OS13A:
Altimetry in the Coastal Zone: Techniques, Applications, and Synergies with Models I

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Session ID#: 35037

Session Description:
Recent technological advances (SAR, SARin and Ka-band altimetry) and processing improvements promise more and better data closer to the coast, filling an important gap.

We invite contributions highlighting how satellite data are improved in the coastal zone (technologies, algorithms, etc.) and used (also in combination/synergy with in situ and/or modelling tools) to contribute to the research/monitoring of coastal ocean and enclosed seas. Dynamics in estuaries, river plumes, permafrost-affected coastal plains, and studies highlighting the integration of in situ/altimetry/modelling in the coastal zone using remote processing platforms providing access to data, tools and processors are also welcome.

Altimetry is an important component of the coastal observing system to assess the coastal impacts of climate change, quantify the natural variability in currents and sea state and help improve predictions and forecasting skill of numerical models, all contributing to the WCRP Grand Challenge on Regional Sea-Level Change and Coastal Impacts.

Primary Convener:  Jérôme Benveniste, COSPAR, Scientific Commission A, Paris, France
Conveners:  Cheinway Hwang, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan, Vassiliki Kourafalou, U. Miami, RSMAS, Miami, United States and Stefano Vignudelli, Consiglio Nazionale Delle Ricerca, Pisa, Italy
Chairs:  Cheinway Hwang, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan, Stefano Vignudelli, Consiglio Nazionale Delle Ricerca, Pisa, Italy, Jérôme Benveniste, COSPAR, Scientific Commission A, Paris, France and Vassiliki Kourafalou, U. Miami, RSMAS, Miami, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Stefano Vignudelli, Consiglio Nazionale Delle Ricerca, Pisa, Italy

Cross-Listed:
  • G - Geodesy
Index Terms:

1222 Ocean monitoring with geodetic techniques [GEODESY AND GRAVITY]
4217 Coastal processes [OCEANOGRAPHY: GENERAL]
4255 Numerical modeling [OCEANOGRAPHY: GENERAL]
4275 Remote sensing and electromagnetic processes [OCEANOGRAPHY: GENERAL]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Monitoring the change of coastal zones from space (Invited) (214820)
Anny A Cazenave, Université de Toulouse, LEGOS (CNES/CNRS/IRD/UT), Toulouse, France, Goneri Le Cozannet, BRGM, Orléans, France, Jérôme Benveniste, COSPAR, Scientific Commission A, Paris, France and Philip Leslie Woodworth, National Oceanography Center, Soton, Southampton, United Kingdom
An Altimetry-Derived Index of the Offshore Forcing on the “Pressure Point” of the West Florida Shelf: Anomalous Upwelling and Its Influence on Harmful Algal Blooms (Invited) (228778)
Yonggang Liu1, Robert H Weisberg1, Jason M Lenes2, Lianyuan Zheng3, Katherine Hubbard4 and John Joseph Walsh2, (1)University of South Florida, College of Marine Science, St. Petersburg, United States, (2)University of South Florida, St. Petersburg, FL, United States, (3)University of South Florida, College of Marine Science, St. Petersburg, FL, United States, (4)Fish and Wildlife Research Institute, Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, Saint Petersburg, United States
Seamless geoids across coastal zones – a comparison of satellite-derived gravity to airborne gravity across the seven continents (268828)
Rene Forsberg1, Arne V Olesen2, Daniel Barnes3, Sarah E Ingalls3, Clifton F Minter3 and Manny R Presicci3, (1)Technical University of Denmark, Space, Kgs. Lyngby, Denmark, (2)Technical University of Denmark - Space, Kongens Lyngby, Denmark, (3)National Geospatial Intelligence Agency, St Louis, MO, United States
Variability of High-Resolution Sea Surface Heights on a Broad, Shallow Continental Shelf (243539)
Richard L Crout, Naval Research Lab Stennis Space Center, Stennis Space Center, MS, United States and Ana E Rice, U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, Stennis Space Center, MS, United States
Coastal Sea Level along the North Eastern Atlantic Shelf from Delay Doppler Altimetry (281590)
Luciana Fenoglio-Marc1, Jérôme Benveniste2, Ole Baltazar Andersen3, Médéric Gravelle4, Salvatore Dinardo5, Bernd Uebbing1, Remko Scharroo6, Juergen Kusche1, Michael Kern7 and Christopher Buchhaupt8, (1)University of Bonn, Institute of Geodesy and Geoinformation, Bonn, Germany, (2)COSPAR, Scientific Commission A, Paris, France, (3)DTU Space, Lyngby, Denmark, (4)University of La Rochelle, La Rochelle, France, (5)HeSpace, Darmstadt, Germany, (6)EUMETSAT, Darmstadt, Germany, (7)European Space Agency, ESTEC, Netherlands, (8)University of Maryland, NOAA/STAR/SOCD/Laboratory for Satellite Altimetry, College Park, MD, United States
What are driving the long-term Caspian Sea level change? (271953)
Jianli Chen, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, United States
Mapping coastal sea level at high resolution with radar interferometry: the SWOT Mission (243531)
Lee-Lueng Fu, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, United States, Yi Chao, Remote Sensing Solutions, Monrovia, CA, United States, Benoit Laignel, University of Rouen, Mont-Saint-Aignan Cedex, France and Imen Turki Sr, University of Rouen, Mont-Saint-Aignan, France

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