This page contains links to educational resources that are external to GHRSST.
Upcoming training activities
26 February 2024 – 22 March 2024, Supporting Marine Earth Observation Applications (SMA)
Applications are open for EUMETSAT’s “Supporting Marine Earth Observation Applications (SMA)” course. It will introduce participants to EUMETSAT’s marine data catalogue and will help develop workflows that support your own application specific goals.
The course will run from 26 February 2024 – 22 March 2024.
Read the full course description and apply here.
Past activities
19 July 2023, Warming Oceans: Using Satellite to Monitor Sea Surface Temperature, Ocean Heat Content and Marine Heatwaves
This advanced event will focus on the application of satellite sea surface temperature (SST) measurements to several current applications including ocean heat content, cyclogenesis, and marine heatwaves. It will present some technical background on how products are derived, and how to select the most suitable products for different applications.
A practical demonstration will show the calculation of SST anomalies and marine heatwave indicators. Leading experts will then present the use of SST and derived products for research applications, and what this data is telling us about the current status of heat in different ocean regions.
The short course will consist of a 3-hour webinar on July 19th (11:00 – 14:00 UTC), which will include a Q&A and feedback session. To support participants in using the data sets and tools we highlight, we will keep the online Q&A platform open for one week following the webinar, responding quickly to any queries posted.
https://training.eumetsat.int/course/view.php?id=489
8 – 9 September 2022, Third ISFRN Workshop
The ESA-sponsored workshop was held both at the NOCS.
https://ships4sst.org/isfrn-workshop/isfrn-workshop-8-9-september-2022
25 January 2022, OSI SAF Webinar: Sea Surface Temperature
This Ocean and Sea Ice SAF (OSI SAF) webinar provides an overview of the OSI SAF products and their applications. Link to registration: https://training.eumetsat.int/course/view.php?id=429
Participants will have the opportunity to ask questions and discuss with OSI SAF teams, before and during the event. The webinar is aimed not only at existing users of the OSI SAF products but also at those who are not familiar with these products. The webinar is free and open to all.
Registration: https://training.eumetsat.int/course/index.php?categoryid=97
27 January 2022, OSI SAF Webinar: Sea Ice Parameters
This Ocean and Sea Ice SAF (OSI SAF) webinar provides an overview of the OSI SAF products and their applications. Link to registration: https://training.eumetsat.int/course/view.php?id=430
Participants will have the opportunity to ask questions and discuss with OSI SAF teams, before and during the event. The webinar is aimed not only at existing users of the OSI SAF products but also at those who are not familiar with these products. The webinar is free and open to all.
Registration: https://training.eumetsat.int/course/index.php?categoryid=97
1 February 2022, OSI SAF Webinar: Climate Data Records
This Ocean and Sea Ice SAF (OSI SAF) webinar provides an overview of the OSI SAF products and their applications. Link to registration: https://training.eumetsat.int/course/view.php?id=431
Participants will have the opportunity to ask questions and discuss with OSI SAF teams, before and during the event. The webinar is aimed not only at existing users of the OSI SAF products but also at those who are not familiar with these products. The webinar is free and open to all.
Registration: https://training.eumetsat.int/course/index.php?categoryid=97
9-10 June 2022, Online Workshop: The third international SST Fiducial Reference Measurement Radiometer Network (ISFRN)
Hosted by the University of Southampton and Space ConneXions, UK.
Deadline for registration is 1 June 2022. Pre-registration is required. No registration fees. For pre-registration, please contact admin@spaceconnexions.com with the following details: name and contact details, whether you intend to join virtually for just or both days, whether you would like to present anything during this workshop.
More details will be posted on the workshop page: https://ships4sst.org/isfrn-workshop/isfrn-workshop-9-10-june-2022
August 2021, NOAA “Zoomable Oceans, the OceanView”
One-hour tutorial by Prasanjit Dash on the OceanView geospatial viewer.
The online tool is accessible from https://www.star.nesdis.noaa.gov/socd/ov/
A tutorial (1 hour) is available in MP4: https://www.star.nesdis.noaa.gov/star/documents/seminardocs/2021/20210802_Dash.mp4
The presentation is available on: https://www.star.nesdis.noaa.gov/star/documents/seminardocs/2021/20210802_Dash.pdf
30 August – 17 September 2021, EUMETSAT training course – Supporting Marine EO Educators: professional development, knowledge exchange and networking workshop
The purpose of this training workshop is to share knowledge, skills, resources and code so that attendees are independently able to train others on available EO tools. Find out more: https://oceanexpert.org/event/3064
2022 ECMWF Education and Training Programme Meteorology
Advanced training courses in numerical weather prediction (NWP) to give participants an understanding of the underpinning science as well as current research developments. These courses are aimed at scientists working with NWP systems. For more information visit https://events.ecmwf.int/category/1/
17 August 2021, Webinar: Surfing Ocean Data in the Cloud—The Beginners’ Guide to PO.DAAC in the NASA Earthdata Cloud
Learn more about the migration of NASA PO.DAAC physical oceanography data to the Earthdata Cloud hosted in the Amazon Cloud (AWS). During this webinar, we discussed which data are hosted in the cloud, show you options for how to migrate your ocean data discovery and access process to the cloud, and also provide useful resources to support you in navigating this migration. More details: https://earthdata.nasa.gov/learn/user-resources/webinars-and-tutorials/webinar-podaac-17-aug-2021
The recording of the webinar can be found on Youtube: click on the picture on the left side to access the recording.
CMEMS My Ocean Viewer
A tool to produce maps and plots from My Ocean data products
https://cmems.lobelia.earth
EUMETSAT A year of sea surface temperature – 2016
A video of SST in 2016 with commentary by Anne O’Carroll describing and explaining the significant SST events occurring in 2016.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=thhFs8WYBrE
PO.DAAC Resources
The PO.DAAC Resources page contains animations of many SST datasets.
https://podaac.jpl.nasa.gov/resources
PO.DAAC State of The Oceans
The PO.DAAC State of The Oceans will generate maps, animations, and plots of physical oceanographic data.
https://podaac-tools.jpl.nasa.gov/soto/
UK Met office OSTIA browser
View a map of the latest SSTs from OSTIA
http://ghrsst-pp.metoffice.gov.uk/ostia-website/sstbrowser.html
View maps of the GHRSST Multi-Product Ensemble and inter-comparisons with SST analyses.
http://ghrsst-pp.metoffice.gov.uk/ostia-website/gmpe-monitoring.html