Training Course: From Measurement to Mean Fields: Aggregating Oceanographic Data for Science using World Ocean Database and World Ocean Atlas tools
OTGA-INVEMAR

Training Course

21 - 23 November 2016

Location

Instituto de Investigaciones Marinas y Costeras José Benito Vives de Andreis
Calle 25 No. 2-55, Playa Salguero, Rodadero
Santa Marta D.T.C.H., Magdalena, -
Colombia



Organiser(s) & Staff
Participation

By invitation only.

Training Course: From Measurement to Mean Fields: Aggregating Oceanographic Data for Science using World Ocean Database and World Ocean Atlas tools
Summary

This course is designed to give guidance on bringing together measurements from disparate field studies and projects to preserve the data for future use and easy dissemination to researchers and the public. There are worldwide subsurface ocean observing systems such as the Argo project of autonomous profiling floats and the Ship of Opportunity Program which facilitates the deployment of Expendable Bathythermographs (XBTs) along merchant shipping lines. But many oceanographic field studies are more localized, from a mooring at a single coastal site to fisheries research cruises within a country’s coastal waters to trans basin lines such as the long running time series at 24®N in the Atlantic Ocean used to monitor the Atlantic Overturning Circulation. Locally, nationally, regionally, and globally, an important task is to bring together these measurements in their different forms, with different crucial metadata, from different instrumentation, from different field projects so the data can be used to understand ocean and climate beyond the original scope of the various projects. The first day of the course will be concerned with the mechanics and data base skills necessary to bring together data at levels beyond a single cruise or mooring and serve them to the researchers and the public In a way that can be easily utilized, with sufficient information for a researcher 50 years in the future to still understand.

Notes

Apply online at https://otga.wufoo.com/forms/zjxd36i1eosrru/ Course contents: http://classroom.oceanteacher.org/course/view.php?id=252

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Name Country
BOYER Tim United States of America
TRINANES Joaquin United States of America
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Group(s): CD - Capacity Development Section, GOOS Regional Alliances, IOC, IOCARIBE, IODE - International Oceanographic Data and Information Exchange, OTGA - OceanTeacher Global Academy.
Label(s): CD - Capacity Development Section Training course , IODE - International Oceanographic Data and Information Exchange Training course , OTGA - OceanTeacher Global Academy Training course
Created at 09:29 on 02 Oct 2016 by Greg Reed
Last Updated at 10:25 on 16 Oct 2020 by Cláudia Delgado
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