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Welcome to ICM !
4 departments
Marine Biology
and Oceanography
Marine GeologyPhysical
Oceanography
Renewable Marine
Resources84 members
44 members
17 members
26 members
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 !