TOWARDS A RCOOS DESIGN FOR SECOORA SEACOOS EXCOM DRAFT AS A STRAWMAN FOR THE SECOORA COMMUNITY 12 SEP 06

PROCESS EXCOM OUTLINED PLAN NOV 05 DRAFT AND SERIES OF REVISIONS SEACOOS BOARD REVIEWED CA. MAR MORE DRAFTS AND REVISIONS PRESENT DRAFT SUBMITTED TO SECOORA IN AUG

SCOPE CRITICAL DESIGN ASSUMPTIONS ANTICIPATED FUNCTIONS & APPROACHES INITIAL RCOOS DESIGN# EXISTING ELEMENTS# RECOMMENDATIONS TO SECOORA# CRITERIA FOR PARTICIPATION AN INITIAL RCOOS BUDGET # SUBSYSTEMS (OBSERVING, MODELING/PREDICTION, AND INFORMATION MANAGEMENT)

KEYWORDS BROAD RANGE OF EEZ APPLICATIONS IN SITU AND REMOTE SENSING OBSERVING SUBSYS NESTED, COUPLED PREDICTIVE MODELING SUBSYS DISTRIBUTED INFO MGMT SUBSYS MULTIDISCIPLINARY NATIONAL BACKBONE FOR ALL THREE SUBSYS CONCEPT OF OPERATIONS (CONOPS)

ASSUMPTIONS FEDS WILL MELD AND EVOLVE THEIR 153 OCEAN OBS SYS INTO THE NATIONAL BACKBONE STANDARDS AND PROTOCOLS FOR OBS SYS WILL BE CLARIFIED CONOPS WILL BE ESTABLISHED SOON SO THE RCOOSs CAN BE INTERFACED TO THE NATIONAL BACKBONE CONOPS WILL RESOLVE THE BALANCE BETWEEN NATIONAL AND REGIONAL SYSTEMS NOAA-SPONSORED IOOS SYSTEM ANALYSES WILL LEAD TO SUFFICIENT RESOLUTION OF THESE CRITICAL ISSUES SO RCOOS PLANNING (& IMPLEMENTATION ) CAN PROCEED

ANTICIPATED FUNCTIONS AND APPROACHES FOLLOW SYSTEMS ENGINEERING PRINCIPLES (USER NEEDS, PERFORMANCE METRICS, COST-BENEFIT RATIOS, ETC.) ESTABLISH AND OPERATE AN INTERACTIVE, MUTUALLY SUPPORTIVE TRIAD OF IN SITU OBS, REMOTE SENSING, AND NUMERICAL MODELING, AS LINKED BY IMS PERFORM CONTINUING ANALYSIS OF THE ADEQUACY OF THE NATIONAL BACKBONE MANAGE R&D PROGRAM FOR RCOOS UPGRADES, TECHNICAL ASSESSMENT OF RCOOS PERFORMANCE, AND SCIEINTIFIC ASSESSMENTOF THE STATE OF THE SE COASTAL OCEAN PERFORM PERIODIC RE-ANALYSES FOR DIAGNOSTIC STUDIES OF, FOR EXAMPLE, COASTAL OCEAN CHANGE

OBSERVING SUBSYSTEM DESIGN RATIONALE INFLUENCE OF THE GULF STREAM SYSTEM (+ ITS MEANDERS, FRONT, & EDDIES) ALONG THE SHELFBREAK WIDE RANGE OF SHELF WIDTHS (CA. 10 TO 100 KM) INNER SHELF, MID SHELF, OUTER SHELF, AND CONTINENTAL SLOPE DYNAMICAL REGIMES SEVERAL MAJOR ESTUARIES AND COASTAL LAGOONS SEASONAL RUNOFF,HEATING/ COOLING, AND WEATHER SYSTEMS REGIONALLY VARIABLE TIDAL REGIMES THUS, CROSS-EEZ SENSOR ARRAYS EVERY CA. 100 KM LINKED TO COASTAL CAPES AND EMBAYMENTS, AND TO ESTUARIES AND PORTS

