A Training Course on Buoy Programme Implementation and Data Management
DBCP 2007 training course
Training Course
11 - 15 June 2007
Location
Organiser(s) & Staff
Participation
IOC Project Office for IODE Wandelaarkaai 7
8400 Ostend
Belgium
Organiser(s) & Staff
Organiser
Staff
Participation
By invitation only.
A Training Course on Buoy Programme Implementation and Data Management
Summary
The full information and curriculum can be found at the OceanTeacher
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Application Deadline: 15 March 2007
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- 3.3 - Drifters
Prepared and delivered by: Motyzhev Supporting materials: SVP-B design manual, Niiler et al drogue studies
DBCP/TR/3.3 Buoy hardware: platforms - 3.3.1 - Hull design
- 3.3.2 - Drogue design and validation
- 3.3.3 - Drag calculations
- 3.3.4 - Submersion issues and calculations
- 3.3.5 - Deployment packages
- 3.4 - Marine animals
Prepared and delivered by: Meldrum - 3.5 - Energy
Prepared and delivered by: Meldrum
DBCP/TR/3.4 Marine animals and energy budgets - 3.5.1 - Sources
- 3.5.2 - Budget calculations
- 4 - Buoy hardware: sensors
Supporting materials: SVP-B design manual Practical work and assignments: 1) Review of the sensor suite of the SVPB, 2) Description of the sampling scheme and message format of the SVPB prototype - 4.1 - SLP and baro port design
Prepared and delivered by: Motyzhev
DBCP/TR/4.1 Buoy hardware: sensors - 4.10 - Wave spectra
Prepared and delivered by: Meldrum - 4.11 - Ocean depth, sea level
Prepared and delivered by: Meldrum - 4.12 - Other (e.g. pCO2, bio, tracers)
Prepared and delivered by: Meldrum - 4.2 - T (air and sea surface)
Prepared and delivered by: Motyzhev - 4.3 - T(z)
Prepared and delivered by: Motyzhev - 4.4 - Submersion
Prepared and delivered by: Motyzhev - 4.5 - C and the computation of S
Prepared and delivered by: Meldrum
DBCP/TR/4.5 Buoy hardware: other sensors - 4.6 - Wind speed and direction
Prepared and delivered by: Meldrum - 4.7 - Rainfall and humidity
Prepared and delivered by: Meldrum - 4.8 - Location (GPS)
Prepared and delivered by: Meldrum - 4.9 - Current velocity
Prepared and delivered by: Meldrum - 5 - Buoy hardware: sensor processing
Supporting materials: 1) SVP-B design manual, 2) DBCP message formats Practical work and assignments: description of the sampling scheme and message format of the SVPB prototype - 5.1 - Sensor connection and interfacing
Prepared and delivered by: Motyzhev
DBCP/TR/5.1 Buoy hardware: sensor processing - 5.1.1 - Connectors
- 5.1.2 - Networking protocols and technologies (Hard-wired, Radio, Optical, Acoustic)
- 5.2 - Microprocessors, microcontrollers, onboard memory
Prepared and delivered by: Motyzhev - 5.3 - Timing sources
Prepared and delivered by: Motyzhev - 5.4 - Sampling, averaging, despiking
Prepared and delivered by: Motyzhev - 5.5 - Smart data processing
Prepared and delivered by: Motyzhev - 5.6 - Data formats and message handling
Prepared and delivered by: Charpentier
DBCP/TR/5.6 Data Formats - 6 - Buoy hardware: communications
Supporting materials: Satcomms overview. Practical work and assignments: Practical work with satellite transmitters and modems - 6.1 - GSM and radio
Prepared and delivered by: Meldrum
DBCP/TR/6.1 Buoy hardware: communications - 6.2 - Satellite
Prepared and delivered by: Meldrum - 6.2.1 - LEOs: Argos, Orbcomm, Iridium, Globalstar
- 6.2.2 - GEOs: Meteosat/GOES/GMS, Inmarsat
- 6.3 - Acoustics
Prepared and delivered by: Meldrum - 6.4 - Energy considerations
Prepared and delivered by: Meldrum - 7 - Buoy and float deployment
Supporting materials: to be defined. Practical work and assignments: See Theme 3 - 7.1 - Strategic issues
Prepared and delivered by: Pazos
