Diapositiva 1

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Welcome to ICM !
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84 members
44 members
4 departments
26 members
17 members
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26 members 6 Researchers from Staff 8
Researchers under contract and post-docs 8
PhD students 4 Technicians and support
people
Head E. García-Ladona

• 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

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Isern-Fontanet et al., JPO 2006
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Turiel et al., Phys. Rev. Letters, 2005
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PI J.L. Pelegri
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PI A. Viudez
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• DT 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)

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? The SMOS Barcelona Expert Center (BEC) will
be inaugurated today at 19 h, you are all invited
!
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 1930 - 2030 h Cocktail and visit of
SMOS-BEC facilities