SEACOOS Fall Workshop, Nov 2004

SEACOOS Strategic and Implementation Plans

SEACOOS Fall Workshop, Nov 2004

Workshop WG Objectives

• Draft WG-level Implementation Plans

• Develop WG Exec Summary for External Evaluation

• Draft Year 4 Work statements

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SEA-COOS Over-Arching Goal

To significantly increase the quantity and quality of environmental information from the coastal ocean of the SE U.S. and facilitate its use in a wide range of societal, scientific, and educationalapplications

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Strategic Plan Objectives:•Deploy, operate and evaluate in situ measurement and remote sensing systems;

•Evaluate emerging observational technologies in field operations;

•Develop, implement, and evaluate numerical modeling systems for research and operational forecasting applications;

•Generate and distribute information products in near real-time that combine observational data and model output and are based on up-to-date oceanographic knowledge;

•Develop a regional information management system to access, distribute and archive data, metadata, and visualization products, and to ensure data formats and delivery systems are coordinated, interoperable, and compliant with national systems and standards;

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Strategic Plan Objectives (cont):

•Coordinate with governmental agencies and the private and public sectors to enhance the development and efficiency of the observing system and to expand the economic opportunities that it provides;

•Promote the use of coastal information by decision-makers, educators and the general public through outreach and education activities.

Also defines the four working groups, views on products and product development, and governance.

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Implementation Plan – big picture setting

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Organizational

Observing

Information Management

Modeling

Extension & Education

Thematic

climate variability

marine operations

national security

sustainable resources

marine ecosystems

natural hazards

public health

Structures – from OceanUS

??List of 50+ variables?

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Organizational

Observing

Information Management

Modeling

Extension & Education

Thematic

climate variability

marine operations

national security

sustainable resources

marine ecosystems

natural hazards

public health

Structures

Process Components

Physical state

Biogeochem & ecosystem

Socio-economic

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Why introduce components?

• Provides unifying themes for most variables of interest

• Adequacy can/should be tested for targeted applications (CODAE)

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Phase I Applications

1. Circ. fields and drifter trajectories for S&R, spill response; nowcasts and forecasts of pollutant dispersal, HABs, etc.

Identified users: Coast Guard, State and Federal emergency managers, NOAA HAZMAT, NWS Weather forecast offices

2. Fisheries oceanography – emphasize particle trajectories to assess regional “connectivity” and fisheries recruitment.

Identified users: Southeast Fisheries Science Center, South Atlantic Fisheries Management Council, Gray’s Reef National Marine Sanctuary, Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary, Florida Marine Resources Institute, South Carolina Department of Natural Resources, Beaufort Marine Laboratory.

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Applications

Search and Rescue, spill response, HABs

Fisheries

Storm surge

Rips and sediment transport

User-groups

USCG, NOAA HAZMAT

SAFMC, xNMS, FMRI, SC DNR, etc

NWS WFOs, state EM

State CZM, NWS WFOs

Variables

Currents, winds, water temp, waves

Salinity, species and abundance, etc.

Water levels, Inundation maps

Directional waves, sediment concentration

Phase I

Phase II

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Physical state estimation – obs. and pred. of:

• Ocean circulation – sea level, currents, temp and sal, BCs (wind, heat flux, fresh water flux, etc).

• Marine atmosphere - winds, air temp, humidity, rainfall, short- and long-wave radiation, visibility

• Surface waves - directional wave spectra, winds, currents, bathymetry

• Optics…• IMPORTANT: also provides critical information on

ecosystem components

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Other Topics

• Design – driven by geography, oceanography, history, needs

• Roles – of provider sectors, in development stages• Development process – attempts to define a

generic approach (inventory, aggregation, evaluation, etc)

• Prioritization – rationale/philosophy behind selection of initial efforts

• Timeline – would like a chart (Gantt?) of development targets

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SEA-COOS Year 3 Goals (involves all working groups)

1) Coastal ocean response to weather – observation and modeling of the evolving fields of water level, currents, temperature, salinity, winds, and heat and precipitation flux from the atmosphere. Ongoing effort (from inception)

2) Surface waves – some pilot observations; seeking better definition of effort.

3) Fisheries – promoting information merger and sharing (largely physical fields) in support of those groups focused on measurement of fisheries stocks.

4) Biogeochemical indicators - Assembly of information on primary producers, including existing satellite remote sensing capabilities and existing in-situ bio-optics measurement programs.

5) GIS coastal databases – Inventory and assembly effort to support storm surge, surface wave, fisheries and bio-optics programs.

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Year 4 targeted activities

• Refinement of ocean circulation, emphasizing baroclinic processes and apps: S&R, spill response, and fisheries management

• Design and begin implementing a direction wave obs sys and storm surge obs and pred sys, in support of EM, resource management and safe nav.

• Design CODAE to test ocean circ obs and modeling.

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What’s next?

• Need your input on existing document

• Need to develop WG-specific implementation plans (start with outline form…)

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The website is the accesspoint for information but only the external expression of a number of critical efforts to establish a functional integrated observing system