Transcript Integrated Ocean Observing System (IOOS) Capability Zdenka S. Willis

Integrated Ocean Observing System (IOOS)
NOAA’s Approach to Building an Initial Operating
Capability
Zdenka S. Willis
Director, IOOS Program
January 30, 2007
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NOAA’s IOOS Opportunity
IOOS Definition:
Coordinated national and international network of observations and data transmission, data management
and communication (DMAC), and data analyses and modeling that systematically and efficiently acquires
and disseminates data and information on past, present and future states of the oceans and the U.S.
coastal waters to the head of the tide. (IOOS Development Plan)
NOAA’s IOOS Way Forward
Organize for Success
Integrate Data
• Establish a NOAA IOOS Program Office
• Lead Data Integration Framework –
Initial Operating Capability
– Function: Lead and manage NOAA’s
IOOS efforts
– Responsibility: Execute NOAA’s
IOOS efforts; establish requirements;
conduct system acquisition; support
external collaboration
– Integrate priority IOOS core
variables and deliver to end
users and models
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Organize for Success
Interagency Connections
NOAA IOOS Program
NOAA Administrator
NOAA Ocean
Council
NOAA Observing
System Council
IOOS Interagency &
International
Liaison (Dr.
Spinrad)
NOS Assistant
Administrator
Program Planning
& Analysis
Program
Execution
Guidance &
Requirements
Capacity &
Capabilities
Joint Subcommittee on Ocean
Science and Technology (JSOST)
Interagency Working Group on
Ocean Observations (IWGOO)
NOAA IOOS Office
Director
Major IOOS Project
Management
Interagency Committee on Ocean
Science and Resource Management
Integration (ICOSRMI)
Ocean.US
Communication
& Outreach
Integrated Systems
Engineering
NDBC
NCEP
CSDL
CSC
OST
NGDC NODC
OCO
Leveraging existing NOAA-wide capabilities
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Integrate Data
Problem
Need
Global climate system
not well understood
• Characterize the
state of the global
climate system and its
variability
Coastal populations at
risk, including coastal
hazards and coastal
development and
urbanization
• Improved models
(e.g., coastal
inundation, hurricane
intensity, and harmful
algal bloom model)
Ocean, coastal, and
Great Lakes ecosystems
at risk, including the
hydrological and
biogeochemical cycles,
and ecosystem health and
productivity
• Improved ecosystem
assessments and
models
• Updated
management
approaches
• Improved access to
data, and scientific
information
Core Variables
Temperature
Salinity
Sea Level
Surface currents
Ocean color
Bathymetry
Surface waves
Ice distribution
Integration
Contaminants
Long-term data
Dissolved nutrients
series,
coordinated
Fish species
in space and time
Fish abundance
Zooplankton species
Optical properties
Heat flux
Bottom character
Pathogens
Dissolved O2
Phytoplankton species
Zooplankton abundance
Decision
Tools
Hurricane
Intensity
Model
Coastal
Inundation
Model
Harmful
Algal Bloom
Model
Integrated
Ecosystem
Assessment
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Core Variable Integration Problem:
Temperature (Example)
PLATFORM
Data Distribution
NOAA Ship Synoptic
NCDC
NOAA Ships
Archive
NOAA Ship Archive
ARGO Delayed data
ARGO Profiling
GDAC
Tropical Moored Buoys
Weather Buoys
NDBC
Drifting Buoys
NODC
DART
C-MAN
SWIM
NCDDC
SWMP
NERRS CDMO
VOS (xbt)
OAR
AOML
CREIOS
NMFS
NWLON
CO-OPS
Single Sat. Pass Data
Satellites
PACIFIC I. FSC
Multiple Sat. Pass Data
OSDPP
COAST WATCH
CLASS
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Decision Tools: Integrated Core
Variables for Models
CORE
VARIABLES
NOAA
MODELS
Current State
MODELING IMPROVEMENTS
(future state)
• Temperature
Hurricane
Intensity
Model
• Non real-time and
interpolated
temperature data
used to inform model
• Integration of real-time,
temperature = increased
accuracy of hurricane intensity
predictions
Process Flow
Evaluate NOAA models
that impact highestpriority problems
Integrate variables needed to
achieve benchmarked
improvements
• Sea Level
Coastal
Inundation
Model
• Sea level data
(various sources and • Expedited development of
formats) integrated on
coastal inundation forecasts for
site-by-site basis for
Southeast and Gulf
use in model
Quantify progress toward defined
modeling improvements
• Surface
currents
• Ocean Color
• Salinity
Identify additional source(s) of
error within model
Identify remaining IOOS
core variables needed
to reduce error
Select next set of priority core
variables based on impacts to
NOAA products
None?
