OBSERVATION:

The GLOSS Course will be given at the Oceanographic Institute of University of São Paulo in the Period of August 30, 1999 to September 25, 1999.
It is a training Course with 4 weeks duration, in continuation to the courses accomplished in 1993, in São Paulo and in 1996 in Buenos Aires. Although it is follow up course, for financial reasons, the IOC (Comissão Oceanográfica Intergovernamental) is only supporting financially, participants for the first two weeks of the Course. In that way, new participants, as well as, participants of the previous Courses, that already have experience in the subjects that will be ministered, can choose appropriately the weeks of the Course of interest. However if there is interest for more than the first two weeks of the Course, the participant should have to look for further financial support from other sources.

For more information consult:
Dr. Thorkild Aarup
IOC, UNESCO, 1 Rue Miollis, 75732 Paris Cedex 15, France
t.aarup@unesco.org Tel. +33 145684019 Fax. +33 145685812
 

1st WEEK - DATA SYSTEM AND TIDAL ANALYSIS
(Morning 9 to 12 h)		(afternoon 14 to 17:30 h)
1st day (morning) Opening -Introduction to the Course -Visit to the IOUSP dependencies		1st day (afternoon) -Computation facilities at IOUSP -Main softwares to be used during the Course
2nd day (Morning) -The phenomenon of tides -Tide generating force		2nd day (afternoon) -Use of programs for tidal analysis. -Harmonic method -Minimum squared -Response method
3rd day (Morning) -Tide generating potential		3rd day (Afternoon) -Use of tables of the tide generating potential -Use of computing programs
4th day (Morning) -Tides analysis: -Harmonic method -Minimum squared -Response method		4th day (Afternoon) -Analysis of tidal data  -Study of cases
5th day (Morning) -Tide prediction tables		5th day (Afternoon) -Prediction of Tides: -Study cases
COMMENT - From the 17:30 to the 18:30 of all lecturing days there will be presentations of the participants on GLOSS (Global Observing Sea Level Systems), matters at their Institutions Note: One of these hours shall be used to give information on TOPEX/POSEIDON altimetry data
2nd WEEK: - Levelling and satellites measurements by GPS (Global Positioning System)
6th day (Morning) -GPS observations - theory	6th day (Afternoon) - Measurements of GPS
7th day (Morning) -Geodesy - sea level		7th day (Afternoon) -Sea level geodetic measurements
8th day (Morning) -Trip to the city of Cananéia, state of São Paulo		8th day (Afternoon) -Visit to the dependencies of José de Carvalho research station -Maregrafic and GPS facilities
9th day (Morning) -Obtainment of sea level data		9th day (Afternoon) -Cares in the selection of places and the reduction of the sea level data from tide gauges
10th day (Morning) -Obtainment of levelling data from GPS, gravity and maregrapy		10th day (Afternoon) -Study case analysis and discussion on the Course work
11th day (Morning) -Back to the IOUSP São Paulo
COMMENT - From the 17:30 to the 18:30 of all lecturing days there will be presentations of the participants on GLOSS (Global Observing Sea Level Systems), matters at their Institutions Note: One of these hours shall be used to give information on numerical modelling of tides
3rd WEEK - SEA LEVEL OBSERVATIONS FROM ARTIFICIAL SATELLITE
12th day (Morning) -Theory of electromagnetic waves propagation produced by radar and geophysical corrections		12th day (Afternoon) -Archives of Satellite altimetry data
13th day (Morning) -Characteristics of the altimetric signal  -The geoid		13th day (Afternoon) -Selection of the geographic and temporal satellite altimetric data
14th day (Morning) -Altimetric data interpolation techniques		14th day (Afternoon) -Development of maps of the altimetric variability for the chosen geographical areas
15th day (Morning) -Study cases of tides from altimetry  -Internal Tides		15th day (Afternoon) -Determination of the tidal constants from altimetric data
16th day (Morning) -Studies cases of sea level  -El Niño Phenomenon		16th day (Afternoon) -Determination of the sea level in the chosen areas
COMMENT - From the 17:30 to the 18:30 of all lecturing days there will be presentations of the participants on GLOSS (Global Observing Sea Level Systems), matters at their Institutions
4th WEEK - ELABORATION AND CALIBRATION OF NUMERICAL MODELS
17th day (Morning) -System of equations -Numerical modelling		17th day (Afternoon) -Programming of the hydrodynamic equations in computational language
18th day (Morning) -Basic aspects of numerical modelling		18th day (Afternoon) -Study of the grids, -Initial stability, -Type of project, -Initial and contour conditions
19th day (Morning) -Three-dimensional hydrodynamic models (coordinates, sigma t, finite isopicnals, finite elements, finite differences etc.)		19th day (Afternoon) -Steps of models implementation (bathymetry, contour, region, forcing, etc.)
20th day (Morning) -Study of case (region, model etc.)		20th day (Afternoon) -Processing of the chosen model for the case
21st day (Morning) -Analysis and joint discussion of results		21st day (Afternoon) -Elaboration of numerical modelling work End of the Course
COMMENT - From the 17:30 to the 18:30 of all lecturing days there will be presentations of the participants on GLOSS (Global Observing Sea Level Systems), matters at their Institutions