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Abstract of Training Session: Universidade Federal do Paraná, Pontal do Sul, Brazil, Dec 9-13, 2013

Programa de Pós-Graduação em Sistemas Costeiros e Oceanicos

 

General
Preparatory Materials

Because the "course" was redesigned as a workshop to follow on the regular 2-week omnibus course in general methods, there was no need for extensive reading.  Refer to the omnibus Pre-Course Reading to see what had already been covered.

Draft Pontal Coastal Atlas - Using methods from the prior course, Introduction to Marine Data Management II (2 weeks), the students surveyed and assessed  the utility of many suggested atlas data layers.  Using the general criterion that vector resolution should be at least 1:250,000 (worst case) or preferable as good as 10-100-m resolution, and that rasters could be no grosser than 4-km (worst case), the following layers were found, downloaded, subsetted and reformatted to ASC for rasters (the ESRI arc grid format) and to SHP for vectors (the ESRI shapefile format).  The draft Atlas is being translated, reformatted to fit the host center's website, and updated by a designated group of student editors.  A few sample images of data products are presented on the Atlas page.  [NB:  Some links no longer active]

Theme Layer Original Source Link ~ Grid Scale ~ Vector Resolution
Base Map AOI Frame n/a   n/a
  Graticule n/a   0.1 deg
  Dummy grids n/a 0.1 deg - 0.001 deg  
  Coastline GSHHG   "1:250,000"
  XY0 coast GSHHG   "1:250,000"
  Coastline Very high resolution; locally produced    
  Bathy grid   0.001 deg  
  Topography SRTM from CGIAR 90 m; will upgrade to 30 m  
  Nautical charts (KAP) Brazil Navy 0.0001 deg  
Geosphere None at present      
Hydrosphere SST Ocean Color Web 4 km (use 0.05 deg)  
  Chlorophyll Ocean Color Web 4 km (use 0.05 deg)  
Atmosphere
  • Tmax
  • Tmin
  • Precip
  • Trange
WorldClim 30 sec  
Biosphere Land cover GLCF 1 km  
  Mangroves WCRP    
  Protected areas Parana State records    
  Marine Protected Areas WDPA   ~100m

The ferocious dragon who lived just outside our classroom, by the mangroves.  The Christmas ribbon appeared mysteriously.

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