HR: 1330h
AN: OS43A-02    [Abstracts]
TI: Development of the East Florida Shelf Information System (EFSIS)
AU: * Mooers, C N
EM: cmooers@rsmas.miami.edu
AF: OPEL/AMP/RSMAS/University of Miami, 4600 Rickenbacker Causeway, Miami, FL 33194-1098 United States
AU: Bang, I
EM: ibang@rsmas.miami.edu
AF: OPEL/AMP/RSMAS/University of Miami, 4600 Rickenbacker Causeway, Miami, FL 33194-1098 United States
AU: Fiechter, J
EM: jfiechter@rsmas.miami.edu
AF: OPEL/AMP/RSMAS/University of Miami, 4600 Rickenbacker Causeway, Miami, FL 33194-1098 United States
AB: The East Florida Shelf Information System (EFSIS) is under development as part of the Southeast Atlantic Coastal Ocean Observing System (SEACOOS), which in turn is a prototype for a regional approach to the coastal ocean (i.e., EEZ) component of the Integrated Ocean Observing System (IOOS). EFSIS utilizes the Princeton Ocean Model (POM) implemented on a curvilinear grid, with 2 to 10 km resolution, designed to conform to the strongly curved Straits of Florida and Florida Current (FC); it also has 26 terrain-following (i.e., sigma) levels in the vertical. The model domain used for analysis is called the East Florida Shelf (EFS), though it covers all of the Straits of Florida. This implementation is called EFS-POM, which is driven by atmospheric forcing from NCEP's 12 km-Eta model, the eight predominant tidal constituents, and lateral boundary conditions from NAVOCEANO's operational (1/8 °; 40 level) Global-NCOM circulation predictions. EFSIS runs automatically and provides output to the Web (http://efsis.rsmas.miami.edu). The EFSIS modeling system is complemented by an emergent observing system comprised of operational elements from several NWS meteorological stations, NOS tide gauge stations, and AOML submarine cable-FC volume transport data, all of which provide real-time data, plus R&D elements; e.g., coastal HF radars (viz., WERA) and a velocity and C/T profiling system (viz., SWAMP). The observing system elements are presently utilized for model validation and verification purposes, which are first steps toward data assimilation. EFSIS is demonstrated by using it, and its complementary modeling and observing systems, for characterizing the EFS/FC response to wintertime cold front passages.
UR: http://www.seacoos.org
DE: 4255 Numerical modeling
DE: 4263 Ocean prediction
DE: 4528 Fronts and jets
DE: 4532 General circulation
DE: 4576 Western boundary currents
SC: Ocean Sciences [OS]
MN: 2005 Joint Assembly