Southern California Coastal Ocean Observing System

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• Southern California Coastal Ocean Observing
  System
• SCCOOS
• 2009 Regional Coordination Workshop
• Seattle, WA
• August 25, 2009

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Part 1 Project Status ReportShelf to
Shoreline Observatory Development
DevelopmentProject InvestigatorsJulie
Thomas and Eric TerrillProject Duration July
1, 2008 June 30, 2010 (2 years currently in
year 2)

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Project Status Report

• Project Schedule and Milestones RA Planning
  Grant and RCOOS
• Continued operation of nearshore egg and larval
  surveys that complement the offshore CALCOFI
  survey
• Initiated weekly Harmful Algal Bloom (HAB)
  shoreline surveillance at five pier sites along
  the coast of Southern California
• Development of nearshore climatologies and
  climate relevant indices relevant to ecosystem
  assessment for fisheries, IEAs, and MPA
  development
• Operations and maintenance of the 1km resolution,
  realtime ocean model nowcast/forecast system
  (ROMS)
• Maintained climate-relevant glider lines
• Established interactive displays of data and
  products via SCCOOS web site
• SCCOOS installed six new HF radar sites and at
  Trinidad, Pillar Point Air Force Station,
  Sausalito-Marin City Sanitary District, Point
  Mugu, San Mateo Point, and Camp Pendleton.
• Trajectory tool set for HF radar based upon
  optimal mapping techniques

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Project Status Report

• Significant Accomplishments
• Initiated and maintained Harmful Algal Bloom
  (HAB) surveillance program with delivery of
  timely and relevant data products, including the
  launch of a new website www.sccoos.org/data/habs
• Early detection and notification of a toxic HAB
  event in the San Pedro Channel using gliders,
  pier monitoring, and boat sampling
• Marine Operations web page for delivery of
  aggregated waves, winds, ocean current
  information in geospacial format. In-person
  training workshops this Fall.
• Maintained limited climate observation network
  within SCCOOS including a nearshore CALCOFI
  stations to complement routine offshore
  observations, three offshore glider lines that
  observe ocean climate including El Niño
  detection, operation of the ocean modeling
  system, and the synthesis of a decades worth of
  discharger CTD stations with offshore CALCOFI
  stations
• Continued management of realtime data through
  www.sccoos.org

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Keys to Success and Potential Challenges

• Ecosystem Health Climate Trends
• What worked well?
• CalCOFI surveys collected zooplankton biomass,
  fish and invertebrate larvae and conducted
  underway measurements of temperature, salinity,
  irradiance and fluorescence.
• Extending the historically offshore stations of
  CalCOFI closer to the coast brought relevance to
  the National Pollutant Discharge Elimination
  System (NPDES) permit discharge monitoring sites
  and to Californias Marine Protected Areas
  planning process.
• Forecasts and nowcasts of ocean conditions on a
  range of space and time scales were made using
  the Regional Ocean Modeling System (ROMS). The
  models make estimates of connectivity on
  bight-wide scales as a guide to understanding
  dispersal of materials near and below the sea
  surface. ROMS with observed winds were also used
  to estimate larval dispersion.
• A multi-year model reanalysis is being conducted
  to assist in the development of dynamical indices
  that have ecosystem relevance.
• Describe potential and/or real challenges
• Data integration and distribution for large and
  complex datasets such as CalCOFI
• Validating model output, and assessing model.
  RD to define products.
• Integrating biological datasets with physical
  data sets and representing those syntheses
• Continuous funding for sustaining glider lines
• Determining, and development of, sensors to add
  to the standard suite (T, S, velocity, Chl a) to
  address ecosystem issues

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Keys to Success and Potential Challenges

• Water Quality
• What worked well?
• The SCCOOS HAB team has been monitoring algal
  species at fives sites from San Luis Obispo to
  San Diego for the past year using traditional
  (water samples) and technological capabilities
  (AUVs) to provide as complete a picture as
  possible.
• A website has been established that provides for
  automatic data submission and up-to-date
  reporting of the HAB conditions at each of the
  five sites.
• The group provided early detection and alerted
  the community to the onset of the HAB event
  (Pseudo-nitzschia).
• The SCCOOS HAB team is a highly collaborative
  group, and is engaged with HAB monitoring efforts
  for the entire state (collaborations with CeNCOOS
  investigators).
• During the Hyperion Treatment Plant 1-mile
  diversion, SCCOOS provided a set of resources
  including a web site that consolidated
  observations for rapid access and evaluation by
  managers and regulators during the discharge
  diversion.
• Describe potential and/or real challenges
• Development of technological capability for in
  situ and/or remote sensing of HAB species and
  events that enables the use of autonomous
  vehicles, moorings, and remote sensing for early
  detection and warning.

