
       Dr. Simon Yueh (Jet Propulsion Laboratory), Wenqing Tang, Alexander Fore, Jullian Chaubell, Gary Lagerloef
     • Summary of Science Thoughts for Possible Future Nasa Missions, Part I
       Professor Mark Bourassa (Florida State University), Ernesto Rodríguez, Alexandra Chau, Dudley Chelton, Alex Fore, Peter Gaube, Michelle Gierach, Tony Lee, Jim McWilliams, Larry O’Neill, Dragana Perkovic, Bryan Stiles, Svetla-Hristova Veleva, Duane Waliser, Brent Williams, Shang-Ping Xie, Simon Yeuh
     • Summary of Science Thoughts for Possible Future Nasa Missions, Part I
       Dr. Ernesto Rodríguez (Jet Propulsion Laboratory), Mark Bourassa, Alexandra Chau, Dudley Chelton, Alex Fore, Peter Gaube, Michelle Gierach, Tony Lee, Jim McWilliams, Larry O’Neill, Dragana Perkovic, Bryan Stiles, Svetla-Hristova Veleva, Duane Waliser, Brent Williams, Shang-Ping Xie, Simon Yeuh
  7. Climate Data Records and Calibration/Validation
     • Rain-induced wind variability depicted by scatterometers
       Dr. Marcos Portabella (Unitat de Tecnologia Marina (UTM-CSIC)), Wenming Lin, Ad Stoffelen, Anton Verhoef, Antonio Turiel, Joaquim Ballabrera, Jeroen Verspeek
     • Singularity analysis for the estimation of rain impact on ASCAT winds
       Dr. Wenming Lin (Institut de Ciencies del Mar (ICM-CSIC)), Marcos Portabella, Antonio Turiel, Ad Stoffelen, Anton Verhoef, Jur Vogelzang
     • Using structure functions to compare ASCAT and QuikSCAT winds
       Dr. Gregory King (Centro de Geofisica - IDL, University of Lisbon), Jur Vogelzang and Ad Stoffelen
     • Characterizing Differences between C-band and Ku-band scatterometer winds
       Dr. Abderrahim Bentamy (Ifremer), Semyon A. Grodsky, B. Chapron, D. Croize-Fillon, Vladimir N. Kudryavtsev, James A. Carton
     • The impact of resolution on SST-Induced Surface Winds Response: Is that the answer for observed differences in QuikSCAT and ASCAT retrievals?
       Dr. Svetla Hristova-Veleva (Jet Propulsion Laboratory), Ernesto Rodriguez
     • Decadal change in ocean surface vector wind fields suggested by global synthesis of multiple satellite sensors (1987 - present)
       Dr. Lisan Yu (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
     • How Precisely Can One Infer Decadal Wind Trends from Satellites?
       Mr. Frank Wentz (Remote Sensing Systems)
     • Sampling needs for Operational Applications (invited)
       Ad Stoffelen (KNMI)
     • Sampling needs for Climate Studies (invited)
       Dudley Chelton (Oregon State University
  8. Meteorology
     • Evidence of and a Theory for 10-km Wavelength Convergence Lines in Tropical Cyclone Surface Wind Retrievals
       Ralph Foster (Applied Physics Laboratory)
     • Towards an extreme wind climatology for Dutch Water Defenses
       Dr. Gerrit Burgers (KNMI), Sofia Caires (Deltares)
     • Seasonal and Geographical Variability of the Surface Wind and Stress Responses to SST over Mid-Latitudes
       Dr. Larry O'Neill (Oregon State University), Dudley Chelton, Steve Esbensen
     • On the Interpretation of Scatterometer Winds Near Sea Surface Temperature Fronts
       Professor James Edson (University of Connecticut), Amanda Plagge and Doug Vandemark and Amanda
     • The Effects of Gab Wind Induced Vorticity, the ITCZ, and Monsoon Trough on Tropical Cyclogenesis
       Heather Holbach (Florida State University - COAPS), Mark Bourassa
     • A Decomposition of the MJO by Satellite Wind Partitioning
       Dr. Jerome Patoux (University of Washington), Angel Adames-Corraliza and Ralph C. Foster
     • Slow changes in ocean vector wind: Evidence of the Walker circulation slowdown over the past six decades
       Dr. Hiroki Tokinaga (IPRC/Univ. of Hawaii), Shang-Ping Xie
     • Intensification of the Pacific Walker Circulation (PWC) during the Last Quarter Century
       Mr. Frank Wentz (Remote Sensing Systems), Carl Mears and Lucrezia Ricciardulli
     • Assimilation of Scatterometer Winds at ECMWF
       Dr. Giovanna De Chiara (ECMWF)
     • On the potential benefits of using scatterometer data in the North Sea operational coastal wave forecasting system
       Dr. Sofia Caires (Deltares), Dr. Martin Verlaan
     • Status On The Use of Scatterometer Winds At METEO-France
       Mr. Christophe Payan (CNRM and GAME, Meteo France and CNRS)
     • National Hurricane Center Ocean Vector Wind Update
       Dr. Michael Brennan (NOAA/NWS/NCEP/National Hurricane Center), Hugh D. Cobb III, Rick Danielson, Golf Soisuvarn, and Bryan W. Stiles
     • Use of ASCAT and OSCAT Winds at the NOAA Ocean Prediction Center
       Mr. Joseph Sienkiewicz (NOAA Ocean Prediction Center), Gregory McFadden, Paul Chang, Zorana Jelenak, Seubson Soiuvarn, Michael Folmer, and Scott Jacobs
  9. Posters
     • Ocean Calibration And Validation of Ku-Band Scatterometers
       Dr. Rishen Yun (Key Laboratory of Microwave Remote Sensing (MIRS, CAS), Center for Space Science and Applied Research (CSSAR, CAS), Chinese Academy of Sciences), Ad Stoffelen, Jeroen Verspeek, Anton Verhoef, Xiaolong Dong
     • Using Surface Pressure to Produce Scene-Wide, km-Scale Tropical Cyclone Surface Wind Retrievals From SAR
       Ralph Foster (Applied Physics Laboratory), Jerome Patoux, Jochen Hosrtmann, Chris Wackerman
     • An Evaluation Study for Improving Gap Flow Simulations in Coastal Areas on Continental Portugal
       Dr. Paulo Costa (LNEG)
     • Marine Training Workshop on the Use of Satellite Wind and Wave Products in South American Waters
       Dr. Stan Wilson (UCAR), Luiz Machado, INPE; Mark Bourassa, FSU; Mark Higgins, EUMETSAT; Paul Chang and Zorana Jelenak, NOAA
     • A Model-Based Examination of SST-Related Changes in Surface Winds Due to Baroclinicity
       Mr. Paul Hughes (EOAS and COAPS at Florida State University), Mark A. Bourassa
     • Steps towards a SAR-based wind atlas in the Baltic Sea
       Dr. Charlotte Hasager (DTU Wind Energy), M. Badger, A. Pena, T. Mikkelsen, A. Hahmann, F. Bingol
     • Hurricane-force extratropical cyclones measured by satellite scatterometery
       Dr. Zorana Jelenak (NOAA/NESDIS - UCAR), Joseph Sienkiewicz and Paul S. Chang
     • Arctic Sea Ice Age Classification and Mapping using Ku-band Scatterometer Data
       Professor David Long (Brigham Young University)
     • ASCAT wind scaling
       Dr. Jur Vogelzang (KNMI), Dr. Ad Stoffelen
     • Resolving Vorticity in New Wind Products: Advantages of Finer Resolution and Improved Retrievals through Rain
       Professor Mark Bourassa (Florida State University), Heather M. Holbach
     • Space-time interpolation of satellite winds in the Tropics
       Dr. Jerome Patoux (University of Washington), Ged Levy
     • Scatterometer - Met-Buoy Comparisons: QuickSCAT Versions 2 and 3
       Prof. Ted Strub (Oregon State University and Corinne James
     • Monitoring ASCAT-A Calibration using Ocean Backscatter
       Dr. Craig Anderson (eumetsat), Hans Bonekamp, Julia Figa
     • NWP SAF Scatterometer Monitoring
       Mr. James Cotton (UK Met Office), Masaya Takahashi, Robert Tardif, Dave Offiler, Bryan Conway
     • Extending the Land/Ice Scatterometer Climate Record
       Professor David Long (Brigham Young University
     • A Comparison of Windspeeds in Extra-Tropical Cyclones
       Mr. Tom Philp (NCEO/University of Reading), Dr. Kevin Hodges
     • Airborne Cross-polarization Observations of the Sea-Surface NRCS in High Winds
       Stephen Frasier (University of Massachusetts), Joseph W. Sapp, Paul S. Chang, Zorana Jelenak, Micah Baker
     • Influence of sea surface temperature gradient and roughness changes due to a slick on the motion of surface oil: A simple idealized study
       Dr. Yangxing Zheng (Florida State University), Mark A. Bourassa, Paul Hughes
     • Measurements of the Effect of Rain on the L-Band Sea Surface Brightness Temperature for the Aquarius Instrument
       Dr. David Weissman (Hofstra University)
     • Wind Stress Curl Differences in QuikSCAT L2B (R2 vs R3) and Preliminary OceanSAT-2
       Dr. Jeremiah Brows (CIRES, University of Colorado), Dr. Ralph Milliff
     • Feasibility Assessment of Simultaneous Ocean Wind and Current Measurements
       Jos de Kloe, Ad Stoffelen, KNMI; Andrea Recchia, Davide D’Aria, Aresys; Johnny Johannessen, NERSC; Alexis Mouche, Fabrice Collard, CLS; Bertrand Chapron, IFREMER; Vivien Enjolras, TAS-F; Franco Fois, Chung-Chi Lin, ESTEC
     • The ASCAT Level 3 Global Wind product of MyOcean
       Tilly Driesenaar, Anton Verhoef, Ad Stoffelen (KNMI)
     • Retrieval of High Resolution (sub-km) Ocean Surface Winds from Synthetic Aperture Radar Data
       Abhisek Chakaborty and Raj Kumar, Space Applications Centre (ISRO)

