ODYSEA webinars (prior to summer 2023)

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• February 8, 2022:  Seth Zippel, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution:  The kinetic energy budget of the ocean surface mixed layer
• February 22, 2022:  Mark Bourassa, Florida State University:  Wind and Current Feedback in High-Resolution Coupled Ocean-Atmosphere Models
• March 1, 2022:  No webinar:  Ocean Sciences Meeting
• March 8, 2022: Hervé Giordani, Meteo France:  Marine Boundary-Layers Dynamics: Contributions to the Wind and Current Mission
• March 15, 2022:  Hector Torres, JPL:  Wind mechanical forcing of the oceans: A modeling study in anticipation of future winds and currents space missions
• March 22, 2022:  No webinar
• March 29, 2022:  Lionel Renault, IRD:  The Current Feedback to the Atmosphere: From Fine-Scale Interaction and Impacts to Climate Response
• April 5, 2022: Ernesto Rodriguez, JPL:  Doppler Scatterometry: physical basis, validation status, mission design, performance and trades
• April 12-May 3, 2022:  No webinar: IOVWST
• May 10, 2022:  Jinbo Wang, JPL:  Near inertial oscillations to Odysea, opportunities and challenges
• May 17, 2022:  Clément Ubelmann, Datlas About mapping the dynamical components of surface current with Odysea and further perspectives on inferring ocean sub-surface properties from wind+current
• May 24, 2022: no webinar
• May 31, 2022:  Audrey Delpech, UCLA: Internal wave interactions with eddies and the atmosphere from a high-resolution regional simulation of the California Current System
• June 7, 2022:  no webinar
• June 14, 2022:  Luc Lenain, SIO: Observations of surface winds, waves and currents from meso- to submesoscales
• June 21, 2022:  Alex Wineteer, JPL: Odysea Mission, Measurement Simulator, and Particle Dispersion Simulations
• June 28, 2022:  no webinar:  SWOT meeting
• July 5, 2022:  Matthew Alford, SIO, Revisiting near-inertial wave generation: mixed-layer deepening and local/remote generation
• July 12, 2022:  no webinar
• July 19, 2022:  Korak Saha, NOAA Affiliate, Hurricane Resolving NOAA NCEI Blended Sea Surface Wind (NBS) Product
• July 26-August 23, 2022:  summer hiatus
• August 30, 2022:  Ad Stoffelen, KNMI, Harmony
• September 6, 2022: Patrice Klein, Caltech, Impact of ocean eddies and submesoscales on the atmospheric water cycle
• September 13, 2022:  Brian Arbic, U. Michigan, Frequency dependence of near-surface oceanic kinetic energy from drifter observations and global high-resolution models
• September 20, 2022:  Shang-Ping Xie and Qihua Peng, SIO, Surface warming–induced global acceleration of upper ocean currents
• September 27, 2022:  Tom Farrar, WHOI, The Sub-Mesoscale Ocean Dynamics Experiment (S-MODE) 
• October 4, 2022:  Jörn Callies, Caltech, Geostrophic turbulence and near-inertial waves in the upper ocean
• October 11, 2022:  no webinar
• October 18, 2022:  Amala Mahadevan, WHOI, Can vertical velocity be inferred from surface data?
• October 25, 2022:  Roger Samelson, OSU, Wind drift in a homogeneous equilibrium sea
• November 1, 2022:  no webinar OSTST
• November 8, 2022:  Mara Freilich, SIO, Observational characterization of the transition to submesoscale dynamics 
• November 15, 2022:  Gregg Jacobs, NRL, Bounds of present ocean prediction
• November 22, 2022:  no webinar, US Thanksgiving
• November 29, 2022:  Elisabeth Rémy, Mercator, Assimilation of satellite Surface Current in global ocean monitoring systems: first experiments with simulated data
• December 6, 2022:  no webinar
• December 13, 2022:  no webinar, AGU meeting
  
