OOI Data Workshop

Our understanding of the ocean so far is broadly based on the analysis of observational datasets (satellite altimetry, in situ) and numerical simulation outputs. The advent of cutting-edge observing efforts and the implementation of high resolution numerical simulations provides the oceanography community with very large geophysical datasets to probe, hence an era of big data in ocean sciences.

This week, I participated in the Ocean Observatories Initiative (OOI) data workshop, a program designed to play around the OOI dataset using the PANGEO (a community platform for Big Data geoscience.) framework with the aim to provide a data evaluation report.