NOAA Integrated Ocean Observing System

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NOAA Integrated Ocean Observing System

• Zdenka S. WillisDirector, NOAA Integrated Ocean
  Observing Program
• 22 October 2007

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Federal Collaboration to Implement IOOS

• U.S. Ocean Action Plan
• Establishes mechanisms for federal coordination
  and governance (COP, ICOSRMI, JSOST, SIMOR, etc.)
• Identifies goal to build a global earth
  observation network, including integrated oceans
  observation
• Ocean.US
• Federal agency coordination through JSOST-IWGOO
  (EPA, USGS, MMS, USACOE, ONR, JCS, NOAA, NSF,
  USCG,MMC, USDA, USARC, FDA, NASA, DOS, DOE, DOT)
• Development Plan
• Development Plan Addendum

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NOAAs Plan for IOOS
Organize for Success
Integrate Data

• Establish NOAA IOOS Program
• Lead and manage NOAAs IOOS efforts
• Support external collaboration
• Identify and encourage similar data integration,
  test and evaluation approach by partners

• Develop an Initial Operating Capability Data
  Integration Framework (DIF).
• Integrate priority IOOS core variables and
  deliver to end users and models
• Quantify product improvements

• The U.S. Integrated Ocean Observing System (IOOS)
  is intended to be a major shift in approach to
  ocean observing, drawing together the vast
  network of disparate, federal and non-federal
  observing systems to produce a cohesive suite of
  data, information, and products at a sufficient
  geographic and temporal scale to support
  decision-making. As the system matures, IOOS has
  begun to advance beyond its current science and
  management applications toward an instrument of
  policy and governance.

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Program Integration NOAA IOOS Organizational
Relationships
Interagency Connections
NOAA IOOS Activities
Interagency Committee on Ocean Science and
Resource Management Integration (ICOSRMI)
NOAA Administrator
NOAA Ocean Council
IOOS Oversight
NOAA Observing System Council
NOS Assistant Administrator
OAR Assistant Administrator
Joint Subcommittee on Ocean Science and
Technology (JSOST)
Interagency Working Group on Ocean Observations
(IWGOO)
NOAA IOOS Program Director
Ocean.US
IOOS Program
IOOS Project Management
Program Operations
Regional Coastal Component
Guidance Requirements
Capacity Capabilities
Data ManagementCommunications
Observations
Modeling Analysis
Education
Research
Leveraging existing NOAA-wide capabilities
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IOOS Program Activities
PPBES
Strategic Plan

• The NOAA IOOS strategic plan will serve as the
  guiding document to inform business operations
  and technical planning
• IOOS Program Office held strategic planning
  workshop, which included participants from all
  NOAA Line Offices, as well as NDBC, CSC, NOAA
  Budget, and PPI
• Plan reviewed by Councils, Regional collaboration
  teams, NFRA, Ocean.US IWGOO HSRP, CORE
  published 1 Nov
• Consistent with IWGOO Strategic Plan

Alternatives Quads
Legislation
Communication/Engagement

• Communication Distribute Z-grams
• Regional Visited regions
• Industry Briefed Industry Forum
• IWGOO Provides ExSec IWGOO Strategy
• Interagency USACE/NOAA IOOS wave plan effort

• IOOS legislation is proposed in the 110th
  Congress
• The House introduced two IOOS bills
• Senate bill S.950 authorizing IOOS was recently
  reported out of Committee
• FY08 Senate Appropriations Language

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Integrate Data Requirements Drivers
NOAA Decision Tools
IOOS Core Variables
Information Needs
Societal Challenges
The global climate is not well understood

