CLIVAR/ESA scientific consultation workshop

ESA plans to start an “Earth Observation” (EO) related scientific activity this year - referred here as “Ocean Heat Flux” to support the new CLIVAR research opportunity addressing the “Consistency between Planetary Heat Balance and Ocean Heat storage” (http://www.clivar.org/science/clivar-research-opportunities#six). The workshop provided an opportunity to the scientific community to further shape the ESA activity by gathering the scientific requirements in terms of EO data and products to support the new CLIVAR research opportunity, while building upon recent recommendations of CLIVAR GSOP-WHOI Workshop on Ocean Syntheses and Surface Flux Evaluation, and complementing existing activities such as Seaflux (http://seaflux.org.). The presentations from the workshop are now available online.

For full information on the workshop please visit the workshop web pages.