Implementing an Operational Ocean Monitoring and Forecasting System (OOFS)

Résumé

Implementing an operational ocean monitoring and forecasting system is guided by multiple scientific, technical and outreach choices.

This hands on workshop will provide examples of these choices through an overview of the products from an operational oceanography and forecasting systems (via the Copernicus Marine Service portfolio) and a demonstration on graphical user interfaces and command line interfaces to visualize these data. Practical sessions will be proposed on Assimilation & Validation and Downscaling.

Aims and Objectives

The aim of the training is

• 1) to give the attendees the vision of the entire value chain of a centre operating an Operational Ocean Monitoring and Forecasting Systems (OOFS), from the system to the interface with users;
• 2) to share experience around practical exercises on important choices linked to the implementation of an OOFS (data assimilation, choice in modelling configuration…)

Learning Outcomes

• Understand the choices which have to be made to configure a an operational oceanography and forecasting system and be aware of the impacts of these choices;
• Understand the role of the observations in the assimilation and the validation processes.
• Discover an example on how to showcase and made your products accessible for your users communities.

Contents

• CMEMS portfolio
• Demo on Panoply with phsyical products
• Demo on Jupyter Notebook with wave products
• Demo Rstudio with Bio Products

Target audience and prerequisites

• The audience will be a technical one: participanst need to have background knowledge on operational oceanography and interest on or previous experience using marine data and some notions on coding (Python/R)
• Participants need to have a good working level of the English language.

Instructors

• D.Chang Seng
• E.Alvarez
• P.Bahurel
• S.Ciliberti
• A. Mehra
• A. Repucci
• J. Siddorn
• M. Drevillon
• Fujiang Yu
• Lotfi Aouf
• Elodie Gutcknecht
• L. Crosnier
• K. Von Schuckman
• others to be confirmed

Note: participants selected to attend this hands on workshop need to also attend the Understanding the Benefits of Operational Ocan and Forecasting Systems (OOFS) Awareness workshop to take place between 1-16 June 2021.