Dear participant, The Copernicus Marine Service Online Training Workshop 2020 dedicated for the Baltic Sea is organized by Mercator Ocean, implementer of the Copernicus Marine Service, NOVELTIS and Kapitech. The situation due to the COVID19 crisis forced the organizers to adapt the training workshop format. In this context, the workshop, initially proposed in face to face mode, will be held online and involve self-directed and interactive learning. This document will give you the necessary information to attend this meeting. If you have any problem or question, please contact the organizers at training-cmems@mercator-ocean.fr We wish you a pleasant workshop.

The organizers

Summary 1. Timeline of the workshop ....................................................................................................................... 2

2. Agenda .................................................................................................................................................. 3

3. Tools and platform ................................................................................................................................. 5

3.1 Storage platform : Next cloud .............................................................................................................. 5

3.2 Webinar platform : Clickmeeting .......................................................................................................... 5

3.3 Practical Environment: JupyterHub ..................................................................................................... 7

3.4 Chat platform: Mattermost ................................................................................................................. 10

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1. Timeline of the workshop

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2. Agenda

ROUND 1 – WEBINARS SESSION

LIVE SESSION – Webinars - Monday, 25th May 2020

Webinar 1 & 2 – Copernicus Marine Service & Users testimonies – Moderation by Mathilde Cancet and Fabrice Messal

Time (CET) Duration Topics Speaker

10h00 55’

Intro (10’) Fabrice Messal

Copernicus Marine Service – General Presentation + Q&A (15’) Fabrice Messal

Copernicus Marine Service - Service Desk + Q&A (15’) Cédric Giordan

Downstream users testimonies + Q&A (15’) Virginie Lafon

Vitual coffee break

Time (CET) Duration Presentation Speaker

11h30 75’

In Situ Observation products + Q&A (15’) Johanna Linders

Sea Ice products + Q&A (15’) Juha Karvonen

Baltic model products – Forecast products + Q&A (15’) Vibeke Huess

Baltic model products – Hindcast products + Q&A (15’) Vibeke Huess

Baltic Sea Ocean Monitoring Indicators +Q&A (15’) Priidik Lagemaa

Johanna Linders

Oceanographer at the Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute (SMHI) specialized in physical

oceanography. She is the manager for the Baltic region part of the Copernicus Marine Service In Situ team.

Mathilde Cancet

Scientific engineer in space oceanography at NOVELTIS. She contributes to the assessment of

satellite altimetry products through comparisons with various satellite data, in situ observations and model outputs.

Vibeke Huess

Oceanographer at the Danish Meteorological Institute (DMI). She coordinates the Baltic Sea Model and

Forecasting Center for the Copernicus Marine Service. She is an expert in operational oceanography, storm surges, tides and sea level variations.

Virginie Lafon

Executive Director of I-SEA. Her field of expertise is Spatial Oceanography. I-SEA team develops and

commercializes services for the monitoring of water and coastal environments. She is invited to give a testimony as downstream user of the Copernicus Marine Service. (www.i-sea.fr)

The moderators

and experts

Juha Karvonen

Senior research scientist at the Finnish Meteorological Institute (FMI), developing EO

products for winter navigation. His main research interests are digital signal and image processing, SAR and other EO data processing, sea ice, and operational marine services.

Cédric Giordan

Service Desk Responsible at Mercator Ocean International. Before, he was ocean & weather forecaster in

the French Navy. He will be your Service Desk expert.

Fabrice Messal

Training and Educational Manager at Mercator Ocean International. He has a background in

Science & Applications, Numerical Imagery and several professional experiences in visualization software development and scientific mediation.

Priidik Lagemaa

Senior research scientist in physical and operational oceanography at the Tallinn University of Technology. He

coordinates the Ocean Monitoring Indicators at the Baltic Monitoring and Forecasting Centre for Copernicus Marine Service.

