Observing System Monitoring Center OSMC

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Observing System Monitoring Center (OSMC)

• NOAA Office of Climate Observation
• IOOS Global Systems Program

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Observing System Monitoring Center

• Hosted by the NOAA Office of Climate Observation
  on behalf of the Joint WMO/IOC Technical
  Commission for Oceanography and Marine
  Meteorology (JCOMM).
• Web-based GIS tool designed for near-real-time
  monitoring of the Global Ocean Observing System
  -- the Global Component of IOOS.
• An observing system management tool
• Objectives
• Monitor the status of the globally distributed
  systems
• Report system statistics routinely and on demand
• Designed for the Global Component (international)
  with built-in capabilities extensible to the
  Coastal Component of IOOS.

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Initial Global Ocean Observing System for Climate
Status against the GCOS Implementation Plan and
JCOMM targets
October 2006
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Total in situ networks
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100
42
81
81
43
66
48
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• A total of 5635 platforms are
• maintained globally.
• 68 countries contributing.
• USA contribution -- 2963 platforms

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Beta version of the OSMC is available for test
and evaluation.
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• Sort by
• Platform type
• Variables being sampled
• Time frame
• Contributing Country

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Drill down for platform metadata and real-time
data reports. Database operations at NOAA NDBC.
Hold data for 5 years. Updated daily. Data
source -- GTS via the GODAE server system at Navy
Monterey. Other web sources are being added.
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LAS -- GIS specially designed for observing
system managers (by NOAA PMEL)
Viewer Options
ESRI -- commercial GIS tool
Google Earth -- open source GIS with great
graphics, fun for kids (and adults)
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2094 Platforms reporting 40435 observations
yesterday
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1252 Drifting Buoys reporting yesterday
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385 Drifting Buoys reporting barometric pressure
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18 Drifting Buoys reporting wind
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396 Moored Buoys reporting yesterday
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819 Ships reporting two days ago
Location security Ship observations are not
available for the most recent 48 hours.
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2334 Argo Floats reporting during the past month
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Japan had 352 Platforms reporting during the past
month
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Canada had 155 Platforms reporting during the
past month
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Australia had 123 Platforms reporting during the
past month
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The United States had 1574 Platforms reporting
yesterday
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Initial design for sorting by Platform

• Tide Gauge Stations
• o GLOSS
• o Climate Reference Stations
• o Real Time Reporting
• o Geocentrically Located
• o NWLON
• Drifting Buoys
• o High Seas Drifters
• o Barometer Drifters
• o Wind Drifters
• o Hurricane Drifters
• o Ice Buoys
• Moored Buoys
• o Weather Buoys
• o Tsunami Warning Stations
• o Tropical Moored Buoys
• o Climate Reference Stations
• o Ocean Carbon Stations
• o Ecosystem Monitoring Buoys

• Ships
• o Volunteer Observing Ships
• VOSClim
• Weather Obs
• Weather and Ocean Obs
• Ocean Carbon Obs
• o Dedicated Ships
• Ecosystem Monitoring
• Charting Surveys
• Climate Monitoring (SAMOS)
• Ocean Carbon Surveys
• Platform support
• Research
• Ocean Transport Stations
• o Moored arrays
• o Cable Measurements
• Shore and Bottom Stations
• o C-MAN Weather Stations
• o PORTS Systems

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Observing System Monitoring Center

• Coastal real-time data from systems reported by
  NDBC are automatically included.
• OSMC extensions presently under development
• Tide gauge stations
• Tsunameters
• Ocean reference stations
• Future
• Map rubber banding and magnification for coastal
  regions
• Sorting by additional variables e.g., waves
• Entire suite of platforms

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Test Version 2.00 beta www.jcommops.org/network
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