super-regional modeling testbed to improve models of environmental processes
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Super-Regional Modeling Testbed to Improve Models of Environmental Processes for the U.S. Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico Coasts Elizabeth Smith Coastal Research Program Manager Southeastern Universities Research Association MACOORA Annual Meeting 2010 Steven’s Institute of Technology - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
Super-Regional Modeling Testbed to Improve Models of Environmental Processes for the U.S. Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico Coasts
Elizabeth Smith
Coastal Research Program Manager
Southeastern Universities Research Association
MACOORA Annual Meeting 2010Steven’s Institute of Technology
October 28-29, 2010
Super-Regional Modeling Testbed
SURA’s Mission: To advance nuclear physics, information technology, and
facilitate better understanding of coastal and environmental phenomena that impact our lives.
Super-Regional Modeling Testbed
Recommended by the IOOS Modeling and Analysis Steering Team (Mooers, MAST Chair)
The testbed will allow scientists to share models, observations and tools needed to elucidate, prioritize and ultimately link models so they can be used in an interoperable manner.
The objectives are to:•Evaluate and improve research models;
•Evaluate/improve models already in operational use;
•Assess system performance of models;
•Develop a blueprint, and facilitate the transition of promising models/tools/metrics to Federal operational centers;
Super-Regional Modeling Testbed
1. $4 million grant from NOAA, through IOOS, to SURA
2. One-year demonstration project to create a testbed to evaluate models and improve marine predictions of coastal inundation and hypoxia
3. 64 individuals, 20 Universities, Industry and direct involvement by the primary Federal operational Centers
4. Goal: to determine “best practices” for comparing models, identify the metrics, and develop a blueprint for transition to operations
Super-Regional Modeling Testbed
…....at a glance
Super-Regional Modeling Testbed
Testbed Advisory and Evaluation Group (TAEG) – led by Rich Signell, USGS
Testbed Teams
• Coastal InundationRick Luettich, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill
• Shelf HypoxiaJohn Harding, Mississippi State University
• Estuarine HypoxiaCarl Friedrichs, Virginia Institute of Marine Science/
College of William&Mary
• CyberinfrastructureEoin Howlett, Applied Science Associates
IOOS & SURA
Sharing “Management”
Coastal Inundation
in Gulf of Maine &
Gulf of Mexico
Team Lead: Rick Luettich, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
Participants: Bedford Inst. Ocean; LSU; NOAA/NCEP, NHC, CSDL; UNC-CH; VIMS/Wm & Mary; Notre Dame; U South Florida; U Florida; U Mass.-Dartmouth; USACE
Super-Regional Modeling Testbed
Models: SLOSH, FVCOM, SELFE, ADCIRC, SWAVE, unSWAN, WWIII
Model grid for Scituate, Massachusetts
IT Support for Super Regional Coastal Modeling Test Bed
Queen Bee
SURA has secured High Performance Computing resource allocations on TeraGrid (NSF) and LONI systems (500,000 service units to date) and has assisted researchers with initial access.
Super-Regional Modeling Testbed
Inundation testbed for the Gulf of Mexico
Estuarine Hypoxia in
Chesapeake Bay
Super-Regional Modeling Testbed
Team Lead: Carl Friedrichs, VIMS
Participants•NOAA/NOS/CSDL,
NOAA/NCBO, EPA, USACE
•MARCOOS
•Ches. Res. Consort.
•Univ. Colorado
•Univ. Maryland
•VIMS/Wm & Mary
•Rutgers Univ.
•Old Dominion Univ
ModelsCBOFS, CH3D, ROMS,
ChesROMS, EFDC, SELFE,FVCOM
Shelf Hypoxia
Gulf of Mexico
Super-Regional Modeling Testbed
Team Lead: John Harding,
MSU/Northern Gulf Inst.
Models
ROMS,
CSDL-
NGOM,
NCOM,
GoM HyCOM
Participants
Dalhousie University
Naval Research Lab
Mississippi State
NOAA/NOS/CSDL
VIMS/Wm & Mary
Texas A & M
Univ. Delaware
Florida State Univ.
Cyberinfrastructure Support for All Modeling TeamsTeam Lead: Eoin Howlett, Applied Science Associates
Participants
Applied Science Asc
Deltares USA Inc.
Texas A & M
Gulf of Maine R.I.
VIMS/Wm & Mary
U. Alabama-Huntsville
University of Florida
U.S. Army Corps Eng.
UNC-Chapel Hill
GCOOS, SECOORA, NERACOOSModel Testbed Web site with Model Catalog
The Testbed teams are working together to improve models that forecast inundation and hypoxia for the Atlantic and Gulf coasts –
Super-Regional Modeling Testbed
and will be ready to transfer the “lessons learned” to address new environmental research questions and to expand existing knowledge to new geographic regions.
