A new phase for the EUMETSAT Copernicus Marine Training Service

In January 2022, EUMETSAT commissioned phase two of their Copernicus Marine Training Service, building on the extensive list of training activities over the last five years. The new service, which features experienced trainers and applications experts in ocean colour, sea surface temperature and altimetry, expects to deliver a busy calendar of events this year.

The team invites users to get in touch: "In the short team, we look forward to engaging with you at some of the following events in the next quarter. In the longer term, this year we expect to deliver training events at Ocean Optics, the IOCCG Summer Lecture series, the OSTST science team meetings, as well as deliver a suite of short courses and our annual long form Copernicus Marine Data Stream course. This list is not exhaustive, and if you are planning events where we can contribute, then please get in contact with us at copernicus.training@eumetsat.int.

"Throughout the year we also expect to deliver an extensive array of public resources to support users of EUMETSAT Copernicus marine data via case studies, python-based code examples and knowledge bases. If you have feedback or questions on any of these items, please contact us via email at ops@eumetsat.int. We would be happy to hear it!"

See the next article for more details on upcoming marine training activities.

Upcoming EUMETSAT Copernicus marine training activities

• 16-20 May - At the 53rd Liege Colloquium on Ocean Dynamics we hope to discuss ways in which satellite data can support the monitoring of deoxygenation events. Bite sized sessions on how to best access data to support these applications are planned.
• We'll be at the ESA Living Planet Symposium (LPS) and European Geophysical Union (EGU) conferences with posters and oral sessions. We are looking forward to discussing new options for Copernicus marine data access from EUMETSAT (LPS: C5.03), and ways in which we can collaborate to expand our training reach (EGU22-11436).
• 30 May-17 June - If you are a marine or remote sensing educator, or plan to be in the near future, we invite you to apply for the online Supporting Marine Earth Observation Educators (SMEE) workshop designed in collaboration with IODE and Mercator Ocean.
• 27 June-1 July, Barcelona - If you are part of the GHRSST community, we hope to meet you at the 23rd science team meeting, for discussions on collaborative training approaches to serve the SST community.
• 29 June-1 July, Pamplona - For our Spanish-speaking community, we will be conducting a short course on Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich (S6-MF) and developments in altimetry at the XIX Congreso de la Asociación Española de Teledetección.
• 15 June - Join us for a short webinar on S6MF (see training page). If you would like more information on the origin of the mission, its capability and role as the new reference sensor, we encourage you to sign up. Practical information on data access and examples of usage will be provided.

Registration open for the EUMeTrain Marine Course

The 5th EUMeTrain Marine Course is being held online, both in synchronous and asynchronous modes, from 24 October to 7 December 2022.

The course addresses marine forecasters across Europe and aims to strengthen their competencies in analysing, forecasting, and issuing warnings related to hazardous meteorological phenomena.

During the course, students will learn about winds in the marine environment (namely scatterometer wind observations), ocean waves (both model outputs and altimeter observations), and marine fog. They will have the opportunity to be in direct contact with experts in these areas.

The course will be led by IPMA in cooperation with EUMETSAT and with the support of Eumetcal.

The registration to the course is free and will be open until 31 May 2022. The number of participants is limited to 25. For more information on the course, see the Marine Course announcement.

International Summer School on Applications with the Newest Multi-spectral Environmental Satellites

The Italian Air Force - Department of Meteorology and EUMETSAT are organising the International Summer School on Applications with the Newest Multi-spectral Environmental Satellites in Bracciano, Italy from 20 to 29 June 2022.

The overall objective of the course is an in-depth explanation of methods and techniques used to extract information from the environmental satellite data (both GEO and LEO), with emphasis on the latest measuring technologies, namely MTG mission, due to be launched by the end of this year.

The course will consist of lectures, laboratory sessions, group lab projects and tests. Throughout the course, participants will be actively engaging with selected satellite data, exploring its utility using different visualisation tools that are widely available, such as SIFT, McIDAS-V and Jupyter Notebooks.

Nominated participants from EUMETSAT members can apply.

Apply via the EUMETSAT training website.

Joint organisation of the Convection Working Group and the MTG 3T Forum

The Convection Working Group and the MTG 3T Forum will be jointly held from 16 to 20 May 2022 in Budapest, Hungary.

In order to facilitate the exchange of ideas, in particular for MTG, the two groups will new developments and research in convective event analysis and forecast, plus plans for using next generation satellite data and products.

The topics to be covered:

• New imager channels and products.
• Data visualisation for the new generation satellites.
• Satellite vertical profiles.
• Lightning observations from space.
• Research -Operations conversations.
• Multi - sensor and integrated approaches.
• Multi - sensor and integrated approaches.

The meetings will have approximately 70 participants from around the world. Online participation to the event will also be supported.

MTG + EPS-SG User Days

User Days on the next-generation satellite programmes, Meteosat Third Generation (MTG) and EUMETSAT Polar System Second Generation (EPS-SG), will be held in-person in Darmstadt Germany in on 31 May-2 June.

With the first MTG imaging satellite due for launch in late 2022, operational services need to ascertain their readiness to access and process data products, and learn how to most effectively use them.

The three-day event will include panel discussions, technical exhibitions, exchange of knowledge and experience and hands-on and brainstorming sessions among participants.

Find out more about the event.

High impact weather webinars

The High Impact Weather summer course (HIW) focused on the use of a particular forecasting method based on Doswell's ingredient-based forecasting method IBM. This method assumes that three ingredients are needed for convection: moisture, lift and instability (plus vertical wind shear to take the modes in convection into account). It was created by Rob Groenland (KNMI) and Eumetcal in 2021.

After the course concluded, material was made available to the public as a standalone time-independent material. It can be accessed on the Eumetcal Portal.

Rob will hold two more follow-up webinars - on 11 April at 9:00 UTC and 2 May at 9:00 UTC. Register for webinars. Both webinars and the course material are free and open to all.