Thank you for attending the International SST Fiducial Reference Measurement (FRM) Radiometer Network (ISFRN) 2025 workshop.  

The workshop was held online over 2 days, Thursday 3 April, 12pm - 4pm (BST) - Friday 4 April 9am - 12pm (BST)

The 5th edition of the ESA sponsored workshop was for anyone interested in sea surface temperature science, satellite validation or the uses of in-situ radiometer measurements. We hope to actively engage and promote the SST climate community so it was great to have this network come together and to hear about all the different experiences within our field.   

The workshop promoted the achievements and developments within the radiometer community, and showcased our expertise in validating satellite Sea Surface Temperature (SST) data using in-situ instruments.  Our data produced is of FRM standard and SI-traceable, and as such, can be reliably used for the calibration and validation of satellite data. 

The core FRM4SST team met at NOC, Southampton for the event with the rest of the community joining us online.

Workshop Agenda

Workshop Book of Abstracts

Presentations: 

Session 2.1: ISAR UK, Dr Werenfrid Wimmer, UoS, UK         

Session 2.2: Update on M-AERI,  Prof Peter Minnett, UOS, UK

Session 2.3: Ocean surface skin temperature using the InfraRed instrument (IRISS), Dr Andy Jessup, University of Washington, USA

Session 3.1: ISFRN/Ships4SST, Dr Werenfrid Wimmer

Session 4.1: ASTeRN, Dr Dave Smith, STFC,UK (coming soon)

Session 4.2: The TRUSTED Project, Dr Marc Lucas, CLS, France (coming soon)

Session 5.1: SST data for global carbon budgets, Prof Jamie Shutler, UoE, UK

Session 5.2: Response of ocean skin temp to rain, Carson Witte, Columbia University, USA

Session 5.3: Mid and thermal infrared validation at Lake Tahoe and Salton Sea, Dr Simon Hook, JPL, USA

Session 6.1: ISAR Denmark, Dr Guisella Gacitúa, DMI, Denmark

Session 6.2: SISTeR, Dr Tim Nightingale, STFC,UK (coming soon)

Session 7.1: ISAR Korea, Prof Kyung-Ae, Seoul National Uni, Korea (coming soon)

Session 8.1: Uncertainty models, Dr Werenfrid Wimmer, UoS, UK

Session 9.1: Sentinel-3 SLSTR SST validation, Dr Werenfrid Wimmer, UoS, UK

Session 9.2: Comparison with other in situ instruments, Dr Gary Corlett, EUMETSAT, Germany

Session 9.3: Status of EUMETSAT SST/IST multi-mission matchup database (MMDB), Dr Igor Tomazic, EUMETSAT, Germany

Recordings:

Workshop Day 1 - Thurs 3 April 2025 Recording

Workshop Day 2 -Friday 4 April 2025 Recording

 

A few photos:

Dr Nightingale giving an update on SISTeR

 

 

 

 

 

 

Dr Wimmer with ISAR updates    Dr Nightingale with SISTeR updates   The Ships4SST team enjoying lunch at the NOC

A note from Craig Donlon the ESA technical officer on the FRM4SST project:
'Thank you everyone for a great review of excellence in SST activities - it is wonderfully refreshing to see how much work and productive science has been achieved with the ISFRN.  It confirms to me that this is the right way to do the coordination between ourselves as international practitioners of SST science, validation and outreach.  Thank you to all! '

The FRM4SST project would like to thank and acknowledge the substantial contribution of all the presenters and their funding agencies in support of this workshop.


Keep in touch with our project and our community @ships4sst

If you have any questions or would like to take part in our workshop next year please email Sorrel Nelson.