Transcript PowerPoint - Consortium for Ocean Leadership

Regional Ocean Observing Systems
Essential components
of the national IOOS system
Molly McCammon
Alaska Ocean Observing System
Chair, National Federation of Regional Associations
Washington, DC
February 28, 2008
Diverse needs require
a regional approach
NERACOOS
PacIOOS
GCOOS
CaRA
The Multifaceted Benefits of IOOS
• More effectively protect and restore healthy ecosystems
• Sustain and restore living marine resources
• Improve the safety and efficiency of marine operations
• Improve prediction of natural hazards (including tsunamis and storm surges)
to reduce resulting damages and costs
• Improve predictions of climate change and its socio-economic consequences
• Improve national security and Coast Guard operations
• Reduce public health risks
Benefits of regional component
• Stakeholder/user needs at regional level
• Facilitate federal/state/local synergies
• Federal needs usually implemented at
regional levels – regions can help fulfill
agency missions
• Agile, flexible, can be more immediately
responsive
• Regional data integration – leads to
regional decision-making tools
Regional Associations
build IOOS Partnerships
(an informed constituency)
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Business and Industry
Shipping
Researchers and Universities
State agencies
NGOs
International Organizations
Local and Tribal governments
Federal Agencies
National Federation
of Regional Associations
• Trade organization for regions
• Speak as 1 voice
• Facilitate regional perspective
• Share information, lessons learned &
information products among regions
• Articulate user-based needs
RAs showing successes
• 11 RAs formed
• Represent all regions of US coastline
• User needs identified or in process
• Conceptual designs of optimal observing
systems in development
• Pilot projects underway
• Several regional data integration centers
• Regional component in President’s budget
FY08 and FY 09
• Now demonstrating proofs of concept
Southern California
CA Prop 40/50
$21M for funding
Coastal current
Monitoring program
California
NANOOS
PacIOOS Region
Case Study: Tropical Storm
Ernesto : Sept 1-3 2006
RU-WRF provided the most accurate
real-time forecast of Tropical Storm
Ernesto after landfall.
Used by Researchers, by Regional, State
& Local Managers, by Power
Companies, by Agriculture Extension.
The most significant difference with
operational models was improved
physics.
This is a common storm track for the
Mid-Atlantic States.
MACOORA
GCOOS Data Portal
• 1-yr NOAA funding, began work1-Jan-08, $500K
• Design-build a centralized Data Portal to:
– aggregate and disseminate the region’s near real-time
oceanographic data.
– Serve data and products to people and machines
through standards-based interfaces.
• Participate in the NOAA IOOS Data Integration
Framework (DIF) Program by:
– participating in refinement of interim standards and
practices.
– Serve regional data to DIF models.
Standardization of Local Data Nodes
• 3-yr NOAA funding, Began work 1-Jan-08, ~$300k/yr
• Supports programmers in residence at 10 nodes.
(TCOON,TABS,WAVCIS,LSU/ESL,LUMCON,CenGCOOS,DISL,COMPS,IMaRS,Mote)
• Goals
– Participate in IOOS Regional Observation Registry
– Adopt common vocabulary for region, to enable machine accessible
catalogs and interoperability
– Serve near real-time and archived data via Open Geospatial
Consortium Service interfaces (OGS WFS-WCS).
This support model establishes a de facto
ocean data partnership for the region and
funds and trains local IT staff to make
changes to their data systems leading to
interoperability.
AOOS Issues and Users
• Users
- State economic interests:
fisheries, oil & gas, military,
shipping
- Govt regulators/managers
- Coastal communities
• Issues
- Importance of resource
extraction and military to state
economy
- Transportation needs in
remote, harsh environment
- Increased climate change &
coastal erosion impacts &
changing ecosystems
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160°W
150°W
140°W
130°W
70°N
120°W
70°N
60°N
50°N
40°N
40°N
30°N
30°N
Great Circle Route
20°N
130°E
20°N
140°E
150°E
160°E
170°E
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170°W
160°W
150°W
140°W
130°W
120°W
Reduced sea ice likely
to increase marine transport
PWS ocean observing system
Sea Surface Conditions Meteorology Oceanography Water Quality
PWS Weather
Currents
Precipitation
Data Assimilation
PWS ROMS
Model
Ancillary
Data
PWS Waves
RealData
time data
Retrieval &
Processing
Application
Server
Server
(GIS)
Field Validation
Experiments
3D Model
Assimilation
Research
Server
Server
(POET)
Public Feedback
Education
Economic models
Fishery management
Communities
Challenges ahead
• Concept is proven throughout the country; now need to
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transition to a sustained program
Have created expectations, and now need funding to
fulfill
NOAA is stepping up to plate w/ IOOS Program Office –
now need to work with other federal agencies & devise
ways to bridge the funding divide
Potential synergies w/other ocean programs: ocean
health, CZM, climate, exploration, sanctuaries & NERRS,
OOI, hydrographic services & mapping, energy, etc.