A Review of the Australian VLab Centre of Excellence National Himawari-8 Training Campaign: Achievements and Challenges

Bodo Zeschke,

Bureau of Meteorology Training Centre,

Australian   Bureau of Meteorology                                                                

"I was involved in developing training resources and conducting training pertaining to the effective forecaster use of Himawari 8/9 Geostationary Satellite data and data products. This advanced Japanese satellite was launched in October 2014 and became operational in July 2015 to monitor our hemisphere in 16 channels and at 10 minute intervals.

Preparations commenced in 2009 and included topic familiarization by the teachers, communication with the satellite operator representatives and other stakeholders (you can read more about this background preparation at CALMet Commons). It also required finding useful resources and conducting prior training. The Bureau's National Himawari-8 Training Campaign commenced in January 2015."

What you can expect from this session 

In this CALMet Online session I will share my experiences regarding how the Himawari-8 training was conducted, including classroom and remote sessions.
I will also tell about the important collaboration with Satellite Champions and other stakeholders, including JMA, KMA, CMA, BMKG Indonesia, EUMETSAT. In addition, I will discuss the impact of the training on the effective use of Himawari-8 data by RAV and RAII stakeholders.

Finally, this session will also give you, the CALMet participants an opportunity to participate in a Regional Focus Group meeting which will demonstrate the training in practice.

If you are meteorological staff, especially a meteorological teacher and staff designing training resources in preparation for new generations of geostationary satellites, this session is for you. As an outcome of this session you will have a better understanding of what is required when preparing the user community for a new satellite and satellite products.

In order to make the most of this session, it is preferable that you have a basic understanding of Satellite Meteorology, including an awareness of RGB products. 

How to Join

The session is free for anyone to participate. In order to be better informed about the session dates and to receive the notifications about the ongoing discussion into your email, please check you have subscribed to Himawari Training Forum.

1. How to get started

To get started, please click HERE to share with us what you already know about topic being covered and let us know what you would like to find out more about!

2. View recorded sessions & join the forum discussion

Below are short recorded sessions where I review the experiences of the Australian VLab Centre of Excellence in preparing for conducting training pertaining to the effective Forecaster use of Himawari-8 data and data products. Please listen to the recordings:

• TOPIC 1: How the Himawari-8 training was conducted
  • Introduction (5:30 min) .wmv (5Mb) or .mp4 (10Mb)
  • Preparing the Training Resources (7 min) .wmv (12Mb) or .mp4 (20Mb) 
  • Summary (6:30 min) .wmv (12Mb) or .mp4 (20Mb) 
  • Training (13:27 min) .wmv (13Mb) or .mp4 (31Mb) 
• TOPIC 2: Collaboration with Satellite Champions and other stakeholders, including JMA, KMA, CMA, BMKG Indonesia, EUMETSAT etc.
  • Introduction (8:30 min) .wmv (8Mb) or .mp4 (18Mb) 
  • Collaboration in Training (7 min) .wmv (7Mb) or .mp4 (16Mb) 
  • Collaboration in Conferences (5:30 min) .wmv (6Mb) or .mp4 (14Mb) 
  • Collaboration with Operational Staff (9:30 min) .wmv (10Mb) or .mp4(27Mb) 
  • Summary (6:30 min) .wmv (7Mb) or .mp4 (15Mb) 
• TOPIC 3: Evaluation of the impact of the training on the effective use of Himawari-8 data by RAV and RAII stakeholders.
  
  • Part 1 (11 min) .wmv (16Mb) or .mp4 (27Mb)
  • Part 2 (8 min) .wmv (15Mb) or .mp4 (25Mb)

Next, post any questions that you may have into the Himawari Training Forum. Your comments would also be very appreciated!

3. Listen to the online session

The final online session was conducted during the Australian VLab Centre of Excellence Regional Focus Group meeting conducted online on the 6th September 2016. There were 40 online connections with attendees from Australia, Indonesia, Japan, China and Singapore. The recordings of the sessions are given below.  

• Part 1: A Weather and Forecast Discussion incorporating audience interaction methods outlined during my CALMET 2016 presentations (32 min) .wmv (40Mb) or .mp4 (86Mb)
• Part 2: Introducing the Cloud Phase RGB product with a case study (22 min) .wmv (37Mb) or .mp4 (65Mb)