COASTAL OCEAN OBSERVING SYSTEMS

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COASTAL OCEAN OBSERVING SYSTEMS
by Cyndy Leard
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WHAT ARE COASTAL OCEAN OBSERVING SYSTEMS?

• Networks of people and technologies
• Collecting meteorological and physical
  oceanographic data
• On an hourly basis
• Sustained over time

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WHAT METEOROLOGICAL DATA IS COLLECTED?

• Air temperature
• Barometric Pressure
• Wind speed
• Wind direction

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WHAT PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHIC DATA IS COLLECTED?

• Current
• Water levels
• Wave height
• Visibility
• Water temperature

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HOW IS THIS DATA COLLECTED?

• Instrument packages
• mounted on
• buoys
• platforms
• moorings

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WHY IS THIS DATA COLLECTED?

• Improve predictions of climate change
• Mitigate effects of natural hazards
• Improve the efficiency and safety of marine
  operations

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• Protect and restore healthy coastal marine
  ecosystems
• Sustain living resources

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• Improve national security
• Reduce public health risks

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WHO USES THIS DATA?

• Commercial mariners
• Scientists
• Educators
• Coastal resource managers

• Search and rescue teams
• Emergency response teams
• Public health officials

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• GoMOOS
• IOOS
• SCCOOS

• SEACOOS
• GOOS
• Ocean.US

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WHAT DOES IT ALL MEAN?
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ORGANIZATIONS INVOLVED IN DEVELOPING AND
MAINTAINING COOS

• Gulf of Maine Coastal Ocean Observing System
• Integrated and Sustained Ocean Observing System
• Southern California Coastal Ocean Observing System

• Southeast Atlantic Coastal Ocean Observing System
• Global Ocean Observing System
• Ocean.US

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WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE?
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IOOS

• Integrated and Sustained Ocean Observing Systems

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WHY?

• Coordinated effort
• Efficient use of resources
• Communicate effectively

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HOW?IOOS SUBSYSTEMS

• The measurement (monitoring system)
• The data management and communication system
• The data analysis-modeling system