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:  TBD
• 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:  TBD
• December 19, 2023--January 2, 2024:  no webinar.  Happy Holidays!
• January 9, 2024:  Mark Bourassa, FSU, Air-Sea Turbulent Fluxes and Sea Spray in Hurricanes - An Examination Based on Dropsondes
• January 16, 2024:  Niklas Schneider, University of Hawaii
• January 23, 2024:  Iury Simoes-Sousa, WHOI, Atmospheric Cold Pools in the Bay of Bengal
• January 30, 2024:  Rhys Parfitt, FSU
• February 6, 2024:  Bo Qiu, University of Hawaii, On regime shift of the Kuroshio Extension dynamic system in 2018
• February 13, 2024:  TBD
• February 20, 2024:  no webinar, Ocean Sciences Meeting
• February 27, 2024:  Jamie Shutler, University of Exeter
• March 5, 2024:  Juan Crespo, JPL
• March 12, 2024:  TBD

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