Monday, 14th May 2007

 

Time

 

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Session leaders

08:30

 

Registration & Coffee: Location Level 6 Bureau of Meteorology Building, 700 Collins Street, Melbourne

08:50

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Welcome and logistics

H Beggs

09:00

 

Welcome address from Neville Smith (Chief Scientist, Bureau of Meteorology Research Centre, Australia)

09:15

 

Review of Agenda

Chair: C Donlon

Rapporteur: Ken Casey

09:20

 

Report from the GHRSST-PP International project Office: Overview of the GHRSST-PP project status, priorities and aims of the Workshop.

09:40

 

Review action items since the 7th GHRSST-PP Science Team Meeting

10:10

 

Coffee

 

Session 1. R/GTS Components: Reports to the GHRSST-PP Science Team

10:30

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USA (MISST) report: Chelle Gentemann

Chair: Gary Wick

Rapporteur: Ken Casey

10:50

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Europe (Medspiration) report: J-F PiollŽ

11:10

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Australia (BLUElink>) report: Helen Beggs

11:30

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USA Global Data Assembly Centre report: Ed Armstrong

11:50

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GOES-SST RDAC: Eileen Maturi/ Andy Harris

12:10

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Global Processing of MODIS for Operational SST, Ocean Color, and GHRSST: Bryan Franz

12:30

 

Lunch

13:30

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Reanalysis Technical Advisory Group (RAN-TAG) report: Ken Casey

Chair: Gary Wick

Rapporteur: Ken Casey

13:50

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Status and application of the HR-DDS: Dave Poulter

14:10

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The GHRSST-PP MDB system: Status and Plans: J-F Piolle

14:30

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Data Management Technical Advisory Group (DM-TAG) report: Jorge Vazquez

14:50

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Data Processing Specification Technical Advisory Group (GDS-TAG) report: Jorge Vazquez

15:10

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Diurnal Variability Technical Advisory Group (DV-WG) report: Chris Merchant

15:30

 

Tea

15:50

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GHRSST-PP Sea Ice Working Group (SI-WG) report: Peter Minnett

Chair: G Wick Rapporteur: Ken Casey

16:10

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Report from the XML working group: Ed Armstrong

16:30

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Report on plans for an EU-GDAC: The MyOcean system, Craig Donlon/Herve Roquet

16:50

 

Plenary discussion:

á           Identification of priority issues for the 8th workshop

á           Role and selection of a New GDS-2.0 Working Group for the duration of the meeting – Terms of Reference to be agreed based on Appendix I

á           Agreement of Breakout group membership

Chair: C Donlon

Rapporteur: Ken Casey

17:30

 

Close

17:30 - 19:00

 

Icebreaker (drinks and nibbles) in Summit CafŽ, Level 5 Bureau of Meteorology Building (700 Collins Street, Melbourne). An opportunity to meet everyone and to exchange ideas and plan for the week ahead.

 

 

 

Tuesday, 15th May 2007

 

Time

 

Agenda item

Session leaders

Session 2. Application/development of new data streams/products

 

08:30

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On the relative importance of SST, Argo and altimetry for an ocean reanalysis: Peter Oke

Chair: Andy Harris

Rapporteur: Tim Nightingale

08:50

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BLUElink> toward merging GHRSST and GODAE for sea surface temperature forecasting: Gary Brassington, Tim Pugh, Helen Beggs and Peter Oke

09:10

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The Sensitivity of the Statistical Hurricane Intensity Prediction Scheme  (SHIPS) to Sea Surface Temperature: Joe Cione

09:30

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ReefTemp – An improved tool to nowcast coral bleaching risk in the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park and the need for detailed climatology analyses: Jeffrey Maynard and Peter Turner

09:50

 

Plenary Discussion

10:10

 

Coffee

10:30

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Future plans of ESA for GHRSST-PP: Olivier Arino

Chair: Andy Harris

Rapporteur: Tim Nightingale

10:50

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NAIAD : a new advanced system to access satellite data: Jean-Franois PiollŽ

11:10

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METOP/AVHRR derived SST products: Pierre LeBorgne

11:30

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Utilization of Earth Science Datacasting by the GHRSST Project: Andrew Bingham, Robert Deen, Kevin Hussey, Timothy Stough, Sean McCleese, Alex Cervantes

