Southern California Coastal Ocean Observing System - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

1 / 29
About This Presentation
Title:

Southern California Coastal Ocean Observing System

Description:

... National Preparedness For Response Exercise Program (NPREP), an industry-led oil ... NPREP exercise. Surface current maps available with SOCAL Platform locations ... – PowerPoint PPT presentation

Number of Views:90
Avg rating:3.0/5.0
Slides: 30
Provided by: gini153
Category:

less

Transcript and Presenter's Notes

Title: Southern California Coastal Ocean Observing System


1
  • Southern California Coastal Ocean Observing
    System
  • SCCOOS
  • 2009 Regional Coordination Workshop
  • Seattle, WA
  • August 25, 2009

2
Part 1 Project Status ReportShelf to
Shoreline Observatory Development
DevelopmentProject InvestigatorsJulie
Thomas and Eric TerrillProject Duration July
1, 2008 June 30, 2010 (2 years currently in
year 2)

3
Project Status Report
  • Project Schedule and Milestones RA Planning
    Grant and RCOOS
  • Continued operation of nearshore egg and larval
    surveys that complement the offshore CALCOFI
    survey
  • Initiated weekly Harmful Algal Bloom (HAB)
    shoreline surveillance at five pier sites along
    the coast of Southern California
  • Development of nearshore climatologies and
    climate relevant indices relevant to ecosystem
    assessment for fisheries, IEAs, and MPA
    development
  • Operations and maintenance of the 1km resolution,
    realtime ocean model nowcast/forecast system
    (ROMS)
  • Maintained climate-relevant glider lines
  • Established interactive displays of data and
    products via SCCOOS web site
  • SCCOOS installed six new HF radar sites and at
    Trinidad, Pillar Point Air Force Station,
    Sausalito-Marin City Sanitary District, Point
    Mugu, San Mateo Point, and Camp Pendleton.
  • Trajectory tool set for HF radar based upon
    optimal mapping techniques

4
Project Status Report
  • Significant Accomplishments
  • Initiated and maintained Harmful Algal Bloom
    (HAB) surveillance program with delivery of
    timely and relevant data products, including the
    launch of a new website www.sccoos.org/data/habs
  • Early detection and notification of a toxic HAB
    event in the San Pedro Channel using gliders,
    pier monitoring, and boat sampling
  • Marine Operations web page for delivery of
    aggregated waves, winds, ocean current
    information in geospacial format. In-person
    training workshops this Fall.
  • Maintained limited climate observation network
    within SCCOOS including a nearshore CALCOFI
    stations to complement routine offshore
    observations, three offshore glider lines that
    observe ocean climate including El Niño
    detection, operation of the ocean modeling
    system, and the synthesis of a decades worth of
    discharger CTD stations with offshore CALCOFI
    stations
  • Continued management of realtime data through
    www.sccoos.org

5
Keys to Success and Potential Challenges
  • Ecosystem Health Climate Trends
  • What worked well?
  • CalCOFI surveys collected zooplankton biomass,
    fish and invertebrate larvae and conducted
    underway measurements of temperature, salinity,
    irradiance and fluorescence.
  • Extending the historically offshore stations of
    CalCOFI closer to the coast brought relevance to
    the National Pollutant Discharge Elimination
    System (NPDES) permit discharge monitoring sites
    and to Californias Marine Protected Areas
    planning process.
  • Forecasts and nowcasts of ocean conditions on a
    range of space and time scales were made using
    the Regional Ocean Modeling System (ROMS). The
    models make estimates of connectivity on
    bight-wide scales as a guide to understanding
    dispersal of materials near and below the sea
    surface. ROMS with observed winds were also used
    to estimate larval dispersion.
  • A multi-year model reanalysis is being conducted
    to assist in the development of dynamical indices
    that have ecosystem relevance.
  • Describe potential and/or real challenges
  • Data integration and distribution for large and
    complex datasets such as CalCOFI
  • Validating model output, and assessing model.
    RD to define products.
  • Integrating biological datasets with physical
    data sets and representing those syntheses
  • Continuous funding for sustaining glider lines
  • Determining, and development of, sensors to add
    to the standard suite (T, S, velocity, Chl a) to
    address ecosystem issues

6
Keys to Success and Potential Challenges
  • Water Quality
  • What worked well?
  • The SCCOOS HAB team has been monitoring algal
    species at fives sites from San Luis Obispo to
    San Diego for the past year using traditional
    (water samples) and technological capabilities
    (AUVs) to provide as complete a picture as
    possible.
  • A website has been established that provides for
    automatic data submission and up-to-date
    reporting of the HAB conditions at each of the
    five sites.
  • The group provided early detection and alerted
    the community to the onset of the HAB event
    (Pseudo-nitzschia).
  • The SCCOOS HAB team is a highly collaborative
    group, and is engaged with HAB monitoring efforts
    for the entire state (collaborations with CeNCOOS
    investigators).
  • During the Hyperion Treatment Plant 1-mile
    diversion, SCCOOS provided a set of resources
    including a web site that consolidated
    observations for rapid access and evaluation by
    managers and regulators during the discharge
    diversion.
  • Describe potential and/or real challenges
  • Development of technological capability for in
    situ and/or remote sensing of HAB species and
    events that enables the use of autonomous
    vehicles, moorings, and remote sensing for early
    detection and warning.

