Title: Alaska Ocean Observing System AOOS A Regional Observing System within the Integrated Ocean Observing
1Alaska Ocean Observing System(AOOS)A Regional
Observing System within the Integrated Ocean
Observing System
- Molly McCammon, Executive Director
- 1007 W. Third Ave., Suite 100
- Anchorage, AK 99501
- 907-644-6703
- mccammon_at_aoos.org
- www.aoos.org
2IOOS (National) Goals
- Improve prediction of climate change impacts
- Improve safety efficiency of marine operations
- More effectively protect restore healthy
coastal ecosystems - Sustain marine resources
- Mitigate effects of natural hazards
- Reduce public health risks
- Improve national security
- (adapted from An Integrated and Sustained Ocean
Observing System, Ocean.US 2002)
3What will IOOS look like?
- Global component
- - Arctic GOOS
- - Arctic Observing Network (AON)
- - IPY efforts
- U.S. coastal component
- - National backbone system existing federal
assets (federal support) - - Set of nested Regional Observing Systems,
tailored to local user needs - (federal, state, local, private support)
4U.S. IOOSMultiScale System
Global Ocean Climate Component GOOS/GCOS
Coastal Ocean Component
GLs
NE
Ak
MAB
NW
Regional Observing Systems
SE
Pac
C Cal
Go Mex
S Cal
Carrib
National Backbone
Low
Resolution
High
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5Global Component of the IOOSAn International
Collaborationto integrate remote in situ
sensing
Plan for the initial system 50 implemented
6Regional Associations 11 Groups Funded to Meet
Requirements for Certification
AOOS
GLOS
NANOOS
NERA
CenCOOS
MACOORA
SCCOOS
SECOORA
PacIOOS
GCOOS
CARA
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7Arctic
Prince William Sound Pilot Project
300 km
Bering/Aleutian
Gulf of Alaska
8Planning
- Secure interim and long-term funding
- 2M in year 1, 1.7M in year 2, 2.5M year 3
(tentative) - Move toward multiple regions to increase funding
- Work w/ stakeholders coastal residents,
managers, industry, researchers to meet
stakeholder needs - Refine organizational structure, DMAC, education
outreach - Serve as catalyst for collaboration
coordination - Develop systems
- Pilot project in Prince William Sound
- -- Expand observing capacity in 3 Alaska LMEs
9Stakeholder needs
- Search and rescue, oil spill response, safe
navigation - Currents and winds in real-time, accurate tide
info - Real-time sea ice movement
- Trajectory modeling
- Coastal erosion
- Wave height direction and storm surge modeling
- Landfast and sea ice conditions
- Seasonal and long-term forecasts
- Ocean conditions
- Sea ice thickness extent
- Improved weather forecasts
- Harmful algal blooms
- Observational data and models
- Ocean circulation, currents, frontal locations
- Winds, air temperature, precipitation
- Fisheries ecosystem approach to management
10AOOS VISION Statewide Strategy
- Identify gaps in national backbone to meet
larger, more statewide and national needs - Develop strategy to fill in gaps influence
federal agency budgets - Integrate obs that cross agency missions
disciplines - Develop large model domains
11Statewide Priorities
- Improved validated remote sensing products
w/high resolution - Data management communications systems
w/real-time accessible data Alaska as national
node - Information products such as ocean circulation
models, nearshore forecasts for all regions - Comprehensive mapping charting for all state
waters - Infrastructure equipment buoy center hf radar
group ice thickness sensor salinity mapper
ship time - Support for existing state federal programs
- Integration w/Pacific basin global efforts
12Data, Modeling Analysis Group
- Data management
- Web design
- Data mining analysis
- Model validation assessment
- Satellite imagery reconfiguration
- Data metadata discovery
- GIS dataset discovery development
- Biological physical oceanography modelers
13Modeling and Analysis Group
Regional Ocean Modeling System (ROMS)
50 km grid
12 km grid
3 km grid
Nested domains
1 km grid
14AOOS web GIS application relief map (GINA) SST
(NASA)
15AOOS VISION Arctic
- Users
- - offshore oil gas
- - shipping/navigation
- - subsistence hunting
- - resource managers
- - Native communities/planners
- - climate change researchers
- Information products
- - sea ice fog forecasts
- - real time sea ice movement
- - ocean circulation patterns
- - climate change indicators