2011 IOVWST

• Sponsors
• Agenda
• Attendees
• Discussion Summary
• Presentations (In agenda order):
  1. Introduction
     • Introduction from the organizing Committee
       Mark Bourassa (FSU)
     • NASA Programmatic Perspectives: Present Status and the Way Forward
       Dr. Peter Hacker (NASA HQ) and Dr. Eric Lindstrom
     • NOAA Programmatic Perspectives
       Dr. Stan Wilson (NOAA Satellite Service)
     • The CEOS OVW Constellation: Objectives, Opportunities and Challenges
       Dr. Stan Wilson (NOAA Satellite Service), Hans Bonekamp, and B.S. Gohil
     • Earth Science Division Status and Plans
       Prof. Mike H. Frelich (NASA)
     • JAXA Update
       Prof. H. Shimoda (JAXA)
     • ASCAT: Metop-A Developments, Metop-B preparations
       Dr. Craig Anderson (EUMETSAT) and Hans Bonekamp
  2. Review of the Basics
  • Review of the Equivalent Neutral Winds and Stress
    Prof. Mark Bourassa (COAPS&EOAS/FSU)
  • High Resolution Wind Field Retrieval Using Synthetic Aperture Radar
    Dr. Jochen Horstmann (NATO Undersea Research Center), F. Monaldo, A. Mouche, D. Thompson, and C. Wackerman
  • Updating Advice on Selecting Level-2 and Level-3 Surface Vector Wind Datasets from Scatterometers: The Applications Perspective (Invited)
    Dr. Ralph Milliff (CoRA), M.A. Bourassa, E. Rodriguez, and Dudley Chelton
  • Scatterometer GMF and Climate Records (Invited)
    Dr. Ad Stoffelen
  3. The Impact of the Loss of QuikSCAT on Climate and Operations
  • Including ASCAT in OAFlux Global Vector Wind Analysis: Long-term Change and Variability of Ocean Surface Winds from 1987 Onward
    Dr. Lisan Yu (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)
  • Impact of QuikSCAT Loss on JMA Data Assimilation System
    Mr. Masaya Takahashi (Japan Meteorological Agency
  • Impact of the loss of QuikSCAT on National Hurricane Center operations: Current mitigation efforts and future plans
    Richard Danielson (NOAA/NWS/NCEP National Hurricane Center) and Micheal J. Brennon
  4. New Products
  • The New Geophysical Model Function for QuikSCAT: Implementation and Validation
    Dr. Lucrezia Ricciardulli (Remote Sensing Systems), and Frank Wentz
  • Spatio-Temporal Surface Vector Wind Retrieval Error Models
    Dr. Ralph Milliff (NWRA/CoRA), Lucrezia Ricciardulli, Deborah Smith, Frank Wentz, Jeremiah Brown, and Christopher Wikle
  • Point-wise Wind Retrieval and Ambiguity Removal Improvements for the QuikSCAT Climatological Data Set
    Dr. Alexander Fore (Jet Propulsion Laboratory), Bryan Stiles, R. Scott Dunbar, Brent Williams, Alexandra Chau, Lucrezia Ricciardulli, Frank Wentz, Thomas Meissner and Ernesto Rodridguez
  • A New Satellite Wind Climatology from QuikSCAT, WindSat, AMSR-E and SSM/I
    Mr. Frank J. Wentz (Remote Sensing Systems), Lucrezia Ricciardulli, Thomas Meissner, and Deborah Smith
  • High-Resolution ASCAT Winds Near The Coast
    Dr. Ad Stoffelen (KNMI), Anton Verhoef, Jeroen Verspeek, and Jur Vogelzang
  • Status Update on PO.DAAC’s OVW Products and Services
    Mr. David Moroni (Jet Propulsion Laboratory)
  • Multiple Scatterometer Hurricane Winds
    Dr. Bryan Stiles (Jet Propulsion Laboratory), Svetla Hristova-Veleva and Michael Brennan
  • Application of High Resolution SAR-Measured Winds to Wind Power Plant Siting
    Mr. Francis Monaldo (Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory), Donald Thompson and Nathaniel Winstead
  • Application of remotely sensed ocean surface vector winds to determine wave generation areas
    Mr. Joe Sienkiewicz (NOAA Ocean Prediction Center), and Gregory McFadden
  5. Oceanography
  • Atmospheric Wind Relaxations and the Oceanic Response in the California Current Large Marine Ecosystem
    Dr. Melanie Fewings (University of California, Santa Barbara), Clive E. Dorman, Libe Washburn, and W. Timothy Liu
  • Mesoscale Eddy Influence on Upper-Ocean Chlorophyll Variability in the South Indian Ocean
    Professor Dudley Chelton (Oregon State University), and Peter Gaube
  • Impacts of surface currents on derived scatterometer wind at Ku and C band
    Ms. Amanda Plagge (University of New Hampshire), D. Vandemark, B. Chapron, and D. Long
  • Lagrangian Paths in OSCAR Surface Currents
    Dr. Kathleen Dohan (Earth and Space Research)
  • An extreme oceanic and atmospheric event in the South Pacific and western Antarctica associated with the 2009-10 El Nino
    Dr. Tong Lee (Jet Propulsion Laboratory)
  • High-resolution satellite-derived ocean surface winds in the North Atlantic
    Dr. Dmitry Dukhovskoy (COAPS FSU), Mark Bourassa and Paul Hughes
  • Constraining a global, eddying, ocean and sea ice model with level-2 QuikSCAT wind stress data: First results
    Dr. Dimitris Menemenlis (Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology), Hong Zhang, Holger Brix, and David Moroni
  • Wind-driven cross-shelf transport on a shelf with curvature described from scatterometry and in situ observations
    Dr. Steven Morey (Florida State University)
  • Diurnal variability in the curl/divergence coupling with SST gradients as depicted by SeaWinds, QuikSCAT and ASCAT tandem missions
    Dr. Svetla Hristova-Veleva (Jet Propulsion Laboratory), Ernesto Rodriguez and Joseph Turk
  6. Future Missions
  • Feasibility Assessment Of Simultaneous Ocean Wind And Current Measurements
    Dr. Ad Stoffelen (KNMI), Jos de Kloe (KNMI); Johnny Johannessen (NERSC); Alexis Mouche, Fabrice Collard (CLS); France Bertrand Chapron (IFREMER); Vivien Enjolras, TAS-F; Andrea Recchia, Davide D'Aria, Aresys; Franco Fois, and Chung-Chi Lin (ESTEC)
  7. First Results from the OceanSat-2 Scatterometer
  • OCEANSAT-2 Scatterometer Winds And Sea Ice
    Dr. Ad Stoffelen (KNMI), Anton Verhoef, Jeroen Verspeek, Jur Vogelzang, Maria Belmonte, and Marcos Portabella
  • Sub-daily Variation of Ocean Surface Wind and Stress
    Dr. W. Timothy Liu (Jet Propulsion Lab.), and Wenqing Tang
  • Initial Results on the Cross-Calibration of QuikSCAT and Oceansat-2 Scatterometer
    Professor David Long (Brigham Young University)
  • NOAA Assessment of the Oceansat-2 Scatterometer
    Dr. Seubson Soisuvarn (NOAA/NESDIS - UCAR), Khalil Ahmad, Zorana Jelenak, Joseph Sienkiewicz, and Paul S. Chang
  8. Calibration/Validation and Definitions
  • Noise in ASCAT ocean backscatter
    Dr. Craig Anderson (EUMETSAT), H Bonekamp, J Figa, C Duff, and JJW Wilson
  • Evaluation of ASCAT Winds by Assessing Self-consistency
    Professor Naoto Ebuchi (Hokkaido University)
  • The Effect Of Rain On ASCAT Observations Of The Sea Surface Using Simultaneous 3-D NEXRAD Rain Measurements
    Dr. David Weissman (Hofstra University) and Dr. Mark A. Bourassa
  • ASCAT backscattering processing status
    Ms. Julia Figa Saldana (EUMETSAT), Craig Anderson, Julian J. Wilson, Hans Bonekamp and Colin Duff
  • QuikSCAT Calibration and Assessment of Impacts of Spatial and Temporal Variability in Surface Winds
    Ms. Jackie May (NRL Stennis) and Mark Bourasssa
  • Calibration and Validation of Multi-Satellite scatterometer winds
    Dr. Abderrahim Bentamy (IFREMER) and S. A. Grodsky
  • Update and Refinement of the IWRAP High-Wind GMF
    Professor Stephen Frasier (U. Massachusetts), J. Sapp, J. Dvorsky, P. Chang, Z. Jelanak and T. Hartley
  9. Meteorology
  • Comparison of buoy and satellite derived coupling between surface wind and sea-surface temperature frontal zones
    Dr. Larry O'Neill (Naval Research Laboratory)
  • Observations and Modeling of Sea-Surface Temperature Influence on Tropospheric Winds in the Western North Atlantic
    Professor Dudley Chelton (Oregon State University), Roger M. Samelson, Eric D. Skyllingstad, John F. Dostalek and Mark DeMaria
  • Baroclinicity in the marine boundary layer
    Dr. Jerome Patoux (University of Washington) and Ralph C. Foster
  • Decadal Trends in Hurricane-Force Extratropical Cyclones From Satellite Scatterometery
    Dr. Zorana Jelenak (NOAA/NESDIS & UCAR), Khalil Ahmad, Seubson Soisuvarn, Joseph Sienkiewicz and Paul S. Chang
  • Interannual variability of high-wind occurrence over the North Atlantic
    Professor Shang-Ping Xie (University of Hawaii), Cheng, X., H. Tokinaga and Y. Du
  • A Novel Hurricane OVW Retrieval Technique for QuikSCAT
    Professor Linwood Jones (Central Florida Remote Sensing Lab), Peth Laupattarakasem, Suleiman Alsweiss, Christopher C. Hennon and Svetla Hristova-Veleva
  • SAR remote sensing of open mesoscale cellular convection
    Dr. Todd Sikora (Millersville University), G.S. Young, C.M. Fisher and M.D Stepp
  • Synthetic Aperture Radar Surface Pressure Retrievals and Consequent Improved Surface Wind Fields in Tropical Storms
    Ralph Foster (APL/UW) and Jerome Patoux
  • Synthetic Aperture Radar Wind Field Retrieval With Respect to Cyclones
    Jochen Horstmann ( NATO Undersea Research Center), Silvia Falchetti and Salvatore Maresca
  • An Investigation of Atmospheric Stability and Its Impact on Scatterometer Winds Across the Gulf Stream
    Professor James Edson (University of Connecticut), Doug Vandemark and Amanda Plagge
  • The Global and Seasonal Variability of Diurnal Variability of Ocean Winds, Stress and Derivatives from Multiple Scatterometers
    Dr. Ernesto Rodriguez (JPL/Cal Tech), Svetla Hristova-Veleva and Joe Turk
  10. Posters
  • Overview of ASCAT services
    Ms. Julia Figa Saldana (EUMETSAT), Christelle Ponsard, Anton Verhoef, Stefan Hassenauer and Steinar Eastwood
  • Validation and long term monitoring of ASCAT instrument and Level 1 products
    Ms. Julia Figa Saldana (EUMETSAT), Helmut Bauch, Craig Anderson and Jens Lerch
  • Comparison of Buoy Measurements and Satellite Observations during SoGasex
    Dr. Michelle Gierach (JPL), William M. Drennan, Erik Sahlée and Abderrahim Bentamy
  • Altimeter Wind Speed Model Function From TOPEX And QuikSCAT Data Near Tropical Storms
    Dr. Philip S. Callahan (JPL, CalTech), Kenneth O. Oslund W. Lee Poulsen
  • Ultra High Resolution Wind and Rain from Scatterometer Measurement
    Professor David Long (Brigham Young University)
  • Comparison of Scatterometer Derived Vorticity
    Ms. Heather Holbach (FSU COAPS) and Dr. Mark Bourassa
  • Weakening of the equatorial Atlantic cold tongue over the past six decades
    Dr. Hiroki Tokinaga (IPRC/Univ. of Hawaii) and Shang-Ping Xie
  • The Land/Ice Scatterometer Climate Record
    Professor David Long (Brigham Young University)
  • Wind Measurements in Storm Conditions: Active Versus Passive.
    Dr. Thomas Meissner (Remote Sensing Systems), Lucrezia Ricciardulli and Frank Wentz
  • Near-Real-Time WindSat Ocean Vector Wind Products: Status and Future Plans
    Michael Bettenhausen (Naval Research Laboratory) and Peter W. Gaiser
  • Influence of Sea Level Pressure and SST Data on Objectively Derived Surface Vector Wind Fields
    Mr. Paul Hughes (Florida State University) and Mark A. Bourassa
  • Recent Progress on Coastal Wind Retrievals
    Professor Ted Strub (COAS - Oregon State University) and Dr. Barry Vanhoff
  • High-frequency equatorial waves in the Pacific Ocean and their relationship to the wind field
    Dr. Theodore Durland (COAS, Oregon State University) and Dr. J. Thomas Farrar

