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NCEO Annual Science Meeting 2009

Wednesday 02 September

Inaugural Lecture

1.ppt Inaugural Lecture Jose Achache Director of GEO Secretariat (36Mb)
Ancillary files
Airs_Carbon_Dioxide_MaunaLoaOverlay.wmv (1.6Mb)
GEOAFRICA_CRISIS_26_03_2008cc.avi (16Mb)
Iridium_All_2ndary_Missions_Movie_HD.wmv (22Mb)

Thursday 03 September

Session 1a

2.ppt Introductions and welcome - Alan O'Neill - Science Director NCEO (1.3Mb)

3.ppt High resolution radar for volcano risk management - Geoff Wadge - U of Reading (35Mb)

4.pdf Rapid response to the Chaitén eruption provides once in a decade opportunity to refine models of ash dispersal - David Pyle - U of Oxford (4.4Mb>

5.ppt Estimating burnt biomass and carbon emissions from large wildfires - Martin Wooster King's College (13Mb)

Ancillary files
FinalFires2sm_just%20rotating.mpg (2.1Mb)
MIR_rapid.mpg (4.8Mb)
mirchan1_greekfires.avi (25Mb)

6.ppt How well can we measure greenhouse gases from space? - Paul Monks - U of Leicester (15Mb)

Session 1b

7.ppt Reducing the huge uncertainties in carbon emissions from tropical deforestation - Shaun Quegan - U of Sheffield (6.6Mb)

8.ppt Phytoplankton types from satellite measurements: towards estimation of the ocean carbon cycle from EO - Takafumi Hirata - Plymouth Marine Laboratory (4.2Mb)

Ancillary files
PFT2004_new_model1.wmv (647kb)
xi2004.wmv (886kb)

9.ppt Oceans in the climate system - Keith Haines - U of Reading (20Mb)

10.pptx Including vertical light attenuation in EO assessments of phytoplankton types - Bob Brewin - U of Plymouth (2.0Mb)

Ancillary files
NCEO_Oxford_video_FINAL.wmv (32Mb)

11.ppt Direct observations of air/sea exchange of CO2 in coastal seas - Emmer Litt - PML/Bangor (3.4Mb)

12.ppt National scale estimates of GHGs from tall towers - James Howie - U of Edinburgh (6.0Mb)

Session 2

13.pdf Measuring Essential Climate Variables - Chris Merchant - U of Edinburgh (3.7Mb)

14.ppt Trends in Arctic sea ice thickness - Seymour Laxon - UCL (26Mb)

15.ppt Ice sheet modelling - Tony Payne - U of Bristol (15Mb)

16.ppt Surface radar measurements on Antarctic sea ice in support of satellite thickness estimates - Rosemary Willatt - UCL (12Mb)

17.pdf Snow: an essential climate variable - Debbie Clifford - U of Reading (1.1Mb)

Friday 04 September

Session 3a

18.ppt High-resolution probabilistic weather forecasting for the UK - Stefano Migliorini - U of Reading (5.3Mb)

19.ppt A breakthrough in high-dimensional highly nonlinear data assimilation - Peter Jan van Leeuwen - U of Reading (1.9Mb)

20.ppt Potential for improved rainfall forecasts for the African monsoon - Chris Taylor - CEH (7.5Mb)

21.ppt Improved understanding of how rainfall responds to a warming world - Richard Allan - U of Reading (3.2Mb)

22.ppt Satellite data provides new insight into model ice cloud distributions - Julien Delanoe - U of Reading (4.7Mb)

Session 3b

23.pptx New insight into clouds, aerosols and climate - Andy Sayer - U of Oxford (36Mb)

24.pptx Spectral signatures, climate change detection, and CLARREO - John Harries - Imperial College (5.8Mb)

25.pdf New mission to understanding processes controlling atmospheric composition - Brian Kerridge - RAL (4.4Mb)

26.ppt MIPAS observations of organic tracers for biomass burning and intercontinental transport - Rob Parker - U of Leicester (19Mb)

27 Large-scale controls of methanogenesis inferred from methane and gravity spaceborne data - Anthony Bloom - U of Edinburgh (15Mb)

Session 4

29.ppt Curating and providing access to EO data - Victoria Bennett - RAL (5.5Mb)

30 Continuous recording GPS measurements suggest large earthquakes probable along the Hellenic Arc - Barry Parsons - U of Oxford

31.ppt Geodetic observations of the Dabbahu rifting episode, Afar, Ethiopia: new dyking between 2006 and 2009 - Ian Hamling - U of Leeds (38Mb)

32.ppt L'Aquila Earthquake - John Elliott - U of Oxford (28Mb)

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