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Temperature
Salinity
Ocean Color
Surface
currents
• Sea level
Harmful Algal
Bloom Model
• Improved bloom trajectory
• Wind data and marine
forecast
forecasts used as
• Enable development of
proxy to determine
national HAB forecast with
currents
integrated currents
Integrated
Ecosystem
Assessment
• Assess current conditions
• NOAA compiles and
• Forecast ecological health
integrates suite of
based on existing management
data required for each
strategies
assessment
• Evaluate impacts of alternate
management strategies
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Solution: Data Integration Framework –
Initial Operating Capability
Months 0-12
Month 18
Integration of 5 Core Variables
Integrated variable
ingest for following
products
Month 24
Month 36
Test & Evaluation
Benchmarked product
improvements for
operational use
NOAA 5 Core Variables
Temperature
Salinity
Sea Level
Currents
Color
Hurricane
Intensity Model
Hurricane
Intensity Model
Enhanced decision
support through:
PLATFORM
Data Distribution
NOAA Ship Synoptic
Systems Engineer
Standards
PRIORITY 1
NCDC
Archive
NOAA Ship Archive
NOAA Ships
ARGO Delayed data
GDAC
ARGO Profiling
Tropical Moored Buoys
Coastal
Inundation Model
Weather Buoys
NDBC
Drifting Buoys
NODC
DART
C-MAN
NCDDC
SWIM
SWMP
NEERS CDMO
VOS (xbt)
OAR
CREIOS
AOML
NMFS
NOAA
IOOS Integrated Data Framework
NWLON
Temperature
Salinity
Sea Level
Multiple Sat. Pass Data
• Product
Enhancement
Coastal
Inundation Model
• Integrated
information services
for NOAA programs
• Identify observation
gaps
PACIFIC I. FSC
CO-OPS
Single Sat. Pass Data
Satellites
Systems
Engineering:
OSDPP
CLASS
• Test & Evaluation
COAST WATCH
Currents
Harmful Algal
Bloom Model
Color
Integrated
Ecosystem
Assessment
• Verification &
Validation
Harmful Algal
Bloom Model
• Validated enhanced
data products
• NOAA’s Data
Integration
Framework
Integrated
Ecosystem
Assessment
NOAA
MISSION OBJECTIVES
External sources of 5 Core Variables
(consistent with NOAA standards)
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Current Activities
• Establish Program Office Director position
• Establish IOOS in PPBES structure – Mission
Support goal, IOOS sub-goal
• Establish Level 1 IOOS requirements
• KDP-1 approval by NOC & NOSC
• Define & distribute standards for 5 core variables
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U.S. Strides Forward with Commitment to Ocean
Observing Programs
• Three ocean observing offices working together in one
location
– Ocean.US – The National Office for Integrated and Sustained
Ocean Observations (Mary Altalo)
– NOAA Office of Climate Observation (Mike Johnson)
– NOAA IOOS Office (Zdenka Willis)
• Partnerships, Collaborations, Synergies
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IOOS Staff
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Zdenka Willis, Director
Suzanne Skelley, Chief of Staff
Barbara Bennett (secretary)
Carl Gouldman
Jack Harlan (IPA)
Robin Jamail (IPA)
Kurt Schnebele, NODC, Interim Manager, Data Integration
Framework
Rebecca Shuford
Timi Vann
Marcia Weaks
Nicole Gerringer, contractor
Rob Ragsdale, contractor
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What’s Different
• Dedicated effort with full time staff
• Establish IOOS as a program in NOAA program structure
• Major Project re-scoped
– 5 core variables: temperature, salinity, sea level, surface currents
and ocean color
– 4 models: hurricane intensity, coastal inundation, harmful algal
blooms and integrated ecosystem assessments
– 12 months: NOAA IOOS Integrated Data Framework completed by
end of Jan 2008
• Execution
• Overall coordination with Federal and non-Federal partners
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