Instructor feedback
Requisitos de finalización
2. Week 2 - Instructor feedback
In week 2 there were Pre-assessment activities on the COMET website: The participants were engaged in a pre-assessment quiz which covered material in the course prior to the commencement of the training.
The third live session was held on Tuesday, 14 May 2024.
The session was hosted by Vesa Nietosvaara and Natasa Strelec Mahovic from Eumetsat and presenters from SAWS.
Mathsidiso Mogale, a trainer from the SAWS Regional Training Centre started the session with a presentation. This was followed by another presentation from Kgolo Dune from the SAWS National forecast Centre.
Kgolo presented after Tshidi, where she dived into the identification of convection, fog/stratiform and dust clouds using satellite imagery. The main goal of the presentation was to ensure that participants learn how to identify the above mentioned features using various satellite imagery, which was achieved by looking into single channels (that is the IR10.8, VIS 0.6 and the HIRES VIS channel), as well as RGBs such as the Day Natural Colours, the Day and Night Microphysics, Convective Storms and the HIRES cloud enhanced RGBs. The presentation tied together with Tshidi's presentation as we looked at the cloud texture, shape, thickness, as well as cloud top temperatures in order for us to be able to identify convective and stratiform cloud features.
The session ended with a brief discussion following questions posted in the Q&A.
The third live session was held on Tuesday, 14 May 2024.
The session was hosted by Vesa Nietosvaara and Natasa Strelec Mahovic from Eumetsat and presenters from SAWS.
Mathsidiso Mogale, a trainer from the SAWS Regional Training Centre started the session with a presentation. This was followed by another presentation from Kgolo Dune from the SAWS National forecast Centre.
The live session
Tshidi started off the session with a presentation covering identification of clouds by thickness and cloud top height. The presentation extensively covered cloud types and further explained how to distinguish between convective and stratiform clouds on the satellite by looking at the shape and texture.
Different satellite products (single channels and RGBs) were utilized to identify clouds by thickness and cloud top heights also looking at the shape, texture and whether or not the clouds are opaque or translucent. In between the presentation, participants were engaged through interactive questions that required them to utilize the chatbox to participate in the questions that were posed to them.
Connection between the first and second week session was made by linking what Scholastic covered to the content covered in week 1.
Kgolo presented after Tshidi, where she dived into the identification of convection, fog/stratiform and dust clouds using satellite imagery. The main goal of the presentation was to ensure that participants learn how to identify the above mentioned features using various satellite imagery, which was achieved by looking into single channels (that is the IR10.8, VIS 0.6 and the HIRES VIS channel), as well as RGBs such as the Day Natural Colours, the Day and Night Microphysics, Convective Storms and the HIRES cloud enhanced RGBs. The presentation tied together with Tshidi's presentation as we looked at the cloud texture, shape, thickness, as well as cloud top temperatures in order for us to be able to identify convective and stratiform cloud features.
The session ended with a brief discussion following questions posted in the Q&A.
Add a weather event exercise
Participants were reminded to complete the activity while few had already posted very interesting satellite images with brief discussions on what they are observing showing that they have applied what they have learned since the beginning of the course.