• December 20, 2022- January 3, 2023:  no webinar for holidays
• January 10, 2023: no webinar, AMS meeting
• January 17, 2023:  OASIS leadership, An Observing Air-Sea Interactions Strategy (OASIS) for the satellite community
• January 24, 2023:  Meghan Cronin, NOAA PMEL, Diurnal cycle of Sea Surface Temperature (SST) in frontal regions of the tropical Pacific
• January 31, 2023:  Hector Torres, JPL, Estimating wind work at the air-sea interface from the spaceborne odysea doppler scatterometer concept
• February 7, 2023:  Larry O’Neill, Oregon State University, Feasibility of estimating sea surface height anomalies from surface ocean currents
• February 14, 2023:  Erik van Sebille, Utrecht University, When is fine-resolution fine enough? The spatiotemporal heterogeneity of the processes that transport marine plastic
• February 21, 2023:  Dudley Chelton, Oregon State, The Prospects for Estimation of Surface Divergence from a Future Doppler Scatterometer Satellite Mission
• February 28, 2023:  Christine Gommenginger, National Oceanography Centre, Southampton,  Imaging small-scale ocean dynamics at interfaces of the Earth System with the SEASTAR ESA Earth Explorer 11 mission candidate
• March 7, 2023:  no webinar [US CLIVAR workshop]
• March 14, 2023:  David Long, BYU, Satellite Observations of Ice, Winds, and Currents
• March 21, 2023:  Shikhar Rai, University of Rochester, Disproportionate Role of Small-scale Winds on the Mesoscales and Spurious Eddy Killing from Resolution Mismatch
• March 28, 2023:  Ernesto Rodriguez, JPL, What current does a Doppler Scatterometer measure? Lessons from the S-MODE experiment.
• April 4, 2023:  no webinar:  MAXSS workshop on extreme winds. (https://maxss2023.sciencesconf.org/)
• April 11, 2023:  Jin-Song von Storch, Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, The role of wind work for the ocean circulation – a lesson learned from a 5km coupled ICON simulation
• April 18, 2023: Fabrice Ardhuin, Ifremer, Ocean waves, phase speeds and current measurements with microwave radars: how near-nadir (SKIM, SWOT) is different from 55° incidence (DopplerScatt / ODYSEA) or anything in between (Harmony, SEASTAR)
• April 25, 2023: no webinar:  European Geophysical Union conference
• May 2, 2023: no webinar
• May 9, 2023:  no webinar
• May 16, 2023: César Sauvage, WHOI, Impacts of surface waves on air-sea flux and marine boundary layer processes
• May 23, 2023:  Joseph Sienkiewicz, Ocean Applications Branch of the NOAA Ocean Prediction Center,  Winds and Current, Challenges - An Operational Perspective
• May 30, 2023: Ted Strub, Oregon State, Characteristics of Poleward Pathways Between the Southern and Northern CCS: The Role of Ekman Transports, Diffusion, the Inshore Countercurrent and Davidson Current
• June 6, 2023:  Hyodae Seo, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Wind-current coupling in the context of mesoscale/frontal-scale air-sea interaction
• June 13, 2023:  Luke Kachelein, JPL, The Diurnal Cycle in the California Current System: Currents from High-Frequency Radar and Winds from ERA5
• June 20, 2023: Hector Torres, JPL, Advancing knowledge of cross-scale ocean current interactions using ODYSEA data
• June 27, 2023:  no webinar
• July 4, 2023:  no webinar (holiday in US)
• July 11, 2023:  Anthony Kirincich, WHOI, Horizontal stirring over the northeast U.S. continental shelf:  Eddies, lateral exchange, and eddy kinetic energy wavenumber spectra
• July 18 - August 28, 2023:  summer hiatus. 

Air-sea fluxes from space

Starting Fall 2023, an OASIS webinar series.

• September 5, 2023:  Charlotte DeMott, Colorado State University, Findings and Recommendations from the Air-Sea Transition Zone Study Group Report
• September 12, 2023:  Christine Gommenginger, National Oceanography Centre, Southampton, SeaSTAR – the Earth Explorer 11 mission candidate to image fast-evolving small-scale ocean dynamics
• September 19, 2023:  no webinar (SWOT meeting)
• September 26, 2023:  Antonio Bonaduce (NERSC) and Øyvind Breivik (MetNo), The potential of SEASTAR (EE11 candidate mission) from fjords to the open ocean: a Norwegian case study
• October 3, 2023:  Francesco d'Ovidio, LOCEAN-IPSL, Paris, Lagrangian biogeochemistry in the SWOT era
• October 10, 2023:  no webinar (Live stream the EE11 User Consultation Meeting in Bucharest:  https://atpi.eventsair.com/ucm2023/)
• October 17, 2023:  Clément Ubelmann, DATLAS, and Jinbo Wang, JPL,  Near-inertial oscillations
• October 24, 2023:  Owen O'Driscoll, Delft University of Technology, Air-sea fluxes from high-resolution radar imagery
• October 31, 2023:  Claudia Pasquero, University of Milano - Bicocca, Ocean forcing of atmospheric boundary layer properties and effects on surface heat flux variability
  
