Action 31 Demonstrations

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Action 31 Demonstrations

• Possible demonstration cases
• To evidence high-resolution maritime meteorology
  and local oceanography ? Nesting issues?
  Multi-satellite needs
• To monitor climate events ? Hurricanes typhons
• To monitor sensitive sea routes
• ? Sailing or rowing
• ? Oil spills
• To manage marine living ressources? Animal
  tracking
• ? To force spatially distributed fish population
  dynamic models
• Source AVISO, MERCATOR and CLS end-user
  applications

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Lots of demo cases already displayed on Mercator
and AVISO websites

• Periodic publications published online
• Mercator Océan examples
• Quaterly Newsletter http//www.mercator-ocean.fr/h
  tml/lettre/presentation_lettre_en.html
• Information letter http//www.mercator-ocean.fr/ht
  ml/actualites/projection/welcome_en.html
• Regularly updated News/Chronicle pages on the WEB
• Recent examples with Mercator Océan
• Our users and us http//www.mercator-ocean.fr/htm
  l/actualites/news/actu_2007_en.html
• Mercator to the North Pole with Jean-Louis
  Etienne http//www.mercator-ocean.fr/html/actuali
  tes/news/actu_jle_en.html
• Pages dedicated to applications
• Mercator Océan examples
• Environmental applications http//www.mercator-oce
  an.fr/html/applications/environnement_en.html
• Ocean racing http//www.mercator-ocean.fr/html/pro
  duits/applications/race_welcome_en.html
• Thematic ocean bulletins
• http//www.mercator-ocean.fr/html/produits/buoc/in
  dex_en.html

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Some Mercator demonstration cases
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• Nesting - downscaling issues
• Bionuts
• http//www.mercator-ocean.fr/html/actualites/news/
  actu_gmmc2004_en.htmlcoupla
• Coastal activities
• http//www.mercator-ocean.fr/print/actualites/news
  /actu_cotier_en.html
• Hurricane intensification
• 2005 hurricane season in the Gulf of Mexico
• http//www.mercator-ocean.fr/html/produits/buoc/bu
  oc_n12/buoc_n12_en.htmlpar1
• September 2004 in North Atlantic
• http//www.mercator-ocean.fr/html/produits/buoc/bu
  oc_n06/buoc_n06_en.html
• Sensitive route monitoring
• Sail racing
• http//www.mercator.eu.org/html/produits/applicati
  ons/race_welcome_en.html
• ? Rowing http//www.mercator.eu.org/documents/act
  ualites/projection/Projection_n3_en.pdfpage2
• Oil industry support
• http//www.mercator.eu.org/html/applications/envir
  onnement_en.html
• Gulf of Mexico http//www.mercator.eu.org/documen
  ts/actualites/projection/Projection_n7_en.pdfpage
  2
• Prestige case http//www.mercator.eu.org/document
  s/actualites/projection/Projection_n2_en.pdfpage
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• Animal tracking

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Favorite AVISO demonstration case 1
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Favorite AVISO demonstration case 2
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Other AVISO demonstration cases
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• Multi-sensors
• Products improvements
• http//www.aviso.oceanobs.com/html/mod_actu/module
  /affiche_actualite.php3?idActualite728langueen
  
• High-precision altimetry with satellites working
  together
• http//www.jason.oceanobs.com/html/alti/multi_sat_
  uk.html
• Mediterranean sea
• http//www.jason.oceanobs.com/html/applications/mu
  lti/199909_uk.html
• Altimetry buoys
• http//www.jason.oceanobs.com/html/applications/mu
  lti/bouees_uk.html
• Altiumetry SST
• http//www.jason.oceanobs.com/html/applications/mu
  lti/199911_uk.html
• Altimetry ocean color
• http//www.jason.oceanobs.com/html/applications/mu
  lti/200007_uk.html
• Hurricane intensification
• Opal 1995
• http//www.jason.oceanobs.com/html/applications/me
  teo/200104_uk.html
• Isabel 2003
• http//www.jason.oceanobs.com/html/applications/me
  teo/isabel_uk.html
• Katrina 2005

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Favorite CLS demonstration case 1
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Favorite CLS demonstration case 2

• ARGONAUTICA cf. Carioca buoy
• See the demosntration fact sheets
• http//www.jason.oceanobs.com/html/actualites/imag
  e_du_mois/200611_uk.html
• http//www.jason.oceanobs.com/html/argonautica/fic
  hes/tourbillon_fr.html
• http//www.jason.oceanobs.com/html/argonautica/fic
  hes/courant_fr.html
• See the maps data base where you found animal
  trajectory mapped on an ocean physical parameter
  (cf. albatross, penguin, elephant sea and beacon
  to studdy eddies)
• http//www.cnes.fr/web/724-argonautica.php
• http//www.cnes.fr/web/3468-scientific-and-technic
  al-fact-sheets.php
• http//www.jason.oceanobs.com/html/argonautica/don
  nees_2007_uk.html
• http//www.jason.oceanobs.com/html/argonautica/don
  nees_2006_uk.html

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Favorite CLS demonstration case 3

• Mixed-resolution models for investigating
  individual to population spatial dynamics of
  large pelagics(CLS/DOS/MEMMS - Marine Ecosystems
  Modelling and Monitoring by Satellites -)