NOAA/NASA Ocean Vector Winds Workshop Active/Passive Satellite Microwave Estimates Planned and Run by: Dudley Chelton Mike Freilich Paul Chang

NOAA/NASA Ocean Vector Winds Workshop Active/Passive Satellite Microwave Estimates Sponsored by: CIOSS: The Cooperative Institute for Oceanographic Satellite Studies Thanks to: The Tropical Prediction Center

NOAA/NASA Ocean Vector Winds Workshop Active/Passive Satellite Microwave Estimates Sponsored by: CIOSS: The Cooperative Institute for Oceanographic Satellite Studies Janine Kobel: Administrative Specialist Ted Strub: Director The Tropical Prediction Center Rick Knabb Chris Hennon

CIOSS: Cooperative Institute for Oceanographic Satellite Studies: College of Oceanic and Atmospheric Sciences, Oregon State University NOAA NESDIS ORA: Office of Research and Applications, or STAR: Satellite Applications and Research

NOAA/NESDIS/STAR: Marie Colton CoRP – Responsible for all CI’s Meteorology: CIMSS – University of Wisconsin, Madison CIRA – Colorado State University CICS – University of Maryland CREST - CCUNY Oceanography: Eric Bayler CIOSS – Oregon State University

NESDIS Cooperative Institutes Atmospheric CI’s: Research Activities • Develop/Improve Remote Sensing Products/Techniques • Develop/Improve Methods of Assimilating Those Products Into NWP Models • Evaluate Present/Planned Satellite Sensors/Techniques

NESDIS Cooperative Institutes Oceanographic CI: Research Activities: • Develop/Improve Remote Sensing Products/Techniques • Develop/Improve Methods of Assimilating Those Products Into Ocean Circulation Models • Evaluate Present/Planned Satellite Sensors/Techniques Ocean Vector Winds Hyper-/Multi-Spectral Coastal Waters Imager for GOES-R: HES-CW

CIOSS RESEARCH THEMES & PROJECTS 1. Satellite Sensors and Techniques:

MODIS workshop COAST workshop, activities and white paper.

Wind workshop and report.

2. Ocean-Atmosphere Fields and Fluxes:

Coakley/Guo development of data sets to allow estimates of surface radiation.

Freilich/Vanhoff/(postdoc) improvements in higher resolution SCAT winds. Chelton/Reynolds comparison and improvements in SST fields.

Strub/Kosro/(postdoc) combination of radar and altimeter fields.

3. Ocean-Atmosphere Models and Data Assimilation:

Skyllingstad/Samelson/Perlin Coastal Air-Sea coupled models Allen/Samelson/Choboter analysis of ocean model fields.

Allen/Egbert/Samelson/Miller/Kurapov Coastal Ocean Data Assimilation.

Allen/Egbert/Samelson/Miller/(postdoc) Coastal Ocean Data Assimilation.

4. Ocean-Atmosphere Analyses:

Strub/Venegas climatology of satellite fields in the PNW.

Wright incorporation of satellite data into the Oregon Coastal Atlas, working with the state of Oregon’s Ocean-Coastal Management Program

5. Outreach:

High School Curriculum Development in Oceanography and Remote Sensing