11:50

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Calculating sea surface temperature, emissivity and atmospheric state using hyperspectral radiances: John Le Marshall, W. L. Smith and Jim Jung

12:10

 

Plenary discussion

12:30

 

Lunch

Session 3a. Sea Ice

 

13:30

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Assessment of one year of Medspiration L4 SST Products: Jean Tournadre

Chair: Peter Minnett

Rapporteur: Jacob Hoeyer

13:50

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A reanalysis of sea ice concentration from the SMMR and SSM/I Passive Microwave Records: Soren Andersen (J Hoeyer)

14:10

 

SSES and MODIS: Bob Evans

Session 3b. Diurnal Variability

 

14:30

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Extreme Events Observed: Chris Merchant

Chair: Chris Merchant

Rapporteur: Gary Wick

14:50

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Developments with DV Models: Chelle L. Gentemann and Peter J. Minnett

15:10

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ALADIN Data Set: Pierre Le Borgne

15:30

 

Tea

Session 4. Breakout Groups

 

Parallel session

 

 

15:50

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BG-1: Data Management TAG

 

Chair: Jorge Vazquez

Rapporteur: Craig Donlon?

 

Location: Level 6 Conference 
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BG-2: Diurnal Variability TAG

 

Chair: Chris Merchant

Rapporteur: Gary Wick

 

Location: Level 6 Conference
Room 2

Breakout Groups-1

17:30

 

Close

17:30-18:30

Meeting for the EU-GDAC (MyOcean Project) team (Location TBD).

 

18:30

Conference Dinner – Royal Melbourne Hotel 629 Bourke Street, City (http://www.rmh.com.au ),  across the road from the Alto Hotel and one city block from the Vibe Savoy Hotel. 

Please email h.beggs@bom.gov.au by 1 May if you would like to attend.  Attendees will order off the menu and pay separately.

 

 

 

 

Wednesday, 16th May 2007

 

Time

 

Agenda item

Session leaders

Session 5. Sensors and Single Sensor Error Statistic formulations

 

08:30

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Introduction: Pierre LeBorgne

Chair: Pierre LeBorgne

Rapporteur: Helen Beggs

08:50

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Improving the SSES inputs to AATSR L2P Products: Gary Corlett

09:10

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3-way statistics for uncertainty estimation: Anne OÕCarroll (Craig Donlon)

09:30

 

Plenary discussion: priority issues for SSES breakout group

10:10

 

Coffee

Session 6. Breakout Groups

 

Parallel session

 

Breakout Groups-2

10:30

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BG-3: Developing homogeneous SSES for all GHRSST-PP sensors

 

 

Chair: Pierre LeBorgne

Rapporteur: Helen Beggs

 

Location: Level 6 Conference Room 2

BG-4: GHRSST-PP Data Processing Specification Technical Advisory Group (GDS-TAG)

 

Chair: Jorge Vasquez

Rapporteur: C Donlon

 

Location: Level 6 Conference Room 3

 

12:30

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Excursion to Healesville Wildlife Sanctuary and Riverstone Winery travelling by chartered coach from Bureau of Meteorology Building, 700 Collins St, Melbourne.  Please email h.beggs@bom.gov.au by 1 May if you would like to attend.  Cost: AUD$94.  Pay by credit card or cash during the meeting.

22:00

 

Coach returns to Vibe Hotel

 

 

 

 

Thursday, 17th May 2007

 

Time

 

Agenda item

Session leaders

Session 7: L4 Analyses

 

08:30

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Introduction: L4 Key Issues facing the GHRSST-PP: Jim Cummings

Chair: Jim Cummings

Rapporteur: Matt Martin

08:50

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SST L4 analysis at DMI using GHRSST-PP data: Jacob Hoeyer

09:10

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Global 9 km OI SSTs – lessons learned from MODIS/AMSR-E/TMI blending: Chelle Gentemann

09:30

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Status of POES-GOES SST analysis: Eileen Maturi

09:50

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OSTIA analyses at the Met Office: Matt Martin

10:10

 

Coffee

10:30

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BLUElink Regional High-Resolution SST Analysis: Verification and Inter-comparison: Helen Beggs

Chair: Jim Cummings

Rapporteur: Matt Martin

10:50

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Validation tools and methods for the global SST analysis of MERSEA: Emmanuelle Autret

11:10

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Assessment and inter-comparison of five GHRSST

products in the shelf and coastal seas around China:

Jiping Xie

11:30

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GEO ActionDA-06-03 for GHRSST-PP ensemble based techniques: C Donlon

11:50

 

Plenary discussion

12:30

 

Lunch

13:30

 

Plenary discussion (Cont.)

