Team

for the Ocean Surface Heat Flux project

Climate-Space: Ocean Surface Heat Flux ECV Team is composed by members of seven participating entities, namely Zenithal Blue Technologies (ZBT, Spain) that acts as Prime Contractor and will be responsible for both the Project Management and Systems Development Group; the Marine Science Institute from the Spanish High Council for Scientific Research (ICM-CSIC, Spain) that acts as Science Lead and will be in charge of the Algorithm Development Group; the Istituto di Scienze Marine (ISMAR-CNR, Italy) as lead for the Climate Research Group; and the University of Vienna (UoV, Austria), as lead for the Validation Group.

The National Oceanography Centre (NOC, UK) will support the activities of the Climate Research and Validation Groups.

Project Prime

Project Partners

The consortium is complemented by Technical University of Munich (TUM, Germany), and Shiny Earth Ltd (UK), who will bring additional expert knowledge to the Algorithms Development Group.

External advisory group

To exploit the projection of the OSHF project results on the international scene, an external advisory group comprising Dr Torge Martin (GEOMAR), Dr Mike Bell (UK MetOffice), Dr Jason B. Roberts (NASA; member of GEWEX GDAP), Dr Maria Valdivieso (formerly Univ. Reading). Furthermore, Elizabeth Kent is part of the Observing Air-Sea Interactions Strategy(OASIS) project which will facilitate promotion of the project’s results to the international air-sea flux research community.