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Welcome to ICM !

Welcome to ICM, a center for marine biology and oceanography. Explore our research in renewable marine resources, physical oceanography, and marine geology. Join our community of 84 members and 4 departments. Visit our Physical Oceanography Department to learn about our research on circulation, dynamics, and oceanographic instrumentation. Don't miss the inauguration of SMOS Barcelona Expert Center!

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Welcome to ICM !

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  1. Welcome to ICM !

  2. Marine Biology and Oceanography Renewable Marine Resources Physical Oceanography Marine Geology 84 members 44 members 4 departments 26 members 17 members

  3. Physical Oceanography Department at ICM 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

  4. Research Topics: Mediterranean vortices observed by altimetry Isern-Fontanet et al., JPO 2006

  5. Research Topics: Maximum Singularity Streamfunction Turiel et al., Phys. Rev. Letters, 2005

  6. Other Topics:CANOA project – Eastern North-Atlantic dynamics PI: J.L. Pelegri

  7. Other Topics: vortex dynamics PI: A. Viudez

  8. Participation to the preparation of SMOS satellite mission PI: J. Font Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity Mission R Activities: • SMOS retrieval algorithms for salinity • North Atlanticnumerical simulations • Impact of SSS data assimilation 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)

  9. Participation to the preparation of SMOS satellite mission Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity Mission  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 19:30 - 20:30 h: Cocktail and visit of SMOS-BEC facilities

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