ESSO - Indian National Centre for Ocean Information Services

OTGA/IODE-IOC
Training course on "Discovery and Use of Operational Ocean Data Products and Services"
during March 6-10, 2017
Organized by
International Training Centre for Operational Oceanography (ITCOocean)
ESSO-INCOIS, Hyderabad, India

Overview

This course will demonstrate the data resources available from operational program. The focus will be on operational activities, how to download data and use software to visualize. It will be a mix of practical and theoretical.

Aims and Objectives

• To provide an introduction to Operational Oceanography.
• Discovery and Use of Operational Ocean Data Products and Services.
• Hands on for Visualizing the model and in situ derived data products.

Learning outcomes

• Knowledge and understanding of Operational Oceanography.
• Tasks involved in Operational Analysis and Forecast methods.
• Oceanographic Data sources, Quality Control/Quality Assurance, monitoring systems and methods.
• Tools for visualizing the operational ocean data products.

Target Audience

Target audiences include, but not limited to the following:

• Ocean and coastal data managers.
• Researchers intending to use data products for scientific analysis.
• Research scholars at various universities.

Note: Priority will be given to participants originating from the Indian Ocean rim countries. UNESCO is committed to promote gender equality. Therefore, applications from women are strongly encouraged.

Course Pre-requisites:

• 1. Candidates should posses knowledge of formats of data in which most of the oceanographic data sets are available.
• 2. Candidates should be preferably working in institutions which is responsible for the management of oceanographic data.
• 3. Good working knowledge of English language.

Course Dates :

March 6-10, 2017

Last Date to recieve application

July 10,2017

Venue :

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, INDIA

Faculty Members :

• Dr. T. V. S. Uday Bhaskar (uday@incois.gov.in)
• Shri. E. Pattabhi Rama Rao (pattabhi@incois.gov.in)
• Shri. R. Venkat Shesu (venkat@incois.gov.in)
• Dr. S. Siva Reddy (ssiva@incois.gov.in)
• Dr. R Harikumar (harikumar@incois.gov.in)
• Shri. S. J. Prasad (prasadsj@incois.gov.in)

OTGA Coordinator:

• Dr.Greg Reed(g.reed@unesco.org)

OTGA India Regional Training Centre Coordinator:

• Dr. B. Madhusudan Rao (bmrao@incois.gov.in / itcoocean@incois.gov.in)

A Certificate of Participation will be issued to all successful students.

Agenda / Programme

Time	Day-1 (06 March 2017)	Day-2 (07 March 2017)	Day-3 (08 March 2017)	Day-4 (09 March 2017)	Day-5 (10 March 2017)
09:30 - 11:00	Registration Course Introduction (B M Rao) L1 : Introduction to Operational Oceanography (E Pattabhi Rama Rao) Download [ Presentation/Video ]	Generation of and Visualization of 1D, 2D, 3D, 4D data sets using FERRET (TVS Udaya Bhaskar)	L5 : Ocean state forecasts and importance of Atmospheric forcing (Harikumar R) Download [ Presentation/Video ]	L7: Coastal monitoring methods: Oil Spill trajectory forecasting (SJ Prasad) Download [ Presentation]	Visualization and Analysis of model data sets using LAS (TVS Udaya Bhaskar)
11:00 - 11:30	Tea/Coffee	Tea/Coffee	Tea/Coffee	Tea/Coffee	Tea/Coffee
11:30 - 13:00	L2 : Introduction to Oceanography Data (TVS Udaya Bhaskar) Download [ Presentation/Video ]	L4: Operational Ocean Analysis using MOM (Siva Reddy) Download [ Presentation/Video ]	Familiarization of OSF products (Web map services, User customized products etc) (Harikumar & Team)	Models for predicting oil spill trajectory. (SJ Prasad)	Test and Feedback
13:00 - 14:00	Lunch	Lunch	Lunch	Lunch	Lunch
14:00 - 15:30	L3: Introduction to FERRET visualization s/w Download [ Presentation/Video ]	Validation of MOM models with in situ data (Siva Reddy)	Visualizing, interpreting and validating ocean state forecast data with in situ observations. (Harikumar & Team)	Derived Products from ocean gridded products (TVS Udaya Bhaskar)	Closing Ceremony
15:30 - 16:00	Tea/Coffee	Tea/Coffee	Tea/Coffee	Tea/Coffee	Tea/Coffee
16:00 - 17:30	Visualizing model data using FERRET. (TVS Udaya Bhaskar)	Deriving Climate indicators using MOM (Siva Reddy)	L6 : Use of Remote Sensing products for fisheries application. (Nimit Kumar ) Download [ Presentation/Video ]	Viewing and selecting data using ODIS (Suprit Kumar)	Visit to INCOIS Facility (Tsunami Warning Centre, Ground Station)