UHDAS + ADCP Workshop

Presented by - Julia Hummon

Friday, November 19, 2010

Tentative Agenda Topics - Updated: November 8, 2010

Participants who bring laptops and connect to the WiFi network will (probably) be able to look at the UHDAS documentation and "tour a live UHDAS computer" as if they were on a ship.

Bus departs hotel to BIOS at 7:35 am and at 8:15 am

8:30 am ADCP SYSTEM: How does it work?

· What it measures

· Instruments (range, bb vs nb)

· What else we need to make ocean velocities

position

heading (accurate vs/ reliable)

comment on bottom tracking

ADCP processing (CODAS like NetCDF)

· What "CODAS processing" does

UHDAS: What it does

· ADCP data acquisition

· ADCP processing

· monitoring tools

- at sea

- from shore

· for science

10:15 am Morning Break

UHDAS: more detail

· where things are written

metadata (log)

state space (log, flags, links)

data (raw, processed); directory structure

· what to archive/give to scientists

· processes that run (during a UHDAS cruise)

UHDAS: Monitoring and Interpretation

· How to notice a problem using the email

· Heading correction devices

· Types of Failures

· What errors exist (signature in the data)

UHDAS: what can be changed and tested

· How to check the calibration (eg. after a transducer is removed and re-installed, or installed for the first time

· How to add or change a serial feed

· How to test a serial port

· How to send command to the ADCP

· Operational UHDAS

when to put on BT mode

when to interleave

12:30 pm Lunch

Tentative - Bus depart BIOS to Hotel at 1:30 pm