September 9: Lectures on satellite altimetry
08.00 - 11.00 Lecture 1:
Principles of satellite altimetry and application to sea level
change studies
C.K. Shum, The Ohio State University, USA
11.00 - 15.00 Lecture 2 (one-hour rest at 12.00 – 13.00 )
Ocean circulations and eddies from altimetry
G. Jacobs, Naval Research Laboratory, USA
15.00 - 18.00 Lecture 3
Ocean tide modeling with altimetry and geodetic applications
K. Matsumoto, National Astronomical Observatory,Japan
September 10: Lectures on satellite altimetry
08.00 - 11.00 Lecture 4
Marine gravity and geoid from multi-satellite altimetry and
Applications
O.B. Andersen, National Survey and Cadastre,
Denmark
11.00 - 15.00 Lecture 5
Altimeter waveform retracking for land/ocean use
P. Berry, De Montfort University, UK
15.00 - 18.00
Lecture 6
Bathymetric estimation from altimetry
D. T. Sandwell, Scripps Inst. of Oceanography, USA
September 11: Geodesy
08:30-09:30 Keynote speech
Altimeter methods for satellite geodesy
C.K.Shum
10:00-11:50 Session G1
Chair: C. Zhao
10:00-10:30 Ionosphere corrections of radar altimeters and calibration results
of GFO
Changyin Zhao, C. K. Shum and Yuchan Yi (invited)
10:30-10:50 Prediction of the mean gravity anomaly of 30’ 30’grid over the
global sea from T/P and ERS-1/2 satellite altimetry
Ruihua Zhang and Fuqing Peng
10:50-11:10 A New Method of Computing Vertical Deflections From Satellite
Altimeter Data
L.F. Bao and Yang Lu
11:10-11:30 Marine gravity anomaly from satellite altimetry: a comparison of
methods over shallow waters
Cheinway Hwang, Hsin-Ying Hsu and Xiaoli Deng
11:30-11:50 Enhanced Free-air Gravity Anomalies by Satellite Radar
Altimetry
Jeong Woo Kim, Daniel Roman and Ralph R.B. von
Frese
12:00-13:30 Lunch break
13:30-15:00 Session G2
Chair: W. Bosch
13:30-14:00 Geodetic Application of Satellite Altimetry
W. Bosch (invited)
14:00-14:20 Multi-mission satellite altimeter data base for application to
solving geodetic and oceanographic problems
P. Medvedev, V. Nepoklonov and D. Medvedev
14:20-14:40 Topex altimetric mean sea level and gravimetric geoid on the
North of Algeria
S. Kahlouche, A. Rami and S.A. Benahmed Daho
14:40-15:00 OpenADB - an Open Altimeter Data Base
W. Bosch
15:00-15:30 Break
15:30-16:50 Session G3
Chair: E. Lucy Mathers
15:30-15:50 Oceanic Effects on Earth Rotational Change - A Case Study with
Satellite Altimeter Observations
Jianli Chen, Clark Wilson, Xiaogong Hu and Xinhao Liao
15:50-16:10 Absolute Calibration of the Altimeters using UK Tide Gauges,
GPS and Precise, Local Geoid-Differences
Xiaojun Dong, Philip Woodworth, Philip Moore and Richard
Bingley
16:10-16:30 An intercomparison of parametric models of sea state bias for the
TOPEX, Poseidon and Jason altimeters
E. Lucy Mathers
16:30-16:50 Global Mean Sea Surface WHU2000 Derived from Multi-satellite
Altimeter Data
Jiang Weiping, Li Jiancheng, Wang Zhengtao
September 12: Geophysics and oceanography
08:30-09:30 Keynote speech
Present-day sea level change: observations from satellite
altimetry and tide gauges and causes
A. Cazenave
10:00-11:50 Session GO1
Chair: H. Schuh
10:00-10:30 Investigation of hydrological and atmospheric loading by space
geodetic techniques
H. Schuh , G. Estermann, J.-F. Crétaux , and T. van Dam
(invited)
10:30-10:50 Application of Multi-Satellite Altimetry Data to Submarine
Tectonic and Geodynamic Study in West Pacific
Jinyao Gao, Jin Xianglong and Sun Peng
10:50-11:10 Gravity inversion and flexural analysis in South China Sea
Carla Braitenberg, Elena Pagot, Yong Wang and Maria Zadro
11:10-11:30 Global mean sea surface and marine gravity anomaly from
multi-satellite altimetry: applications of deflection-geoid and
inverse Vening Meinesz formulae
Cheinway Hwang, Hsin-Ying Hsu and Rung-Jie Jang
11:30-11:50 Comparisons of Three Inversion Approaches for Recovering
Gravity Anomalies From Altimeter
HUANG Motao, ZHAI Guojun, BIAN Shaofeng and OUYANG
Yongzhong,
12:00-13:30 Lunch break
13:30-15:00 Session GO2
Chair: J. Klokočník
13:30-14:00 Accuravy assessment of the earth gravity field models by means
of independent satellite crossover altimetry
J. Klokočník, C.A. Wagner and J. Kostelecký (invited)
14:00-14:20 Annual and Inter-annual Variability of the sea level in the northern
North Atlantic Ocean
D.L. Volkov and H.M. van Aken
14:20-14:40 A study of annual variation of dynamic topography and circulation
in the South China Sea with satellite altimetry
Li Li, Jindian Xu and Chunsheng Jing
14:40-15:00 Temporal and spatial description of sea level in the North Sea
