Current Activities and Funding key activities in the region that are related to or support IOOS, including those not funded by NOAA IOOS

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Current Activities and Funding key
activities in the region that are related to or
support IOOS, including those not funded by NOAA
IOOS

• MARCOOS Activity insert slides

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MACOORAs Regional Coastal Ocean Observing System
(RCOOS)

• Mid-Atlantic Regional Coastal Ocean Observing
  System (MARCOOS)
• October 1, 2007 Start
• Year 1 Request 2.0 M
• Awarded 1.7 M
• Year 2 Request 3.5 M
• Awarded 1.7 M
• Year 3 Request 3.5 M
• http//www.marcoos.us

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MARCOOS 30 PIs, 20 Institutions, 2 Regional
Themes, 2 Support Themes

• Regional Theme 1 Maritime Safety Search And
  Rescue
• Regional Theme 2 Ecological Decision Support
  Fisheries
• Regional Support for Water Quality
• Regional Support for Coastal Inundation

Investigator Affiliation Investigator Affiliation
A. Allen U.S. Coast Guard L. Atkinson Old Dominion University
A. F. Blumberg Stevens Institute of Technology W. Boicourt University of Maryland
W. Brown University of Massachusetts M. Bruno Stevens Institute of Technology
D. Chapman University of Delaware A. Cope NOAA Mount Holly WFO
A.Gangopadhyay University of Massachusetts T. Herrington Stevens Institute of Technology
D. Holloway OPeNDAP E. Howlett Applied Science Associates
D. King University of Maryland J. Kohut Rutgers University
B. Lipphardt University of Delaware A.MacDonald Monmouth University
J. McDonnell Rutgers University J. Moisan NASA Wallops
J. ODonnell University of Connecticut M. Oliver Rutgers University
O. Schofield Rutgers University H. Seim University of North Carolina
J. Titlow WeatherFlow Inc. D. Ullman University of Rhode Island
J. Wilkin Rutgers University R. Wilson SUNY, Stony Brook
W. Wittman Public Service Electric Gas M. Yarosh CIT
A. Voros NY/NJ COAST S. Glenn Rutgers University
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MARCOOS Regional Theme 1

• Improved weather data and forecasts
• HF Radar surface current mapping
• Statistical Short Term Prediction System
• Ensemble of Dynamical Forecasts
• Surface currents and winds into Environmental
  Data Server (EDS).
• Accessible for Search And Rescue Optimal Planning
  System (SAROPS).

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MARCOOS Regional Theme 2

• Satellite SST Ocean Color Maps
• Subsurface Glider CTD data
• Ensemble of Data Assimilative Models
• 3-D Temperature Products to the Web
• Education, Outreach, Economic Impacts

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MARCOOS Support for Water Quality

• Long Island Sound Low Dissolved Oxygen
• New York Harbor HF Radar for trash spills and
  beach closures.
• New Jersey Coast Recurrent Low Dissolved Oxygen
  Regions
• Delaware Bay IOOS- NWQMN integration pilot
  study

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MARCOOS Support for Inundation

• CBOS-CIPS Cheseapeake Inundation Prediction
  System Pilot Study
• Delaware River Basin Commission Flood Warnings
• NY Harbor South Shore of Long Island Flood
  Warnings.

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MARCOOS Support for Energy

• Severe weather warnings for power company plant
  damage
• Seabreeze modeling for power load forecasts and
  wind resource hindcasts
• Offshore monitoring of environmental conditions
  for wind turbine permitting design.
• Collaborations with wave power generation
  companies - east coast focus on offshore HF Radar
  transmitters.

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MARCOOS 10 Major Tasks

• Tasks
• Improved weather data and forecasts
• HF Radar Network Operations
• HF Radar QA/QC Products
• Autonomous Glider Operations
• Satellite Data Acquisition
• Statistical Short Term Prediction System
• Ensemble of Dynamical Forecasts
• DMAC
• Education and Outreach
• Economic Impact
• 6 Month Progress Report Submitted
• All Tasks on Track.

