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Proceedings of the
Third International Workshop on Advances in the
Use of Historical Marine Climate Data

(MARCDAT-III, Frascati, Italy, 2-6 May 2011)

JCOMM Technical Report No. 59

Programme, presentations, and posters

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Timetable of introductory (in green; generally 20 min.), contributed (25 min.), and invited (in blue; 30 min.) oral presentations (all presentation times included ~5 min. for questions). Poster presentations are listed following the oral presentations; posters were available for viewing throughout the workshop. Presentations or posters that were planned and could not be delivered, or missing materials are indicated in gray. The complete workshop's report is available from here.

1) Presentations

 

 

 

 

Monday

2 May

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Session/

Timeslot

Title

 

Chair/

Rapporteur/

Lead author

Presentation

 

 

 

 

Session A

Introductory 

 

 

9:00-9:10

Welcome and Logistics

Craig Donlon

A1

9:10-9:30

Opening: ESA Activities in support of marine climate data

Mark Doherty (Head of the ESA CCI Programme)

A2 (GOCE movie)

9:30-9:50

WMO activities in support of marine climate data

Etienne Charpentier

A3

9:50-10:10

IOC/IODE perspectives on long term ocean climatic data sets

Sissy Iona

A4

10:10-10:30

 

The JCOMM in situ Observing Programme Support Centre (JCOMMOPS)

Mathieu Belbeoch (presented by Etienne Charpentier)

A5 (GoogleEarth movie)

10:30-11:00

Global ocean fundamental climate data records

David Halpern

A6

11:00-11:30

Coffee/tea

 

 
       

Session B

The ESA CCI and other satellite data 

Chair: Craig Donlon; Rapporteur: Andrew Bingham

 

11:30-11:45

Introduction to Session B;

and seeking a 10-year MARCDAT Vision

Craig Donlon

B1

11:45-12:15

The European Space Agency’s Climate Change Initiative Project for sea surface temperature (SST CCI)

Chris Merchant

B2

12:15-12:45

Accurately measuring sea level change from space: an ESA Climate Change Initiative (Sea Level CCI)

Gilles Larnicol

B3

12:45-13:15

ESA Ocean Colour CCI

Laurent Bertino

B4

13:15-13:45

ESA Clouds CCI

Juergen Fischer

B5

13:45-15:15

Lunch

 

 

15:15-15:45

Climate relevant aerosol retrieval over ocean from the ESA aerosol_cci project

Gerrit De Leeuw

B6

15:45-16:15

Critical Issues for the specification of unbiased and homogeneous marine surface wind reanalyses

Vince Cardone

B7

16:15-16:45

Coffee/tea

 

 

16:45-17:15

Pathfinder, GHRSST, and the SST Essential Climate Variable Framework

Ken Casey

B8

17:15-19:00

Welcome icebreaker hosted by ESA/ESRIN

 

 

 

 

 

Tuesday

3 May

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Session C:

Satellite and in situ datasets, reanalyses, and analyses 

Chair:

Ken Casey; Rapporteur: Martin Rutherford

 

9:00-9:05

Introduction to Session C

Ken Casey

C1

9:05-9:35

A collocation service for in situ and remotely sensed measurements

Steve Worley

C2

9:35-10:00

Satellite data for marine climate monitoring purposes

Gudrun Rosenhagen (for JörgTrentmann)

C3

10:00-10:25

Creating a consistent time series of global sea-surface temperature using in situ and satellite data sources

John Kennedy

C4

10:25-10:50

Uses of satellite data for gridded sea surface temperature analyses of pre-satellite period

Alexey Kaplan

C5

10:50-11:50

Coffee/tea

& First

Poster Viewing (Big Hall)

 

 

11:50-12:15

Improved historical reconstructions of SST and marine precipitation variations

Tom Smith

C6

12:15-12:40

The ERA-CLIM Project

Hans Hersbach

C7

12:40-13:05

OSTIA Reanalysis: A high resolution SST and sea-Ice reanalysis

Jonah Roberts-Jones

C8

13:05-13:30

Satellite and in situ sea surface temperature comparison and merging in the Mediterranean Sea

Aida Alvera-Azcarate

C9

13:30-13:45

Buffer time

 

 

13:45-15:15

Lunch

 

 
       

14:10-

15:00

(Big Hall)

Side meeting: GCOS SST Working Group

Chair:

Tom Smith

 

Session D

In situ datasets, reanalyses, and analyses 

Chair:

Tom Smith; Rapporteur: Alexey Kaplan

 

