ESSO - Indian National Centre for Ocean Information Services

Course Overview:

An important objective of INCOIS is to establish, maintain and manage the systems for data acquisition, analysis, interpretation and archival for Ocean Information and Services. The observations form the foundation for understanding the ocean and predicting the changes. Considering the importance of ocean observations, INCOIS have implemented many observational programs such as Argo, drifting buoys, equatorial current meter moorings, coastal ADCP moorings, Bay of Bengal Observatory, XBT/XCTD, wave rider buoys, AWS, etc. Also, INCOIS co-ordinates with International institutes/Universities to deploy and maintain Argo floats, drifting buoys and Moorings (RAMA) array in the Indian Ocean. The above observational program are being effectively utilized for validation of ocean models and satellite derived parameters, and assimilated into ocean models for better nowcasting and forecasting.

This training mainly focuses on brining awareness about the data holding from various instruments archived at INCOIS, operational services being rendered by INCOIS and utilization of data for various scientific applications.

Course Contents:

The Lectures will tentatively cover the following topics:

• Operational Ocean Services.
• Ocean Observation Systems.
• Processing and Quality Control of oceanographic data.
• INCOIS Live Access Server.
• Exploring data using web services.

Hands on Exercises and Laboratory visits (Afternoon sessions):

• Visit to Ground station: Satellite data sets and value added products.
• Introduction to Live Access Server and Hands on with data products.
• Hands on training with web services.
• Digital Ocean platform for on the fly data access and visualization.

Faculty:

The faculty for the course consists of scientists/experts in different fields drawn from the host institute (INCOIS). These experts have long and varied experience in the field of Oceanography, data handling.

Venue:

The training course will be held at ITCOocean, Indian National Centre for Ocean Information Services (INCOIS), Hyderabad, India.



Application Process:

The course is scheduled for a batch of M.Tech. students from IIT Delhi.

Course Fee and Financial support:

There is no course fee charged for the training course.

Course Date:

June 19 - 21, 2024 

Contact details of the ITCOocean Coordinator is given below:

Dr. TVS Udaya Bhaskar,
Division Head, Ocean Data Management (ODM)&
Programme Planning and Coordination Group (PPC)
International Training Centre for Operational Oceanography (ITCOocean)
Indian National Centre for Ocean Information Services (INCOIS)
(Ministry of Earth Sciences, Government of India)
"Ocean Valley", Pragathi Nagar (B.O.)
Nizampet (S.O.), HYDERABAD - 500 090
TELANGANA, INDIA
Tel : +91 40 23895000
Fax : +91 40 23895001
E mail : uday@incois.gov.in
E mail : itcoocean@incois.gov.in

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