OTGA Training Course: Discovery and Use of Operational Ocean Data Products and Services

OTGA Training Course: Discovery and Use of Operational Ocean Data Products and Services.

Oostende, Belgium | 11-15 March 2019

Participation: Shukri Arsad and Nurzuhrah Hassan

 

This course will provide knowledge and hands-on experience for the data, satellites and instrumentation, access and formats, tools and software for operational activities. A pre-course phase of the training will provide an essential overview of data, products and tools used to monitor the ocean and will focus on preparation for the classroom phase where students will work on a short project to learn more about the data and its applications.

Aims and Objectives

-Introduction to methods to access and download data and products used in operational oceanography
-Understanding of data and products to be used for specific applications
-Understanding of key types of satellite measurements used to monitor the ocean

 

Learning Outcomes

-Introduction to a wide range of data and products to improve marine analysis
-Overview of airborne and satellite data available for marine and coastal research
-Awareness of data processing and file formats
-Use of tools to access and visualize data scripting languages to work with marine satellite data

 

Target Audience

The target audience includes, but not limited to, the following:
-Researchers with an interest in working with satellite based and real time ocean observation data
-Ocean and coastal data managers
-PhD students and Post-Docs

 

Course Pre-requisites:

-General knowledge of oceanography
-Experience with computer programming languages will be an advantage
-Good working knowledge of English
-Candidates must successfully complete an online pre-course phase to be eligible to join the face-to-face classroom phase.

Note: Priority will be given to participants originating from Europe and North African countries. UNESCO is committed to promote gender equality. Applications from women are strongly encouraged.

The OceanTeacher Global Academy is a Project of IOC/IODE supported by the Flanders-UNESCO Trust Fund (FUST) of the Government of Flanders, Belgium.

 

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Abstract

While the sinking formation of Antarctic Bottom Water (AABW) is well understood, how this bottom water "returns home" through upwelling within ocean basins, particularly the Indo-Pacific, remains shrouded in uncertainty. In the 1960s, Munk’s classic "Abyssal Recipes" theory sought to explain these abyssal flows, yet later observations exposed two significant conflicts with real-world data. In 2016, Ferrari, McDougall, and colleagues proposed the "Towards a New Abyssal Recipe" framework, introducing bottom boundary layer (BBL) upwelling to address Munk’s inconsistencies. Drawing on recent evidence of a potential cooling trend in the deep ocean, this talk revisits these debates, offering a fresh interpretation of Munk’s discrepancies and proposing a new mechanism for abyssal upwelling in the Indo-Pacific. It contributes to the ongoing quest to unravel how bottom waters complete their global journey.

Presented by: Prof. Dr. HAN Lei
Affiliation: China-ASEAN College of Marine Science, Xiamen University, Malaysia
Address: Sepang, Selangor, Malaysia

 

 

 

 

 

 

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