Watch live: opening of SMOS Science Conference
Follow the press event and opening day of the 2nd SMOS Science Conference via live webstream from ESA’s European Space Astronomy Centre near Madrid, Spain, on 25 May.
The Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity mission, or SMOS, was launched in November 2009. During its five years of operations, new applications areas have emerged, with data on inter-annual differences showing great potential for climate research.
Live webstream programme (all times in CEST):
Press event
11:30 Welcome address by Álvaro Giménez, Director of ESA’s Director of Science and Robotic Exploration Programmes
11:35 Director of Earth Observation Programmes, Volker Liebig, opens the conference
11:45 Selma Cherchali from CNES discusses her organisation’s role in the SMOS programme
11:55 Prof Jose Moreno from the University of Valencia highlights the value and potential of SMOS soil moisture data to our understanding, modelling and predicting of Earth’s carbon cycle
12:10 Pierre Yves Le Traon from Mercator Ocean outlines how SMOS ocean salinity data are used for operational monitoring of the oceans
12:25 Ramon Riera from Barcelona’s Technical Office for the Prevention of Forest Fires discusses fire risk detection with SMOS
12:40 ECMWF’s Peter Bauer speaks on the benefit of SMOS for numerical weather prediction
13:00 Q&A
Break
Conference opening
15:00 Welcome by SMOS Mission Manager, Susanne Mecklenburg
15:20 Welcome address from CNES’s Olivier Vandermarcq
15:30 ‘SMOS after five years in operations, from tentative research to operational applications,’ by Yann Kerr from CESBIO
15:45 ‘Overview of new insights from five years of salinity data from SMOS,’ by Nicolas Reul from IFREMER
16:00 ‘Major achievements using SMOS over the cryosphere,’ by Lars Kaleschke from the University of Hamburg
Break
16:45 ‘Requirements from operational users over oceans,’ by Pierre-Yves Le Traon from IFREMER/MyOcean
17:05 ‘Requirements from operational NWP agencies,’ by Peter Baur from ECMWF
17:25 ‘Mission concept SMOSOps,’ by ESA’s Manuel Martin-Neira
17:35 ‘Mission concept SMOSNEXT,’ by Yann Kerr from CESBIO
17:45 Podium discussion
18:30 End of live webstream coverage