2010 IOVWST

• Sponsors
• Agenda
• Attendees
• Statements
• Presentations (In agenda order):
  1. Introduction
     • Introduction from the Organizing Committee
       Mark Bourassa (FSU), Marcos Portabella, Ernesto Rodriguez, and Ad Stoffelen
     • Words from the Local Host
       Marcos Portabella
     • Institut of Marine Sciences (ICM), CSIC
       Dr. Alberto Palanques (Director of CMIMA)
     • Marine Technology Unit: A Challenge for Oceanography Development in Spain
       Dr. Juan Jose Danobeitia (Director of UTM)
     • NASA Perspective
       Peter Hacker (NASA HQ)
     • EUMETSAT Perspective
       Hans Bonekamp (EUMETSAT)

  2. Future Missions
     • Design and Performance Simulation of a Ku-Band Rotating Fan-Beam Scatterometer
       Dr. Xiaolong Dong (Center for Space Science and Applied Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences), Wenming Lin, and Di Zhu
     • Effect of Rain on Ku-Band Fan Beam Ku-Band Scatterometer
       Dr. Jean Tournadre (IFREMER) and Y. Quilfen
     • On Performance Measures for Spaceborne Wind Sensors
       Dr. Ad Stoffelen (KNMI), Maria Belmonte Rivas (UCAR), and Jos de Kloe (KNMI)
     • Reprocessing the 10-year QuikSCAT Climate Data Record and Future Scatterometer Mission Prospects
       Dr. Ernesto Rodriguez (Jet Propulsion Laboratory/Cal Tech), Bryan Stiles, Alexandra Chau, Robert W. Gaston, Svetla Hristova-Veleva, Scott Dunbar, and Joe Turk
     • Status of GCOM-W1 and W2
       Prof. Haruhisa Shimoda (Tokai University)
     • CEOS Ocean Vector Wind Virtual Constellation: Current Status and Challenges
       Dr. Stan Wilson (NOAA Satellite and Information Service), Hans Bonekamp (EUMETSAT) and B.S. Gohil (ISRO)

  3. International Collaboration
     • Status of Scatterometer Ocean Wind Vector Data Assimilation in Environment Canada's Global Variational Analysis and Forecast System
       Dr. Robert Tardif (Data Assimilation and Satellite Meteorology, Environment Canada), Stephane Laroche, Mateusz Reszka, and Judy St-James
     • Status of EUMETSAT ASCAT Products and Services
       Ms. Julia Figa-Saldana (EUMETSAT), H. Bonekamp, C. Anderson, J. Wilson, L. Butenko, C. Duff, C. Ponsard, A. de Smet, J. Lerch (EUMETSAT), A. Stoffelen, A. Verhoef (KNMI), W. Wagner, and Z. Bartalis (IPF TU-Wien)
     • Latest Developments For PO.DAAC's OVW Products
       Mr. David Moroni (Jet Propulsion Laboratory)

  4. New Products
     • RSS WindSat Version 7 All-Weather Wind Vector Product: Radiative Transfer Model, Algorithm and Validation
       Dr. Thomas Meissner (Remote Sensing Systems), Lucrezia Ricciardulli and Frank Wentz
     • ASCAT Sea Ice Modelling and Detection
       Dr. Ad Stoffelen (KNMI), Maria Belmonte Rivas (UCAR) and Jeroen Verspeek (KNMI)
     • Stress Related Improvements in Surface Turbulent Heat Fluxes: A DFS Application
       Professor Mark Bourassa (Florida State University)

