HR: 11:00h
AN: OS32A-03 INVITED     [Abstracts]
TI: The Southern California Coastal Ocean Observing System (SCCOOS): Developing A Coastal Observation System To Enable Both Science Based Decision Making And Scientific Discovery
AU: * Terrill, E
EM: eterrill@ucsd.edu
AF: Scripps Institution of Oceanography, 9500 Gilman Drive mail code 0213, La Jolla, CA 92003 United States
AU: John, O
EM: jorcutt@ucsd.edu
AF: Scripps Institution of Oceanography, 9500 Gilman Drive mail code 0225, La Jolla, CA 92093 United States
AB: The Southern California Coastal Ocean Observing System (SCCOOS) is a consortium that extends from Northern Baja CA in Mexico to Morro Bay at the southern edge of central California, and aims to streamline, coordinate, and further develop individual institutional efforts by creating an integrated, multidisciplinary coastal observatory in the Bight of Southern California for the benefit of society. By leveraging existing infrastructure, partnerships, and private, local, state, and federal resources, SCCOOS is developing a fully operational coastal observation system to address issues related to coastal water quality, marine life resources, and coastal hazards for end user communities spanning local, state, and federal interests. However, to establish a sensible observational approach to address these societal drivers, sound scientific approaches are required in both the system design and the transformation of data to useful products. Since IOOS and coastal components of the NSF Ocean Observatories Initiative (OOI) are not mutually exclusive within this framework, the SCCOOS consortium of observatory implementers have created an organizational structure that encourages dovetailing of OOI into the routine observations provided by the operational components of a regional IOOS. To begin the development, SCCOOS has grant funding from the California Coastal Conservancy as part of a $21M, statewide initiative to establish a Coastal Ocean Currents Monitoring Program, and funding from NOAA's Coastal Observing Technology System (COTS). In addition, SCCOOS is leveraging IT development that has been supported by the NSF Information Technology Research program Real-time observatories, Applications,and Data Manageemnt Network (ROADNET), and anticipates using developments which will result from the NSF Laboratory for Ocean Observatory Knowledge Integration Grid (LOOKING) program. The observational components now funded at SCCOOS include surface current mapping by HF radar; high resolution (GPS-tracked) drifters; propeller and buoyancy driven autonomous platforms which will continuously survey the nearshore region; the integration of data from nearly a dozen current moorings maintained by local agencies including the Orange County Sanitation District and LA County; surf zone current measurements and modeling; a Regional Ocean Modeling System with data assimilation for robust nowcasting and forecasting of the physical and biological properties of the ocean; acquisition, storage, and distribution of remote sensing data products including ocean color, sea surface temperature, and scatterometry for wind field measurements; and IT infrastructure with wireless networking where needed, based upon the requirements of the Ocean.US DMAC (Data Management and Communications) recommendations.
UR: http://www.sccoos.org
DE: 4512 Currents
DE: 4546 Nearshore processes
DE: 4560 Surface waves and tides (1255)
DE: 4599 General or miscellaneous
DE: 4899 General or miscellaneous
SC: Ocean Sciences [OS]
MN: 2005 Joint Assembly