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ROUND 2 – Practical Homework

HANDS-ON SESSIONS – From the 25th of May to the 8th of June

Registered people will access to:

o Online tutorial videos to introduce important concepts (NetCDF format, Jupyter Notebook environment…) to be able to understand and do the hands-on sessions

o Practical session (Jupyter Notebook) created by a Copernicus Marine Service expert. o Dedicated tutorial videos presented by the Jupyter Notebook authors to demonstrate how to run the

corresponding Jupyter Notebooks. o A chat/forum platform to collect questions/ blocking points and discuss with experts (following their availability).

List of the online sessions available for the Baltic Sea Region :

Format Topic

Jupyter Notebook + Tutorial Video Practical session on In Situ Observation products

Jupyter Notebook + Tutorial Video Practical session on Bio Model products

Jupyter Notebook + Tutorial Video Practical session on Waves Model products

Jupyter Notebook + Tutorial Video Practical session on Sea Ice products

Jupyter Notebook + Tutorial Video Practical session: exploration of BAL products with a GIS tool

To optimize your experience and be able to run the sessions by your own, you need your Copernicus Marine Service credentials. If you are not yet registered then go to registration page.

ROUND 3 – Debriefing sessions

These live sessions are designed to allow products experts and trainers to:

- Answer to the frequently asked questions from the forum platform; - Demonstrate how to solve problems due to blocking points, - Exchange directly with participants.

LIVE SESSION A – Online Meeting - 8th June 2020

Online meeting A.1 & A.2 - Moderation by Noveltis

Time (ETT) Duration Presentation Speakers

10h00 45’ A1. Website: Registration, extraction, visualization… Cédric Giordan

11h30 45’ A2. Practical session on In Situ Observation products Johanna Linders, Paz Rotllan

Garcia

LIVE SESSION B – Online Meeting - 9th June 2020

Online meeting B.1 & B.2 - Moderation by Noveltis

Time (ETT) Duration Presentation Speakers

10h00 45’ B1. Practical session on bio model products Simon Boitard, Vibeke Huess,

Priidik Lagemaa

11h30 45’ B2. Practical session on exploration of BAL products with a GIS tool Vincent Maupas, Mathilde

Cancet

LIVE SESSION C – Online Meeting - 10th June 2020

Online meeting C.1 & C.2 - Moderation by Noveltis

Time (ETT) Duration Presentation Speaker

10h00 45’ C1. Practical session on wave and physical model products Mathilde Cancet, Vibeke Huess,

Priidik Lagemaa

11h30 45’ C2. Practical session on sea ice products Mathilde Cancet, Juha

Karvonen

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3. Tools and platform Several tools and platforms are used during the workshop.

3.1 Storage platform : Next cloud Attendees will receive information after the webinars session about the different links to access the training material (tutorial videos, presentation…).

3.2 Webinar platform : Clickmeeting

We would like to share with you a list of simple rules, or an “online meeting etiquette”, for everyone to follow, in order to make this event efficient, productive, and successful.

Online Meeting rules

1) The meeting will be recorded. The recording will be published on the Youtube channel of the Copernicus Marine Service.

2) When joining the meeting, participants should enter their first name and name.

3) Please mute your micro and disable the camera.

4) This meeting is hosted by Mathilde Cancet. Fabrice Messal will co-chair the meeting. Both will give the floor to presenters and experts to give lecture, provide inputs or give some answers.

5) Asking questions: use the Chat to ask questions (send them to "Everyone"). The chair or the co-chair will choose and ask questions to the presenters after their presentation.

More information here: https://knowledge.clickmeeting.com/infographic/how-to-join-an-event-instruction-for-an-attendee/

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3.3 Practical Environment: JupyterHub

Participants will receive an email from jupyter.cmems@mercator-ocean.fr with a personal login and password to access the JupyterHub platform.

On your browser, go to the URL: https://jupyter-cmems.mercator-ocean.fr/ 1-Login page: Enter your login and password

2- Visit the “shared_notebooks”, the public folder

3- Visit the « training-BAL-SEA » folder (*)

(* note: the picture refers to the training-BLK notebooks list)

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4- You will see the list of the notebooks but…(*)

(* note: the picture refers to the training-BLK notebooks list)

Before to start working, you have to copy the folder of the notebooks on your “home directory”.

You cannot work directly in the public folder!