• Characterize the state of the global climate
  system and its variability

Hurricane Intensity Model
Improved models (e.g., hurricane intensity,
coastal inundation, and harmful algal bloom model)
Coastal populations are at risk from weather,
climate natural hazards
Coastal Inundation Model
Our ocean, coastal and Great Lakes ecosystems are
complex many are at risk
Harmful Algal Bloom Model
Improved ecosystem assessmentsUpdated
management approaches Improved access to data,
and scientific information
Integrated Ecosystem Assessment
Expanding the Marine Transportation System
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Core Variable Integration Problem Temperature
(Example)
PLATFORM
Data Distribution
Archive
NOAA Ship Synoptic
NCDC
NOAA Ship Archive
NOAA Ships
ARGO Delayed data
ARGO Profiling
GDAC
Tropical Moored Buoys
Weather Buoys
NODC
NDBC
Drifting Buoys
DART
C-MAN
SWIM
NCDDC
SWMP
NERRS CDMO
VOS (xbt)
OAR
AOML
CREIOS
NMFS
CLASS
PACIFIC I. FSC
CO-OPS
NWLON
Single Sat. Pass Data
OSDPP
Multiple Sat. Pass Data
Satellites
COAST WATCH
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Data Integration Framework (DIF)
Month 36
Months 0-12
Month 18
Month 24
Test Evaluation
Benchmarked Product Improvements for Operational
Use
Integration of 5 IOOS Core Variables
Integrated Variable Ingest for Select Data
Products
NOAA 5 Core Variables
Hurricane Intensity Model

• Integrated information services for NOAA programs
• Identify observation gaps
• Validated enhanced data products
• NOAAs Data Integration Framework

Enhanced decision support through

• Product Enhancement
• Test Evaluation
• Verification Validation

Systems Engineering
Coastal Inundation Model
Harmful Algal Bloom Model
Integrated Ecosystem Assessment
NOAA MISSION OBJECTIVES
REGIONAL COASTAL NEEDS

• Future State
• Regional-coastal data integration for
• Regional scale data and information products
  and services

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DIF Accomplishments

• Systems Engineering Data Flow Analysis for four
  targeted NOAA Decision Tools
• Defined DIF requirements via several rounds of
  meetings with data providers and modelers
• Traced flow of required data from source/provider
  to model output to identify gaps
• Results of gap analysis used to develop DIF
  Project Plan
• Five, cross-NOAA Interoperability Tests
• (Temperature, Salinity, Sea Level, Surface
  Currents, Ocean Color)
• Identified specific challenges to integration
• NOAA centers changed data procedures in response
• Transition from Planning to Execution
• DIF Project Plan
• DIF Requirements
• Systems as is Baseline Condition
• Draft High Level IOOS Functional Requirements
• Fundamental document to understand U.S. needs for
  a national IOOS
• Ensures best return on investment
• Allows for analysis of alternatives DIF will be
  one alternative

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DIF Accomplishments IEA

• IEAs provide physical and biological data to
  inform environmental policy decisions
• Requires access to integrated, quality controlled
  data
• FY 07 IOOS accomplishments
• Served quality-controlled NOAA IOOS 5 core
  variables for California current ecosystem
• Demonstrated linkage between 5 core variables for
  preliminary IEA
• Developed integrated web-based data management
  system
• Data management support for West Coast pilot IEA
  module
• California Current data will be accessible and
  integrated from Washington to Baja California

• PaCOOS Partners
• Federal
• NOAA NMFS (SWFSC, NWFSC), NESDIS (NCDDC) NOS
  (NMSP), NWS (NDBC), OAR (PMEL)
• DOI FWS, USGS
• State
• CA Dept of Fish Game
• OR WA Dept of Fish Wildlife
• Academic
• Scripps Institute of Oceanography Humboldt State
  University University of WA Oregon State
  University MBARI Pt. Reyes Bird Observatory
• Regional Association
• NANOOS, CENCOOS, SCCOOS
• International
• Canada Dept. of Fisheries and Oceans (invited)

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Data Standards Complex Challenge
DATA
Data Standards
Sea level
Salinity
Temp
Currents
Color
FUNCTIONAL CATEGORIES
D A T A T Y P E S
X Addressing Remainder of the standards
reviewed in following efforts
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DIF Standards Implementing U.S. IOOS DMAC
Process

• Process has never been exercised due to resource
  limitations
• NOAA IOOS Program provided detail to the process
  and established the web-enabled tools to execute
  the process
• NOAA IOOS Program will oversee this national
  standards process and will improve the process
  based on lessons learned