  5. Meteorology
     • Hurricane Dynamic and Thermodynamic Balances as Revealed by the Azimuth Asymmetry of Wind-stress
       Dr. W Timothy Liu (Jet Propulsion Lab, Caltech) and Wenqing Tang
     • Assimilation of Ocean Surface Wind Vectors into Global and Regional Models of Tropical Cyclones: Present and Future
       Professor Sharanya Majumdar (University of Miami), R. Atlas, J. S. Whitaker, T. M. Hamill, R. D. Torn, S. M. Leidner and J. V. Ardizzone
     • Applications of OVW-derived Surface Pressures in Tropical Storms
       Ralph Foster (APL/University of Washington), Jerome Patoux, and R.A. Brown
     • Observational Evidence of SST Influence on the Troposphere Over the Gulf Stream
       Professor Dudley Chelton (Oregon State University), Jack F. Dostalek, Mark DeMaria and Brian McNoldy
     • Study of Wind Field Distribution Within Hurricane Force Extratropical Cyclones in North Pacific Using QuikSCAT and ASCAT Scatterometer Measurements
       Dr. Zorana Jelenak (NOAA/NESDIS/STAR-UCAR), Dr. Khalil Ahmad, Mr. Joseph Sienkiewicz and Dr. Paul Chang
     • Synthetic Aperture Radar Wind Field Retrieval With Respect to Cyclones
       Dr. Jochen Horstmann (NATO Udersea Research Center) and Silvia Falchetti
     • On the Use of Doppler Shift For SAR Wind Retrieval
       Dr. Fabrice Collard (CLS), Alexis Mouche (CLS), and Betrand Chapron (IFREMER)
     • Multi-Platform Analyses of Surface Convergence and Atmospheric Convection in the Tropical Indo-Pacific on Sub-Daily Timescales
       Dr. Ralph Milliff (NWRA/CoRA Division) and Dr. Jeremiah Brown

  6. Calibration/Validation and Definitions
     • ASCAT Scatterometer Quality Control
       Dr. Marcos Portabella (Unidad de Tecnologia Marina (UTM - CSIC)), Ad Stoffelen, Anton Verhoef, and Jeroen Verspeek
     • Calibration and Validation of ASCAT Backscatter
       Dr. Craig Anderson (EUMETSAT), Hans Bonekamp, Julia Figa, Julian J. Wilson, Arthur de Smet, and Colin Duff
     • Quality of High-Resolution Scatterometer Winds
       Ad Stoffelen (KNMI), Anton Verhoef and Jeroen Verspeek
     • Improved ASCAT Wind Retrieval Using NWP Ocean Calibration
       Mr. Jeroen Verspeek (KNMI), Ad Stoffelen, Anton Verhoef and Jur Vogelzang
     • Cross-Validation of Scatterometer Measurements via Sea-Level Pressure Retrieval
       Dr. Jerome Patoux (University of Washington), Ralph C. Foster and R.A. Brown
     • Analysis of Small-scale Coastal Wind Features Using Scatterometers and Synthetic Aperture Radars
       Mr. Michael Caruso (University of Miami/CSTARS)
     • Improving QSCAT Retrievals of High Winds
       Dr. Lucrezia Ricciardulli (Remote Sensing Systems) and Frank Wentz
     • A comparison of QuikSCAT winds to Insitu Observations in the Western Boundary Current regions
       Dr. Jessica Kleiss (University of Washington), Kathryn A. Kelly, LuAnne Thompson, and Suzanne Dickinson
     • SST-Induced Surface Wind Response: Comparison of QuikSCAT and ASCAT Depiction of the Phenomenon
       Dr. Svetla Hristova-Veleva (Jet Propulsion Laboratory) and Ernesto Rodriguez

  7. Oceanography
     • Studies Ofthe Influence of Rainfall Upon Scatterometer Estimates For Sea Surface Stress: Applications to Boundary Layer Parameterization and Drag Coefficient Models Within Tropical Cyclone Environments
       Dr. David Weissman (Hofstra University), Henry Winterbottom, and Mark Bourassa
     • CMOD5 Wind Data and the TCNNA Algorithm Can Distinguish Between Surfactants and Low Wind in Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) Imagery
       Dr. Oscar Garcia-Pineda (Florida State University), Ian MacDonald, Xiaofeng Li, and William Pichel
     • Vertical Structure in Satellite Wind Derived Ocean Currents
       Dr. Kathleen Dohan (Earth and Space Research)
     • Warming of the South-Pacific Ocean associated with the 2009-10 El Nino
       Dr. Tong Lee (JPL and CalTech)
     • Role of Point-Wise Scale Invariance in Geophysical Turbulence: Applications in Oceanography
       Dr. Antonio Turiel (Institut de Ciencies del Mar, Barcelona), Baptiste Mourre, Jerome Gourrion, Joaquim Ballabrera-Poy, and Marcos Portabella
     • Bi-Static L-band Scatterometry
       Dr. Estel Cardellach (ICE/CSIC-IEEC) and Dr. Joseph Tenerelli (CLS)
     • Interannual Variability of Synoptic Scale Winds Over the Northern West Florida Shelf from SeaWinds and ASCAT
       Dr. Steven Morey (Florida State University), Dr. Mark Bourassa and Mr. Austin Todd
     • Ocean Surface Wind and Wave Retrieval Using C- and X-Band SAR
       Dr. Thomas Konig (German Aerospace Center (DLR)), Xiao-Ming Li, Stephan Brusch and Susanne Lehner

  8. Operations
     • Impact of the Loss of QuikSCAT on NOAA NWS Marine Warning and Forecast Operations
       Mr. Joseph Sienkiewicz (NOAA Ocean Prediction Center), Dr. Michael J. Brennan, Dr. Richard Knabb, Dr. Paul S. Chang, Mr. Hugh Cobb, Dr. Zorana J. Jelenak, Dr. Khalil A. Ahmad, Dr. Seubson Soisuvarn, Mr. David Kosier, and Mr. George Bancroft
     • NOAA/NESDIS High Wind C-band Model Function and its Impact on Detection of Hurricane Force Winds in Extratropical Storms
       Dr. Zorana Jelenak (NOAA/NESDIS/STAR-UCAR), Dr. Seubson Soisuvarn, Dr. Khalil Ahmad, Dr. Paul S Chang, Mr. Joseph Sienkiewicz and Mrs. Qi Zhu

  9. Other Issues
     • On the Symbiotic Association Between Wind Scatterometry and the Planetary Boundary Layer Models
       Robert Brown (University of Washington)
     • Ocean Monitoring Using L-Band Microwave Radiometry and GNSS-R Observations
       Prof. Adriano Camps, Xavier Bosch-Lluis, Isaac Ramos-Perez, Juan F. Marchan-Hernadez, Nereida Rodriguez, Enric Valencia, and Jose M. Tarongi
     • Ultra High Resolution ASCAT Winds and Land/Ice Imaging
       Professor David Long (Brigham Young University)

  10. Gridded Products
      • Usage of Scatterometer Data at ECMWF
        Dr. Hans Hersbach (ECMWF), P.A.E.M. Janssen
      • Operational Use of Scatterometer Winds in the JMA Data Assimilation System
        Mr. Masaya Takahashi (Numerical Prediction Division/Japan Meteorological Agency),
      • Evaluating QuikSCAT Wind and Stress Products Against Buoy Winds Using a Taylor Diagram
        Professor Kathryn Kelly (University of Washington), and Suzanne Dickinson
      • Two Decades of Satellite-Based Ocean Vector Wind Time Series
        Dr. Lisan Yu (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)
      • Wave and Anemometer-based Sea-surface Wind (WASWind) Dataset for Climate Change Analysis: Comparison and Validation Against Satellite Wind Observations
        Dr. Hiroki Tokinaga (IPRC/University of Hawaii) and Shang-Ping Xie
      • Global Surface Wind Product J-OFURO V2: Drake Passage Oscillation Index (DPOI) and its Correlated Wind Field Over the Antarctic Ocean
        Dr. K. Kutsuwada (Tokai University), Mikio Naganobu and Junya Kondo

  11. Posters
      • Determining the Error Characteristics of H*Wind
        Steven DiNapoli, Mark A. Bourassa and Mark D. Powell
      • Spectral Analysis of Gridded Wind Products
        Paul J. Hughes and Mark A. Bourassa
      • 10 years of QuikSCAT: Evaluation and Comparisons with In-Situ & Model Data
        Ioanna Karagali, Charlotte B. Hasager, Andrea Hahmann and Merete Badger
      • Status on the Use of Scatterometer Winds at Meteo-France
        C. Payan
      • Altimeter Microwave Surface Observations in Extreme Events
        Y. Quilfen, B. Chapron and D. Vandemark
      • Assessing Representation Error of In Situ Wind Related Variables for Comparison to Satellite Data
        Jackie C. Rauch, Mark A. Bourassa and Shawn R. Smith

2009 Scatterometry and Climate

• Agenda
• Announcement
• Attendees
• Presentations (In agenda order):
  1. Introduction
     • Meeting Overview and Goals
       Organizing Committee
     • Developing Accuracy Constraints for Climate Quality Observations
       Mark Bourassa (Florida State University)
     • NASA Perspective on Scatterometers and Climate
       Michael Freilich (NASA, Oregon State University)
     • Global Change Observation Mission (GCOM)
       Haruhisa Shimoda (EROC, JAXA), Hiroshi Murakami, Taikan Oki, Yoshiaki Honda

