Caribbean Regional Association for Coastal Ocean Observing CaRACarICOOS

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• Caribbean Regional Association for Coastal Ocean
  Observing (CaRA/CarICOOS)
• 2009 Regional Coordination Workshop
• Seattle, WA
• August 25, 2009

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Part 1 Project Status ReportSupport to the
Caribbean Regional Association for Integrated
Coastal Ocean Observing (05/01/2008
04/30/2011) Implementation of the Caribbean
Regional Integrated Coastal Ocean Observing
System(08/01/2008-07/31/2011)Project
InvestigatorsJulio M. Morell, Jorge E. Corredor,
Aurelio Mercado, Jorge E. Capella, Luis Aponte,
Miguel Canals UPRM Roy A. Watlington, Naseer
Idrissi UVI

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Project Status Report Project Schedule and
Milestones

• Enhancing proactive participation and diversity
  within the Governance Structure and strengthening
  the Regional Association.
• Continued revision and refinement of CaRAs draft
  business plan.
• Continued and expanded exchange with stakeholders
  to provide for further development of CaRAs
  needs assessment.
• Continued refinement and prioritization of CaRAs
  observing system design and ensure
  interoperability of data and information
  products.
• Enhancement of stakeholder recognition and trust
  through rapid development of appropriate,
  effective avenues of access to useful integrated
  data products that meet expressed CaRA
  stakeholder needs.
• Emplace and maintain core coastal observing
  assets for near real time observations of coastal
  circulation, waves, winds and water quality in
  Atlantic and Caribbean coastal zonal bands.
• Implement an operational modeling program that
  will generate coastal wind, wave and circulation
  forecasts providing an integrative regional
  context to observational data and generate
  improved storm surge driven coastal inundation
  maps and surface tidal elevation products.
• Develop regionally focused coastal water quality
  products derived from remotely sensed data and
  validated using in situ observations.
• Maximize usefulness and availability of the above
  data streams by implementing DMAC standards and
  procedures assuring data availability to the IOOS
  community.
• Assure usefulness to all stakeholder sectors by
  implementing a tailored product design and
  delivery strategies.

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Keys to Success

• Sustained stakeholder engagement through web
  page presence, press interviews releases,
  workshops and meetings (sector focused in
  particular), one-on-one visits, new observing
  assets/data products
• Intern Program (sustained development of
  regional expertise)
• Visiting expert program (technology transfer)
• Strategic Alliances and Leveraging
• Buoy program University of Maine
• Modeling
• ADCIRC Circulation PennState
• ADCIRC/inundation PR DNRE Renaissance
  Institute UNC
• ROMS/HYCOM RSMAS
• SWAN (UniNorte)
• UPRM Alliance for Coastal Modeling
• Surface currents
• CODAR program DHS-funded National Center for
  Secure and Resilient Maritime Commerce and
  Coastal Environments (CSR)
• Water Quality
• Partnerships with remote sensing specialists
  NOAA CoastWatch, European Space Agency, USF
• NOAA Atlantic Test Bed for CO2 monitoring
• Coastal Weather
• ICON/CREWS
• PR Seismic Network

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Potential Challenges

• Challenges
• Institutional (UPRM, UVI) cumbersome
  purchasing, contractual accounting procedures
• Maintaining stakeholder interest with few unique
  data streams
• Lack of understanding by public of graphical
  products (ie NWS GF)
• Resolving challenges
• Under consultation with CaRA Board
• Increased observing system products
• Outreach Education, sustained product
  improvement

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Current Status Products
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Current Status Product Examples

• one-stop-shopping for government, commercial
  recreational stakeholders on ocean and weather
  conditions
• Existing data streams (NOAA, USGS, Navy)
• Real-time Buoy data
• Real-time Meteo
• Model data
• Imagery
• storm-driven coastal inundation products for
  local government for emergency management
  planning (PR State Emergency Management Agency)
• Coastal weather data products to NWS-San Juan
  for improved forecasting capability
• Outreach to stakeholder groups to assure
  appropriate product use

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Current Status Observations
Code CW NOAA CoastWatch, ESA European Space
Agency, USF U. of South Florida, CSR DHS
CODAR Project, CRP NOAA Coral Reef Program
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Map 1a Existing Observing Assets
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Map 1b Leveraged Assets
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Current Status In Water Assets

• CarICOOS Data Buoy A

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Current Status In Water Assets

• NOAA MAPCO2 Buoy
• NOAA PMEL, NOAA CRP
• CariCOOS

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Current Status On Land Assets
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Current Status On Land Assets

• CSR CODAR HF Radar
• Equipment on loan from
• Rutgers COOL
• TAMU

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Current Status Modeling and DMAC subsystems
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Coastal Currents ADCIRC (J. Capella-CaRA, Dave
Hill,- Penn State)
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CURRENT STATUS - MODELING ASSETS (NOWCASTS AND
FORECAST)

• PR DNER contracted CaRA UPRM Alliance for
  Coastal Modeling to perform Coastal Zone
  inundation modeling using ADCIRC, SWAN and
  COULWAVE.
• Coastal Winds
• WRF J. Gonzales-CaRA/UPRM, S. Strippling NHC
• Coastal Waves
• SWAN ( C. Anselmi, CaRA-UPRM, J. C. Ortiz
  UniNorte)

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MODELING ASSETS (cont.)

• storm surge-inundation ADCIRC
• (J. Gonzalez, CaRA-UPRM, A. Mercado-UPRM, B.
  Blanton-Renaissance Institute ), collaboration
  DRNA
• offshore currents (HYCOM/ROMS)
• L. Cherubin-RSMAS, N. Idrissi-UVI), IAS/NCOM
  (D. Ko-NRL)

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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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CariCOOS Future Plans
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Funding Scenario