Updated: 10/4/01
RGPS SWG Meeting Agenda
Oct 10-11, 2001
8:30 Introduction – Rothrock/Kwok
8:45 NASA Program Overview - Abdalati
9:15 RGPS Meeting Objectives/Issues for SWG - Kwok
9:30 RGPS – ASF perspective – Labelle-Hamer
10:00 Break
10:15 Three years of RGPS products
A summary
11:00 RGPS Validation/Algorithm talks
Accuracy of RGPS tracking: internal comparisons and comparisons with buoys. (Lindsay)
Onset of melt from RGPS products (Kwok)
12:00 Lunch
1:30 General talks (20 min talk/5 min questions)
Combining drifting buoy and RGPS observations with model data for better understanding of sea-ice motion and deformation.(Heil)
Recent developments in modeling oriented linear deformation features (Hibler)
Consideration of tidal motion and other high frequency forcing in the western Weddell Sea: SAR and Buoy Array Comparison from ISW 1992 (Geiger)
Modeling sliplines
of sea ice (Zhang)
3:30 Break (10 mins)
Formation of an Aggregate Scale in Arctic Sea Ice (Hopkins)
Can we consider the Arctic Oscillation independently from the Barents Oscillation? (Tremblay)
A hierarchy of ice deformation estimates and associated spatial-temporal characteristics. (Ukita)
8:30 General talks (20 min talk/5 min questions)
Error characteristics of the optimal interpolation assimilation of ice motion derived from SSM/I into a coupled ice/ocean model (Stark)
New information on firstyear sea ice from RGPS winter re-initialization: Comparisons with SHEBA Field data....(McNutt)
Use of RGPS for validation of model ice deformation estimates (Lindsay)
Comparison of passive microwave retrieved ice concentration with RGPS divergence measurements (Kwok)
10:35 Break
10:45 Southern Ocean Data Acquisition
11:00 Review of Issues for SWG
Data Issues
Data fields, range/consistency checking, negative cell areas etc.
RGPS resources/processing schedule
12:00
Lunch
1:00 NRC report (Holt)
1:30 RGPS – Future Directions
1:45 Image Mosaics etc (LaBelle-Hamer)
2:00 Outreach/Summary of Recommendations/General Discussion
3:00 Adjourn