Chair: Gary Wick

Rapporteur: Bruce McKenzie

Session 8. Reanalyses and Climate Data Records

 

14:00

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Rannual Review: Ken Casey

Chair: Ken Casey

Rapporteur: G Wick

14:20

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The Analysis of Long Time-Series of SST from the AVHRR and ATSR Sensors: David Llewellyn-Jones

14:40

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SST Data Continuity: The impact of a data gap between AATSR and SLSTR on operational services: Gary Corlett

15:00

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ATSR-2/AATSR Overlap Analysis: Gary Corlett

15:20

 

Tea

15:40

 

GHRSST Reanalysis Discussion

Chair: Ken Casey

Rapporteur: G Wick

Session 9: GHRSST-PP quality control and validation

 

16:40

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Plenary Discussion on metrics, validation and Quality Control.

 

See https://www.ghrsst-pp.org/modules/documents/documents/GHRSST-PP-Metrics-v1.0.doc for details on metrics

Chair: Ian Barton

Rapporteur: G. Corlett

18:00

 

Close

18:00-19:00

Meeting of the GHRSST-PO Advisory Council to review progress.  Location TBC.

 

18:30

Informal dinner for anyone interested at Brux Bar & Restaurant (Micro-Brewery), 582 Little Collins Street, Melbourne (http://www.brux.com.au/), ½ block from Vibe Savoy Hotel and one city block from the Alto Hotel.  Please email h.beggs@bom.gov.au by 1 May if you would like to attend.

 

 

 

 

Friday, 18th May 2007

 

Time

 

Agenda item

Session leaders

Session 10. Preparing the GDS v2.0

 

08:30

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GlobColour: Implementation of a European Ocean Colour RDAC: Samantha Lavender

Chair: Craig Donlon

Rapporteur: Peter Cornillon

08:50

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Proposals for a new Top Level Governance of the GHRSST-PP: C Donlon

09:10

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Proposal for new L3/L3P products in the frame of the MERSEA SST project: Pierre LeBorgne

09:30

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Operational Agreements (Service Level Agreements, SLA) within the GHRSST-PP: J Vazquez and the DM-TAG

09:50

 

 

10:10

 

Coffee

10:50

 

Plenary discussion: agree a plan and roadmap for the GDS-v2.0

1.        New sections for L3/L3P, operational message exchange, GDAC complementarily, SLA, ICD, Governance etc.

2.        Revise L2P, L4, MDB, HR-DDS, MMR, SSES and QC sections.

3.        Revise data management (naming conventions, filename structures, description of data, contacts, DSD records)

4.        Assign drafting teams for each section including lead-authors

5.        Agree timetable to allow at least 2 reviews and a final publication before April 1st 2008.

Chair: Craig Donlon

Rapporteur: Peter Cornillon

12:30

 

Lunch

13:30

 

Review of Action list from the 8th GHRSST-PP Science Team Meeting and outstanding actions form 7th Science Team Meeting

Chair: C Donlon

14:30

 

Wrap up session and close

1.        Summary of workshop

2.        Preparation of proceedings: Chair & Rapporteur inputs

3.        Science Team Membership (New nominations and Resignations before the session please)

4.        Next meeting location and dates

5.        AOB

15:30

 

Thank you and close of meeting

15:45

Catch the No. 112 tram from stop 1 on corner of Spencer Street and Collins Street, City, to St Kilda Beach for Penguin Cruise (see http://www.penguinwaters.com.au/cruises.html ).  The Penguin Cruise boat starts boarding at 4:30 pm at St Kilda Pier and leaves at 5 pm sharp.  Pay by cash on the boat.  The cruise will be followed by dinner at Mash Restaurant Bar, 12 Fitzroy Street, St Kilda (http://www.mashrestaurant.com.au, ph: 9537 1777).  Please email h.beggs@bom.gov.au by 1 May if you would like to attend.  Cost of cruise: AUD$40.  Cost of daily tram ticket: AUD$6.  Dinner extra.  Wear a warm, waterproof jacket.

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