A Demonstration of the

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A Demonstration of the Alaska Ocean Observing
System in Prince William Sound
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Gulf of Alaska Demonstration Prince William
Sound
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Conceptual model of ocean observing system
Meteorology
Sea Surface Conditions
Oceanography
Water Quality
Currents
Precipitation
PWS Weather
Data Assimilation
Field Validation Experiments
PWS ROMS
Data
Real time data
Data Assimilation
Model
Ancillary
3D Model
3D Model
Retrieval
Retrieval
Data
Assimilation
Data
Assimilation
Processing
Processing
PWS Waves
Application
Research
Application
Research
Server
Server
Server (GIS)
Server (POET)
Feedback
Economic models
Education
Fishery management
Communities
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SnoTel Meteorological Stations
Wind
Precipitation
Solar
Temp
Water content
Snow depth
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Web Cameras (12)
Scale
15 km
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NOAA (NDBC) Buoy Upgrades
Scale
15 km
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CODAR Surface Currents
Scale
15 km
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Five-year Oceanographic Moorings and seasonal
Hydrographic Surveys
Scale
15 km
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River discharge Water temperature
USGS Copper River stream gage
Scale
15 km
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AMHS Tustumena Thermosalinograph
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Mooring deployment and recovery
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Mooring recovery
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Weather Forecasts RAMS
(Alaska Experimental Forecast Facility)
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Wave Forecasts SWAN (Texas AM)
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Ocean Circulation Field Experiments
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User communities

• Ocean Policy
• Oil Spill Response
• Maritime Transportation
• Commercial Charters
• Aquaculture
• Fishing
• Education

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Four major questions addressed by the user groups

• What data products are needed?
• What are the space time scales required?
• What is the data latency (e.g., real-time within
  hours, near real-time within days, historical
  statistics)?
• How to deliver the data and information to users
  including format (e.g., ascii) and mechanisms
  (e.g., web, email, fax, cell)?
• AOOS Provided guideline for web page development
• Proposals (NASA) to work with super-users

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Data dissemination and archiving
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Major questions addressed by biological user
groups

• What to monitor?
• Also where, when, and how often to sample?
• Consensus Agencies should continue monitoring
  higher trophic levels
• AOOS monitor lower trophic levels, particularly
  nutrients/plankton/forage fish
• AOOS Monitor nutrients/chlorophyll, modeling NPZ
• Guided OSRI/NPRB partnership and RFP

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Contributors, partners, collaborators
Prince William Sound Science Center Alaska Ocean
Observing System Oil Spill Recovery
Institute NASA NOAA CSC EVOS GEM NPRB NOAA
Hazmat U.S. Coast Guard Kodiak Air
Station University of Alaska Fairbanks Alaska
Experimental Forecast Facility Texas AM Jet
Propulsion Laboratory Natural Resources
Conservation Service U.S. Forest Service National
Weather Service PWS Aquaculture
Corporation Village of Tatitlek PWS
RCAC ADFG R/V Pandalus Vessel Auklet Vessel
Montague Cordova Air Service