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ECCO investigator Dimitris Menemenlis (NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory) was one of the featured speakers at the US CLIVAR Phenomena, Observations, and Synthesis (POS) Panel.

His presentation, which is co-authored by Andrea Molod (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center) and Chris Hill (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), addresses why it is important for simulations to address interaction between the ocean and atmosphere at various scales. For example, he discusses how ocean mesoscale eddies may force the atmosphere rather than passively responding to atmospheric forcing. Simulating meso- and smaller scales is particularly pertinent to understanding observations from the NASA Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) mission and conducting process studies for proposed mission designs to observe current-wind interactions at the ocean surface.