• November 7, 2023:  no webinar  (OSTST and S-MODE meetings)
• November 14, 2023:  no webinar
  
• November 21, 2023:  Shannon Brown, JPL, From COWVR to Butterfly: Radiometer Advances for Space-based Air-Sea Flux Measurement
  
• November 28, 2023: Élise Beaudin, Brown University, Impact of Extratropical SST on Precipitation in the Northeast Pacific
  
• December 5, 2023:  Patrick Walton, CareWeather, Hourly Ocean Surface Vector Winds from the Veery Constellation of Small Scatterometers
  
• December 12, 2023--January 2, 2024:  no webinar.  Happy Holidays!
• January 9, 2024:  originally scheduled webinar delayed to February 13 due to severe storms in Tallahassee
  
• January 16, 2024:  Niklas Schneider, University of Hawaii, Scale Dependence of Mesoscale Air-Sea Interaction - The Gulf Stream Convergence Zone
• January 23, 2024:  Iury Simoes-Sousa, WHOI, Atmospheric Cold Pools in the Bay of Bengal
• January 30, 2024:  Rhys Parfitt, FSU, Air-sea flux gradients and their impact on sub-tropical and mid-latitude weather
• February 6, 2024:  Bo Qiu, University of Hawaii, On regime shift of the Kuroshio Extension dynamic system in 2018
• February 13, 2024:  Mark Bourassa, FSU, Air-Sea Turbulent Fluxes and Sea Spray in Hurricanes - An Examination Based on Dropsondes
• February 20, 2024:  no webinar, Ocean Sciences Meeting
• February 27, 2024:  Jamie Shutler, University of Exeter, Satellite observations are critical for assessing the ocean carbon sink, but can they be used to understand shelf sea carbon accumulation rates?
• March 5, 2024:  Juan Crespo, JPL, CYGNSS Observations of Air-Sea Interactions in Extratropical Cyclones and Atmospheric Rivers
• March 12, 2024:  Kyle Shackelford, Colorado State University, Indian Ocean rain layers and their feedbacks to atmospheric convection
• March 19, 2024:  Eric, D'Asaro, University of Washington, What’s next for ocean submesoscale studies; multiplatform submesoscale sampling and the S-MODE experiment
• March 26, 2024:  no webinar, spring vacation
• April 2, 2024:  Gwendal Marechal, Colorado School of Mines, Observing and Modelling Sea State Gradients in the Meso-to-Submesoscale Range
• April 9, 2024:  Jacob Wenegrat, University of Maryland, Effects of air-sea interaction on submesoscale processes
  
