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Facilitating user uptake

Craig Steinberg QC 2014

• For IMOS to be a success, we need to do 3 things well

Facilitating user uptake DAY 3 – Matlab toolbox and Gear and user groups

930: Facilitating User Uptake – just ‘cos it’s on the portal doesn’t mean the job’s done (Craig Steinberg – 10mins)

0940: By a toolbox user doing manual QC

Examples of manual QC performed with the toolbox; goals and challenges. (Simon Spagnol, Tim Austin - 20mins)

1000: Plotting tools (Simon Spagnol, Paul Rigby - 15mins)

1030: MORNING TEA (20 mins)

1050: Recent developments on the AIMS deployment database (Felicity McAllister - 15mins)

1105: - Toolbox developments since last QC summit 2013

- List of tasks and feedbacks collected from users to improve the toolbox. Development planning + discussion

(Guillaume Galibert - 30mins)

1135: How do we get NetCDF CTD casts to eMII? + populate the deployment database for CTD casts

(Marty Hidas, Guillaume Galibert, Shaun Byrnes - 30mins)

1205: Running the toolbox in profile mode (Guillaume Galibert - 30mins)

1235: BBQ LUNCH (1 hour)

WORKSHOP:

1330: How interactions between providers and users are going; how much effort is going into it, any tools that are improving the situation

– e.g. user contributed code and value added plots. A left over from last QC was a common field and data reporting template across sub-

facilities. (Craig Steinberg, Tim Austin – 50mins)

PRESENTATIONS:

1405: QC and metadata issues encountered by OceanCurrent (David Griffin – 30mins)

1435: Capital replacement – QC issues, timings, costs and instruments (Dean Pigden, Tim Lynch – 10mins)

WORKSHOP:

1445: Capital replacement & Gear (David Hughes, Tim Lynch -45min)

1530: AFTERNOON TEA & SUMMARY: Future development of QC procedures, actions, recommendations and close (Tim Lynch -

10mins)


1. Deploy the equipment

2. Make the data available

3. Use the data for research

Research modelling and analysis

• e.g. Bluelink, eReefs, Shelf exchanges/BGC

Research projects and programs

• e.g. ARC projects, CRC/NERP, WAMSI

Research education and training

• e.g. PhD’s, Super Science Fellowships

Node Science Plans

IMOS Measures of success

As equipment is deployed for longer,

and data streams grow, more emphasis must go

on ensuring the data is used for research



IMOS is primarily for researchers and currently a level of familiarity with IMOS goals and data products is needed At the moment all we provide to the portal are binary netcdf files that include QC flags • Binary barriers • Large range of parameters measured or derived

• Better explanation of what is on the portal (background information) • How & why are measurements sampled in a certain way

(bursts, averages) • Need summary data plots to see the data (try before you “buy”) • Training & tutorial frequency => University courses, workshops • Higher level products are very limited



User requests & managing expectations • New to data – need training to access and understand the data

• Data has quality that varies and can also be missing

• Data streams can be complex (e.g. acoustic backscatter) to measure

simple things (currents, turbidity) or more complex things (fluoresence)

• Remote users – lack local knowledge

• Experienced researchers often want raw data in manufacturer’s format as they have their own code and procedures

• General public/non oceanographers will want higher order products



User requests & managing expectations “We are looking at assisting in some ocean trials of a new marine electricity turbine

we were looking at utilising some of the existing facilities we have a Heron Island.

The company we are working with that is developing the technology have visited the

area and stated that the flow rates were below 1.0 metres per second.” Reply: flows will vary greatly due to channelling and location on or off the reef.

We have a lot of data around Heron so is there a particular area you are interested

in? Thanks – just as a ball-park figure, what would be the range in metres per second?



User requests & managing expectations My name is XXXX and I have just started my honours project …. I may use

the current speed and direction data from the IMOS mooring east of One

Tree Island to force one of the boundaries of a small scale hydrodynamic

model of the Capricorn Bunker Group.

I have started visualizing the current speed data and I noticed that most of

the values far from the sensor, in approximately the top 10m of the water

column, have been flagged as bad values.

I just was wondering what your opinion is on the quality of the data. Is it still

useable despite being flagged as bad.



User requests & managing expectations Hi XXXX – we flag it bad (but it could be good) as there is usually side lobe

interference near the surface. The imos toolbox describes this

http://code.google.com/p/imos-toolbox/wiki/QCProcedures

It is up to you to decide whether or not you have confidence in it – so consider the

flagging as a guide.

Sidelobe interference may cause surface currents to be higher than reality and

certainly more noisy in direction. I would compare data in the vertical to see if it is

coherent between bins and also neighbouring values in time as a final check

Not sure if you’ve seen this page that describes the mooring deployments...

http://data.aims.gov.au/moorings/IMOS-SouthernGBR/IMOS-SouthernGBRtoc.html

Can you let me know your project title so i can keep a track of uptake?

Happy to answer any further questions you may have.









IMOS OceanCurrent

http://oceancurrent.imos.org.au/

Deployment Database http://data.aims.gov.au/moorings

Home Page =>ITF Deployments =>Mooring diagram =>Dropsheet

Indonesian Through Flow Array

IMOS ITF– Joseph Bonaparte Gulf WQM

IMOS ITF–Temperature

IMOS ITF – Margaret Harries Banks Te

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June 2011 Jan 2012

IMOS ITF– Joseph Bonaparte Gulf WQM

Kronborg (2004)

Holloway Current

Geostrophic current anomaly- from Altimeter for April

Drift from moorings

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Observations Model

Q-IMOS and eReefs: A Partnership to Monitor the Currents along the outer Great Barrier Reef

Hemerson Tonin, Craig Steinberg, Paul Rigby, Richard Brinkman and Mike Herzfeld

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