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Contributing to the National IOOS

• NOAA-National Data Buoy Center (NDBC) Data
  Assembly Center Operations
• 3,330,440 IOOS observations 28 increase over
  FY06
• 174 IOOS platforms 32 increase over FY06
• 56 new IOOS stations established in FY07
• 126 partner interactions / notifications in FY07
• Inclusion of NOAA National Estuarine Research
  Reserves (NERRS) data
• Maintained QC and metadata for 60 oil and gas
  platforms in the Gulf of Mexico for Dept. of
  Interior Minerals Management Service partnership
• Developed and implemented new IOOS station
  status Web site for real-time QC
• Implemented National High Frequency (HF) Radar
  server for real-time distribution of surface
  current observations
• Installed ocean equipment in coordination with
  Regional Associations
• 13 Current Profilers (2 supplied by Alaska Ocean
  Observing System)
• 21 Surface Current Meters (2 for Coastal Ocean
  Research and Monitoring Program)
• 19 Conductivity-Temperature sensors

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Regional Coastal Component FY2007 Competitive
Process

• NOAA IOOS/NOAA CSC represents a new way of
  doing business
• Conducted IOOS FFO 23 Regional IOOS Development
  Grants
• 11 FA1 Regional Coastal Ocean Observing System
  (RCOOS) Development
• 8 FA2 IOOS Applications and Product Development
• 4 FA3 Regional Data Management and
  Communications (DMAC) Guidance and Process
• NOAA wide BAA
• 3 cross cut capacities
• Third year of RA grants

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Regional Coastal Component Supporting National
Applications
Proposed buildout of high frequency radar (HFR)
in CA to monitor surface currents.

• Advancing development of national, high frequency
  (HF) radar surface current mapping network
• NOAA funded development of a National HF Radar
  server and data management system
• Increases access to significant regional
  investments in HF Radar
• Federal/ regional IOOS partnership supports
• Search and Rescue U.S. Coast Guards Search
  Rescue models use data as lower-cost option to
  locate ships in distress
• Water Quality Tracking DE and NJ track movement
  of coastal pollutants to reduce number of
  unnecessary beach closures
• Oil spill response

87 HFR Sites x 700 Pts/Site 60900 Data Pts
Figure from SCCOOS website
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FY07 Interagency Contributions

• IWG-OO
• NOAA Leadership Chair and agency role
• U.S. IOOS Draft Strategic Plan
• Defined OOI-IOOS Relationship
• Revised Ocean.US roles and responsibilities
• Financial and in-kind support to Ocean.US
• Collaborating on IOOS execution
• US Army Corps of Engineers National Waves Plan
• National DMAC Standards
• NOAA US Coast Guard partnership

Interagency Working Group on Ocean observations
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IOOSThe View from Washington

• Budget
• FY08 Administration request includes 14M for
  IOOS
• 2.5 M for implementation of data mgmt. and
  communications
• 11.5 M for regional observations
• FY08 Senate CJS Mark - 47 M
• 8 M for program development, date mgmt.,
  communications, and grant administration
• 29 M for competitive regional observation
  systems
• 10 M for National data mgmt. and comm. Center
• FY08 House CJS Mark - 14 M (matches Pres.
  Request)

• Legislation
• S. 950 report out of Senate Commerce, Science
  and Transportation Committee
• H.2337 report out of the House Natural Resources
  Committee

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Summary

• IOOS is maturing, but more work needed to evolve
  IOOS into a fully operational system.
• Acquiring and making interoperable environmental
  data from existing operational and research
  observing system assets.
• Coordinating 10 Federal agencies, 180 programs,
  with 100 parameters, measured by various methods
  at differing temporal/ spatial resolutions and
  sampling rates from platforms which were
  originally designed to fulfill the specific
  missions of the sponsoring agencies.
• Ensuring consistency with the US Presidents
  Ocean Action plan (OAP) and the international
  initiative (Global Earth Observations System of
  Systems).
• Symposia such as this are vitally important for
  exchanging ideas and translating the best ideas
  into action.