Transcript Diapositiva 1 - Ohio State University

Welcome to ICM !
Marine Biology
and Oceanography
Renewable Marine
Resources
84 members
44 members
4 departments
26 members
17 members
Marine Geology
Physical
Oceanography
Physical Oceanography Department at ICM
26 members:
Head: E. García-Ladona
6 Researchers from Staff
8 Researchers under contract and post-docs
8 PhD students
4 Technicians and support people
Research lines:
circulation in the western Mediterranean sea
 Eastern North Atlantic dynamics
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oceanographic instrumentation
 data acquisition and processing
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theoretical work in geophysical fluid dynamics
 mesoscale vortex dynamics, from model & data
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multifractal analysis of satellite oceanic images
retrieval algorithms to evaluate salinity from space
 large scale numerical modelling and data assimilation
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operational oceanography
Research Topics: Mediterranean vortices observed by altimetry
Isern-Fontanet et al., JPO 2006
Research Topics: Maximum Singularity Streamfunction
Turiel et al., Phys. Rev. Letters, 2005
Other Topics: CANOA project – Eastern North-Atlantic dynamics
PI: J.L. Pelegri
Other Topics: vortex dynamics
PI: A. Viudez
Participation to the preparation of SMOS satellite mission
PI: J. Font
Soil Moisture and
Ocean Salinity Mission
R Activities:
 SMOS retrieval algorithms for salinity
 North Atlantic numerical simulations
 Impact of SSS data assimilation
D+T Activities:
 Design and test of Lagrangian drifters to measure SSS.
 Development and validation of algorithms for Level-3 and
Level-4 products.
 SMOS Barcelona Expert Center (BEC)
Participation to the preparation of SMOS satellite mission
Soil Moisture and
Ocean Salinity Mission
 The SMOS Barcelona Expert Center (BEC)
will be inaugurated today at 19 h, you are all invited !
Program:
19 h: Welcome and introduction by J.M. Fernández de Labastida, CSIC
Vicepresident for Scientific and Technical Research, and Xavier Gil, UPC
Vicerector for Research and Innovation
+ Short interventions by Jorge Lomba, CDTI Director of ESA
Programs, Victor Reglero, Manager of Spanish National Program on Space,
Achim Hahne, SMOS Project Manager, and Susanne Mecklenburg, SMOS
Mission Manager
19:30 - 20:30 h: Cocktail and visit of SMOS-BEC facilities