using altimetry and water level recorders
Jacob Lorentzen Høyer and Ole Baltazar Andersen
15:00 – 15:30 Break
15:30-16:50 Session GO3
Chair: C. Hwang
15:30-15:50 Altimetry and Tuna Catch
Cho-Teng Liu, Ching-Hsi Nan, Chung-Ru Ho , Nan-Jung Kuo,
Ming-Kuang and Ruo-Shan Tseng
15:50-16:10 Characterization of global sea level rise observed by satellite
altimetry
Chung-yen Kuo, C.K. Shum and Yuchan Yi
16:10-16:30 Bathymetry prediction of South China Sea from altimetry data by
FFT technique
Jia Luo and Jiancheng Li
16:30-16:50 The kinematics of mesoscale eddies from TOPEX/POSEIDON
altimetry over the Subtropical Counter Current: case studies for a
cyclonic eddy and an anticyclonic eddy
Cheinway Hwang, Ricky Kao and Chau-Ron Wu
September 13: Oceanography
08:30-09:30 Keynote speech
Advances in Ocean Dynamics from Satellite Altimetry
L.L. Fu
10:00-11:50 Session O1
Chair: C. Zuffada
10:00-10:30 Oceanography with GPS
Cinzia Zuffada (invited)
10:30-10:50 An Assessment of Altimeter Radar Waveform Retracking
Algorithms in Coastal Regions
Xiaoli Deng and Will Featherstone
10:50-11:10 Uncertainty reduction of estimated geostrophic volume transport
with altimeter observations east of Taiwan
Yih Yang and Cho-Teng Liu
11:10-11:30 Slope Current Variability off Atlantic Canada in the 1990s
Guoqi Han
11:30-11:50 Jason-1 altimetry products distributed by PO.DAAC
Andrew Bingham and Kelley Case
12:00-13:30 Lunch break
13:30-15:20 Session O2
Chair: Hou-ze Xu
13:30-14:00 Determination of Sea Level Height Variation by Dynamics
Crossovers Adjustment
Lu-Ying Chen and Hou-ze Xu (invited)
14:00-14:20 Extreme southern ocean tide modeling using radar altimeters
C.K. Shum, Yuchan Yi, Ole Andersen and Per Knudsen
14:20-14:40 Global distribution of shallow water tides from
TOPEX/POSEIDON altimetry
Ole Baltazar Andersen
14:40-15:00 Accuracy Assessment of Ocean Tide Models in the China Seas
Nanhua Yu
15:00-15:20 Harmonic tidal analysis along T/P tracks in near China water and
vicinity
Jing-Yang Bao, Chao Ding-Bo, ZHAO Jin-Ping and WANG Qi
16:10
Closing Session
September 11-13: Poster Session
Recovery of shallow water constituents using satellite
altimetry and combined numerical methods: a case study, of
the straits of Malacca
Muhammad Nur Jason Philip Vella, Shahrum Ses, Abdul Majid
Kadir and Ole B. Andersen
Temporal variation of gravity field from Altimetry using
combined data processing of GPS and grace satellites
A. ArRajehi
Analysis of annual sea level variation of Barents and White
Seas by satellite altimetry data, results of hydrodynamic
simulation and tide gauge stations data
Sergey A. Lebedev, Oleg I. Zilberstein, Sergey K. Popov and
Olga V. Tikhonova
On the use of ocean reflections of GPS signals to enhance
satellite altimetry
J. Klokočník, C.A. Wagner and J. Kostelecký
An analysis of Taiwan’s height datum using satellite
altimetry, GPS and terrestrial data
Cheinway Hwang, Teh-Fu Tseng, Yao-Hsien Tseng and
Cheng-Gi Wang
An Assimilated regional tide models over The South China
Sea
BAO Jing-Yang, CHAO Ding-Bo, LIU Yanchun, ZHAO Jin-Ping
and WANG Qi
The effects of atmospheric loading on vertical coordinates
from Global Positioning System
Yingbing Li, Junyi Guo and Shaoquan Xu
The ENVISAT RA-2 radar altimeter system
J. BENVENISTE, M.P. MILAGRO-PEREZ, M. ROCA and G.
LEVRINI
Regional Long-Term Sea Level And Sea Surface
Temperature changes
Ole Baltazar Andersen, Per Knudsen and Brian Beckley
Altimetry derived gravity anomaly regional errors in near
shore, shallow, and continental shelf edge areas
Ronald G. Trimmer, Tim Washechek, Keith C. Paulson and Ole
Andersen
Absolute comparison of satellite altimeter observations and
tide gauge registrations in Venezuela
G. Acuna and Wolfgang Bosch
Pseudo-harmonic representation of gravity field in south
China sea
Y.Lu H.T.Hsu
Post-Oil-Rebound detected from temporal variation of
altimetry observations
A. ArRajehi
Wind Speed and Significant Wave Height Distribution in the
Western Indian Ocean from Altimetry Data
Felix Jose, Paul Samuel and Kurian N.P.
Sea level changes in China Sea detected by combining
Satellite altimeter data with tide gauge records
Zhengtao Wang, Jiancheng Li and Jianguo Hu
Altimetric Bathymetry from Surface Slopes:
mission
Walter H.F. Smith and David T. Sandwell
the ABYSS
Distribution of Jason-1 near-real-time data
Andrew Bingham
Spectrally correlated sea surface heights between
Topex/Poseidon and in-situ tide gauge measurements in the
East Sea (Japan Sea)
Jeong Woo Kim, Jong-Sun Hwang, Kyung Duk Min and
Joong-sun Won