  2. High Winds
     • High Winds and Wind Jets Mapped from QuikSCAT
       Shang-Ping Xie (University of Hawaii)
     • Extra-tropical Cyclone Climatology
       Joseph Sienkiewicz (NOAA/NWS/NCEP/Ocean Prediction Center)
     • Satellite-Based Midlatitude Cyclone Statistics Over the Southern Ocean - Tracks and Surface Fluxes
       Xiaojun Yuan (Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University), J. Patoux, and C. Li
     • Aspects of Global Tropical Cyclone
       Ryan Maue (COAPS, Florida State University)
     • Global Monitoring of Tropical Cyclones with a Dual Frequency Scatterometer
       Richard Knabb (Central Pacific Hurricane Center) and M. Brennan
     • Relationship Between Hurricane Surface Winds, Surface Rain Measurements and Surface Roughness Observed with QuiKSCAT
       David Weissman (Hofstra University) and M. Bourassa
     • Translation Speed Increases Asymmetry and Weakens Hurricanes
       W. Timothy Liu (JPL) and W. Tang
     • SST and Atmospheric Memory Of Tropical Cyclones And Its Implications On Winter Climate
       Bob Hart (Florida State University)

  3. Fluxes
     • Surface Turbulent Fluxes and Scatterometry
       Mark Bourassa (Florida State University)
     • Current Issues in Deriving Surface Air-Sea Fluxes From Satellites and Models
       Carol Anne Clayson (Florida State University), B. Roberts, P. Robertson, D. Jackson, and M. Bourassa
     • The Rate of Working of the Surface Wind Stress on the Geostrophic Component of the Surface Oceanic Flow
       Robert Scott (University of Texas at Austin & National Oceanography Centre, Southampton)
     • Scatterometry and Ocean Evaporation: Past, Present, and Future Connection
       Lisan Yu (WHOI)
     • Evaporation and Water Transport Dynamics over the Oceans Derived from Satellites
       Frank Wentz (Remote Sensing Systems) and K. Hillburn
     • Utilizing Scatterometer Winds to Assess Global and Regional CO2 Fluxes
       Rik Wanninkhof (Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory), J. Trinanes, and G-H Park
     • Estimates of Gas Transfer Velocity from Radar Backscatter
       David Glover (WHOI) and N. Frew
     • The Sensitivity of Air-Sea Gas Transfer to Wind Speed and Stress
       Gary Wick (NOAA ESRL, PSD) and D. Jackson

  4. Air-Sea Interaction and Ocean Circulation
     • Mesoscale Coupled Ocean-Atmosphere Interaction
       Dudley Chelton (Oregon State University)
     • Seasonal Pulsing of the Global Mesoscale Surface Wind Stress Response to SST
       Larry O'Neill (Naval Research Laboratory), D. Chelton, and S. Esbensen
     • Fallacy of Mapping Global Ocean Surface Winds from Scatterometer Stress Measurements
       W. Timothy Liu (JPL), X.-S. Xie
     • Air-Sea Interaction over the Western North Atlantic Ocean
       Kathryn Kelly (University of Washington), J. Booth, S. Bates, S. Dickinson, L. Thompson, J. Kleiss
     • Studying Decadal Climate Variability Using Satellite Scatterometer Data
       Tong Lee (JPL)
     • Small-Scale and Short-Term Variability of Ocean Surface Winds: Applications to Objective Analyses and Ocean Modeling
       Alexey Kaplan (Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University)
     • Dependance of OSCAR Surface Currents on Scatterometer Winds
       Kathleen Dohan (Earth and Space Research), G. Lagerloef, and T. Gunn
     • Ocean Model Results Forced by CCMP, OBJ QSCAT, and ECMWF Winds
       Eric Hackert (Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center/University of Maryland), A.J. Busalacchi, J.V. Ardizzone, X. Wang, and R. Atlas

  5. Atmosphere
     • El Nino, South American Monsoon and Atlantic Nino: Links as Detected by a Decade of QuikSCAT, TRMM and TOPEX/JASON Observations
       Rong Fu (University of Texas at Austin, Department of Geological Sciences), L. Huang, and P. Arias
     • Role of Scatterometer Data in Tropical Meteorology
       Tetsuo Nakazawa
     • Can the QuikSCAT Climate Data Record Validate Aspects of Long-Standing Hypotheses of the Southern Oscillation?
       Ralph Milliff (NWRA, CoRA), H. van Loon, and J. Brown

  6. Cryosphere
     • Decadal Scatterometer Observation of Arctic Sea Ice and Its Context in Arctic Climatic Change
       Son Nghiem (JPL), I. G. Rigor, P. Clemente-Colon, K. Perovich, H. Eicken, J.E. Overland, T. Markus, D.G. Barber, and G. Neumann
     • Ku- and C-Band Scatterometers as Ice Climate Record Sensors
       David Long (Brigham Young University)
     • Use of QuikSCAT to Detect, Understand, and Improve Models of Surface Water and Ice Changes in the Boreal and Arctic Region
       Diandong Ren (Jackson School of Geosciences, The University of Texas at Austin), N. Smith-Downey, and R. Fu

  7. NOAA Perspective
     • NOAA Perspective on the Future of Scatterometry
       M. Kicza (NOAA)

  8. Climate Data Sets
     • NOAA's Climate Data Record Effort and Blended Sea Winds at NCDC
       Huai-Min Zhang (NOAA National Climate Data Center), J. Bates, E. Kearns, and J. Privette
     • Toward the J-OFURO Version 3
       Masahisa Kubota (Tokai University), H. Tomita, S. Iwasaki

  9. Coastal and Biological
     • Applications and Future Requirements of Satellite Vector Winds for Coastal and Shelf Studies
       Steven Morey (COAPS, Florida State University), D. Dukhovskoy, A. Todd, M. Bourassa
     • From Wind to Whales: Ocean Vector Winds and Living Marine Resources
       David Foley (Joint Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Research, University of Hawaii)
     • Coastal Winds in Upwelling Regions
       Ted Strub (Oregon State University)

2009 OVWST

• Agenda
• Attendees
• Dual-Frequency Scatterometer Requirements Support
• Presentations (In agenda order):
  1. Introduction
     • Words from the Local Host
       Chip Barnes III (Ball Aerospace)
     • Welcome and Meeting Goals
       Mark Bourassa (Florida State University/COAPS) and Ernesto Rodriguez
     • NASA Headquarters Overview
       Eric Lindstrom (NASA Headquarters)
     • NOAA Overview
       Stan Wilson (NOAA Satellite & Information Service)
     • Overview of Wind Scatterometer Projects at JPL
       Rob Gaston (JPL)

  2. International Collaboration
     • Global Change Observation Mission (GCOM) (Abstract)
       Professor Haruhisa Shimoda (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency)
     • Status Of EUMETSAT ASCAT Products And Services (Abstract)
       Ms. Julia Figa-Saldana (EUMETSAT), Hans Bonekamp, Craig Anderson, Leonid Butenko, Colin Duff, Christelle Ponsard, Arthur de Smet and Julian Wilson (EUMETSAT), A.Stoffelen, A.Verhoef (KNMI), W.Wagner, Z.Bartalis (IPF TUWien)
     • SMOSops secondary payload assessment: optimal FPIR radiometer configuration for sea surface roughness characterization at L-band (Abstract)
       Dr. Marcos Portabella (Unidad de Tecnologia Marina (UTM - CSIC))

  3. Calibration/Validation and Definitions
     • Comparison of QuikSCAT and ASCAT Spatial Variability (Abstract)
       Mr. Michael Caruso (CSTARS)
     • The High Wind Speed Model Function from Space (Abstract)
       Dr. Ernesto Rodriguez (JPL/Cal Tech) and Svetla Veleva
     • The Development of a C-Band Advanced Scatterometer (ASCAT) Geophysical Model Function at NOAA/NESDIS (Abstract)
       Dr. Seubson Soisuvarn (NOAA/NESDIS-UCAR), Zorana Jelenak, Paul S. Chang and Qi Zhu
     • A Careful Comparison of Scatterometer Wind Products (Abstract)
       Dr. Ad Stoffelen (KNMI) , Anton Verhoef, Jur Vogelzang
     • ASCAT Radiometric Performance
       Dr. Julian Wilson (EUMETSAT)

  4. Gridded Products
     • Have near-surface vector winds been changing over the global oceans? - Inference from the WHOI OAFlux global wind analysis 1987-present (Abstract)
       Dr. Lisan Yu (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)
     • Reconstructed Gridded Product of Global Wind Field by Qscat/SeaWinds Data and its Application to Ocean - Atmosphere Interaction in the Western North Pacific (Abstract)
       Kunio Kutsuwada (Tokai University, Japan)
       Please Note: The talk was prepared but not presented due to travel difficulties
     • An Example of Wind Observing System Change Influencing the Climate Record
       Prof. Mark Bourassa (Florida State University)

