OceanTeacher Academy Training Course in Operational Oceanography

This course will demonstrate the data resources available from operational programs, which can be assembled, synthesized and displayed in a single software platform (Integrated Data Viewer). The data for the course will be taken from a single selected day (Near-Real-Time [NRT] or as close as possible) to demonstrate the enhanced value of multiple, overlapping observing systems. The emphasis is on winds, waves, currents, surface temperature and ice (ocean elements related to hazardous conditions). [Surface salinity is anticipated to be available in the near future and will be added.] Measured and modeled parameters are both included, as appropriate.

Aims and Objectives:
• To provide students with pre-course reading assignments that cover the main course topics
• To introduce and install the Integrated Data Viewer (IDV) software, and to set it up for ordinary ocean data products
• To train students in obtaining and visualizing major NRT global wave products: measured swaths and modeled grids
• To train students in obtaining and visualizing NRT sea surface temperature (SST) grids from satellite data
• To train students in obtaining and visualizing NRT surface pigment grids from satellite data
• To train students in obtaining and visualizing NRT sea ice grids from satellite data
• To train students in obtaining and visualizing climatological (i.e. atlas-type) SST and pigment grids from satellite data
• To train students in obtaining NRT Argo drifter data and other operational ocean station data for incorporation into, for example, the Ocean Data View software
• To train students in obtaining and visualizing NRT modeled ocean scalar quantities, e.g. salinity, temperature
• To train students in obtaining and visualizing NRT modeled ocean current vectors
• To train students in obtaining and visualizing NRT sea surface height grids from satellite data
• To train students in converting all of the above visualizations into Google Earth-compatible formats
Target audience:
• Research scientists
• Government and NGO officers

Pre-requisites:
• Students should be graduate students or recent graduates in the marine or atmospheric sciences
• Students should be highly proficient in the use of personal computers with Windows XP or W7
• Students should have a good command of English

Lecturers:
Murray Brown
Greg Reed

Course contents available at:
http://classroom.oceanteacher.org/course/view.php?id=124

Location	UNESCO/IOC Project Office for IODE Wandelaarkaai 7 - Pakhuis 61 B-8400 Oostende Belgium
Notes	Period for applications: 8 February - 23 March. Detailed information on how to register and the Application Form available at www.oceanteacher.org
Organisers & Staff   Organisers   Cláudia DELGADO Staff   Mark VAN CROMBRUGGE   Kristin DE LICHTERVELDE   Annelies GROEN   Aditya NAIK KAKODKAR Participants   There are 22 participants associated with this event. [View detailed participants list (including travel arrangements)] [View a printable participants list] [View participant address labels] Documents   2012-09-10-14-GENERAL_LOCAL_INFO Timetable_overview_DM_OperationalOceanography_Sep_2012 [More information about these documents]