SVP Server- monitors navigation broadcast from SIS (via UDP)- extracts temperature and salinity profiles from

2009 World Ocean Atlas (aka “Levitus”)- T/S profiles delivered to SIS for ray bending corrections without operator intervention

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Come see a demo during

the poster session!!

SVP Server

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USCGC Healy 2011 return transit to Dutch Harbor

SVP Server provided 57 SVP casts over 5 day transit

SVP Server provided 68 SVP casts over 8 day transit

CCGS Amundsen 2011 return transit to Quebec city

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Thanks to Steve Roberts (UCAR)

Thanks to Steve Brucker (OMG/UNB)

Future Plans• Incorporate in situ

measurements– Consistent and

streamlined XBT/CTD pre-processing

– Automated upload and application in SIS

• More sophisticated oceanographic models

http://polar.ncep.noaa.gov/global/

Global Real-Time Ocean Forecast System (RTOFS)

NOAA National Weather ServiceEnvironmental Modeling Center

“This system is based on an eddy resolving 1/12° global HYCOM (HYbrid Coordinates Ocean Model) and is part of a larger national backbone capability of ocean modeling at the National Weather Service in a strong partnership with the US Navy.”