- - improved weather forecasts
- - coastal erosion prediction
- - marine mammal tracking
16Arctic Priorities
- More C-MAN stations, stream flow tide gauges
- Better bathymetry nearshore topography
measurements - Continuity of RADARSAT or similar sea ice
monitoring - Validation/ground-truthing for Arctic conditions
of natl satellite sensors, especially for sea ice
thickness - Radar coverage for measured ice edge surface
currents for ice motion mass balance
measurements (funding pilot project) - Wind wave measurements to mitigate coastal
erosion improve navigation safety - Tracking of whales, ice seals, walrus, polar
bears
17Arctic collaborating activities
- AON committee
- Oil gas needs workshop
- North Slope whaling community meeting
- North Slope science initiative
- NEON
- Arctic GOOS
- Barrow Cabled Observatory
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20AOOS VISION Bering Sea/Aleutians
- Users
- - commercial fishing
- - subsistence communities
- - climate change research
- - safe navigation search rescue oil spill
response - - resource managers
- Information products
- - sea ice vessel icing forecasts
- - coastal erosion predictions
- - fisheries/ecosystem productivity climate
change - - wind and wave forecasts
21Bering Sea/Aleutian Priorities
- Increased moorings buoys make real-time,
monitor more variables measure currents in, out,
through, marine mammals, fish - More tide river gauges C-Man stations
- HF radar surface current mappers at pulse pts in
circulations major fishing grounds - Expanded fisheries surveys, increased oceanic
parameters measured - Winds, waves surge models for coastal erosion
- More intensively monitored hot spots
- Cabled observatories at Bering Strait? Pribilofs?
22Monitoring the Bering Sea
- 4 moorings along the 70-m isobath
temperature, salinity, fluorescence, nutrients,
currents - Spring and fall hydrographic transects
temperature, salinity, O2, fluorescence,
nutrients, chlorophyll, zooplankton - Results
- 5th consecutive year with reduced ice cover
(80-100 reduced from 1972) and increased
temperature (3C). - Sharp front divides the warmer, more saline
southern shelf from the colder, fresher northern
shelf. -
23Bering Strait Moorings
- critical choke point
- T,S, u, v
- Volume transport
- Freshwater flux
- Nutrient flux
- Model boundary conditions
Bering Sea
24Aleutians
Seattle
Portland
San Francisco
Tokyo
LA/Long Beach
Pusan
Great Circle Route
25AOOS VISION Gulf of Alaska
- Users
- - navigation services
- - commercial fishing
- - recreational boaters
- - oil gas development
- - search rescue
- - tourism
- - managers
- - aquaculture/mariculture
- Information products
- - marine sea state icing conditions
- - ocean circulation patterns
- - coastal erosion predictions
- - nowcast/forecasts for search rescue oil
spill response - - fisheries/ecosystem productivity
- - HAB forecasts
26Gulf of Alaska Priorities
- Increase of ocean moorings, tide stream
gauges enhance w/ other sensors water quality,
sediment better bathymetry maps charts - Circulation obs more buoys long short range
HF radar surface current mappers freshwater
input into Alaska Coastal Current - Enhance existing estuarine coastal monitoring
- Add biological component to physical monitoring
- Develop HAB forecast ability
- Enhance ship of opportunity programs
- Use PWS observing system as pilot develop new
capacity in Kodiak SE ntegrate enhance Cook
Inlet observations
27PWS Demonstration of anEnd to End System
Meteorology
Sea Surface Conditions
Oceanography
Water Quality
Currents
Precipitation
PWS Weather
Data Assimilation
Field Validation Experiments
Data
Real time data
Model
Ancillary
3D Model
3D Model
Retrieval
Retrieval
Data
Assimilation
Data
Assimilation
Processing
Processing
PWS Waves
Application
Research
Application
Research
Server
Server
Server (GIS)
Server (POET)
Feedback
Economic models
Education
Fishery management
Communities
28Next Steps
- Work with national groups to get national
authorizing legislation national funding - Strengthen newly formed national federation of
regional associations - Continue user outreach needs assessment
identify information products - Develop implementation plans for 3 regions
- Develop education outreach plan
- COORDINATE, COLLABORATE AND LEVERAGE!
29- Alaska Ocean Observing System
- 1007 W. 3rd Avenue, Suite 100
- Anchorage, Alaska
- www.aoos.org