User consultation
ESA Storm Surge preparatory User Consultation
A user consultation meeting to prepare for a potential ESA Storm Surge project has been held in Venezia the 17-18 September.
40 + participants from ESA member states, Canada, Australia, Korea, Pakistan, Thailand, Puerto Rico attended. International organisation such as UNESCO and its Intergovernmental Oceaographic Commission were co-organizing the meeting with the Agency. The operation centre of the Venezia municipality for "Acqua alta" (high water events) as well as the North West Shelf Operational Oceanographic System (NOOS) laid down very clear requirement to access improved NRT wind field from scatterometer, SAR and altimeter data in Near Real Time.
The overall meeting conclusions report is available here.
If you would like to contribute your user requirements to ESA or become a Champion user for the storm surge project, please take a look at the User Requirements feedback template as well as the Letter of Commitment.
Thursday, 17 September 2009
Introduction and opening
| 09:00 |
Opening and welcome address Paolo Canestrelli, Istituzione Centro Maree del Comune di Venezia |
| 09:20 |
Setting the Programmatic Context O. Arino, European Space Agency |
| 09:30 |
Objectives and Structure of the Workshop C. Donlon, European Space Agency |
Session 1: Use of existing satellite data for Storm Surges applications and development
Chair: O. Arino, ESA, Rapporteur: Kieren Millard
| 09:40 |
Ongoing activities and Plans for integrated storm surge applications B.Lee, Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO |
| 10:00 |
User requirements from the JCOMM Storm Surge Symposium V.Swail, JCOMM Expert Team on Wind Waves and Storm Surges |
| 10:20 |
Assessment and Analysis of Scatterometer Wind Vector in High Wind Conditions |
| 10:40 |
User Requirements for storm surges and NWP Oyvind Saetra, Met.no, Norway |
| 11:00 | Coffee break |
Session 2: What is the current capability for Storm Surge models?
Chair: C. Donlon, ESA, Rapporteur: Abderrahim Bentamy
| 11:20 |
Wind, wave and storm surge hindcasts and scenarios and related coastal and offshore applications: the coastDat data set at the GKSS Institute for Coastal Research Ralf Weisse et al., GKSS Institute for Coastal Research, Geesthacht, Germany |
| 11:40 |
UK Storm Surge Prediction Kevin Horsburgh, Proudman Oceanographic Laboratory, UK |
| 12:00 |
Danish Meteorological Institute applications and needs for storm surges Jun She, Danish Meteorological Institute, Denmark |
| 12:20 |
Operational storm surge modelling in Venice at the ICPSM (Venice Municipality) |
| 12:40 | Lunch break |
Session 3: Users' Requirements for Integrated Storm Surge applications
Chair: B. Lee, IOC, Rapporteur: Jun She
| 14:00 |
Storm Surges: Forecasting and Quantifying the Risks Kieren Millard, HR Wallingford, UK |
| 14:20 |
Recent developments in storm surge prediction in the North Indian Ocean Shishir Dube, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, India |
| 14:40 |
Storm surge modeling for the Dutch coast: ambitions in a new century Annette Zijderveld, Deltares, Netherlands |
| 15:00 |
User requirements in Australia for storm surge monitoring and forecasting Mikhail Entel, Bureau of Meteorology, Melbourne, Australia |
| 15:20 |
Users requirement in the Caribbean region on storm surge monitoring and forecasting Aurelio Mercado-Irizarry, Director of Coastal hazards centre of UPRM, University of Puerto Rico |
| 15:40 | Tea break |
Session 3 (Cont.): Users' Requirements for Integrated Storm Surge applications
Chair: Shishir Dube, Rapporteur: Georg Umgiesser
| 16:00 |
User requirements in USA for storm surge monitoring and forecasting Don Resio, US Army Corps. Of Engineers, Visburg, Miami, USA |
| 16:20 |
User requirements in Africa for storm surge monitoring and forecasting applications Alberto F. Mavume, Department of Physics, Eduardo Mondlane University, Maputo, Mozambique |
| 16:40 |
Operational storm surge modelling for the city of Venice Georg Umgiesser and Marco Bajo, Institute of Marine Sciences, National Research Council, Venezia, Italy |
| 17:20 |
User Requirements in North Indian and Southwest Pacific Oceans for Storm Surge Monitoring and Forecasting Applications Prof. Absornsuda Siripong, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand |
| 17:40 |
User requirements in Ireland for storm surge monitoring and forecasting applications Prof. Robert Devoy, Dept of Geography/Coastal and Marine Resources Centre, University College Cork and joint with the Maritime and Energy Cluster (MERC), Ireland |
| 18:00 | Close |
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Welcome cocktail offered by ESA at San Servolo Island |
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Friday, 18 September 2009
Session 3 (Cont.): Users' Requirements for Integrated Storm Surge applications
Chair: Shishir Dube, Rapporteur: Georg Umgiesser
| 09:00 |
Extreme sea state and wind field measurements using SAR data Xiao-Ming Li and Susanne Lehner, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Oberpfaffenhofen, 82234, Germany |
| 09:20 |
Near Real Time scatterometer winds as support to the operational storm surge forecasting in Venice Stefano Zecchetto and Francesco De Biasio, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Istituto Scienze dell'Atmosfera e del Clima (ISAC), Italy |
| 09:40 |
'Total sea level' forecast products in connection with the Australian Bluelink project Andy Taylor, Ocean Prediction Group, Centre for Australian Weather & Climate Research, Melbourne, Australia |
Session 4: Breakout discussion groups
| 10:00 |
Breakout A – Priority User Requirements for a Storm Surge Project |
Breakout B - Key challenges for Storm surges and earth observation |
| 10:50 | Coffee break | |
| 11:10 | Breakout A (continued) | Breakout B (continued) |
| 12:30 | Lunch break | |
Session 5: Breakout Session Reports and discussion
| 14:00 | Summary, conclusions and recommendations to ESA from breakout A |
| 14:20 | Summary, conclusions and recommendations to ESA from breakout B |
| 14:40 |
Plenary discussion: Meeting User Requirements for an ESA Storm Surge Project |
Session 6: Conclusions
| 15:15 |
Summary and next steps C. Donlon, ESA |
| 15:45 | Meeting Close |
