| Date: | 2006-01-10 22:51:00 | |
| Sender: | Roland Schmidt, C.K. Shum <Roland Schmidt <rschmidt@gfz-potsdam.de>> | |
| Subject: | [SLR-Mail] No. 1429: Announcement of Session G8 of EGU Meeting 2006 | |
| Author: | Roland Schmidt, C.K. Shum | |
| Content: | ******************************************************************************** SLR Electronic Mail 2006-01-10 22:51:00 UTC Message No. 1429 ******************************************************************************** Author: Roland Schmidt, C.K. Shum Subject: Announcement of Session G8 of EGU Meeting 2006 Subject: Announcement of Session G8 of EGU Meeting 2006 Subject: Announcement of Session G8 of EGU Meeting 2006 Dear Colleagues, we would like to draw your attention to session G8 ”The Earth´s gravity field: instruments and applications - in memoriam of Peter Schwintzer” at the EGU General Assembly to be held in Vienna, Austria, April 2-7, 2006. Session G8 is intended for contributions related to the Earth´s gravity field, tributing to the wide set of working fields of our colleague Dr. Peter Schwintzer, who unexpectedly passed away on December 24th 2004. Please see the session description below for full details. The deadline for the submission of abstracts is January 13, 2006, for online submission. Further information is available at the web site of the conference: http://meetings.copernicus.org/egu2006/ We are looking forward to your contribution. With best regards, Roland Schmidt, C.K. Shum Conveners Session of G8 Description of Session G8: The Earth´s gravity field, its recovery instruments, its determination and interpretation have been at the center of the scientific work of our colleague Peter Schwintzer, who unexpectedly passed away on December 24th 2004. As one of the master minds behind the French-German GRIM gravity model series he has been working on the determination of the gravity model from satellite data, making major contributions to the evolution of the dynamic orbit determination and gravity recovery method as a state-of-the-art technique. On the methodology side he had been contributing to important studies promoting advanced satellite-based recovery techniques like the satellite-to-satellite tracking (SST) concept, which eventually led to a successful realization of the German CHAMP mission as the first of the modern gravity satellites CHAMP, GRACE and GOCE. As head of section 1.3 ´Gravity Field and Earth Models´ at GFZ Potsdam he additionally mentored the establishment of aerogravimetry and supra-conducting gravimeters at GFZ closing the loop from space-borne to terrestrial data. On the application and interpretation side his working extended from relations of the Earth´s gravity field to geophysical processes in the Earth´s interior to its usage in the understanding of surface-related mass transport processes. His sudden death has been a big loss to his family, friends as well as the geodetic community. In this session we want to memorize the wide set of working fields of Peter Schwintzer by inviting presentations related to the following topics: - Global gravity recovery from satellite-only and surface data in particular based on CHAMP, GRACE and GOCE. - Gravity recovery from aerogravimetry and terrestrial (supra-conducting) gravimeters. - The derivation of temporal variations of the gravity field with emphasis on methodology (in order to distinguish from session G2 which is focussed on applications). - Interaction of the (static) gravity field with the Earth´s interior. Possible contributions could be related to recent processing results, an accuracy assessment of the obtained gravity quantities, but also new methodological developments, synergies or simulation studies. From: Roland Schmidt ******************************************************************************** |