Background

Ocean salinity is a key parameter that links various elements of the water cycle to ocean circulation dynamics and climate. Furthermore, salinity is a key dynamical parameter that influences oceans dynamics. Through the advent of new observing technologies, remote sensing and in situ, salinity research has gained much attention over the recent years, now leading to rapidly growing new insights. The conference intends to bring together communities working on all aspects of ocean salinity investigations, including analyses undertaken from in situ and satellite observations, numerical models, and data assimilation. This will review most recent results and discuss further progress that is required.

Meeting Objectives

The conference will review progress and ongoing work and will identify next frontiers in the fields of ocean salinity and freshwater cycle science.

In doing so it will focus on recent progress in:

1. Observing ocean salinity

2. Process-based insights from field observations

3. Role of salinity in ocean dynamics

4. Role of salinity in the global freshwater cycle and climate variability

5. Role of salinity in biogeochemistry

6. Aspects of surface freshwater fluxes, run off, and sea ice.

7. Challenges of future salinity observing, remote sensing and in situ.

Local Organizing Committee

Jacqueline Boutin (LOCEAN, France)

Gilles Reverdin (LOCEAN, France)

Susanne Mecklenburg (ESA, IT) 

Amaury Larue De Tournemine (CNES, France)

Scientific Committee

Jacqueline Boutin LOCEAN, France

Gilles Reverdin, LOCEAN, France

Roberto Sabia ESA, Italy

Craig Donlon ESA, The Netherlands

Nicolas Reul LOPS/IFREMER, France

Detlef Stammer, Hamburg University, Germany

Ray Schmidt, WHOI, USA

Antonio Turiel, BEC/CSIC, Spain

Gary Lagerloef, ESR, USA

Tony Lee, JPL, USA

Simon Yueh, JPL, USA

Paul Durack, LLNL, USA

Eric Bayler, NOAA, USA

Nadya Vinogradova Camclimate, USA

Jérome Vialard LOCEAN, France

Juliette Mignot LOCEAN, France

Christophe Maes, LOPS, France

Gael Alory, LEGOS, France

Susan Wijffels, CSIRO/WHOI

Lisan Yu WHOI, USA

Yann Drillet, Mercator, France

Kyla Drushka APL, USA

Johannes Karstensen GEOMAR, Germany

Benjamin Rabe AWI, Germany

Rana Fine RSMAS, USA

Are Olsen University of Bergen, Norway

Michael Meredith BAS, UK

Simon Josey, NOC, UK

Benoit Tranchant, CLS, France

Aida Alvera Azcarate, ULG, Belgique

Laurent Bertino (NERSC, Norway)

Matthew Martins (Mettoffice, UK)