| Session Description |
Recent ocean remote sensing missions and techniques of new generation of active and passive spaceborne sensors have produced a remarkable data sets of high accuracy measurements of sea surface height, wind, roughness, temperature, clarity, phytoplankton pigment concentration, etc. One can now study, on a truly global basis, the fluid ocean and its variability at all periods between years and days, on all spatial scales from the global to about 20 meters. The accuracy and precision of the measurements are so good, that, with the help of the newly developed various remote sensing data processing techniques, a huge variety of phenomena can now be addressed. This session welcomes submissions of new research results of the remote sensing methods and applications for global and/or coastal oceans using altimeter, scatterometer, SAR, SST and Ocean Color data, and abstracts describing some of the recent attempts to combine satellite remote sensing with other in situ observations and techniques, to infer the three-dimensional time-varying ocean circulation, air-sea interactions, and global and/or regional oceanographic processes and related studies. Presentations on the newly developed algorithms and applications are particularly welcomed. |