15:15-15:20

Introduction to Session D

Tom Smith

D1

15:20-15:50

All historical SST analyses are wrong*, probably even this one

John Kennedy

D2

15:50-16:15

A new Historical SST Analysis: COBE2-SST

Shoji Hirahara

D3

16:15-16:45

Coffee/tea

 

 
       

Cross-cutting plenary discussion

 

 

 

16:45-18:00

Plenary Discussion 1

(75 min.): Reanalyses, and analyses using satellite and in situ datasets in synergy

Co-Chairs: David Halpern

and Chris Merchant; Rapporteur: Vince Cardone

Pl1

 

 

 

 

18:00-20:00

(Big Hall)

Side meeting: JCOMM Expert Team on Marine Climatology (ETMC) Task Teams

Chairs: Nicola Scott and Gudrun Rosenhagen

 

 

 

 

 

Wed.

4 May

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Session D:

In situ datasets, reanalyses, and analyses (continued) 

 

 

9:00-9:25

Assessment and validation of the NOCS2.0 dataset

David Berry

D4

9:25-9:50

A hierarchical Bayesian model for ocean properties reconstructions

Bruno Sanso

D5

9:50-10:15

Systematic errors in the hydrographic data and their effect on global heat content calculations

Viktor Gouretski

D6

10:15-10:40

Ocean heat content variations and its trends estimated from historical oceanographic observations

Yoshikazu Fukuda

D7

10:40-11:40

Coffee/tea

& Second Poster Viewing

(Big Hall)

 

 

 

 

 

 

Session E

In situ data rescue 

Chair:

Frits Koek; Rapporteur: Wolfgang Gloeden

 

11:40-11:45

Introduction to Session E

Frits Koek

E1

11:45-12:15

ACRE, Citizen Science and Old Weather

Rob Allan

E2

12:15-12:40

English East India Company logbooks – significant contributions to history and science

Eric Freeman

E3

12:40-13:05

International Marine Data Rescue: The RECovery of Logbooks And International Marine Data (RECLAIM) Project

Clive Wilkinson

E4

13:05-13:30

Rescue of historical records of the US Fish Commission and the US Navy

Catherine Marzin (presented by Scott Woodruff)

E5

13:30-13:45

Buffer time

 

 

13:45-15:15

Lunch

 

 

 

 

 

 

Session F

Land-marine: cross-cutting data and analyses 

Chair: Albert Klein Tank; Rapporteur: Gudrun Rosenhagen

 

15:15-15:20

Introduction to Session F

Albert Klein Tank

F1

15:20-15:50

Land surface temperature records - are we keeping our side of the bargain?

Peter Thorne

F2

15:50-16:15

Is it good enough? benchmarking homogenisation algorithms and cross-cutting with efforts for land observations

Kate Willett

F3

16:15-16:45

Coffee/tea

 

 

16:45-17:10

Changes in cloud cover and cloud types over the ocean from surface observations, 1954-2008

Ryan Eastman

F4

17:10-17:35

Estimating long term trends of ENSO variability

Andy Chiodi

F5

Tentatively 19:30, to be confirmed later

Self-funded dinner at Restaurant

Il Cortiletto

Via S.L. Filippini – Frascati

069419920

 

 

 

 

 

Thursday

5 May

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Session G

 In situ and satellite wave data and analyses 

Chair: Elizabeth Kent; Rapporteur: Etienne Charpentier

 

9:00-9:05

Introduction to Session G

Elizabeth Kent

G1

9:05-9:35

Wave measurement Evaluation and Testing

Val Swail

G2

9:35-10:00

Project GlobWave

Geoff Busswell

G3

10:00-10:25

Global ocean wind waves from ICOADS during the last 130 years: reliability, extremes and climate variability

Vika Grigorieva

G4

10:25-10:50

Comparing significant wave height statistics from ICOADS and satellite altimeter data

Martin Rutherford

G5

10:50-11:15

The effects of changes in observational practices for moored buoys on long term wave trend

Bridget Thomas (presented by Val Swail)

G6

11:15-11:45

Coffee/tea

 

 
       

Session H

In situ marine data management initiatives 

Chair:

David Berry; Rapporteur: Sissy Iona

 

11:45-11:50

Introduction to Session H

David Berry

H1

11:50-12:15

Status and Plans for the International Comprehensive Ocean-Atmosphere Data Set (ICOADS)

Scott Woodruff

H2

12:15-12:45

Developing an ICOADS Value-added Database to support climate research

Shawn Smith

H3

12:45-13:10

Improving VOS data management: an update on progress from JCOMM Task Team on Delayed Mode VOS data