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HAB SURVEILLANCE PROGRAM
HAB Product various delivery methods (web,
email)
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Keys to Success and Potential Challenges

• Marine Safety and Maritime Operations
• What worked well?
• A customized interactive website for the Ports of
  Los Angeles and Long Beach Harbor that provides
  timely and accurate information about marine
  conditions to ensure the safe passage of vessels
  and efficient harbor navigation, including
  automated messages on wave conditions.
• A partnership with NAVAIR and the U.S. Navy for
  operational access to the Naval Research
  Laboratorys Coupled Ocean/Atmosphere Mesoscale
  Prediction System (COAMPS) to provide 48 hour
  wind and precipitation forecasts on the SCCOOS
  website.
• After an oil spill in the Santa Barbara Channel,
  California's Office of Spill Prevention and
  Response (OSPR) contacted SCCOOS to provide
  surface current data that was integrated into
  GIS-based support products and provided to first
  responders.
• Participation in Area Committee Meetings to
  present SCCOOS products for use in oil spill
  preparation and drills and continue work to
  integrate HF radar into the OSPR GIS and NOAA
  GNOME model and the usage of real-time waves,
  winds, currents, AIS, chart overlays, etc.
• Supported the National Preparedness For Response
  Exercise Program (NPREP), an industry-led oil
  spill response exercise off the coast of San
  Diego, with surface current measurements and
  particle tracking.
• Describe potential and/or real challenges
• Ensuring the information is out to users in the
  field, training, stakeholder involvement

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Left OSPR generated Surface current map for
the command post during the 2008 NPREP exercise

• In response to Cosco Busan, a tailored GIS
  format of HF radar data is now available to OSPR
  staff and has been in use in drills (Safe Seas,
  NPREP) and in recent responses in the Santa
  Barbara Channel.
• NOAA HAZMAT now can access surface currents via
  a national standard NETCDF format (chain of
  command for enviro data USCG to NOAA)

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Surface current maps available with SOCAL
Platform locations http//www.sccoos.org/data/hfrn
et/
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LA/LB Customized Web Interface

• NOAA charts integrated with Model Output
  Prediction Points at key transfer locations
• Overlay for Shipping Lanes, Swell Model, and
  Surface Currents

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Web-based display of realtime AIS data with
available NOAA Charts
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Current Status Products
Directions Place an x in boxes that best
describe the kinds of products being developed
for the focus areas. See RA Presentation
guidelines for terms near real-time data (gt24
hours)
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Current Status Products
Directions Place an x in boxes that best
describe the kinds of products being developed
for the focus areas. See RA Presentation
guidelines for terms near real-time data (gt24
hours)
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Current Status Product Examples

• Provide access to near real time data for harmful
  algal blooms to avoid risks to public health,
  marine life, the environment, and the economy
  www.sccoos.org/data/habs
• Provide an interactive website for ports and
  harbors with information on marine conditions
  that is critical to the safe passage of vessels
  and efficient harbor navigation
  www.sccoos.org/data/harbors/lalb
• Provide HF radar derived surface current maps to
  assess and mitigate impacts of impaired water
  quality, track oil spills, assist with search and
  rescue efforts and monitor the physical
  environment to better understand ecosystem
  change http//www.sccoos.org/data/hfrnet/
• Provide intuitive, interactive multi-dimensional
  display of model output http//www.sccoos.org/dat
  a/roms/

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Current Status Observations
Indicate the of observations in each
category. Color code X if funded exclusively
by NOAA IOOS funds X if combination of NOAA IOOS
funds and other X is non-NOAA IOOS
funds Observation parameter (temperature,
salinity, chlorophyll, etc X station)/sampling
period. These numbers indicate the observations
collected during one sampling period. For
example, there are 23,184 meteorological
observations collected per hour 14 parameters
X 1,656 stations. Not represented models
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Observation Types
Physical - water temperature, sea level, salt,
beam c, waves, backscatter, transmissivity,
normalized water-leaving radiance, total
suspended matter, secchi, absorption Meteorologic
al - air temperature, wind speed, wind direction,
precipitation, pressure, relative humidity,
visibility, infrared, water vapor Chemical - O2,
ph, ammonia, nitrate, phosphate, silicate,
nitrite, radioactive tracer Biological -
chlorophyll, e. coli, enterococus, fecal
coliforms, total coliforms, phytoplankton,
phaeophytin, productivity Geological -
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Excerpt from Observations Table
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Observations Table Continued
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Current Status Modeling and DMAC subsystems
See guidelines for definitions Regionwide
entire RA
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Map 1a Existing Observing Assets
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Map 1b Leveraged Assets
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Meteorology Stations
Too many dots to represent
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• Part 2 Looking Forward
• Future Plans
• Assuming 5 million of funding per year, please
  indicate what your future plans are for your RA.
  The 5 million should cover activities currently
  funded by the RA Planning Grants and the RCOOS.

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Future Plans Major Products
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Future Plans Observations

Future plans are focused on product development
and data management with an emphasis on
integrating physical and biological data.
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Future Plan Modeling and DMAC
See Guidelines for definitions
Region-wide means entire RA
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Future Plans Map
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Funding Scenario
Briefly describe the major CUTS to the subsystem
under the reduced funding scenarios