NANOOS PILOT: Estuaries and Shores of Oregon and Washington

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NANOOS PILOT Estuaries and Shores of Oregon and
Washington
Seattle, Feb 28 - Mar 2, 2005
Regional observation network
Regional modeling system
Information system Products
Objectives
Training and outreach
Participants
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NANOOS PILOT Objectives

• For the estuaries and shores of OR and WA, to
  explore and advance the following objectives
• Create a regional observation network
• Create a regional modeling system
• Create a cross-site information system
• Create cross-site quality metrics
• Develop cross-training mechanisms
• Proactively engage regional and local communities
• Proactively participate in the design of
• A river-to-ocean NANOOS
• A national IOOS

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Regional observation network

• Create a coherent, near-real time WA-OR
  cross-estuary view of key parameters
• Five reference estuaries
• South Slough, Columbia River, Willapa Bay, Grays
  Harbor, Puget Sound
• Anchor stations as enablers of cross-estuary
  consistency
• Initial parameters water levels, salinity,
  temperature and chlorophyll
• Cross-training of technical staff

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Regional observation network

• II. Create a coherent view of shoreline evolution
  along the OR and WA coasts
• Two littoral cells
• Columbia River, Rockaway
• Goal Quantify and understand seasonal
  interannual rates of change and morphological
  variability of PNW beaches
• WA?OR technology transfer, coordination

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Regional observation network

• III. Address PNW technology gaps
• Marine Radar Observing System (X-band radar)

Resolution Time1.5 sec
Space7m x 7m Products Wave
directions Wave periods Wave height
(estimate) Water depths (?)
9 ft
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Planned deployment Target date April 2005
and College of Oceanography
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Radar image footprint

radar
North Jetty
Columbia River Mouth
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Regional modeling system

• A. Estuarine circulation
• Variables water level
• water velocity
• salinity
• temperature
• Goal
• Reference - CORIE
• Long-term databases
• Daily forecasts
• Quality controls
• Status

WA
OR
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Regional modeling system

• B. Short waves
• Goal
• CR pilot study
• Challenge
• Quality control
• Forecasts

WA
OR
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II. Regional modeling system

• ? C. Water Quality ?
• Rationale
• Pilot study
• (Nate Hyde thesis)

WA
OR
South Slough Coos Bay
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Rockaway Littoral Cell

• Establish a shoreline observation network in the
  Rockaway littoral cell (Cape Meares to Tillamook
  Head). Beach surveying to be undertaken
  approximately bimonthly and/or after major storm
  events
• Undertake large-scale surface mapping at three
  locations along the Rockaway Cell. These surveys
  are to be carried out biannually
• Disseminate beach state-change data and products
  among coastal managers, regulatory authorities
  and the general public

Fort Stevens
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Progress

• Survey monuments installed along Rockaway
  littoral cell in August 2004

• Precise coordinates and elevations determined
  by Tillamook County Surveyor in September 2004
  using static GPS occupations

• Beach surveying initiated in October 2004

• Large-scale beach surface mapping initiated in
  November 2004

• Repeated surveys now fully operational

• Data will come on line March 2005

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Methods

• Beach surveys using RTK-GPS. Equipment
  includes Trimble 5700 Base Station and 5800 Rover
  unit

• Beach surface mapping using a 5800 GPS unit
  mounted on top of an ARGO amphibious ATV
• Surveys are undertaken along pre-defined transect
  lines 20 m apart and extending approximately 3
  4 km along the beach.

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Beach surveys
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Surface Mapping
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Columbia River Littoral Cell
George Kaminsky, Laura Bauleke, Blythe
Mackey Coastal Monitoring Analysis
Program Washington Department of Ecology Peter
Ruggiero, Guy Gelfenbaum Coastal and Marine
Geology Program US Geological Survey

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Sample Beach Profiles
Prograding

Eroding
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Shoreline Change 1997-2004

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Verification of Shoreline Change Predictions

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Puget Sound - ORCA
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ORCA Goals

• Operate a robust remote chemical and biological
  monitoring system
• T, S, Light, Meteorology
• NO3, O2, Chl-a, turbidity
• NH4, Gas Exchange parameters
• Telemeter data back to University of Washington
• Monitor over a spectrum of time-scales
• Hourly (tides), Daily (solar), Weekly (plankton
  growth), Monthly (blooms), Annual (seasons, and
  inter-annual, e.g., El Nino)
• Describe natural variability and characterize and
  help evaluate potential human influence
• Ground-truth satellite ocean color

3 June 05 ?
Point Wells
(04)
5 April 06?
4 April 06?
2 April 05?
1 Jan 05
Carr Inlet
(00-03)
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Willapa Bay and Grays Harbor
Since 1973
Grays Harbor
(3)
Willapa Bay
Toke Point

Bay Center

Oysterville


Naselle
Recent and future moorings
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Willapa Bay and Grays Harbor

• NANOOS Pilot
• Telemetry for biophysical moorings (T, S, Chl-a
  fluor) in Willapa Bay (1) and Grays Harbor (1)

(3)
Locations of 3 Grays Harbor moorings still to
be determined
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Columbia River - CORIE
Other key networks
Baker Bay
Baker Bay
Active
Active
Lower CR
Grays Bay
Grays Bay
Inactive
Inactive
X-band radar
NSF-RISE
Pending funding
Collaborations

OGI02 (s)
Cathlamet Bay
Youngs
Bay
Cathlamet Bay
Youngs
Bay
http//www.ccalmr.ogi.edu/CORIE
http//www.ccalmr.ogi.edu/CORIE/network
OGI01
OGI01
Coastal
Coastal
radar
radar
QA/QC
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• South Slough National Estuarine Research Reserve
• Designated 1974
• 4,800 ac research natural area
• Habitats
• estuary
• wetlands / riparian
• coastal forest