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MARCOOS Weather

• Experimental Version of WRF installed at Mount
  Holly Weather Service Office.
• Weatherflow data from gt100 sites formated for
  forecast validation and EDS.
• Regional Offices (Taunton, MA Upton, NY Mount
  Holly, NJ Sterling, MD Wakefield, VA) contacted
  to begin inventory of available WRF products and
  share expertise.

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MARCOOS HF Radar Operations

• Operator Working Group biweekly calls.
• 26 Existing Sites Inventoried and Database
  developed.
• Software standardized
• Network-wide monitoring scripts developed.
• All sites reporting to the National Network
• Sites Operated at Mid-Atlantic HF Radar
  Consortium Phase 2 Response Level. (Phase 3 is
  SCMI recommendation of 2 people per 5 sites).

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MARCOOS HF Radar Vector Fields

• QA/QC Standardized
• Guidance Document Developed
• Radial Data Merged in real-time
• New merging algorithm developed
• New Server mirroring national server installed
  for development
• Merged files delivered to EDS via Opendap and
  STPS via ftp.

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MARCOOS DMAC

• MACOORA-wide DMAC plan in development
• HF Radar surface current maps in EDS
• Weatherflow winds into EDS
• STPS is now being set up on EDS
• Opendap servers being installed for most datasets
• Glider Opendap formats are being redefined to
  improve utility for modelers.

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MARCOOS - STPS

• MAB Total Vector Files are retrieved hourly via
  ftp from Rutgers server
• Hourly 24hr predictions from current time are
  made using STPS
• STPS results are stored in SQL database and
  integrated into GIS web based interface viewable
  at http//lisicos.uconn.edu
• STPS results saved in NetCDF format for
  accessibility through DODS requests to OpenDAP
  server http//nopp.dms.uconn.edu8080/thredds/cata
  log.html

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MARCOOS MAB Glider Activities

• First IOOS glider purchased, delivery May, 2008.
• Gliders on regional MAB missions supported by
  both NOAA IOOS and ONR MURI.
• 10 IOOS/MURI deployments since March, 2007.
• Working group meeting to focus deployment
  schedule on seasonal transitions.

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MARCOOS MAB Satellite Imagery

• L-Band X-Band data acquistion maintained.
• Declouded and filtered SST test product delivered
  to modelers for assimilation.
• Merged SST and Ocean Color Water Mass product
  demonstrated with historical data and is being
  transitioned to real time.

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MARCOOS HOPS Forecast Model

• Testing initialization and assimilation schemes.
• ONR Shallow Water 2006 test case.
• Uses historical feature models (for GSMR and
  GOMGB) adjusted by new data.
• SST, HF Radar, Glider and Drifter data are being
  used for assimilation.
• Offshore Focus, e.g., Shelf Slope Front.

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MARCOOS ECOMSED Forecast Model

• Existing Real-time system.
• Extensive Evaluation for Sea level and currents
  in the harbor and nearshore
• Ensemble Data Assimilation
• Nudging Scheme
• HF Radar Data can now be assimilated.
• Offshore Validation by gliders.
• Meteorological Sensitivity

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MARCOOS ROMS Forecast Model

• Nested grids
• 5 km Assimilation Grid
• 1 km forecast grid.
• 4D Variational Assimilation.
• Present Datasets - SST, HF Radar, Glider, Moored
  TS
• Future Altimetry, Optics and Ocean Color
• Glider sampling design via Representers

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MARCOOS Economic Impact

• Year 1 Focus Value of MARCOOS Output in
  Fisheries
• Document and evaluate historical fishery
  science/management uses and current user needs
  for MARCOOS work products.
• Develop strategies to match user needs with
  value-added MARCOOS products
• Prepare articles, papers, and presentations that
  convey research results and provide
  recommendations for maximizing fishery values of
  MARCOOS

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MARCOOS Search And Rescue
MAB HF Radar surface currents and Weatherflow
winds used in a SAROPS test case.
Selecting HF Radar data in SAROPS