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4 departments

Marine Biology

and Oceanography

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Oceanography

Renewable Marine

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Physical Oceanography Department at ICM

26 members: 6 Researchers from Staff8 Researchers under contract and post-docs8 PhD students 4 Technicians and support people

Research lines: circulation in the western Mediterranean sea Eastern North Atlantic dynamics

oceanographic instrumentation data acquisition and processing

theoretical work in geophysical fluid dynamics mesoscale vortex dynamics, from model & data

multifractal analysis of satellite oceanic images retrieval algorithms to evaluate salinity from space large scale numerical modelling and data assimilation

operational oceanography

Head: E. García-Ladona

Research Topics: Mediterranean vortices observed by altimetry

Isern-Fontanet et al., JPO 2006

Research Topics: Maximum Singularity Streamfunction

Turiel et al., Phys. Rev. Letters, 2005

Other Topics: CANOA project – Eastern North-Atlantic dynamics

PI: J.L. Pelegri

Other Topics: vortex dynamics

PI: A. Viudez

Participation to the preparation of SMOS satellite mission

D+T Activities: Design and test of Lagrangian drifters to measure SSS. Development and validation of algorithms for Level-3 and Level-4 products. SMOS Barcelona Expert Center (BEC)

R Activities: SMOS retrieval algorithms for salinity North Atlantic numerical simulations Impact of SSS data assimilation

PI: J. Font

Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity Mission

Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity Mission

Program:19 h: Welcome and introduction by J.M. Fernández de Labastida, CSIC

Vicepresident for Scientific and Technical Research, and Xavier Gil, UPC Vicerector for Research and Innovation

+ Short interventions by Jorge Lomba, CDTI Director of ESA

Programs, Victor Reglero, Manager of Spanish National Program on Space, Achim Hahne, SMOS Project Manager, and Susanne Mecklenburg, SMOS Mission Manager

19:30 - 20:30 h: Cocktail and visit of SMOS-BEC facilities

Participation to the preparation of SMOS satellite mission

The SMOS Barcelona Expert Center (BEC) will be inaugurated today at 19 h, you are all invited !