Pacific Ocean
Coos Bay
South Slough NERR
Partnership between NOAA and State of Oregon
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NERR SWMP SWMP NANOOS OIMB Future SWMP SWMP Met
Stn
NORTH SPIT
COOS BAY
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SUNSET BAY
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SOUTH SLOUGH
CAPE ARAGO
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South Slough NERR SWMP Monitoring Sites
Estuarine Water Parameters / Datasondes 1
Winchester Arm 2 Sengstacken Arm 3 Valino
Island 4 Charleston Bridge 5 Sloughside
Pilings (temp) 6 OIMB Boathouse (future)
NANOOS Real-Time
NERRReal-Time
Meteorological Station 6 OIMB / ECOS Lab
Estuarine Nutrients Automated Sampler 4
Charleston Bridge Van Dorn Samples 1
Winchester Arm 3 Valino Island 4 Charleston
Bridge 6 OIMB Boathouse
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• SOUTH SLOUGH NATIONAL ESTUARINE RESEARCH RESERVE
• SYSTEM-WIDE MONITORING PROGRAM / SWMP
• Ambient Estuarine Water
• (every 30 min)
• Water level
• Temperature
• Salinity
• Conductivity
• Dissolved oxygen
• pH
• Turbidity
• Fluorescence

• 2. Estuarine Nutrients
• (monthly)
• Nitrate
• Nitrite
• Ammonia
• Phosphate
• Chlorophyll a
• Phaeopigments

3. Meteorological Station (every 5 min) Air
temperature, wind speed, wind direction,
barometric pressure, relative humidity,
precipitation
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SOUTH SLOUGH ESTUARY
Automated 24 hr
50 cm
Van Dorn Grab
50 cm
Datasonde
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Information System
CORIE
Pilot
http//www.ccalmr.ogi.edu/CORIE
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Selected issues, from CORIE experience
Forecasts
NFS File
Forcings
Systems
External sites
Desktops
USGS, USACE.
WWW
NOAA
Atmospheric
forcings -
ccalmr0
Observations
Desktops
Telemetry
Verified DB
amb105
Desktops
Hindcasts
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CORIE modeling system
Zhang et al. (CSR2004) Baptista et al. (CSR in
press) Zhang and Baptista (in prep)

• Models
• ELCIRC
• SELFE
• Time step
• 90s
• Core simulation units
• 2d (forecasts)
• 7d (otherwise)

• Daily forecasts
• Reference forecast (ELCIRC)
• Development forecast (SELFE)

• Long-term databases
• DB11 ELCIRC, 1999-2004
• DB12 SELFE (in preparation)

Computational domains
ELCIRC
SELFE

• Miscellaneous runs
• Management scenarios
• Model QC enhancement

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CORIE modeling system
Circulation database
(Climatology, NRL, )
Contemporary
q
Short
waves
Ocean circulation
Forcings
(Goal 90-91, 96)
Pre-development
q
Typical ?t 1.5 min
Scenarios
q
Calibration
q
(NCEP and OSU)
(NWS)
Atmospheric forcings (wind, pressure,
heat exchange)
River discharges

Eastern North
Pacific tides
Daily forecasts


Data assimilation
Codes
Bathymetry
In-situ data (CORIE, )

Remote sensing
Quality Controls
...
Data products

• Sediments
• Lower food web

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CORIE modeling system

• Integrates key regions of interest
• Freshwater to deep ocean
• Emphasis on estuary and plume

• Grid characteristics
• unstructured in horizontal
• 34,190 nodes, 50,622 elements
• Z-coordinates in vertical
• 62 vertical layers
• 2.2 million total prism faces

• Computational infrastructure
• 20 Intel dual CPU
• nodes (2.4 GHz, 4 Gb)
• 24TB primary
• storage
• Code parallelization
• in progress (at NRL)

• Noteworthy
• 2.5x faster than real time in a single-CPU
  Intel processor, for ?t1.5 min
• 0.8 Tb of storage required for a one-year
  simulation (15 min sampling)

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Status - Oregon
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Pending In development Research
grade Operational (24/7)
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1. Columbia River
2. Necanicum River
3. Nehalem River
4. Tillamook Bay
5. Netarts Bay
6. Sand Lake
7. Nestucca Bay
8. Salmon River
9. Siletz Bay
10. Depoe Bay
11. Yaquina Bay
12. Alsea Bay
13. Siuslaw River
14. Umpqua River
15. Coos Bay
16. Coquille River
17. Sixes River
18. Elk River
19. Rogue River

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Coos Bay
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• Senate Bill 379, passed 1995
• The tsunami hazard maps were produced to help
  implement Senate Bill 379 (SB 379), which was
  passed by the 1995 regular session of the Oregon
  Legislature.SB 379, implemented as Oregon
  Revised Statutes (ORS) 455.446 and 455.447,
  limits construction of new essential facilities
  and special occupancy structures in tsunami
  flooding zones. The focus of the maps is
  therefore on implementation of this public safety
  bill and not on land use or emergency planning.

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NANOOS short wave modeling at the mouth of the
Columbia
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Currents
30 m
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Waves
Gage B2
Bathymetry
Gage E
Photo courtesy http//www.ecy.wa.gov
10 km
Gage B2
Wave data courtesy USACE
DATA
SWAN
REF/DIF S
Gage E
Attributes SWAN REF/DIF S
Wave-current interactions Yes Yes
Local wind waves Yes No
Diffraction effects No Yes
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NANOOS short wave modeling at the mouth of the
Columbia
no currents ebb tide
MCR
Including currents will be important !
Wave Model (SWAN) Tests
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NOAA Coastal Storms initiative
Erick Rogers Bill Schneider
One-way coupled with CORIE circulation
forecasts