6
7
HAB SURVEILLANCE PROGRAM
HAB Product various delivery methods (web,
email)
8
Keys to Success and Potential Challenges
  • Marine Safety and Maritime Operations
  • What worked well?
  • A customized interactive website for the Ports of
    Los Angeles and Long Beach Harbor that provides
    timely and accurate information about marine
    conditions to ensure the safe passage of vessels
    and efficient harbor navigation, including
    automated messages on wave conditions.
  • A partnership with NAVAIR and the U.S. Navy for
    operational access to the Naval Research
    Laboratorys Coupled Ocean/Atmosphere Mesoscale
    Prediction System (COAMPS) to provide 48 hour
    wind and precipitation forecasts on the SCCOOS
    website.
  • After an oil spill in the Santa Barbara Channel,
    California's Office of Spill Prevention and
    Response (OSPR) contacted SCCOOS to provide
    surface current data that was integrated into
    GIS-based support products and provided to first
    responders.
  • Participation in Area Committee Meetings to
    present SCCOOS products for use in oil spill
    preparation and drills and continue work to
    integrate HF radar into the OSPR GIS and NOAA
    GNOME model and the usage of real-time waves,
    winds, currents, AIS, chart overlays, etc.
  • Supported the National Preparedness For Response
    Exercise Program (NPREP), an industry-led oil
    spill response exercise off the coast of San
    Diego, with surface current measurements and
    particle tracking.
  • Describe potential and/or real challenges
  • Ensuring the information is out to users in the
    field, training, stakeholder involvement

8
9
Left OSPR generated Surface current map for
the command post during the 2008 NPREP exercise
  • In response to Cosco Busan, a tailored GIS
    format of HF radar data is now available to OSPR
    staff and has been in use in drills (Safe Seas,
    NPREP) and in recent responses in the Santa
    Barbara Channel.
  • NOAA HAZMAT now can access surface currents via
    a national standard NETCDF format (chain of
    command for enviro data USCG to NOAA)

10
Surface current maps available with SOCAL
Platform locations http//www.sccoos.org/data/hfrn
et/
11
LA/LB Customized Web Interface
  • NOAA charts integrated with Model Output
    Prediction Points at key transfer locations
  • Overlay for Shipping Lanes, Swell Model, and
    Surface Currents

12
Web-based display of realtime AIS data with
available NOAA Charts
13
Current Status Products
Directions Place an x in boxes that best
describe the kinds of products being developed
for the focus areas. See RA Presentation
guidelines for terms near real-time data (gt24
hours)
14
Current Status Products
Directions Place an x in boxes that best
describe the kinds of products being developed
for the focus areas. See RA Presentation
guidelines for terms near real-time data (gt24
hours)
15
Current Status Product Examples
  • Provide access to near real time data for harmful
    algal blooms to avoid risks to public health,
    marine life, the environment, and the economy
    www.sccoos.org/data/habs
  • Provide an interactive website for ports and
    harbors with information on marine conditions
    that is critical to the safe passage of vessels
    and efficient harbor navigation
    www.sccoos.org/data/harbors/lalb
  • Provide HF radar derived surface current maps to
    assess and mitigate impacts of impaired water
    quality, track oil spills, assist with search and
    rescue efforts and monitor the physical
    environment to better understand ecosystem
    change http//www.sccoos.org/data/hfrnet/
  • Provide intuitive, interactive multi-dimensional
    display of model output http//www.sccoos.org/dat
    a/roms/

16
Current Status Observations
Indicate the of observations in each
category. Color code X if funded exclusively
by NOAA IOOS funds X if combination of NOAA IOOS
funds and other X is non-NOAA IOOS
funds Observation parameter (temperature,
salinity, chlorophyll, etc X station)/sampling
period. These numbers indicate the observations
collected during one sampling period. For
example, there are 23,184 meteorological
observations collected per hour 14 parameters
X 1,656 stations. Not represented models
16
17
Observation Types
Physical - water temperature, sea level, salt,
beam c, waves, backscatter, transmissivity,
normalized water-leaving radiance, total
suspended matter, secchi, absorption Meteorologic
al - air temperature, wind speed, wind direction,
precipitation, pressure, relative humidity,
visibility, infrared, water vapor Chemical - O2,
ph, ammonia, nitrate, phosphate, silicate,
nitrite, radioactive tracer Biological -
chlorophyll, e. coli, enterococus, fecal
coliforms, total coliforms, phytoplankton,
phaeophytin, productivity Geological -
17
18
Excerpt from Observations Table
19
Observations Table Continued
20
Current Status Modeling and DMAC subsystems
See guidelines for definitions Regionwide
entire RA
21
Map 1a Existing Observing Assets
22
Map 1b Leveraged Assets
23
Meteorology Stations
Too many dots to represent
24
  • Part 2 Looking Forward
  • Future Plans
  • Assuming 5 million of funding per year, please
    indicate what your future plans are for your RA.
    The 5 million should cover activities currently
    funded by the RA Planning Grants and the RCOOS.

25
Future Plans Major Products
26
Future Plans Observations

Future plans are focused on product development
and data management with an emphasis on
integrating physical and biological data.
27
Future Plan Modeling and DMAC
See Guidelines for definitions
Region-wide means entire RA
28
Future Plans Map
29
Funding Scenario
Briefly describe the major CUTS to the subsystem
under the reduced funding scenarios
Write a Comment
User Comments (0)
About PowerShow.com