  5. Rain Issues and Other Science
     • Rain Effects on Scatterometer Data: A Review (Abstract)
       Kyle Hilburn, Deborah Smith, and Mr. Frank Wentz (Remote Sensing Systems)
     • Advancing QuikSCAT Wind and Rain Retrieval (Abstract)
       Dr. David Long (Brigham Young University)
     • A Neural Network Approach for Improving QuikSCAT Winds in Rain (Abstract)
       Dr. Bryan Stiles (JPL) and R. Scott Dunbar
     • Coincident Observations, With QuikSCAT and ASCAT, of the Effects of Rain-Induced Sea Surface Stress During Hurricane Ike (Abstract)
       Dr. David Weissman (Hofstra University) and Mark A. Bourassa
     • Systematic Geographic Differences between ASCAT, QuikSCAT and ECMWF revisited: Impact of biases and rain contamination (Abstract)
       Dr. Svetla Hristova-Veleva (JPL) and Ernesto Rodriguez
     • Are Radiometers and Scatterometers Seeing the Same "Wind Speed"?
       Frank J. Wentz and Thomas Meissner (Remote Sensing Systems)
     • Discussion Topics

  6. Oceanography
     • Improvements to the Wind-Driven Component of the OSCAR Surface Current Product (Abstract)
       Dr. Kathleen Dohan (Earth & Space Research), G.S.E. Lagerloef, and J.T. Gunn
     • Ekman Transport and Depth-Integrated Meridional Transport in the Atlantic (Abstract)
       Dr. W. Timothy Liu (JPL)
     • Interannual variability of wind-induced onshore transport over the northern West Florida Shelf (Abstract)
       Dr. Steve Morey (Florida State University), Mark Bourassa, and Austin Todd
     • Studying Cyclone Nargis using multi-sensor satellite and multi-platform in-situ observations (Abstract)br /> Dr. Tong Lee (JPL)
     • Imprints of coastal mountains on ocean circulation and variability (Abstract)
       Professor Shang-Ping Xie (University of Hawaii), Chueh-Hsin Chang, Wei Zhuang, Niklas Schneider, Justin Small, Hidenori Aiki, Bunmei Taguchi, and Hideharu Sasaki
     • Inertial Range Oscillations in the combined QSCAT-ADEOS-II ocean surface wind data set
       Dr. Robert Stockwell (NorthWest Research Associates, Colorado Research Associates Div.)

  7. New Products
     • Application of Remotely Sensed Ocean Surface Vector Winds to Determine Wave Generation Areas (Abstract)
       Mr. Joseph Sienkiewicz (NOAA/NWS/NCEP Ocean Prediction Center) and Gregory McFadden
     • SeaWinds Sea Ice Modeling and Detection (Abstract)
       Dr. Ad Stoffelen (KNMI) and Maria Belmonte
     • Using WindSat to Further Investigate the Relationship Between the Passive Wind-Induced Emissivity and the Active Bragg Scattering (Abstract)
       Mr. Frank Wentz (Remote Sensing Systems)
     • Latest Developments at PO.DAAC (Abstract)
       Mr. David Moroni (NASA/JPL)

  8. Meteorology
     • Application of satellite surface wind data to ocean surface wind analysis and NWP
       Dr. Robert Atlas (NOAA/AOML)
     • Current and future experiments to improve assimilation of surface winds from satellites in global models (Abstract)
       Professor Sharan Majumdar (RSMAS/MPO University of Miami)
     • QuikSCAT observations for the VOCALS Regional Experiment (Abstract)
       Dr. Simon de Szoeke (College of Oceanic and Atmospheric Sciences)
     • Hurricane surface pressure fields derived from SAR imagery (Abstract)
       Dr. Ralph Foster (Applied Physics Laboratory, University of Washington), Jerome Patoux, and R.A. Brown
     • Explore use of QuikSCAT to detect change of surface water cover in Arctic and Boreal regions (Abstract)
       Nicole Smith-Downey (Jackson School of Geosciences, The University of Texas at Austin) and Rong Fu
     • Observations of Eastward Propagation of Atmospheric Intraseasonal Oscillations from the Pacific to the Atlantic
       Dr. Weiqing Han (Dept. Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, University of Colorado)
     • Using Ensemble Sensitivity to Understand the Role of Sea Surface Temperatures in Midlatitude Storm Development in the Gulf Stream Region (Abstract)
       Jimmy Booth, Susan Bates, Luanne Thompson, Prof. Kathryn Kelly (University of Washington)
     • Revisiting the Kinetic Energy Spectra from QuikSCAT Winds: Why is it not quite a power law? (Abstract)
       Robert G. Stockwell (CoRA/NWRA), Jeremiah Brown and Ralph F. Milliff

  9. Operations
     • Evaluation of the Potential Impacts of Dual Frequency Scatterometer at the National Hurricane Center (Abstract)
       Dr. Michael Brennan (NOAA/NWS/NCEP National Hurricane Center)
     • Progress in the Dual-Frequency Scatterometer for GCOM-W2 (Abstract)
       Dr. Ernesto Rodriguez (Jet Propulsion Laboratory/Cal Tech), Paul Chang, Zorana Jelenak, and Mark Bourassa
     • The usage of Scatterometer data at ECMWF (Abstract)
       Dr. Hans Hersbach (ECMWF)
     • Scatterometer Wind Services in Europe (Abstract)
       Dr. Ad Stoffelen (KNMI), Maria Belmonte, Anton Verhoef, Jeroen Verspeek, Jur Vogelzang, Marcos Portabella (Unidad de Tecnologia Marina (UTM - CSIC)), Abderrahim Bentamy (IFREMER)
     • CEOS Constellations and the Use of Scatterometer Wind and Altimeter Wave Observations for Southern Hemisphere GMDSS Operational Forecast Centers (Abstract)
       Dr. Stan Wilson (NOAA Satellite & Information Service)
     • Statistical Study of Wind Field Distribution within Extra-Tropical Cyclones from 7-Years of QuikSCAT Wind Data
       Dr. Zorana Jelenak (NOAA/NESDIS), Joseph Sienkiewicz, Khalil Ahmad, Paul Chang

  10. Discussion
      • National Aeronautics and Space Administration Physical Oceanography
        Eric Lindstrom (NASA Headquarters)

  11. Posters
      • Benefits of XOVWM
        • Simulated OVW Retrieval Performance for the Dual Frequency Scatterometer in Hurricanes (Abstract)
          Dr. Linwood Jones (Central Florida Remote Sensing Lab.), Pet Laupattarakasem, Suleiman Al-Sweiss, Svetla Veleva, Bryan W. Stiles, Ernesto Rodriguez, and Robert W. Gaston
      • Meteorology
        • Space-time interpolation of scatterometer-derived geophysical quantities (Abstract)
          Dr. Jerome Patoux (University of Washington) and Gad Levy
        • Impact of ocean surface vector wind in the Japanese 25-year Reanalysis (Abstract)
          Dr. Hiroki Tokinaga (IPRC/University of Hawaii) and Shang-Ping Xie
        • Characterization of a Regional Wind using SSM/I and QuikScat (Abstract)
          Deborah Smith (Remote Sensing Systems), Kyle Hilburn and Frank Wentz
        • A General Purpose Data Assimilation Facility: DART
          Jeff Anderson, Dr. Tim Hoar (NCAR), Hui Liu, Nancy Collins, and Kevin Raeder
      • New Products
        • Q-Winds OVW Retrievals in Extreme Wind Events (Abstract)
          Dr. Linwood Jones (Central Florida Remote Sensing Lab), Pet Laupattarakasem and Christopher C. Hennon
        • Surface Wind Vector and Rain Rate Observation Capability of the Future Airborne Hurricane Imaging Radiometer (HIRAD) (Abstract)
          Dr. Linwood Jones (Central Florida Remote Sensing Lab), Timothy Miller, Robert Atlas, M. C. Bailey, Peter Black, Salem El-Nimri, Robbie Hood, Mark James, James Johnson, Christopher Ruf, and Eric Uhlhorn
        • Development of a New Geophysical Model Function for QuikSCAT using 10 Years of Data (Abstract)
          Dr. Lucrezia Ricciardulli (Remote Sensing Systems), Frank J. Wentz, Deborah K. Smith
        • Simulated OVW Retrieval Performance for the Dual Frequency
          Mr. Suleiman Odeh Alswei (Central Florida Remote Sensing Lab)
      • Other Science
        • QuikSCAT as a Land/Ice Climate Record Sensor (Abstract)
          Dr. David Long (Brigham Young University)
        • Biweekly Oceanic and Atmospheric Tropical Instability Waves: are they forced, coupled or resonant with the Moon?
          Dr. Claire Perigaud (Caltech/JPL)
        • Demonstration Of Direct Measurements Of Ocean Surface Currents (Abstract)
          Mr. Benjamin Holt (JPL), Delwyn Moller, Dragana Perkovic, Daniel Esteban-Fernandez, Ernesto Rodriguez, Yi Chao
      • Level 3 Products
        • How Accurate are QuikSCAT Wind Maps? A Metric for Evaluation (Abstract)
          Dr. Kathryn Kelly (University of Washington) and Suzanne Dickinson
        • Improved Spectral Density of Wind Components through the Use of SST Information
          Prof. Mark Bourassa (Florida State University) and Paul Hughes

