The Observing System Monitoring Center OSMC

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The Observing System Monitoring Center (OSMC)

• moving towards climate data integration

Kevin OBrien University of Washington JISAO
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Observing System Monitoring Center
BackgroundThe OSMC is a tool to assist
managers and scientists with monitoring the
global in-situ ocean observing system,
identifying problems in real-time, and evaluating
the adequacy of the observations. The heart of
the OSMC is a database of the times, locations,
platform information, and parameters measured.
A partnership
many other vital contributors
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• 3 areas of integration under OSMC
• Realtime input from GTS
• Climate platform archives (DACs)
• Climate products and data

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1. Integration of Management information for RT
platforms
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1. Integration of Management information for RT
platforms
Colored by platform type
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platforms
Colored by country
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Colored by age of observation
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1. Integration of Management information for RT
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Colored by parameter value
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1. Integration of Management information for RT
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XBT castsin 1 week (Aug. 16-22)
The geospatial analysis capabilities of the OSMC
data base are being developed to track progress
on XBT lines.
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platforms
Platform information
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1. Integration of Management information for RT
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1. Integration of Management information for RT
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1. Integration of Management information for RT
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The OSMC doesnt look like a Live Access Server
but it is (Shown is the more traditional LAS
user interface)
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2. Integration of Climate platform archives

• GTS data provides just a starting point
• incomplete, minimal QC
• OSMC needs to monitor our stewardship of the
  ocean climate data record
• Since were integrating anyway, lets do it in a
  manner that serves the broader needs of
  scientists
• Partnerships with the DACs
• A multi-protocol (but just a few) approach

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2. Integration of Climate platform archives

• Example U. Hawaii Sea Level Center

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2. Integration of Climate platform archives

• Example U. Hawaii Sea Level Center today

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2. Integration of Climate platform archives

• Example U. Hawaii Sea Level Center
  standards-based architecture (Jan. 09)

incoming data
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2. Integration of Climate platform archives

• Jan. 09 milestone
• 1. Through THREDDS and OPeNDAP OSMC becomes a
  monitoring system for U. Hawaii Sea Level stations

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2. Integration of Climate platform archives

• Jan. 09 milestone
• 2. Drilling down on a U. Hawaii Sea Level
  station will access the research-quality archives
  on the Internet

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2. Integration of Climate platform archives

• Jan. 09 milestone
• 3. Scientists will get desktop access to these
  datain their familiar science tools

a Ferret session
a Matlab session
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2. Integration of Climate platform archives

• Example Underway ocean carbon obs Takahashi
  collection today SOCAT Jan. 09

drill down will become available Jan. 09
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2. Integration of Climate platform archives

• Example IOOS coastal observations(not climate
  platform archives yet, but )

SOS and OM()
Regional observations
Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) standards
Sensor Observation Services, Observations
Measurements model
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2. Integration of Climate platform archives
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2. Integration of Climate platform archives

• Summary roll-out plan by platform

• U. Hawaii sea level time series -- Jan. '09 
• ? OceanSites -- use same techniques (thru GDAC at
  NDBC)
• Carbon underway -- Takahashi collection now. 
  SOCAT Dec. '08
• ? SAMOS underway -- anticipate June '09
• IOOS taking shape in the coming months
• other platform programs (as yet unscheduled with
  many tbd details)
• Argo -- via FNMOC/NRL GDAC (some NOAA funding)
• VOS -- at NDBC
• Surface drifters - at AOML
• SOOP XBTs -- U.S. XBTs only at AOML
  (International tbd)
• Repeat hydrography data
• GOSUD -- tbd on completion of SAMOS
• NOAA CO-OPS tide gauges (those not on GTS)

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3. Integration of Climate products and data
IPCC AR4 model outputsGraphics such as this
from Held and Soden (2006) are so routinely
produced from the IPCC AR4 database that weve
ceased to marvel at it. This is a composite of
output from 20 models worldwide. V. Balaji, GFDL
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3. Integration of Climate products and data
Often, the anomalies are provided directly in a
graph or a table by the respective forecasting
centers for the Nino 3.4 region. In some cases,
however, they are given for 1-month periods, for
3-month periods that skip some of the periods in
the above table, and/or only for a region (or
regions) other than Nino 3.4
Tony Barnston -- http//iri.columbia.edu/climate/
ENSO/
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3. Integration of Climate products and data

• Publishing images of data products on Web sites
  is worthwhile
• but it is no longer sufficient. Nor is FTP
  access to files.
• ? Making data available through services like
  OPeNDAP and SOS will significantly advance
  climate services
• It can be done at low effort. Many groups are
  already doing it.

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3. Integration of Climate products and data
GHRSST-JPL
ECCO-JPL
AVISO
OSCAR
SODA
GODAS
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3. Integration of Climate products and data

• Many climate products are already available via
  OPeNDAP
• (though not all are kept up to date)
• OSMC can
• offer tools to compare and evaluate products
• encourage use of webservices like OPeNDAPand
  format standardslike netCDF-CF andGRIB

Reynolds bias error with ocean obs
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3. Integration of Climate products and data
The OSMC Climate Services tab is a work in
progress.
Example Performance Monitoring GOOS Requirement
for SST is 25 observations / week _at_ 500 km
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• Thank You!
• http//www.osmc.noaa.gov
• Kevin.M.OBrien_at_noaa.gov