• April 16, 2024:  no webinar (EGU)
• April 23, 2024:  Baylor Fox-Kemper, Brown University, Are fluxes indicative of boundary layer forcing or oceanic climate change?
• April 30, 2024:  Jiarong Wu, NYU, High fidelity numerical simulation of ocean surface waves (+ recent work on data-driven air-sea flux parameterization)
• May 7, 2024:  Ernesto Rodriguez, JPL, Wind-Surface Current Coupling at Small Scales: S-MODE Experiment Results
• May 14, 2024:  Xuanting Hao, UC San Diego, Air–Sea Interaction: A Microscale Perspective
• May 21, 2024:  Beth Sanabia, University of Washington, Hurricane wave measurements: Understanding the ocean under the storm
• May 28, 2024:  no webinar (International Ocean Vector Winds Science Team is May 29-31)
• June 4, 2024:  Brian Arbic, University of Michigan, and Ebenezer Nyadjro, NOAA/Mississippi
  State Cooperative Institute, Ocean Science Capacity Development in West Africa: The Role of Satellite Remote Sensing Observations
• June 11, 2024:  Yue (Luna) Bai, Caltech, Sub-mesoscale Wind-Front Interactions and Their Impact on Ocean Vertical Velocities
• June 18, 2024:  no webinar (SWOT meeting)
• June 25, 2024:  Felix Vivant, École Normale Supérieure Paris-Saclay, Paris-Saclay University and Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego, Convection within atmospheric storms organized by oceanic submesoscale fronts
• July 2, 2024:  Marco Larrañaga, LEGOS, Partial Control of the Gulf of Mexico Dynamics by the Current Feedback to the Atmosphere
• July 9 - September 3, 2024:  summer hiatus, no webinars
• September 10, 2024:  Aneesh Subramanian, University of Colorado, Air-sea fluxes in the TPOS Equatorial Pacific Experiment (TEPEX), moderator:  Juan Crespo
• September 17, 2024:  Dan Whitt, NASA Ames, (Sub)mesoscale currents in and around the Pacific cold tongue, moderator:  Bia Villas Bôas
• September 24, 2024:  Sarah Gille, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego, ODYSEA: Simultaneous Winds and Surface Currents via Satellite Doppler Scatterometry, moderator:  Bia Villas Bôas
• October 1, 2024:  Lev Looney, University of Miami, Observing Tropical Cyclones with Saildrones and the Need for Collaboration amongst In-situ and Satellite Communities, moderator:  Mara Frelich
• October 8, 2024:  Baek-Min Kim, Pukyong National University, Unveiling the Pivotal Influence of Sea Spray Heat Fluxes on Hurricane Rapid Intensification
• October 15, 2024:  Ryan Holmes, Australian Bureau of Meteorology, Air-sea coupling feedbacks over Tropical Instability Waves, moderator:  Juan Crespo
• October 22, 2024-November 12, 2024:  hiatus (meetings, election, etc.)
• November 19, 2024:  Craig Donlon, European Space Agency, Air Sea Interaction: the processes that define the signals we interpret from Earth Observation
• November 26, 2024:  Katherine Wentz, Remote Sensing Systems, COWVR Air-Sea Essential Climate Variables
• December 3, 2024:  Zorana Jelenak, 20 years Database of Most Extreme Surface Winds from Aircraft Measurements is in Jeopardy! An Example of Why Calibration, Validation and Continuous product Monitoring is Critical Part of Any Mission
• December 10, 2024:  no webinar (AGU meeting)
• December 17, 2024:  Magdalena Carranza, Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute,
• December 24-31, 2024:  no webinar (holidays)
• January 7, 2025:  no webinar
• January 14, 2025:  no webinar (AMS meeting)
• January 21, 2025:  Tien-Yiao Hsu, SIO, The Modification of Air-Sea Fluxes by Quasi-periodic Sea Surface Temperature Structures in a Cross-Gradient Scenario
• January 28, 2025:  Elisabeth Rémy, Mercator Océan international, Assimilating simulated ODYSEA surface current observations in the Mercator Ocean global system: Sensitivity study and complementarity with altimetry
• February 4, 2025:  Jennifer Waters, UK Met Office, Investigating the impact of assimilating satellite Total Surface Current Velocities in global ocean forecasting systems
• February 11, 2025:  Shikhar Rai, WHOI, Atmospheric wind energization of ocean weather
• February 18, 2025:  Simon Josey, NOCS, Record Winter 2023 Antarctic Sea-Ice Decline Increased Ocean Heat Loss, Dense Water Formation and Storms
• February 25, 2025, special time:  3 pm PST:  Ajin Cho, Yonsei University, Current-Wind Interaction and Tropical Cyclones, moderator:  Aneesh Subramanian
• March 4, 2025: Sarah Nicholson, CSIR, The impact of storms on CO2 and heat exchange across the Southern Ocean
• March 11, 2025: George Huffman, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
• March 18, 2025: Derek Posselt, JPL, moderator:  Juan Crespo
• March 25, 2025: Lisan Yu, WHOI
• April 1, 2025:  Hiroyuki Tomita, Hokudai University
• April 8, 2025 and beyond:  TBD

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