2008 OVWST

• Agenda
• Announcement
• Attendees
• Recommendations
• Presentations (In agenda order):
  1. Introduction
     • Words from the Local Hosts
       Kathryn Kelly (University of Washington) and Ralph Foster
     • Welcome and Meeting Goals
       Mark Bourassa (Florida State University/COAPS) and Ernesto Rodriguez
     • NASA Headquarters Overview (Abstract)
       Eric Lindstrom (NASA Headquarters)
     • JPL and QSCAT Status
       Rob Gaston (JPL)

  2. Post-QSCAT Era
     • Status of GCOM and Expectation for Microwave Scatterometer (Abstract)
       Keiji Imaoka (Earth Observation Research Center/JAXA), Misako Kachi, Tamotsu Igarashi, Keizo Nakagawa, Naoto Ebuchi, Taikan Oki, and Haruhisa Shimoda
     • QuikSCAT Follow-on Efforts at NOAA: Progress in Designing the Next-Generation Scatterometer
       Ernesto Rodriguez (JPL/Caltech), Robert Gaston, Zorana Jelenak, and Paul Chang (NOAA/NESDIS/STAR)
     • Introducing the WHOI OAFlux Global 0.25° Ocean Vector Wind Analysis (1987 - Present)
       Lisan Yu (WHOI)
     • Wind Vector Retrievals under Rain with Passive Microwave Radiometers (Abstract)
       Thomas Meissner (Remote Sensing Systems) and Frank Wentz
     • TropSat Mission: An Observatory for Mesoscale Convective System Processes in the Global Tropics
       David G. Long (Brigham Young University), Ralph F. Milliff, Ernesto Rodriguez

  3. Calibration and Validation
     • Improving Satellite Wind Measurements (Abstract)
       Frank Wentz (Remote Sensing Systems)
     • Analysis of the ASCAT Wind Inversion Residual: Towards an Improved C-band Geophysical Model Function (Abstract)
       Marcos Portabella (Unidad de Tecnologia Marina - CSIC), Ad Stoffelen, Maria Belmonte, Anton Verhoef, Jeroen Verspeek, and Jur Vogelzang
     • Cross-Validating QuikSCAT and ASCAT (Abstract)
       Ernesto Rodrguez (JPL/Cal Tech), Svetla Veleva, R. Scott Dunbar, and Bryan Stiles
     • Calibration and Validation of ASCAT Backscatter (Abstract)
       Julia Figa-Saldana (EUMETSAT), C. Anderson, J. Wilson, H. Bonekamp, A. de Smet, C. Duff
     • Evaluation of ASCAT Wind Vectors (Abstract)
       Naoto Ebuchi (Hokkaido University)
     • IWRAP - Observations from Hurricane Ike and Status of Data Products and Availability (Abstract)
       SStephen Frasier (University of Massachusetts), Tao Chu, Joe McManus, Robb Contreras, Paul Chang, Zorana Jelenak, Dragana Perkovic, and Daniel Esteban-Fernandez
     • Error Characteristics of Scatterometer-Derived Vorticity as a Function of Spatial Scale (Abstract)
       Mark A. Bourassa (Florida State University/COAPS)
     • Characteristics of High Resolution Winds from Synthetic Aperture Radar Measurements (Abstract)
       Michael Caruso (CSTARS)
     • Scatterometers+ Contribution to PBL Theory and Modeling
       Bob Brown (University of Washington)
     • Stress or Wind: Definitions and Biases (Abstract)
       Mark A. Bourassa (Florida State University/COAPS), Barry Vanhoff, and David E. Weissman
     • Validation of High Resolution Coastal Winds (Abstract)
       Barry Vanhoff (Oregon State University), and Michael Freilich
     • High-Resolution ASCAT Scatterometer Winds Near The Coast (Abstract)
       Ad Stoffelen (KNMI), Anton Verhoef, and Marcos Portabella
     • ASCAT Radiometric Calibration
       J. J. W. Wilson

  4. International Collaborations
     • Proposal for the Ocean Surface Vector Wind Virtual Constellation (Abstract)
       Stan Wilson (EUMETSAT), Hans Bonekamp, and B. S. Gohill
     • Quantifying QuikSCAT Value-Added in Estimates of the Surface Wind Field over the Mediterranean Sea on Ocean Forecast Timescales (Abstract)
       Ralph Milliff (NWRA, CoRA Division), Nadia Pinardi, Alessandro Bonazzi, Christopher K. Wikle, and Jeremiah Brown
     • Overview Of and Developments In The EUMETSAT Wind Products (Abstract)
       Ad Stoffelen (KNMI), Anton Verhoef, Jur Vogelzang, Marcos Portabella, and Maria Belmonte
     • Metop-B Orbit Phasing Proposal
       Hans Bonekamp (EUMETSAT), J.J Wilson, J. Figa-Saldana, and C. Anderson

  5. Oceanography
     • Intraseasonal Latent Heat Flux Based on Satellite Observations (Abstract)
       Semyon Grodsky (University of Maryland), Abderrahim Bentamy, James A. Carton, and Rachel Pinker
     • Improving ENSO Forecasts by Adding Weather Regimes Observed from QuikSCAT in Oceans/Atmosphere Climate Models
       Claire Perigaud (Caltech/JPL), Joseph Dureau, Serena Illig, and Christophe Cassou
     • Evaluating Ocean Wind Products for Short-Range Forecast Analyses of Wind-Driven Surface Currents
       John Gunn (Earth & Space Research), Kathleen Dohan, Gary S.E. Lagerloef, and Fabrice Bonjean
     • Indian Ocean Intraseasonal Sea Surface Temperature Variability During Boreal Summer: Madden-Julian Oscillation Versus Submonthly Forcing and Processes (Abstract)
       Weiqing Han (University of Colorado at Boulder) and Benet Duncan
     • Observations and Modeling of Coupled Ocean-Atmosphere Interaction Over the California Current System (Abstract)
       Dudley Chelton (Oregon State University), Xin Jin, and Tracy Haack
     • Wind-Driven Transport of the Apalachicola River Plume as a Connectivity Mechanism between Terrestrial Precipitation Variability and Offshore Oceanic Properties (Abstract)
       Steve Morey (Florida State University/COAPS), Mark Bourassa, and Dmitry Dukhovskoy
     • Wind Stress Measurements from the QuikSCATADEOSS-II Tandem Mission and the Impact on an Ocean Model (Abstract)
       TTony Lee (JPL), Ou Wang, Wenqing Tang, and W. Timothy Liu
     • Uncertainties in OVW Stress Estimations from Scatterometers and Ocean/Climate Consequences
       Claire Perigaud (Caltech/JPL) and Abderrahim Bentamy

  6. Qualities of Level 3 and 4 Products
     • Biases Related to Stress and Rain
       Mark Bourassa (Florida State University/COAPS)
     • Sampling-Related Uncertainties and Biases
       Dudley Chelton (Oregon State University)
     • European Approaches to L3 and L4 Validation
       Ad Stoffelen (KNMI)
     • Possible Metrics for Noise and Smoothing at as a Function of Spatial and Temporal Scales
       Ernesto Rodriguez (JPL/Cal Tech)

  7. Meteorology
     • Incorporation of New Nonlinear Similarity PBL Model in Ocean Vector Wind Surface Pressure Retrievals
       Ralph Foster (APL, University of Washington), Jerome Patoux, and R. A. Brown
     • From El Nino to Atlantic Nino: Pathways as Seen in the QuikScat Winds (Abstract)
       Rong Fu (Jackson School of Geosciences, University of Texas at Austin)
     • Applications of Sea Level Pressure Retrieval from Scatterometer Winds (Abstract)
       Jerome Patoux (University of Washington), Ralph C. Foster, and Robert A. Brown
     • Hurricane Force Extratropical Cyclones as Observed by QuikSCAT (Abstract)
       Joseph Sienkiewicz (NOAA/NWS/NCEP Ocean Prediction Center), Joan Von Ahn, Michael J. Brennan, Khalil A. Ahmad, and Cadet Shea G. Winterberger
     • On the Sensitivity of Numerical Simulated Mesoscale Air-sea Coupling (Abstract)
       Qingtao Song (Oregon State University), Dudley Chelton, and Steve Esbensen
     • Deep Atmospheric Structure Anchored by Surface Wind Convergence near Major Ocean Fronts (Abstract)
       Shang-Ping Xie (IPRC, University of Hawaii), Hiroki Tokinaga, Shoshiro Minobe, and Fumiaki Kobashi
     • Application of Satellite Surface Wind Data to Ocean Surface Wind Analysis and NWP (Abstract)
       Robert Atlas (NOAA/AOML), J. Ardizzone, J.C. Jusem, R.N.Hoffman, M.Leidner, S. Majumdar, S.Chen, and B-W. Shen
     • Impact of Atmospheric Boundary Layer Stability on the 2-6.5 day Variability of the 10m Meridional Winds (Abstract)
       Jimmy Booth (University of Washington Department of Atmospheric Sciences), LuAnne Thompson, Kathie Kelly, Jerome Patoux, Suzanne Dickinson
     • An Evaluation of Scatterometer-Derived Oceanic Surface Pressure Fields
       Jerome Patoux, Ralph C. Foster and Robert A. Brown

