The workshop will be held for 3-days on November 28, 29, 30, 2008. The course is aimed at graduate students, young professionals, teachers and professors. Each participant will receive a certificate of participantion. The workshop will be held in classrooms at SCSIO. Sessions will be 1-2 hours in length. We are organizing a short science expedition on a boat as a part of the ocean colour segment in Daya Bay. This would involve optics work and sample collection.
From the airport to the New Pearl River Hotel & the New Pearl River International Apartment:
1.By Taxi,about RMB130 (USD20)
2.By Airport bus, about RMB20 (USD3)
Take Airport bus No.6B at the airport
Get off the bus at the New Pearl River Hotel stop
Lecturer:
Topic & Abstract:
Leonid Mitnik
V.I.Ili'ichev Pacific Oceanological Institute Russia
Study of the ocean-atmosphere system using satellite passive microwave measurements
Kristina Katsaros
The PORSEC Association USA
Radiative fluxes and extreme weather.
Jim Gower
Institute of Ocean Sciences Canada
Ocean colour (bloom events, MERIS). Basic introduction to ocean colour and satellite sensors.
This lecture will be a basic introduction to ocean colour and optical satellite sensors. We will discuss the interpretation of spectra in ocean and coastal water. Applications include detection and mapping of plankton blooms, measurement of chlorophyll in silty and ice-containing water, coastal and floating vegetation and coral reefs. Part of this session will be a practical component on using data from the European Space Agency's sensor MERIS.
Gad Levy
Northwest Research Associates USA
Data assimilation (integrated approach rather than instrument specific) and satellite sampling.
Common objectives and procedures of data assimilation will be introduced. We'll then explore specific problems that result from the expansion in observing systems from conventional to satellite borne and the corresponding transition from small, medium, and large datasets to massive datasets. The problems will be described in specific examples; existing solutions will be presented and critically evaluated.
Josefino Comiso
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center USA
Polar Observations in Primary Productivity, Sea ice Cover and Climate Change Signals
Many intriguing events have been happening in both hemispheres in recent years as revealed by historical satellite data. The primary productivities of oceans at relatively high latitudes are among the highest observed globally and have been increasing at a rapid rate in the Southern Ocean. Meanwhile the Arctic perennial sea ice cover has been declining at a strong negative rate of about 12% per decade while the Antarctic sea ice cover has shown an overall positive trend but anomalous negative trends in some regions. Record warming trends in SST and ice surface temperature are also observed at high latitudes especially in the Arctic region. Implications of these phenomena in the context of climate and ecological changes will be discussed.
Abderrahim Bentamy
IFREMER
France
Air-sea fluxes and climate variability with a practical exercise on using satellite data.
The large changes of energy between ocean and atmosphere through air-sea fluxes at the interface, heat absorption and redistribution by means of ocean circulations at all time and space scales, characterizes the main role of ocean in climate variability. Surface fluxes of momentum, heat, and water vapor provide some of the dominant processes contributing to such change. For several purposes, the measurements of oceanic surface parameters is quite difficult and especially at wide scale.
The specific objectives of this lecture emphasize estimation of global surface wind vectors, surface wind stress, latent heat flux and sensible heat flux over the oceans with high spatial and temporal resolution using satellite radar and radiometer measurements. An overview of remotely sensed data physics, of methods and algorithms used to retrieve surface fluxes and of the accuracy of surface parameters will be provided. The use of satellite observations and of derived parameters will be also described.
DanLing Lingzis Tang
RSMEE, South China Sea Institute of Oceanology, CAS
China
Application of satellite remote sensing on Marine Ecology and Environment
Arthur Cracknell
International Journal of Remote Sensing U.K.
Publishing your work in English in international journals
I have been editor of this journal for about 25 years and I would like to share with you some thoughts about how to ensure that your submitted papers stand the best chance of being accepted for publication.
I shall ask questions such as why you want to publish, the choice of journal, deciding on the contents of your paper, organizing the structure of your paper, common faults in submitted papers and of course the question of using the English language. I propose to illustrate these points with a few examples of (anonymous) "poor" papers for participants to consider themselves and criticise and, hopefully, learn from.
Ocean's role in global water cycles (scatterometry)
Ruixin Huang
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
USA
Dynamics of the upper ocean
This lecture will cover the dynamics of essential components of the circulation in the surface part of the ocean, including the Ekman layer, the mixed layer, and the wind-driven gyres.
Werner Alpers
University of Hamburg Germany
SAR applications in oceanography and marine meteorology. How does synthetic aperture radar work?
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