IOCCG Course 3-13 Dec 2001, Cape Town, South Africa

IOCCG Course 3-13 Dec 2001, Cape Town, South Africa
Outline time table:
Day	Time	Topic	Lecturer
3-Dec	9.00-12.00	Welcome, logistics, introduction to UCT, and IOCCG Introduction of participants (10 minutes each) Introduction to satellite remote sensing (SST, chl, winds, waves and currents	Shillington All
	12.30-13.30	Lunch
	13.30-17.00	Background to remote sensing (continued)	Shillington

4-Dec	9.00-12.00	Background to remote sensing (continued)	Shillington
	12.30-13.30	Lunch
	13.30-17.00	Basic BILKO functions, SST	Shillington

5-Dec	9.00-12.00	Review of Benguela Upwelling System NOAA Pathfinder SST and a virtual tour through the Benguela Hydrogen sulphide in Namibian waters	Shillington Roy Weeks
	12.30-13.30	Lunch
	13.30-17.00	More Advanced BILKO functions, SeaWiFS climatology data	Shillington

6-Dec	9.00-12.00	Case history of exceptional Anchovy recruitment in the southern Benguela Introduction to in water optics-Volvo Race data Pigments and in situ measurements in the Benguela	Roy Bernard Barlow
	12.30-13.30	Lunch
	13.30-17.00	Manipulation of Benguela SeaWiFS imagery - BILKO	Shillington

7-Dec	9.00-12.00	Introduction to Primary production The Ocean Colour Monitor (OCM) on the Indian P4 Satellite	Bernard Solanki
	12.30-13.30	Lunch
	13.30-17.00	SST imagery at daily/6km resolution and the processing of upwelling intensity index from SST fields in the Benguela (Meteosat SST) GAC SeaWiFS data Introduction to SeaDAS processing sofware	Demarcq Demarcq Demarcq

8-Dec	9.00-17.00	Free afternoon (Saturday)
9-Dec	9.00-17.00	Day trip to view sea conditions near Cape Town	Shillington et al

10-Dec	9.00-12.00	EOF analysis Introduction to neural network analysis - Self organising maps (SOMS) Interpretation and application of colour imagery	Roy Richardson
	12.30-13.30	Lunch
	13.30-17.00	Hands on demonstration of SeaDAS software Discussion of participants individual project proposals Investigation of appropriate data sets (e.g. web)	Demarcq Shillington et al

11-Dec	9.00-12.00	Report back of candidates to the whole group, feed back	All
	12.30-13.30	Lunch
	13.30-17.00	Continued feedback on projects

12-Dec	9.00-12.00	Future possibilities in ocean colour and operational oceanography, GOOS, ARGO Fisheries statistics using GLM and GAM	Shillington Richardson
	12.30-13.30	Lunch
	13.30-17.00	Final closing remarks
13-Dec		DEPARTURE

Notes:

Participants to come prepared to talk about themselves and what they expect to get out of the course (5 minute presentation)
Participants to bring along "their own" problems to solve. If you have a data set that you can bring or gain access to, all the better!
Participants to consider the following situation: Given three weeks (say) time series of daily colour imagery at either LAC (1 km) or GAC (4 km) resolution, what kind of process can be studied in their region? For the case of upwelling, we need to think about ancillary data such as wind velocity, SST etc to help understand the processes.
What are appropriate spatial and temporal coastal or open ocean scales that can be solved using satellite remotely sensed data?
Case studies to be presented by participants: Craig Risien on the use of Quikscat wind data in the Benguela system; Nonqubela Silulwane on the characterisation of vertical chl profiles on the Agulhas Bank; Christo Whittle studies of an Agulhas Ring; Chris Bartholomae on use of SST in the Namibian upwelling system
Visit to Marine and Coastal Management research aquarium; visit to Two Oceans Aquarium, visit to Cape Point

Convenor: Professor Frank Shillington, Department of Oceanography, UCT (shill@physci.uct.ac.za)

Guest lecturers: Dr Claude Roy, IRD and UCT; Dr Anthony Richardson, UCT, Dr Ray Barlow, Marine and Coastal Management, Cape Town; Ms Scarla Weeks, Oceanspace and UCT; Mr Herve Demarcq, IRD and M & CM, Mr Stewart Bernard, UCT, Mr Himmat Solanki, Space Applications Centre, Ahmedabad, India.

Financial management: Mr Emlyn Balarin