  8. High Winds and Rain
     • Surface Wind/Stress Structure under Hurricanes (Abstract)
       W. Timothy Liu (JPL) and Wenqing Tang
     • A Dual Frequency Scatterometry Approach for Obtaining Wind Speeds in Hurricanes
       Bryan Stiles (JPL), Svetla Hristova-Veleva, R. Scott Dunbar, Samuel Chan, Daniel Esteban-Fernandez, Stephen L. Durden, Ernesto Rodriguez, W. Lee, Poulsen, Robert W. Gaston, and Phil Callahan
     • Rain Influences on High Wind Speed Backscatter
       David Weissman (Hofstra University) and Mark A Bourassa
     • Combined Active and Passive Microwave Remote Sensing of High Ocean Winds (Abstract)
       Simon Yueh (JPL/Caltech) and Julian Chaubell

  9. Other Scientific Operations
     • Operational Evaluation and Use of Satellite Ocean Surface Vector Wind Data at the National Hurricane Center and Central Pacific Hurricane Center (Abstract)
       Michael Brennan (NOAA/NWS/NCEP National Hurricane Center), Richard D. Knabb, Paul S. Chang
     • Usage of Scatterometer Data at ECMWF (Abstract)
       Hans Hersbach (ECMWF) and P.E.A.M. Janssen
     • Overview and Status of ASCAT Products and Services (Abstract)
       Julia Figa-Saldana (EUMETSAT), H. Bonekamp, C. Ponsard, C. Anderson, J. Wilson, A. de Smet, C. Duff and L. Butenko
     • Status and Plans of Using the Scatterometer Winds in JMA's Data Assimilation and Forecast System
       Masaya Takahashi (Numerical Prediction Division/Japan Meteorological Agency) and Yoshihiko Tahara
     • Oceanic Origin of Precipitation Jump in the Sahel (Abstract)
       W. Timothy Liu (JPL), Xiaosu Xie, and Kristina Katsaros

  10. New Products
      • Near Real-Time ASCAT Wind Vectors at NOAA (Abstract)
        Zorana Jelenak (NOAA/NESDIS/STAR-UCAR), Paul Chang, Seubson Soisuvarn, Qi Zhu, Jeffrey Augenbaum, Gene Legg, Stephen Frasier, and Tao Chu
      • Progress in Ultra High Resolution Wind and Rain Estimation (Abstract)
        David Long (Brigham Young University)
      • Improved OVW Retrievals in Extreme Wind Events (Abstract)
        Linwood Jones (Central FL Remote Sensing Lab), Pete Laupattarakasem, and Christopher C. Hennon
  11. Posters
      • Mulit-Satellite Gridded Ocean Surface Wind Product
        Paul J. Hughes (Florida State University/COAPS) and Mark A. Bourassa
      • Redevelopment of a Scatterometer Model Function Using Nine Years of QuikScat Data (Abstract)
        Lucrezia Ricciardulli, Deborah K. Smith, Chelle Gentemann and Frank J. Wentz

2007 OVWST at EUMETSAT

• Agenda
• Presentations:
  • ASCAT Status of Instrument and Ground Segment
    Hans Bonekamp
  • Meeting the Needs for Satellite OVW
  • Investigate the Influence of the Amazon Rainfall on Westerly Wind Anomalies and the 2002 Atlantic Nino using QuikScat, Altimeter and TRMM data
    Rong Fu, Mike Young, Hui Wang, Weiqing Han
  • Dynamics of Intraseasonal Sea Level and Thermocline Variability in the Equatorial Atlantic During 2002-2003
    Weiqing Han, P. J. Webster, J. Lin, W. Timothy Liu, Rong Fu, D. Yuan, A. Hu
  • CFOSAT Wind and Wave Observations From Space: A French-Chinese Mission
    Daniele Hauser, Liu Jianqiang
  • Ocean Vector Winds Science Team Overview
    Eric Lindstrom
  • Wind and Stress Science (L3) Products - Summary of L3 Splinter Meeting Held at the Portland AMS Meeting 8/07
    Claire Perigaud, Ralph Foster, Ernesto Rodriguez, Mark Bourassa
  • Scientific Potential for XOVWM - Summary of Science Studies in Support of XOVWM in Summer 2007
  • Post-EPS Scatterometer
    EUMETSAT/ESA ASCAT Science Advisory Group
  • Balancing the Hydrologic Cycle on Decadal Time Scales
    Frank Wentz, Lucrezia Ricciardulli, Kyle Hilburn
  • Operational Perspectives From NOAA
    Stan Wilson
  • Mapping High Sea Winds From Space
    Shang-Ping Xie, Takeaki Sampe

2006 OVWST

• Agendas:
  • List
  • Presentation
• Presentations:
  • Ocean Surface Wind-Driven Currents
    Fabrice Bonjean, Gary Lagerloef, John Gunn, Mark Bourassa
  • Intramonthly Winds: Tropical Oceanic Impacts and Importance For Coupled Air-Sea Interaction
    James Carton, Senya Grodsky, Dalin Zhang
  • Validation of Satellite-Derived Surface Wind Fields
    Michael Caruso, Robert Beardsley
  • Midlatitude Ocean-Atmosphere Interaction
    Dudley B. Chelton, Steven K. Esbensen
  • High-Resolution Data Assimilation of Ocean Vector Winds for Tropical Cyclone Prediction Using a Coupled Atmosphere-Ocean Model
    Shuyi S. Chen, Sharan Majumdar, Wei Zhao, Ralph Foster, W. Tim Liu, Bob Atlas, Ross Haffman
  • Airborne Studies of High Wind and Rain Effects Using IWRAP
    Robert F. Contreras, Stephen J. Frasier, Tao Chu
  • Science Data Product Improvements
    R. Scott Dunbar
  • QuikSCAT Full-Mission Reprocessing Plan
    R. Scott Dunbar
  • Boundary Layer Studies Connecting Satellite Surface Wind and Pressure Fields to Storms, Weather and Climate
    Ralph Foster, Jerome Patoux, R.A. Brown
  • Coastal and Orographic Wind Analyses from High Resolution QuikSCAT and SeaWinds Measurements
    M.H. Freilich, D.B. Chelton, D.G. Long, Clive Dorman, Barry Vanhoff
  • Water Cycle between Ocean and Land and Its Influence on Climate Variability over the South American-Atlantic Regions as Determined by SeaWinds Scatterometers
    Rong Fu, Hui Wang, Mike Young, Liming Zhou
  • OVWST Subgroup Discussion
    Rob Gaston
  • Impact of Atmospheric Synoptic-To-Intraseasonal Oscillations on Indian Ocean Multi-Scale SST Variability
    Weiqing Han
  • Improved Ocean Vector Wind Retrievals in Extreme Wind Events
    Linwood Jones, Christopher Hennon
  • Impact of Ocean Current Systems on the Atmosphere: A Study Using Vector Winds and Atmosphere-Ocean Modeling
    Kathryn A. Kelly, LuAnne Thompson
  • Mechanism of Interannual variability of Cross-Equatorial Heat Transport (CEHT) of the Indian Ocean
    Tony Lee
  • Oceanic Feedback and Acceleration of Climate Variability
    W. Timothy Liu, Xiaosu Xie, Wenqing Tang
  • Oceanic Feedback and Acceleration of Climate Variability (Part 2)
    W. Timothy Liu, Xiaosu Xie, Wenqing Tang
  • Application and Validation of Ultra High Resolution Wind, Backscatter, and Brightness Temperature
    David G. Long
  • Applications of Satellite Surface Vector Winds(SVW) in Models and Syntheses Tropcial and Sub-Tropical Atmosphere-Ocean Interactions
    Ralph F. Milliff, Jan Morzel
  • OVW Science Subgroup Tasks
  • Use of QuikSCAT to Explore the Role of the Indian Ocean in the Tropical Climate
    C. Perigaud, S. Illig
  • IMUDH Rain Impact Flagging Algorithm
    Bryan Stiles, Svetla Veleva, R. Scott Dunbar
  • SVW Science Requirements
  • Data Product Evaluation Team Report
  • Corrections to Scatterometer Wind Vectors For Precipitation Effects: Using High Resolution NEXRAD and AMSR With Intercomparisons
    David E. Weissman, Svetla Hristova-Veleva
  • Current and Planned Investigations for the Ocean Vector Wind Science Team
    Frank J. Wentz, Kyle Hilburn, Deborah Smith, Lucrezia Ricciardulli
  • Orographical-Induced Air-Sea Interaction: Observations and Numerical Modeling
    Shang-Ping Xie, Justin Small
  • A Study of Long-Term Trend and Variability of Global Ocean Surface Wind Fields Through Synthesizing Scatterometers with SSM/I and COADS Observations
    Lisan Yu
  • Combined Active and Passive Remote Sensing of Hurricane Ocean Winds
    Simon H. Yueh
  • OSI SAF ASCAT level 2 products
    Marcos Portabella

2005 OVWST

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2026 International OVWST Meeting May 18th - 21st Miami, Florida, USA

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