Nicola Scott

H4

 

Cross-cutting plenary discussion 

 

 

13:10-13:45

Plenary Discussion 2 (35 min.): Prospects for wave summaries in ICOADS

Chair: Val Swail; Rapporteur: Scott Woodruff

Pl2

13:45-15:15

Lunch

 

 
       

 

Cross-cutting plenary discussion

 

 

15:15-16:30

Plenary Discussion 3

(75 min.): Challenges and solutions to enhance ICOADS

Co-Chairs: Shawn Smith

and Steve Worley;

Rapporteur: Eric Freeman

Pl3

16:30-17:00

Coffee/tea

 

 

17:00-18:00

Plenary Discussion 4

(60 min.): Analysis and uncertainty issues common to in situ land and marine data

Co-Chairs: Albert Klein Tank

and Elizabeth Kent; Rapporteur: Kate Willett

Pl4

 

 

 

 

Friday

6 May

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cross-cutting plenary discussion 

 

 

9:00-10:00

Plenary Discussion 5

(60 min.): Issues and opportunities when extending the long term-record using satellite data

Co-Chairs: Mark Doherty

and Craig Donlon; Rapporteur: TBD

Pl5

10:00-10:15

Summary of major issues arising at the meeting so far and introducing remaining discussion sessions

Scott Woodruff

R1

10:15-10:45

Coffee/tea

 

 

10:45-11:45

Priorities and next steps

 

 

11:45-12:30

Conclusions

 

 

12:30

Workshop close

 

 

13:45-15:15

Lunch

 

 

 

Develop workshop report and action plans

 

 


2) Posters

Theme 1 Title Author Poster

1

A comparison of surface wind speed datasets

Elizabeth Kent

Pos1

2

(A)ATSR Re-Analysis for Climate (ARC): stability of ATSR data versus in situ observations

David Berry

Pos2

3

Quantifying variance due to temporal and spatial difference between ship and satellite winds

Mark Bourassa (presented by Shawn Smith)

Pos3

4

Remotely sensed surface turbulent fluxes and validation with in situ observations

Mark Bourassa (presented by Shawn Smith)

Pos4

5

Application of Remote Sensing in Decadal Marine Climate Prediction: Challenges and Opportunities in Nigeria

A.O. Ediang

Pos5

6

Importance of the deep ocean for estimating decadal changes in Earth’s radiation balance

Matt Palmer (presented by John Kennedy)

Pos6

Theme 2

 Title

Author 

Poster

7

Long term variability of the Mediterranean Sea surface temperature using international databases including the ICOADS

Sissy Iona

Pos7

8

Creating a marine humidity monitoring product

Kate Willett

Pos8

9

Research Vessel observations: a modern data record for marine climatology

Shawn Smith

Pos9

10

Advancing the Use of Historical Environmental Data through the Climate Database Modernization Program

Eric Freeman

Pos10

11

Keying Dutch 19th Century ships’ logbooks in CDMP

Frits Koek

Pos11

12

Digitization of met. journals from ships

Wolfgang Gloeden

Pos12

13

Digitization of data from overseas

Gudrun Rosenhagen, Birger Tinz

Pos13

Theme 3

 Title

Author 

Poster

14

The NOCSv2.0 Surface Flux Dataset

Elizabeth Kent

Pos14
15 Estimating and presenting uncertainties in an historical sea-surface temperature analysis John Kennedy Pos15

16

Improved estimates of uncertainty in gridded sea-surface temperature data sets

John Kennedy

Pos16

  

Sponsors: The Workshop was organized jointly by the WMO/IOC Joint Technical Commission for Oceanography and Marine Meteorology (JCOMM) and European Space Agency (ESA), and sponsored by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) and Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC), and by the Global Climate Observing System (GCOS), Climate Variability and Predictability Project (CLIVAR) and Ocean Observations Panel for Climate (OOPC). The ICOADS project also provided some support.
Image information:  Upper (left to right): (i) US steam frigate Mississippi, in the Gulf of Mexico, March 1847: Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division [reproduction number LC-USZC2-3129] (originally published by N. Currier, New York, 1848).; (ii) Florida peninsula, January 1985: NASA Space Shuttle Earth Observations Photography database [photo STS51C-44-0026]; and (iii) TAO (Tropical Ocean Atmosphere) buoy and anemometers on NOAA ship Ka'imimoana. Photo by Jason Poe, courtesy of TAO Project Office.