NOAAs Integrated Ocean Observing System IOOS Program

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NOAAs Integrated Ocean Observing System
(IOOS)Program

• CAPT Christopher S. Moore, NOAA
• Deputy Director/DIF Project Manager
• New Hampshire
• December 2007

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IOOS and GEOSS
GEOSS
Discipline Land Ocean Climate
IEOS
GOOS
IOOS
US Europe Asia/Pacific Africa
Geographic Coverage
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Federal Partner Agencies
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Regional Associations (11)
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Program Integration NOAA IOOS Organizational
Relationships
Interagency Connections
NOAA IOOS Activities
Interagency Committee on Ocean Science and
Resource Management Integration (ICOSRMI)
NOAA Administrator
NOAA Ocean Council
IOOS Oversight
NOAA Observing System Council
NOS Assistant Administrator
OAR Assistant Administrator
Joint Subcommittee on Ocean Science and
Technology (JSOST)
Interagency Working Group on Ocean Observations
(IWGOO)
NOAA IOOS Program Director
Ocean.US
IOOS Program
IOOS Project Management
Program Operations
Regional Coastal Component
Guidance Requirements
Capacity Capabilities
Data ManagementCommunications
Observations
Modeling Analysis
Education
Research
Leveraging existing NOAA-wide capabilities
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Data Integration Requirements and Drivers
NOAA Decision Tools
IOOS Core Variables
Information Needs
Societal Challenges
The global climate is not well understood

• Characterize the state of the global climate
  system and its variability

Hurricane Intensity Model
Improved models (e.g., hurricane intensity,
coastal inundation, and harmful algal bloom model)
Coastal populations are at risk from weather,
climate natural hazards
Coastal Inundation Model
Our ocean, coastal and Great Lakes ecosystems are
complex many are at risk
Harmful Algal Bloom Model
Improved ecosystem assessmentsUpdated
management approaches Improved access to data,
and scientific information
Integrated Ecosystem Assessment
Expanding the Marine Transportation System
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Core Variable Integration Problem Temperature
(Example)
PLATFORM
Data Distribution
Archive
NOAA Ship Synoptic
NCDC
NOAA Ship Archive
NOAA Ships
ARGO Delayed data
ARGO Profiling
GDAC
Tropical Moored Buoys
Weather Buoys
NODC
NDBC
Drifting Buoys
DART
C-MAN
SWIM
NCDDC
SWMP
NERRS CDMO
VOS (xbt)
OAR
AOML
CREIOS
NMFS
PACIFIC I. FSC
NWLON
CO-OPS
CLASS
Single Sat. Pass Data
OSDPP
Satellites
Multiple Sat. Pass Data
COAST WATCH
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Data Integration Framework (DIF)
Month 36
Months 0-12
Month 18
Month 24
Test Evaluation
Benchmarked Product Improvements for Operational
Use
Integration of 5 IOOS Core Variables
Integrated Variable Ingest for Select Data
Products
NOAA 5 Core Variables
Hurricane Intensity Model

• Integrated information services for NOAA programs
• Identify observation gaps
• Validated enhanced data products
• NOAAs Data Integration Framework

Enhanced decision support through

• Product Enhancement
• Test Evaluation
• Verification Validation

Systems Engineering
Coastal Inundation Model
Harmful Algal Bloom Model
Integrated Ecosystem Assessment
NOAA MISSION OBJECTIVES
REGIONAL COASTAL NEEDS
Future State Regional-coastal data integration
for Regional scale data and information products
and services
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DIF Accomplishments

• Characterizing the current state
• Completed systems engineering data flow analyses
  for four targeted NOAA Decision Tools
• Conducted five, cross-NOAA interoperability tests
  
• Consistent findings across various tests
• Lack of standards impedes data integration and
  access across the agency
• Documented critical data management challenges to
  design effective solutions
• Implementing Solutions
• Completed project plans and requirements
  documents based on findings
• Transitioning from planning to execution

