Alaska Ocean Observing System

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• Alaska Ocean Observing System
• 2009 Regional Coordination Workshop
• Seattle, WA
• August 25, 2009

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Part 1 Project Status ReportAlaska Regional
Coastal and Ocean Observing System and Regional
AssociationProject InvestigatorsMs. Molly
McCammonDr. Mark JohnsonDr. Carl
SchochProject DurationFY 07 1 year, Aug
07-08, 750kFY 08-10 3 years, just began year
2 1 m each year

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Project Status Report RCOOS Schedule Milestones

• Data and Information System
• Long-term office space, high-speed internet
  connectivity and access to significant data
  storage at UAFs supercomputing center
• DMAC users identified including oil gas,
  insurance companies, agencies, researchers
• DMAC structure designed implemented real
  time data acquired displayed
• Custom pages developed , satellite data services
• Provide data management services for other
  programs (e.g., NPRB, NSSI, ARCOD)
• Prince William Sound Observing System
• NDBC buoy upgrades
• Weather station mooring deployments
• WRF, SWAN ROMS model domain development for
  PWS
• Data assimilation for PWS ROMS model
• NPZ model domain development for PWS
• PWS OSE field experiment complete data
  analysis now underway
• Education and Outreach Program
• Stakeholder focus groups workshops
• Implement successful COSEE Alaska
• Develop and test prototype Harbornet
• Station designed built at Seward Harbor
• Real-time field testing underway

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Project Status Report RA Schedule Milestones

• Stakeholders, partnerships, user needs
• Refine user needs assessments
• Formalize stakeholder councils
• Develop partnerships
• Governance and administration
• Adopted new MOA, now updating w/procedures
• Finalize committee structure
• Business and operations plans
• Develop plans for AOOS implementation waiting
  more guidance
• Individual plan components in place data mgmt,
  EO, RA mgmt, obs, models
• Plan for implement RCOOS Alaska Statewide and
  3 regions
• Workshops
• Collaboration w/other funding entities
• Data management and communications subsystem
• DMAC Committee, national DMAC activities
• Data support for PWS Field Experiment
• Pursue additional support federal industry
  data groups
• Education, outreach and public awareness
• Website print materials

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Project Status Report RCOOS Accomplishments

• Overall
• Statewide recognition of AOOS
• Support of federal and state agencies
• Significant player in other ocean observing
  planning initiatives
• Data Management System
• System developed compliant with national
  standards protocols
• AOOS data plan viewed as model regional plan
• Serves as regional data portal provides
  statewide data and information products
• Provides data management services to NPRB
  other programs AMIS
• Provided data support for PWS FE
• PWS Observing System
• Observing system components deployed
• WRF, SWAN, ROMS NPZ models completed and
  running
• Models data assimilation tested during Sound
  Predictions 2009 major field experiment July
  2009
• AOOS DMAC tested for ingesting serving up data
• USCG, NOAA Hazmat, Alyeska used AOOS data
  during FE to test their models
• Products web-based drifter trajectory tool from
  JPL Google-Earth products

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Project Status Report RA Accomplishments

• Stakeholders, partnerships, user needs
• Recognized as significant player in all
  stakeholder/partnership activities
• AK Climate Change Strategy Initiative Federal
  Climate Change Roundtable, NOAA regional
  collaboration team, etc.
• Governance and administration
• Adopted new MOA
• State, federal research partnerships actively
  engaged now adding private sector
• Business and operations plans
• MTS Journal article submitted describing a model
  for incorporating scientific, stakeholder,
  social economic concerns into setting
  priorities for 3 year plan
• Plan for implement RCOOS Alaska Statewide and
  3 regions
• Arctic Collaboration Workshop w/industry
  agencies
• PWS Field Experiment
• Data management and communications subsystem
• Data support for PWS Field Experiment
• AMIS support from NPRB
• Education, outreach and public awareness
• Website print materials
• Materials for PWS FE
• Implement successful COSEE Alaska
• Collaborations

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Keys to Success

• Development of AOOS Data and Information
  Management System
• Developed data management plan w/assistance of
  national IOOS DMAC team AOOS DMAC Committee
  recognized at natl level as model regional
  initiative fully compliant w/natl IOOS standards
  recognized at state level as THE marine data
  system for AK
• Support from federal agencies regional science
  entities all on AOOS board
• Active participation in and support from NOAA
  Regional Collaboration Team
• AK is one region for most federal agencies one
  university system
• PWS Field Experiment
• Partnerships are essential no 1 entity can
  do this alone
• Scale is tractable
• Statewide Collaborations
• NOAA Regional Collaboration Team
• Potential for IOOS RA, Sea Grant, RISA, CZM,
  Cooperative Institutes
• Climate change issue bringing initiatives
  together

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Challenges

• Potential and/or real challenges
• Geographic scale of AK lack of existing
  infrastructure 4 LMEs
• Priorities can be determined, but implementation
  depends on
• Who are our users? How do we get market
  feedback from them?
• Uncertainty of funding instability in
  attracting keeping skilled workers
• Agencies and other users facing own budget
  problems difficult to get funding support for
  AOOS
• Power telecommunication issues exacerbated by
  remoteness harsh weather e.g., HF radar
• Much historical data needs rescue mining
• Additional funding opportunities are available,
  but dont have staff or resources to pursue
• Resolving challenges
• Need longer term funding protocol, including
  leverage access to other funds
• Partnerships are essential, but difficult to
  maintain over long term
• Create AMIS so that it works so well people want
  to give us their data
• Provide federal support for data rescue and
  mining
• Technological (remote power and
  telecommunications) funding for RD

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Current Status Products
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Current Status Product Examples

• Provide 1 stop shop for regional coastal ocean
  data
• Provide nowcasts and forecasts of ocean
  conditions for third party applications including
  fishery management, oil spill response search
  and rescue

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Current Status Observations
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Current Status Modeling and DMAC subsystems
See guidelines for definitions Regionwide
entire RA
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Map 1a Existing Observing Assets

• Directions - Use a Google earth background of
  your region, please provide a map of your
  existing system using the legend provided by the
  sample map of SCCOOS - Consistent backgrounds
  and legends will enable the development of the
  final report. If possible, add your RA logo to
  the lower right side. Below is a sample map from
  SCCOOS.

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Nested ROMS Model for PWS Field Experiment
1-km 3-km 9-km
(PI Yi Chao)
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OurOcean/PWS Portal to analyze real-time data and
model http//ourocean.jpl.nasa.gov/PWS
(PI Yi Chao)
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Tracking the Observed Drifter Trajectories
There are five types of drifters at four
different depths Surface, 1-m, 10-m, 40-m
(PI Yi Chao)
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Interactive Web-based Drifter Trajectory
Toolusing the hourly ROMS current forecast
Option I Track individual drifters
Option II Track a cluster of drifters
(Jointly funded by CeNCOOS AOOS)
(PI Yi Chao)
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Interactive Web-based Drifter Trajectory
Toolusing the ensemble ROMS forecast
A drifter is released and tracked with an
ensemble of 12 ROMS forecasts. The trajectory
forecast error can be estimated for this
particular drifter release, the error is 8-km for
a 48-hour forecast.
(Jointly funded by CeNCOOS AOOS)
(PI Yi Chao)
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• Part 2 Looking Forward
• Future Plans

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Future Plans Major Products
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Future Plans Observations

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Future Plan Modeling and DMAC
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Future Plans Map
Instruction Using Google earth as a background
and the same legend as before - provide a
general idea of the location of your proposed
observing assets.
See Sample map from SCCOOS
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Funding Scenario