Terms of reference

Remote sensing has become an essential tool in oceanography. The development of new sensors and algorithms has extended the application of ocean remote sensing to new research domains, and new data analysis techniques are allowing to improve the quality of the data sets used for oceanographic and climatic research. Variables like sea surface temperature or those derived from the ocean colour have already shown their relevance to climate change studies. The use of satellite-derived salinity, as a fairly new data set, is an exciting opportunity to improve our knowledge of the ocean dynamics and interaction with the atmosphere.

There are also many open research questions that need to be addressed, or that are being actively addressed by the scientific community, and that are of particular interest for the 2012 Liège Colloquium: International efforts are aimed to quantify and correct biases between different sensors, which is needed for assessing long-term trends and their effect on the climate. The development and improvement of techniques to merge data from different platforms and create homogeneous time series is also needed. New challenges appear with the regionalisation of algorithms and their adaptation to coastal and closed domains. Uncertainty estimation needs to be assessed, and the retrieval algorithms need to be improved as we increase our knowledge of the ocean. The use of geostationary satellites allows for an estimation of the processes occurring at sub-diurnal scales, and specific algorithms for this type of platform may provide new opportunities, particularly for ocean colour.

The 2012 Liège Colloquium will be devoted to the latests developments in the research fields of salinity, temperature and ocean colour remote sensing. Open scientific questions and new research directions are of particular interest.

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Scientific Organizing Committee

• A. Alvera-Azcárate (MARE-ULg, Belgium)
• S. Barnard (CSIR, South Africa)
• J.M Beckers (MARE-ULg, Belgium)
• C. Brockmann (Brockmann Consulting, Germany)
• B. Buongiorno Nardelli (CNR, Italy)
• K. S. Casey (NOAA, USA)
• C. Donlon (ESA, The Netherlands)
• D. Doxaran (LOV, France)
• R. H. Evans (RSMAS, USA)
• G. C. Feldman (NASA, USA)
• J. Font (ICM-CSIC, Spain)
• B. Franz (NASA, USA)
• C. Gentemann (RSS, USA)
• G. Han (Fisheries and Oceans, Canada)
• G. Lagerloef (ESR, USA)
• C. Lancelot (ULB, Belgium)
• S. Lavender (ARGANS, UK)
• Z. Lee (NGI, USA)
• P.-P. Mathieu (ESA, Italy)
• C. Merchant (U. Edinburgh, UK)
• P. Minnett (RSMAS, USA)
• F. E. Muller-Karger (USF, USA)
• G. Neukermans (MUMM, Belgium)
• Y. Park (KOSC/KORDI, Korea)
• N. Reul (Ifremer, France)
• K. Ruddick (MUMM, Belgium)
• S. Shang (XMU, China)
• F. Shen (ECNU, China)

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Registration

You can register to the 44^th Liege Colloquium by filling the form below.

If you have difficulties with the registration form, please e-mail this information to oceanphys@ulg.ac.be.

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Abstract submission

The deadline for abstract submission has passed.

If you have some questions, please contact oceanphys@ulg.ac.be

Deadlines

• 15th January 2012: submission of abstracts (Late Contributions may still be considered as a poster)
• 1st March 2012: decision of the Scientific organizing committee of accepted abstracts
• 31 March 2012: preliminary program will be sent to registered participants

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Program

Registration fee

Registration fee for the 44^th International Liège Colloquium on Ocean Dynamics is 275 € if payment is received before March 30th, 2012.

After March 30th, 2012 the registration fee will be 330 €

Payements can be made by:

1. BANK Transfer  (see details below)
2. Cheques, Eurocheques or Cheques on an American Bank in US Dollars. (Add 10% if you pay by cheque!) (See details below)
3. Visa/Mastercard/American Express/Paypal  (Paypal account is not necessary to go through paypal paiement, see options)

4. Cash money.

The registration fee includes :

• all the documents
• coffee breaks
• participation to the Colloquium dinner held at the "Château de Colonster" (Wednesday evening)
• the ice breaker party (Monday evening)
• one copy of the proceedings

Once paid, the registration fee can not be reimbursed

Bank transfer

Do not forget to:

• mention the name of the participant in the bank transfer communication ("firstname & lastname of the participant / Colloquium 2012").
• pay extra costs (bank charges)

Cheque

Cheques must be made out to: