Operational
oceanography is the activity of routinely making, disseminating and
interpreting measurements of the seas, oceans, coastal estuaries and atmospheric
parameters. Observing systems are maturing all over the world. Rates of capture
of data from satellites and in the water directly are rapidly increasing. Over
the next twenty years, the need to understand and forecasting the aquatic
environments and their resources will be increasingly important. Save and
sustainable navigation, the exploitation of marine resources and the
safeguarding of both local and global marine environments will all depend on
this enhanced capacity. The new field of operational oceanography is therefore
expected to grow to meet these needs, providing operationally useful
information for a wide range of users and customers about the present and/or
the future state of the sea and estuaries. There is a need for long term ocean
observations to address these issues. The data will be used for numerical
weather prediction and to improve the safety and efficiency of marine
operations. They will help to monitor and predict climatic variability, preserve
and restore healthy marine ecosystems, and to manage living marine resources
for sustainable use. This operation will
further help to mitigate the effects of natural coastal hazards, while being
used to monitor the effects of pollutants and their effects on water quality. This course provides
students of oceanography with relevant knowledge for; -Deployment and
recovery of oceanographic instruments in the offshore environment using vessels
opportunity. -Offshore and onshore
(coastal estuaries) data collection programmes -Improve Health Safety
Environment (HSE) performances in aquatic operations. - It is a support for the exploration,
development, production and transportation of the world’s natural resources in
oceans and seas. The
objectives of the course are to provide: – A broad overview of
metOcean Monitoring System, the sensors used, their measuring principles; – A broad overview of
metOcean campaigns and systems infrastructure requirement;
- Teacher: Félix Besack
- Teacher: Seth Rodrigue Ebonji
- Teacher: José Ngalle Fen