oceansites: status and plans m. j. mcphaden, noaa/pmel 18 february 2006 honolulu, hawaii
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OceanSITES: Status and Plans M. J. McPhaden, NOAA/PMEL 18 February 2006 Honolulu, Hawaii. TAO Transition New NOAA funding for Pacific, Atlantic, and Indian Ocean Sites. Nuku Hiva, Marquesas Islands. TAO Transition, 2005-2007. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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OceanSITES: Status and Plans
M. J. McPhaden, NOAA/PMEL18 February 2006Honolulu, Hawaii
Nuku Hiva, Marquesas Islands
1)TAO Transition2)New NOAA funding for
Pacific, Atlantic, and Indian Ocean Sites
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TAO Transition, 2005-2007• Management of TAO (and PIRATA) will pass from
PMEL to NOAA’s National Data Buoy Center (NDBC) a laboratory within the National Weather Service
• Mandated by the Administrator of NOAA in August 2002.
• Transition over three years, 2005-2007.• Rationale:
– Make operations more cost effective– Protect against changes in personnel– Ensure continuity of the data streams
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TAO Transition, 2005-2007• The transfer of TAO operations from NOAA/PMEL to
NOAA/National Data Buoy Center is in its second year of a three year scheduled transition.
• As of 1 Jan 2006, NDBC maintains the official TAO web site for data display and distribution.
• Beginning in 2007, NDBC will be responsible for all field work.
• NDBC developing an ATLAS mooring with commercial off the shelf electronics and sensors; field tests with existing ATLAS beginning in mid-2006.
• There has been no break in continuity of the data stream and the process so far has been transparent to TAO data users.
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Longest Continuous Moored Time Series
in World Ocean
0°, 110°W1980-2006
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FY06 Budget for NOAAClimate Observations and Services
“…[Funds] to expand the Tropical Atmosphere Ocean array… into the Indian Ocean. This expansion will enhance NOAA's capability to accurately document the state of ocean climactic conditions and improve seasonal forecasting capability.”(http://www.noaanews.noaa.gov/stories2005/s2386.htm)Other activities covered by this funding:
Upgrades for 4 TAO and 3 PIRATA moorings to ocean reference station quality. Add salinity sensors to the TAO array to improve seasonal-interannual forecasting. Provide 4 additional buoys for the PIRATA array in the hurricane-genesis region of the Atlantic Ocean for improved understanding of ocean-atmosphere interactions on hurricane development. Support the technological development of the next generation of moored buoys
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Ocean Sites for Interdisciplinary
Environmental Studies (OceanSITES)
With new NOAA funding, 4 equatorial Pacific flux reference sites and 3 PIRATA flux reference sites will be upgraded. More Indian Ocean sites are planned as well.
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NOAA funded flux reference sites on the equator at 110°W, 140°W, 170°W
and 165°E.PMEL will be responsible for the instrumentation on these sites although NDBC will be responsible
for overall array maintenance.
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PIRATA+Extensions and Enhancements
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Draft Strategy for Indian Ocean Moored Buoy
Array
Developed by the International CLIVAR/GOOS Indian Ocean Panel
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Present Status(Two flux sites established, one more
planned in 2007)