Harmful Algal Bloom Modeling Data Flow
TEMPERATURE INTEROPERABILITY TEST
Colors reference server type (WFS, OPeNDAP,
etc.)
Developed draft, high level IOOS functional
requirements
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DIF Standards Complex Challenge
FUNCTIONAL CATEGORIES
D A T A T Y P E S
X NOAA is addressing this standard in the DIF
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DIF Standards Implementing U.S. IOOS DMAC
Process

• Process has never been exercised due to resource
  limitations
• NOAA IOOS Program provided detail to the process
  and established the web-enabled tools to execute
  the process
• NOAA IOOS Program will oversee this national
  standards process and will improve the process
  based on lessons learned

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Common Data Sharing Infrastructure

• Data Content
• Data Transport
• Metadata
• QA/QC

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Data Content
(Who, what, where, when)

• Vocabulary/Dictionary
• Location Convention (Decimal Degrees, etc)
• Date-Time Convention (JD/Year, UTC, etc.)
• Station ID
• Vertical Datum
• Vertical Position
• Units

2007-05-25T12000000 ltncddcioos.madis_last.ddmm
myyyygt25-May-2007lt/ncddcioos.madis_last.ddmmmyyyy
gt ltncddcioos.madis_last.hourgt11lt/ncddcioos.m
adis_last.hourgt ltncddcioos.madis_last.minutegt5
6lt/ncddcioos.madis_last.minutegt 05/29/07
0745 1180695640 52342.000011574 Seconds
since January 1, 1970 Decimal days since
November 17, 1858
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Proposed MINIMUM Data Content Standard for Scalar
and Vector Obs
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The need for a plan
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DIF Functional Boundaries
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Use Case Manually Request Data
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DIF Accomplishments Contributing to the
National IOOS

• NOAA-National Data Buoy Center (NDBC) Data
  Assembly Center Operations
• 3,330,440 IOOS observations 28 increase over
  FY06
• 174 IOOS platforms 32 increase over FY06
• 56 new IOOS stations established in FY07
• 126 partner interactions / notifications in FY07
• Inclusion of NOAA National Estuarine Research
  Reserves (NERRS) data
• Maintained QC and metadata for 60 oil and gas
  platforms in the Gulf of Mexico for Dept. of
  Interior Minerals Management Service partnership
• Developed and implemented new IOOS station status
  Web site for real-time QC
• Implemented National High Frequency (HF) Radar
  server for real-time distribution of surface
  current observations
• Installed ocean equipment in coordination with
  Regional Associations
• 13 Current Profilers (2 supplied by Alaska Ocean
  Observing System)
• 21 Surface Current Meters (2 for Coastal Ocean
  Research and Monitoring Program)
• 19 Conductivity-Temperature sensors

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DIF Accomplishments Integrated Ecosystem
Assessments (IEA)

• IEAs provide physical and biological data to
  inform environmental policy decisions
• Requires access to integrated, quality controlled
  data
• FY 07 IOOS accomplishments
• Served quality-controlled NOAA IOOS 5 core
  variables for California current ecosystem
• Demonstrated linkage between 5 core variables for
  preliminary IEA
• Developed integrated web-based data management
  system
• Data management support for West Coast pilot IEA
  module
• California Current data will be accessible and
  integrated from Washington to Baja California

• PaCOOS Partners
• Federal
• NOAA NMFS (SWFSC, NWFSC), NESDIS (NCDDC) NOS
  (NMSP), NWS (NDBC), OAR (PMEL)
• DOI FWS, USGS
• State
• CA Dept of Fish Game
• OR WA Dept of Fish Wildlife
• Academic
• Scripps Institute of Oceanography Humboldt State
  University University of WA Oregon State
  University MBARI Pt. Reyes Bird Observatory
• Regional Association
• NANOOS, CENCOOS, SCCOOS
• International
• Canada Dept. of Fisheries and Oceans (invited)

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Regional Coastal Component 22.39M Awarded in
FY2007

• Completed peer-reviewed competitive selection
  process with NOAAs Coastal Services Center
• Awarded 23 Regional IOOS Development Awards
  14.94
• 11 Regional Coastal Ocean Observing System
  (RCOOS) Development
• 8 IOOS Applications and Product Development
• 4 Regional DMAC Guidance and Process

