Satellite Doppler Observations for the Motions of the Oceans
not required. (Capsule Summary) Workshop on Doppler Oceanography from Space. What: This workshop brought together oceanographers and radar experts to discuss how new radar technology can be used in existing and future satellite missions to directly measure the motions at the ocean surface, namely currents and waves, and their relation to ocean vector winds, for a wide range of applications from sub-kilometer scales to the global ocean. Satellite remote sensing has revolutionized oceanogra-phy, starting from sea surface temperature, ocean color, sea level, winds, waves, and the recent addition of sea surface salinity, providing a global view of upper ocean processes. The possible addition of a direct measurement of surface velocities related to currents, winds and waves opens great opportunities for research and applications. Velocity can be measured using Doppler radar, using along-track interferometry with two synthetic aperture radars (InSAR) or the Doppler centroid (DC) from a single radar. Both techniques measure the same surface motions (Romeiser et al. 2014), with different resolving and revisit capabilities, summarized in Figure 1. InSAR is uniquely able to resolve kilometer-scale patterns in ocean dynam