The Community Requirements for Future of Remote Sensing of Surface Vector Winds and Currents


Session ID#: 36123

Session Description:
What are the community needs for a wide variety of applications?  The public responses to the NAS Decadal Survey provide insights into applications, but likely only skim the surface of community needs.  One clear conclusion from this public input is that the existing observing system is quite inadequate for modern needs. A better articulation of these needs would be helpful, tempered by knowledge of what can be done at a reasonable cost on a global scale. This meeting is for people to speak to the need and resolution and spatial/temporal requirements for these observations.

    Examples of issues and applications that need to be examined are Temporal Resolution, Air/Sea Interaction, equatorial ocean circulation (and impacts), upwelling, EKE production, and surface transport. These processes also play important roles in ocean biology and interaction with ice.

   This town hall meeting will have short presentations, with most of the time focused on the discussion of these needs. A presentation will review the status of a new technology capable of simultaneous measurements of ocean currents and winds from space. It is hoped that community input will help inform the NASA decision process as the next generation of ocean measurement missions are selected.

Primary Contact:  Mark A Bourassa, Florida State University, Center for Ocean-Atmospheric Prediction Studies, Tallahassee, FL, United States
Presenters:  Ernesto Rodriguez, JPL/NASA/Caltech, Pasadena, CA, United States, J. Thomas Farrar, WHOI, Physical Oceanography, Woods Hole, MA, United States and Melanie R Fewings, University of Connecticut, Department of Marine Sciences, Groton, CT, United States
Cross-Topics:
  • AI - Air-Sea Interactions
  • EP - Ecology and Physical Interactions
  • HE - High Latitude Environments
  • PL - Physical Oceanography: Mesoscale and Larger
 

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