HR: 11:30h
AN: OS32A-05    [Abstracts]
TI: Texas Automated Buoy System 1995-2005 and Beyond
AU: * Guinasso, N L
EM: guinasso@tamu.edu
AF: Texas A&M University Geochemical and Environmental Research Group, 833 Graham Road, College Station, TX 77845-9668 United States
AU: Bender, L C
EM: les@gerg.tamu.edu
AF: Texas A&M University Geochemical and Environmental Research Group, 833 Graham Road, College Station, TX 77845-9668 United States
AU: Walpert, J N
AF: Texas A&M University Geochemical and Environmental Research Group, 833 Graham Road, College Station, TX 77845-9668 United States
AU: Lee, L L
EM: woody@gerg.tamu.edu
AF: Texas A&M University Geochemical and Environmental Research Group, 833 Graham Road, College Station, TX 77845-9668 United States
AU: Campbell, L
AF: Texas A&M University Department of Oceanography, Eller Building, College Station, TX 77843-3146 United States
AU: Hetland, R D
EM: rhetland@ocean.tamu.edu
AF: Texas A&M University Department of Oceanography, Eller Building, College Station, TX 77843-3146 United States
AU: Howard, M K
AF: Texas A&M University Department of Oceanography, Eller Building, College Station, TX 77843-3146 United States
AU: Martin, R D
EM: bmartin@glo.state.us
AF: Texas General Land Office, Steven F. Austin Building, Room 340 1700 North Congress Avenue, Austin, TX 78701-1495 United States
AB: TABS was established in l995 to provide data to assess oil spill movement along Texas coast for the Texas General Land Office Oil Spill Prevention and Response Program. A system of nine automated buoys provide wind and current data in near real time. Two of these buoys are supported by the Flower Garden Banks Joint Industry Program. A TABS web site provides a public interface to view and download the data. A real time data analysis web page presents a wide variety of useful data products derived from the field measurements. Integration efforts now underway include transfer of buoy data to the National Data Buoy Center for quality control and incorporation into the Global Telecommunications Stream. The TGLO ocean circulation nowcast/forecast modeling system has been in continuous operation since 1998. Two models, POM and ROMS, are used to produce forecasts of near-surface wind driven currents up to 48 hours into the future. Both models are driven using wind fields obtained from the NAM (formerly Eta) forecast models operated by NOAA NCEP. Wind and current fields are displayed on websites in both static and animated forms and are updated four times per day. Under funding from the SURA/SCOOP program we are; 1) revamping the system to conform with the evolving Data Management and Communications (DMAC) framework adopted by the NSF Orion and OCEAN.US IOOS programs, 2) producing model-data comparisons, and 3) integrating the wind and current fields into the GNOME oil trajectory model used by NOAA/Hazmat. Academic research is planned to assimilate near real-time observations from TABS buoys and some 30-40 ADCP instruments scheduled to be mounted on offshore oil platforms in early 2005. Texas Automated Buoy System (TABS) and its associated modeling efforts provide a reliable source of accurate, up-to-date information on currents along the Texas coast. As the nation embarks on the development of an Integrated Ocean Observing System (IOOS), TABS will be an active participant as a foundational regional component to the national backbone of ocean observations.
UR: http://tabs.gerg.tamu.edu/tglo
DE: 4219 Continental shelf processes
DE: 4263 Ocean prediction
DE: 4520 Eddies and mesoscale processes
DE: 4528 Fronts and jets
DE: 4815 Ecosystems, structure and dynamics
SC: Ocean Sciences [OS]
MN: 2005 Joint Assembly