DBCP/TR/7.1 Buoy and Float Deployment - 7.1.1 - High impact areas
- 7.1.2 - Optimisation strategies
- 7.1.3 - Remote areas
- 7.1.4 - Contact with national focal points and high level sponsors
- 7.2 - Practical issues
Prepared and delivered by: Pazos, Motyzhev
DBCP/TR/7.2 Practical issues - 7.2.1 - Air and sea deployment opportunities
- 7.2.2 - Coordination with other agencies
- 7.2.3 - Deployment techniques and handling of deployment packages
- 7.2.4 - Pre-deployment tests
- 7.2.5 - Safety issues
- 8 - Shore-side data processing, dissemination and archiving
Supporting materials: DBCP docs. Practical work and assignments: Setting up the technical file of the SVPB prototype - 8.1 - Data reception
Prepared and delivered by: Charpentier
DBCP/TR/8.1 Shore side data processing, dissemination, and archiving - 8.2 - Location techniques
Prepared and delivered by: Charpentier - 8.3 - Data delays
Prepared and delivered by: Charpentier - 8.4 - Conversion issues
Prepared and delivered by: Charpentier - 8.4.1 - Transfer functions, calibrations
- 8.4.2 - End-user formatting (GTS formats)
- 8.5 - Metadata
Prepared and delivered by: Charpentier - 8.6 - Dissemination routes
Prepared and delivered by: Charpentier - 8.6.1 - GTS
- 8.6.2 - Other data pathways
- 8.7 - Archival mechanisms
Prepared and delivered by: Charpentier - 8.8 - Developments by service providers
Prepared and delivered by: Meldrum - 8.8.1 - Argos
- 8.8.2 - Iridium
- 8.8.3 - Inmarsat
- 9 - Quality Control (QC)
Supporting materials: DBCP docs. Practical work and assignments: Analysis of the SVPB prototype data from the demonstration deployment - 9.1 - Importance of QC
Prepared and delivered by: Viola
DBCP/TR/9.1 Quality Control - 9.2 - Techniques available
Prepared and delivered by: Charpentier - 9.2.1 - Initial calibration and validation
- 9.2.2 - Gross error checks (Sensor values, Location accuracy)
- 9.2.3 - Nearest-neighbour checks
- 9.2.4 - Comparison with model fields
- 9.3 - RMS differences and biases
Prepared and delivered by: Viola - 9.3.1 - Météo France real-time QC data
- 9.3.2 - Delayed-mode buoy monitoring statistics
- 9.4 - Practical implementation
Prepared and delivered by: Pazos
DBCP/TR/9.4 Practical Implementation at the Drifter Data Assembly Center - 9.4.1 - Real-time automatic checks
- 9.4.2 - Delayed mode procedures
- 9.4.3 - Identification of steady offsets
- 9.4.4 - Rescaling procedures
- 9.4.5 - Post-calibration tests
- 1 - Overview of marine observing systems
Supporting materials: to be defined. Practical work and assignments: Access to satellite imagery archives
DBCP/TR/1.0 Ocean Observation: Challenges of the Last Frontier - 1.1 - Satellites
Prepared and delivered by: Meldrum
DBCP/TR/1.1 Satellites for Ocean Observation - 1.1.1 - Active
- 1.1.2 - Passive
- 1.2 - Ships
Prepared and delivered by: Ball
DBCP/TR/1.2 Ship-Based Observations - 1.2.1 - OWS, VOS
- 1.2.2 - XBTs, XCTDs
- 1.2.3 - ASAP
- 1.2.4 - Manual observations
- 1.2.5 - Shipboard AWS
- 1.3 - Fixed Platforms
Prepared and delivered by: Turton
DBCP/TR/1.3 Fixed platforms and Profiling floats (Argo) - 1.3.1 - Oilrigs, lighthouses
- 1.3.2 - Moored Buoys
- 1.4 - Profiling Floats
Prepared and delivered by: Turton - 1.5 - Drifting Buoys
Prepared and delivered by: Meldrum
DBCP/TR/1.5 Drifting buoys, tsunameters, tide gauges, seabed observatories and autonomous vehicles - 1.6 - Tsunameters and Tide Gauges
Prepared and delivered by: Meldrum - 1.7 - Autonomous Vehicles
Prepared and delivered by: Meldrum - 1.8 - Seabed Observatories
Prepared and delivered by: Meldrum - 10 - Data access and consultation
Supporting materials: DBCP, WMO and MEDS docs. Practical work and assignments: Report on the availability of buoy data from various sources - 10.1 - Data access policies