To do that, you will have to launch a terminal and copy/paste the command line corresponding to the notebook you want to practice (see steps 5 and 6)

Below, the list of the command lines available. Respect the spaces and the character case. Don’t forget the final dot. For the 01 Jupyter Notebook – In Situ Products cp -r /DATA/shared_notebooks/training-BAL-SEA/01\ Jupyter\ Notebook\ -\ In\ Situ\ Products .

For the 02 Jupyter Notebook – Bio Model Products cp -r /DATA/shared_notebooks/training-BAL-SEA/02\ Jupyter\ Notebook\ -\ Bio\ model\ Products .

For the 03 Jupyter Notebook – Waves Model Products cp -r /DATA/shared_notebooks/training-BAL-SEA/03\ Jupyter\ Notebook\ -\ Waves\ model\ Products .

For the 04 Jupyter Notebook – Sea Ice Model Products cp -r /DATA/shared_notebooks/training-BAL-SEA/04\ Jupyter\ Notebook\ -\ Sea\ Ice\ Products .

5- To launch a terminal, click on the button Terminal

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6- Copy and run the command line corresponding to the notebook you want (*). Enter.

(* note: the picture refers to the training-BLK notebooks list. Please, refer to the orange tab with the command lines for BAL-SEA folder)

7- Back to your Home Directory (click on the folder icon), you will see your copy. (*)

(* note: the picture refers to a training-BLK notebook)

8- Launch your notebook and start to practice (*)

(* note: the picture refers to a training-BLK notebook)

If you have any problem, contact the team on jupyter.cmems@mercator-ocean.fr

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3.4 Chat platform: Mattermost

3.4.1 Connect and browse

An account for each participant has been generated with their email address used for the registration.

To access the chat, the participant has to reset the password with his/her email address here:

https://chat-cmems.mercator-ocean.fr/reset_password

And then go to https://chat-cmems.mercator-ocean.fr/

3.4.2 The basics

Screenshot of chat platform.

Write messages using the text input box at the bottom of the screen. Press ENTER to send a message. Use SHIFT+ENTER to create a new line without sending a message. To send messages on CTRL+ENTER and use ENTER to insert new lines go to Main Menu > Account Settings > Advanced > Send messages on CTRL+ENTER.

Reply to messages by clicking the reply arrow next to the message text.

Notify teammates when they are needed by typing @username.

Format your messages using Markdown that supports text styling, headings, links, emojis, code blocks,

block quotes, tables, lists and in-line images.

More information: https://docs.mattermost.com/guides/user.html

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3.4.3 Rules and guideline

Chat Rules and Guidelines

We assume good faith when dealing with violations; we will only warn or ban users who repeatedly or blatantly violate the rules.

Administrators have the final say in modifying, interpreting, and enforcing these rules.

Note: If you observe someone breaking a rule or behaving in a questionable fashion, do not try to deal with it yourself. Alert a chat moderator or administrator.

Subjects covered in the chat

Posts in the chat must be either questions about the use of products and the use of the service or else answers to those questions. Users who post about subjects that are not support requests for the use of Copernicus Marine Service products or the Jupyter Notebooks practice will be directed to an alternative discussion chat or to another resource, if appropriate, and the question will be tagged "offtopic".

Posting support requests

Ask your question using existing public channels, even if a similar question has been already posted.

The chat is a way for us to collect frequently asked questions. The Copernicus Marine Experts reserve the right to directly answer questions on the chat or keep their answer for the debriefing live session.

Spam

Users who post spam will have their posts removed. If a post that is otherwise appropriate includes links considered to be spam, those links will be removed.

Images and other media

You can add images, such as a "screenshot" of your computer screen. Images or other media added to a support question must help explain a problem with a Copernicus Marine Service product in the scope of the online training workshop content or a solution to the problem. Inappropriate media will be removed.

Sensitive information

Don't post any sensitive information.

Language and conduct

Respect each other. Respect the experts.

Use a respectful language.

No toxic behavior. Be friendly.

Do not spread misinformation.

Do not share inappropriate content

For any problem or question, please contact training-cmems@mercator-ocean.fr

Last version updated: 22/05/2020

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