8:00-9:00	Registration; Oral presentation submission
Opening session
9:00-9:15	Welcome and overview of the workshop Peter Minnett, SOLAS SSC, USA
9:15-9:30	SOLAS overview Lisa Miller, SOLAS SSC Chair, Canada
New and future relevant satellite missions
9:30-10:00	Invited: NASA’s Study of Earth System Processes and Components Relevant to the Surface Ocean-Atmosphere Interface - Jack Kaye, NASA HQ, USA
10:00-10:30	Invited: The ESA EO Scientific Exploitation Programme: Opportunities for SOLAS - Diego Fernández-Prieto, ESA ESRIN, Frascati, Italy
10:30-11:00	Coffee break
Novel platforms and sensors
11:00-11:20	NASA’s Plankton, Aerosol, Clouds, ocean Ecosystems (PACE) mission: Opportunity for collaborative science across the ocean-atmosphere interface - Lorraine Remer, University of Maryland Baltimore County, USA
11:20-11:40	The NASA Cyclone Global Navigation Satellite System (CYGNSS) Chris Ruf, University of Michigan, USA
11:40-12:00	The HARP (Hyperangular Imaging Polarimeter) and use of nanosatellites for the measurment of aerosols, clouds and the ocean surface properties J. Vanderlei Martins, University of Maryland Baltimore County, USA
12:00-12:20	Ocean-Atmosphere Remote Sensing using Hyperspectral Satellite Spectrometers - Diego Loyola, DLR, Germany
12:20-12:30	Discussion
12:30-14:00	Lunch
14:00-14:20	Sea Surface Scanner: Linking remote and in situ observations of the ocean-atmosphere interface - Oliver Wurl, University of Oldenburg, Germany
Challenging properties and processes
14:20-14:50	Invited: Aerosol remote sensing: why so difficult? - Kirk Knobelspiesse, NASA GSFC, USA
14:50-15:10	Studying the sensitive regimes and active regions of aerosol indirect effect for the ice clouds over the global oceans by using long-term satellite observations - Xuepeng Zhao, NOAA NESDIS, USA
15:10-15:30	Discussion
15:30-16:00	Coffee break
16:00-16:20	Using Remote Sensing Observations to Estimate Dust Deposition into Tropical Atlantic Ocean - Hongbin Yu, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, USA
16:20-16:40	Characterization of the reflectance coefficient of skylight from the ocean surface and implications to Ocean Color - Alexander Gilerson, City College of New York, USA
16:40-17:00	Dropsonde-Based Validation of Satellite-Derived Near-Surface Air Temperature and Specific Humidity Products - Gary Wick, NOAA, USA
17:00-17:20	Observations of seabed methane inputs to the lower atmosphere in the Arctic in winter using IASI satellites data - Leonid Yurganov, University of Maryland Baltimore County, USA
17:30-18:00	Discussion

 

Day 2: Wednesday, 14 March 2018

Posters available throughout the day!

8:00-8:45              Poster setup; Oral presentation submission
Challenging properties and processes - continued
9:00-9:20	Airborne remote sensing of the upper ocean turbulence - Ivan Savelyev, US Naval Reseach Laboratory, USA
9:20-9:40	The 2015-2016 El Niño and the response of the carbon cycle: Findings from the Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2 (OCO-2) mission - Abhishek Chatterjee, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, USA
9:40-10:00	Assessment of export efficiency equations in the Southern Ocean applied to satellite-based net primary production - Lionel Artega, Princeton University, USA
10:00-10:20	A deterministic inverse method for ocean skin temperautre profile retrevals from M-AERI measurements - Prabhat K. Koner, University of Maryland, USA
10:20-10:30	Discussion
10:30-11:00	Coffee break
Air-sea fluxes
11:00-11:30	Invited: Remotely Sensed Data Requirements for Turbulent Heat Flux Determination - Abderrahim Bentamy, IFREMER, France
11:30-11:50	An improved estimation of satellite derived surface humidity and air-sea latent heat flux - Hiroyuki Tomita, ISEE - Nagoya University, Japan
11:50-12:10	Improving Indian Ocean surface heat and freshwater flux estimates based on ocean measurements - James Carton, University of Maryland, USA
12:10-12:30	Effect of a Sea Spray Layer on Remote Sensing of Ocean Surface - Magdalena D. Anguelova, Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC, USA.
12:30-14:00	Lunch
Challenging conditions
14:00-14:30	Invited: Observation of Arctic sea ice breakup and floe size during the winter-to-summer transition - Phil Hwang, University of Huddersfield, UK
14:30-14:50	The Multi-sensor Improved Sea-Surface Temperature: Continuing the GHRSST partnership and improving Arctic Data - Chelle Gentemann, Earth and Space Research, USA
14:50-15:30	Discussion
15:30-16:00	Tea break
16:00-16:10	Formation of breakout groups
16:10-17:30	Breakout session I
17:30-18:00	Breakout session I reports
19:30-21:00	Poster session

 

9:00-9:10	Formation of breakout groups
9:10-10:30	Breakout session II
10:30-11:00	Coffee break
11:00-11:30	Breakout session II reports
11:30-12:15	Plenary summary and future plans
12:15-12:30	Closing remarks
12:30-14:00	Lunch

Abderrahim Bentamy	Laboratoire Spatial et Interfaces Air-Mer Institut français de recherche pour l'exploitation de la mer (IFREMER) 29280 Plouzané France Email
Diego Fernández-Prieto	European Space Research Institute European Space Agency Frascati Italy Email
Phil Hwang	University of Huddersfield Queensgate Huddersfield HD1 3DH United Kingdom Email
Jack Kaye	Associate Director for Research Earth Science Division Science Mission Directorate NASA HeadquartersWashington, DC 20546 USA Email
Kirk Knoblespeisse	Dr. Kirk Knoblespeisse NASA/GSFC Greenbelt, MD 20771 USA Email