CONTINUED - 1 NATIONAL BACKBONE –COASTAL STATIONS (NOS/NWLON WATER LEVEL, NWS/NDBC C-MAN METEOROLOGY, USGS HYDROLOGY) –NOS/PORTS ESTUARINE PROFILERS –NOS/NEER [???] SENSORS –NWS/NDBC BUOY STATIONS (METEOROLOGY, SST, DIRECTIONAL WAVES, ADCPs) “RCOOS SYSTEMS” -COASTAL HF RADARS -SURFACE DRIFTERS -MOORED & DRIFTING PROFILERS AND GLIDERS -SATELLITE REMOTE SENSORS -SHIP TRANSECTS -VOLUNTEER OBSERVING SHIPS

CONTINUED -2 PRESENT SYSTEM PLAYERS –SEACOOS (COMPS, EFSIS, SABSOON, NCOOS) –Caro-COOPS –CORMP –MISC. (SFROS, SEBASTIAN INLET MET STATION(FIT), MOTE MARINE LAB,ETC.)

MODELING SUBSYSTEM DESIGN RATIONALE SE COASTAL OCEAN TRANSIENT, MESOSCALE BAROCLINIC CIRCULATION (AND STRATIFICATION) PREDICTION REAL-TIME, AUTOMATED, QUASI-OPERATIONAL FORCING FROM ATMOSPHERE, RUN-OFF, TIDES, AND GULF STREAM REALISTIC BOTTOM TOPOGRAPHY AND COASTLINES LAGRANGIAN TRAJECTORIES WAVES SURF STORM SURGE = COASTAL INUNDATION ECOSYSTEMS FISHERIES SEDIMENT TRANSPORT MESOSCALE METEOROLOGY

INFO MGMT SUBSYSTEM DESIGN RATIONALE PRIMARY, ENSURE THE EFFICIENT, ACCURATE, AND ROBUST WEB-BASED FLOW OF LARGE VOLUMES OF OBSERVATIONAL AND MODEL REAL- TIME AND HISTORICAL DATA (AND THEIR METADATA)FROM DIVERSE SOURCES TO NUMEROUS DISTRIBUTED USERS OF VARIOUS SKILL & INTEREST LEVELS SECONDARY, MAINTAIN ASSET INVENTORIES, DATA ARCHIVES, DATA DISCOVERY, ON-LINE BROWSE, DATA COMMUNICATIONS, GRAPHICAL DISPLAYS, ETC.

CRITERIA FOR PARTICIPATION RECORD OF PERFORMANCE IN DELIVERING A RELIABLE STREAM OF INFORMATION FOR AT LEAST A YEAR CAPACITY TO MANAGE DATA IN CONFORMANCE WITH RCOOS PRACTICES AND STANDARDS CAPACITY TO MAINTAIN RESOURCES IN AT LEAST A PRE-OPERATIONAL MODE ADHERENCE TO FREE AND OPEN EXCHANGE OF DATA DEMONSTRATED COMMITMENT TO IOOS

INITIAL RCOOS BUDGET SCENARIO: SPIN-UP OVER 5 YRS, CA. 60 SHELF & SLOPE BUOYS, 10 ADDITIONAL SHORE STATIONS, 20 LONG RANGE RADARS; SUPPORTING SHIPTIME; CA. THREE FORECAST CENTERS; DISTRIBUTED IMS W/ CENTRAL HUB AND BACKUP HUB ANNUAL TOTAL –EQUIPMENT, CA. $15M -OPERATIONS (SALARIES,ETC.), CA. $5M -MANAGEMENT, CA. $0.5M -R&D, CA. 20 TO 40% OF OPERATIONS

NEXT STEPS DEFINE THE MARINE FORECASTERS’ FUNCTIONS AS FOCAL POINTS FOR RCOOS DESIGN SECOORA PARTICIPANTS VET THE DRAFT RCOOS DESIGN PLAN HOLD A SECOORA WORKSHOP FOCUSED ON RCOOS DESIGN, PERHAPS TOGETHER WITH NATIONAL BACKBONE PLANNING INJECT DRAFT (& FINAL) PLAN INTO NATIONAL LEVEL DISCUSSIONS DEVELOP A PHASED APPROACH TO RCOOS IMPLEMENTATION, TOGETHER WITH THE NATIONAL BACKBONE IMPLEMENTATION