Prepared and delivered by: Charpentier
DBCP/TR/10.1 Data access and consultation - 10.2 - Data pathways (revision: also under section 8)
Prepared and delivered by: Charpentier - 10.3 - Data centres and their products
Prepared and delivered by: Charpentier - 10.3.1 - Designated archiving centres: RNODC/DB, SOC/DB
- 10.3.2 - Operational support centres: JCOMMOPS, OSMC, NDBC
- 10.3.3 - Other on-line centres: Coriolis, CLS, DBCP, SHOM
- 11 - International coordination
Supporting materials: WMO and IOC docs. Practical work and assignments: Assignment: the relevance of the Law of the Sea to buoy operation
DBCP/TR/11.1 International Coordination - 11.1 - WMO
Prepared and delivered by: Lee - 11.2 - IOC
Prepared and delivered by: Lee - 11.3 - JCOMM and JCOMMOPS
Prepared and delivered by: Lee - 11.4 - DBCP and its action groups
Prepared and delivered by: Lee - 11.5 - Case study : IBPIO, Indian Ocean activities and coordination
Prepared and delivered by: Ball
DBCP/TR/11.5 IBPIO Overview - 11.6 - Argo
Prepared and delivered by: Lee - 11.7 - Other emerging initiatives: GEOSS, EU FP7
Prepared and delivered by: Lee - 11.8 - Future visions
Prepared and delivered by: Lee - 12 - Conclusions
- 12.1 - Feedback on assignments and project reports
Prepared and delivered by: Meldrum - 12.2 - User feedback
Prepared and delivered by: Meldrum - 12.3 - Next steps
Prepared and delivered by: Meldrum - 12.3.1 - Network creation
- 12.3.2 - Continuation support
- 2 - The need for buoy observations Practical work and assignments: Summarise marine observing systems and their underlying requirements
- 2.1 - Role of oceans in weather and climate
Prepared and delivered by: Turton
DBCP/TR/2.1 The need for buoy (and float) observations - 2.2 - Limitations of satellite observations
Prepared and delivered by: Turton - 2.3 - Limitations of ship observations
Prepared and delivered by: Turton - 2.4 - Value for money considerations
Prepared and delivered by: Turton - 2.5 - Specific needs in terms of:
Prepared and delivered by: Charpentier Supporting materials: WMO and OOPC documents.
DBCP/TR/2.4 Need for buoy observations - Requirements by variable - 2.5.1 - Observed variable
- 2.5.2 - Spatial coverage
- 2.5.3 - Temporal coverage
- 2.5.4 - Availability and timeliness
- 3 - Buoy hardware: platforms Practical work and assignments: 1) Practical deployment of tethered drifter in Ostend harbour, 2) Energy budget calculation
- 3.1 - Fixed platforms
Prepared and delivered by: Turton
DBCP/TR/3.1 Technical information on marine observing systems - 3.1.1 - Construction
- 3.1.2 - Mooring
- 3.1.3 - Safety and Vandalism
- 3.2 - Profilers
Prepared and delivered by: Turton - 3.2.1 - Profiling engines
- 3.2.2 - Other design issues and calculations
- 3.2.3 - Ballasting calculations
Report
| Code | Name | Updated on | Action |
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| OPA_DBCP_general_TrainingCourse_01, DBCP-CB-2007 | Summary, Training Course on Buoy Programme Implementation and data Management, Ostend, Belgium, 11-15 June 2007 | 27/10/2010 |
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| Local Information | 04/04/2007 |
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| Draft Programme of the training course | 15/05/2007 |
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| Application Form - DBCP 2007 Training Course | 13/02/2007 |
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| A letter from DBCP Chair - call for application | 13/02/2007 |
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Label(s): IODE Training course
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Label(s): IODE Training course
Created at 16:05 on 16 Dec 2006 by Wouter Rommens
Last Updated at 21:40 on 09 Jun 2011 by Cláudia Delgado