Week 3 glossary: key modelling terms
This glossary gathers the key terms used across Week 3 in one place. Keep it open as you work through the lectures and activities, and return to it whenever a …
Course: Fundamentals of Ocean Forecasting
Course wrap-up: from the physics of the sea to the services that protect it
You’ve reached the end – not just of Week 7, but of the entire course. Take a moment to recognise what that means: you’ve followed the ocean forecast along its …
African and Regional Case Studies of Ocean Forecast Applications
This final lecture of the week – and of the course – with Ebenezer Nyadjro, brings everything together through real African case studies. Its central lesson is one the whole …
Marine pollution and environmental response: forecasting where it goes
In the video, Ebenezer Nyadjro showed how ocean forecasting helps us respond when pollution enters the sea. This reading gathers those ideas: why marine pollution matters, how the ocean transports …
Marine Pollution Monitoring and Environmental Response
This lecture, with Ebenezer Nyadjro, turns to a use of ocean forecasting where speed and accuracy save both ecosystems and lives: marine pollution monitoring and environmental response. When something harmful …
Sustainable fisheries and coastal management: forecasting for the long term
In the video, Ebenezer Nyadjro showed how ocean forecasting helps coastal communities feed themselves, earn a living, and protect the ecosystems they depend on. This reading gathers those ideas: why …
Supporting Sustainable Fisheries and Coastal Management
This lecture, with Ebenezer Nyadjro, turns to one of the ocean’s most vital roles for coastal communities: feeding them, employing them, and sustaining the ecosystems they depend on. Ocean forecasting, …
Risk reduction and safety: forecasting before the hazard
In the video, Ebenezer Nyadjro showed how ocean forecasting protects people when the sea turns dangerous. This reading gathers the ideas in one place: the vocabulary of risk, how early …
Ocean Forecasting for Risk Reduction and Safety
This lecture, with Ebenezer Nyadjro, turns to one of the most vital uses of ocean forecasting: keeping people safe. When the sea threatens lives, property, and livelihoods, a forecast that …
From forecasts to services: turning information into action
In the video, Ebenezer Nyadjro introduced the idea at the heart of this whole week: a forecast only matters when it leads to an action. This reading gathers that idea …
Understanding User Needs in Ocean Forecasting
The first lecture established that a forecast only matters when it leads to action. This one, again with Ebenezer Nyadjro, puts the people who take that action at the centre: …
From Forecasts to Services: What Are Downstream Applications?
Welcome to the final week. This opening lecture, with Ebenezer Nyadjro, sets the foundation for the whole week: what “downstream applications” actually are, and why they’re the point of everything …
Welcome to Week 7: where forecasts meet the real world
Welcome to Week 7 – the final week of the course. Across this course, you’ve followed the ocean forecast from the ground up: the physics of the ocean, the models …
Week 6 wrap-up: reading the forecast, and telling people what it means
You’ve reached the end of Week 6 – and with it, a skill that changes what a forecast is for you. At the start of the week, an ocean forecast …
From forecasts to decisions
Everything this week has led here. You have learned to read forecast products, judge their uncertainty, and avoid the common traps. But a forecast, however well read, only matters when …