• NOAA-wide BAA 2.35M
• Funded 3 cross-cut capabilities
• Third (final) year of Regional Association
  planning grants 4.33M
• Transitioned from disparate, sub-regional
  observing elements to eleven, more cohesive
  regional systems

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Regional Coastal Component NOAAs Coordination
Role

• Developed and implemented competitive funding
  process to
• Meet national and regional needs
• Integrate sub-regional efforts into cohesive
  regional systems
• Include the larger IOOS community in peer review
• Coordinate regional activities to ensure
  connections to on-going efforts
• Sponsoring regional DMAC meeting to share
  expertise and best management approaches
• Supporting coordination workshop on regional
  conceptual designs and DMAC
• NOAA working with National Federation of Regional
  Associations (NFRA) to ensure effective
  contribution to national system
• Implemented project management and accountability
• Develop public fact sheets for regional
  projects and deliverables for greater
  transparency and accountability
• NOAA initiating active reviews to ensure delivery
  of end-products

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Regional Coastal Component Supporting National
Applications
Proposed buildout of high frequency radar (HFR)
in CA to monitor surface currents.

• Advancing development of national, high frequency
  (HF) radar surface current mapping network
• NOAA funded development of a National HF Radar
  server and data management system
• Increases access to significant regional
  investments in HF Radar
• Federal/ regional IOOS partnership supports
• Search and Rescue U.S. Coast Guards Search
  Rescue models use data as lower-cost option to
  locate ships in distress
• Water Quality Tracking DE and NJ track movement
  of coastal pollutants to reduce number of
  unnecessary beach closures
• Oil spill response

87 HFR Sites x 700 Pts/Site 60900 Data Pts
Figure from SCCOOS website
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NOAAs Way Ahead FY08
Transparent and accountable program management

• Data Integration
• Advance standards from submitted to proposed to
  recommended status
• Deliver integrated variables to four decision
  support models
• Begin requirements definition for test and
  evaluation phase
• Continue pre-acquisition documentation for the
  National IOOS
• Regional
• NOAA priority is to fund Year 2 of FY07
  multi-year awards to the maximum extent possible
• Evaluating alternate regional funding and
  implementation models to improve IOOS regional
  funding strategy
• Contracts for targeted and sustained technical
  services
• Cooperative agreements/ grants for technical
  development

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FY 09 Increase Request 4.0M

• IOOS national technical capability for data
  integration, including setting data standards,
  ensuring systems are interoperable, and
  expediting product development (2.0M)
• Transition pilot data assembly and delivery
  capability to operation status at the NDBC for
  data assembly center(1.7M)
• Support NOAAs contribution to the National Ocean
  Economics Program (NOEP) to develop summary data
  sets for ocean economic sectors (0.25M)
• Improves delivery of products and services across
  NOAA from storm intensity and coastal inundation
  to ecosystem management and human health
• Maintains NOAAs demonstrated ability to deliver
  2.5 million quality controlled real-time
  observations per year from regional observing
  systems through the National Data Buoy Center
  (NDBC)
• Coordinates national network of observations and
  data transmissions

Pre-decisional Not for distribution
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Summary

• NOAAs investments structured to advance
• Program and data integration
• Regional coastal component
• Interagency contributions
• NOAAs IOOS Program provides a consistent focal
  point and management structure
• Data Integration Framework (DIF) development
  yielded benefits for NOAA and external IOOS
  communities
• Establishing the requirements, programmatic
  detail, and technical foundation that identify a
  national IOOS capability
• Improved regional program management and funding
  structure ensures more effective contribution to
  national system
• Interagency working group and partnership
  activities important to achieve an effective
  contribution to the national IOOS, GOOS, and GEOSS

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BACK-UP
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DMAC Standards Process Timeline

• Spring 2008
• refined schedule
• expanded review times

• Fall 2007
• first use
• tight schedule

• Steering Team Poll

January
Steering Team Review
December
Cut-off for May Poll
February
Experts Comments
November
March
Cut-off for November Poll
Experts Comments
October
April
Training and Initial Standards Entry
Steering Team Review
September
May
Standards Web Tool Submission process opens
August
June
Steering Team Poll
July
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Coastal Inundation Model Data Flow
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