Dear All,
if you look at the summer school agenda, you can see that we have included a "Student Lab" on Monday 18 June. This will allow you to work on your own cases, and to discuss your results with the other participants.
For this Lab, you need to select an interesting case (from your country if you like) that you would like to investigate with McIDAS-V. The case should be from the last 1 or 2 years so that you can download MSG, AVHRR, MODIS or VIIRS data. It can be a convective case, or any other feature (smoke, dust, vegetation, fire, front, hurricane etc.) that you would like to study in detail.
When you know the date and time of the case, you should download data of the case. For MSG SEVIRI data, first try to download a single time slot (e.g. 12:00 UTC image) before you eventually download a sequence of images. You have to consider that one SEVIRI image (all channels, full disk) is about 100 MB size. AVHRR images are smaller, about 50 MB I think, and MODIS images at 1 km resolution are slightly larger (about 150 MB for a daytime image, all channels).
The instructions (PDF files) for ordering data are given in the "Labs and Lectures" section of the course web page - 4 different PDF files written by Djordje Gencic who will be your tutor during the summer school.
As the Internet speed in the Hotel in Bracciano is not the best one, it is recommended that you download the data of your case before you come to the summer school (please, put the data on a USB stick). During the course, we will show how to read and display the data by setting up so-called local ADDE servers for the data.
If you have questions, please reply to this "News" by clicking reply on the web page.
Thank you and good luck!
Jochen + Djordje