WOC 2022 presentations

Contributions from the World Ocean Circulation User Consultation Meeting 2022 held on 10-12 October 2022 in a hybrid format (both online and in presence at ESA-ESRIN, Italy)

Session1: Introduction

ESA opening (Giuseppe Ottavianelli, ESA)
UCM context and objectives (Marie-Hélène RIO, ESA)
Keynote 1: Ocean currents in support of the Blue economy: The OECD perspective (Claire Jolly, OECD)
Overall presentation of the WOC project (Fabrice Collard, ODL)
Keynote 2 (Bertrand Chapron, Ifremer)
Keynote 3: Quantifying Upper Ocean Currents: Deficiencies and Knowledge Gaps (Johnny Johannessen, NERSC)

Session 2: Key WOC achievements (new products)

Towards reliable ocean surface current retrievals from the Sentinel-1 Doppler shift in the coastal zone (Aartem Moiseev, NERSC)
Wave current interaction observations and predictions using satellite data (Fabrice Collard, ODL)
Improved 2D surface currents from the synergetic use of altimetry and Sea Surface Temperature data (Daniele Ciani, CNR-ISMAR)
High resolution gridded altimetric maps by the Back-and-Forth Nudging (BFN) method (Florian Le Guillou, ESA)
High-frequency ageostrophy products: Data-driven models for Ekman+Near-Inertial currents (Clement Ubelmann, DATLAS)
3D Ocean currents retrieval (Bruno Buongiorno-Nardelli, ISMAR, CNR)
ERA* high resolution ocean forcing product development and application (Marcos Portabella, ICM-CSIC)
New validation strategy through frontal structure detection (Lucile Gaultier, ODL)

Session 3: Downstream Applications

Safe Navigation

Waves and surface ocean circulation for least-carbon ship routes (Mannarini Gianandrea, CMCC)
Ship Routing Optimisation based on Metocean conditions (Ioannnou Artemis, AMPHITRITE)
On a novel approach of forecasting extreme waves: thanks to satellite wave observations (Aouf Lotfi, Meteo France)
Limitations in current weather services to SOLAS vessels (Bjørn Åge Hjøllo, NAVTOR)
Swell/current interaction in the Agulhas current and determination of dangerous seas index (Fabrice Collard, ODL)

Sustainable fisheries

Keynote 4: How ocean current data can contribute to sustainable fisheries (VanAnrooy Raymond (FAO))
Lagrangian modelling of European eel larvae in the Sargasso Sea: improved understanding of mesoscale dispersion (Patrizio Mariani,DTU)
Linking Atlantic Bluefin tuna migration pathways and ocean dynamics (Diego Alvarez, SOCIB)

Clean Ocean

Upper Ocean Current Usage for Sargassum and Marine Litter Drift Applications (Lucas Marc, CLS)
Lagrangian drift of Sargassum and oil spills (Laura Gomoz-Navarro, U. of Utrecht)
Assessment of WOC current products for Sargassum drift prediction with MOTHY (Pierre Daniel, Meteo-France)
How does an oil slick move? Observations and two case studies (Duarte Soares, ITOPF)

Renewable energy

Assessment of renewable wave energy resources in the French façade coastal zone (Sonia Ponce de León, Instituto Superior Tecnico, University of Lisbon, Marco Restano, Serco c/o ESA-ESRIN, Frascati, Italy, Jérôme Benveniste, European Space Agency (ESA-ESRIN), Frascati, Italy)
Tidal current wave interaction and resulting wave breaking mapping in coastal area using Sentinel1 (Fabrice Collard, ODL)
Syntool Presentation (Lucile Gaultier, ODL)

Session 4: Perspectives and Outlook

Present and future altimeter capability (Yannice Faugere, CLS)
The SWOT mission (Rosemary Morrow, CNES)
Investigating the assimilation of total surface current velocities in global ocean forecasting systems (Jennifer Waters, MetOffice)
Future missions to fill gaps for downstream applications (Craig Donlon, ESA)
Service evolution in CMEMS (Stephanie Guinehut, Mercator-Ocean)
Modelling core engines for European Digital Twin Ocean, the EDITO Model Lab project (Yann Drillet, Mercator-Ocean)