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2007 OOPC-GODAE Meeting, 5-7 November 2007

Observing System Simulation Experiments (OSSE) / Observing System Experiments (OSE)

Intergovermental Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO

1 rue Miollis, 15 arrondissement, Paris, France

Salle XV (Bonvin building, ground floor)


Monday, 5 November 2007
13:45 Speakers to transfer their talks onto conference room laptop
14:00 Welcome - Pierre-Yves Le Traon (Ifremer)
 
14:05 Session 1 - Introduction
14:05 Pierre Yves Le Traon (Ifremer), Ed Harrison (NOAA) and Albert Fischer (IOC) - GODAE Status and workshop objectives
14:25 Albert Fischer, Ed Harrsion and Pierre-Yves Le Tran - The global in-situ observing system, the satellite observing system and issues
14:50 Robert Molinari (University of Miami/CIMAS) - Status of the 1999 XBT Recommendations Made to the Ocean Obs99 Meeting
15:10 Eric Bayler (NOAA) - NOAA perspective/expectations
15:30 Coffee/tea break & opportunity for personal discussion
 
16:00 Session 2 - General multi-purpose and methods
16:00 Anthony Weaver (CERFACS) - Methods for computing analysis and forecasting sensitivity to observations: examples from NWP
16:30 Eric Dombrowsky (Mercator-Ocean) - Review of OSSE/OSE performed at Mercator-Ocean
17:00 Magdalena Balmaseda (ECMWF) - OSE's in the ECMWF operational ocean analysis: Impact on the ocean mean state, seasonal forecasts and climate variability
17:30 Yosuke Fujii (JMA/MRI) - OSSE/OSE activities with Multivariate Ocean Variational Estimation (MOVE) System.
I: Application of singular vector analysis to the Kuroshio large meander
18:00 End of Day 1
18:30 Reception, Miollis Bar (-1 level)

Tuesday, 6 November 2007
8:30 Session 2 - General multi-purpose and methods (continued)
8:30 Pavel Sakov and Peter Oke (CSIRO) - Objective Array Design: Application to the tropical Indian Ocean
9:00 Peter Oke and Andreas Schiller - Impact of Argo, SST and altimeter data on an eddy-resolving ocean reanalysis
9:30 Pierre Brasseur (CNRS) - Optimal design of observing systems: review of methods based on assimilative systems
10:00 Jim Cummings (NRL) - Assessment of Observation Impact Using a Variational Assimilation Adjoint System
10:30 Coffee/tea break & opportunity for personal discussion
11:00 Tony Lee (JPL) - What do we gain having an additional SeaWinds-like scatterometer?
 
11:30 Session 3 - Altimetry
11:30 Gilles Larnicol (CLS) - Impact studies on the altimeter observing system: review of the work done by the SSALTO/DUACS center
12:00 Matt Martin (Met Office) - The impact of assimilating sea surface height data from one, two and three altimeters on the surface currents in the 1/9° North Atlantic FOAM system
12:30 Lunch - Speakers to transfer their talks onto conference room laptop
13:30 Daniel Lea and John Siddorn (Met Office) - Observations bias correction in altimeter ocean data assimilation in FOAM comparing two MDT's
14:00 Discussion
 
14:30 Session 4 - Argo (T and/or S) and in-situ observing system
14:30 Stephanie Guinehut (CLS) - Contributions of the ARGO array and complementarities with the altimeter observing system
15:00 Daniel Lea and John Siddorn (Met Office) - ARGO and other profile data assimilation on z and density levels in FOAM
15:30 Coffee/tea break & opportunity for personal discussion
16:00 Satoshi Matsumoto (MRI/JMA) - OSSE/OSE activities with Multivariate Ocean Variational Estimation (MOVE) System.
II: Impacts of salinity and TAO/TRITON
16:30 Gary Brassington and Nicholas Summons (BMRC) - Design of surface drifting buoys deployments using eddy-resolving reanalyses (presented by Peter Oke (CSIRO))
 
17:00 Session 5 - Ocean State Estimations (climate reanalysis)
17:00 Jim Carton (TBC) (Texas A&M University) - Feasibility of a 100-year long ocean reanalysis
17:30 Meeting with rapporteurs to prepare for the Synthesis of results, recommendations and work plan for 2008
  End of Day 2
  Dinner (tbd)

Wednesday, 7 November
9:00 Session 6 - Synthesis of results, missing studies, recommendations and work plan for 2008
9:00 Open discussion - summary by session (presentations by rapporteurs); outline of future work and other issues
10:30 Coffee/tea break & opportunity for personal discussion
11:00 Open discussion (continued)
12:30 Close

(Last Updated: 01-02-2008)