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Integrated Ocean Observing System (IOOS)

NOAA’s Approach to Building an Initial Operating Capability

Zdenka S. WillisDirector, IOOS Program

January 30, 2007

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NOAA’s IOOS Way Forward

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)

Organize for Success

• Establish a NOAA IOOS Program Office

– Function: Lead and manage NOAA’s IOOS efforts

– Responsibility: Execute NOAA’s IOOS efforts; establish requirements; conduct system acquisition; support external collaboration

Integrate Data

• Lead Data Integration Framework – Initial Operating Capability

– Integrate priority IOOS core variables and deliver to end users and models

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NOAA IOOS Program

NCEP CSDLNDBC NGDC NODCCSC OCO

NOAA Administrator

NOS Assistant Administrator

NOAA IOOS Office Director

Program Planning &

Analysis

Major IOOS Project

ManagementIntegrated Systems

Engineering

Program Execution

Communication & Outreach

IOOS Interagency & International

Liaison (Dr. Spinrad)

Organize for Success

Leveraging existing NOAA-wide capabilities

OST

Ocean.US

NOAA Ocean Council

NOAA Observing System Council

Interagency Working Group on Ocean Observations (IWGOO)

Joint Subcommittee on Ocean Science and Technology (JSOST)

Interagency Committee on Ocean Science and Resource

Management Integration (ICOSRMI)

Interagency Connections

Guidance & Requirements

Capacity & Capabilities

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Integrate Data

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

TemperatureSalinitySea Level Surface currents Ocean color BathymetrySurface wavesIce distributionContaminantsDissolved nutrientsFish speciesFish abundanceZooplankton speciesOptical propertiesHeat fluxBottom characterPathogensDissolved O2

Phytoplankton speciesZooplankton abundance

IntegrationLong-term data

series, coordinated in space and time

Integrated Ecosystem

Assessment

Harmful Algal Bloom

Model

Hurricane Intensity

Model

Coastal Inundation

Model

Decision Tools

Problem Need

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ARGO Profiling

Satellites

Drifting Buoys

NOAA Ships

VOS (xbt)

Weather Buoys

DART

C-MAN

NWLON

CREIOS

SWIM

SWMP

Tropical Moored Buoys

NOAA Ship Archive

ARGO Delayed data

NMFS

OAR

Single Sat. Pass Data

Multiple Sat. Pass Data

NCDC

NODC

CLASS

GDAC

NDBC

NCDDC

NERRS CDMO

AOML

PACIFIC I. FSC

CO-OPS

OSDPP

COAST WATCH

NOAA Ship Synoptic

Core Variable Integration Problem: Temperature (Example)

PLATFORM Data Distribution Archive

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Decision Tools: Integrated Core Variables for Models

CORE VARIABLES

NOAA MODELS

Current StateMODELING IMPROVEMENTS

(future state)

• TemperatureHurricane Intensity

Model

• Non real-time and interpolated temperature data used to inform model

• Integration of real-time, temperature = increased accuracy of hurricane intensity predictions

• Sea Level

Coastal Inundation

Model

• Sea level data (various sources and formats) integrated on site-by-site basis for use in model

• Expedited development of coastal inundation forecasts for Southeast and Gulf

• Surface currents

• Ocean Color• Salinity

Harmful Algal Bloom Model

• Wind data and marine forecasts used as proxy to determine currents

• Improved bloom trajectory forecast

• Enable development of national HAB forecast with integrated currents

• Temperature• Salinity• Ocean Color• Surface

currents• Sea level


Assessment

• NOAA compiles and integrates suite of data required for each assessment

• Assess current conditions• Forecast ecological health

based on existing management strategies

• Evaluate impacts of alternate management strategies

Evaluate NOAA models that impact highest-

priority problems

Integrate variables needed to achieve benchmarked

improvements

Select next set of priority core variables based on impacts to

NOAA products

Quantify progress toward defined modeling improvements

Identify remaining IOOS core variables needed

to reduce errorNone?

Identify additional source(s) of error within model

Process Flow

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Assessment

Month 36Integration of 5 Core Variables Integrated variable

ingest for following products

Benchmarked product improvements for operational use

• Product Enhancement

• Test & Evaluation

• Verification & Validation

• Integrated information services for NOAA programs

• Identify observation gaps

• Validated enhanced data products

• NOAA’s Data Integration Framework

Enhanced decision support through:

NOAA MISSION OBJECTIVES

NOAA 5 Core Variables

External sources of 5 Core Variables (consistent with NOAA standards)

Test & EvaluationMonths 0-12 Month 18 Month 24


Hurricane Intensity Model

Coastal Inundation Model

Solution: Data Integration Framework – Initial Operating Capability

PRIORITY 1

NOAAIOOS Integrated Data Framework

ARGO Profiling

Satellites

Drifting Buoys

NOAA Ships

VOS (xbt)

Weather Buoys

DART

C-MAN

NWLON

CREIOS

SWIM

SWMP


NOAA Ship Archive

ARGO Delayed data

NMFS

OAR



NCDC

NODC

CLASS

GDAC

NDBC

NCDDC

NEERS CDMO

AOML

PACIFIC I. FSC

CO-OPS

OSDPP

COAST WATCH

NOAA Ship Synoptic


ARGO Profiling

Satellites

Drifting Buoys

NOAA Ships

VOS (xbt)

Weather Buoys

DART

C-MAN

NWLON

CREIOS

SWIM

SWMP


NOAA Ship Archive

ARGO Delayed data

NMFS

OAR



NCDC

NODC

CLASS

GDAC

NDBC

NCDDC

NEERS CDMO

AOML

PACIFIC I. FSC

CO-OPS

OSDPP

COAST WATCH

NOAA Ship Synoptic


Systems EngineerStandards

Temperature Salinity Sea Level Currents Color

Temperature Salinity Sea Level Currents Color



Assessment

Hurricane Intensity Model

Coastal Inundation Model

Systems Engineering:

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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

• 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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