U.S. IOOS® National Glider Network

Zdenka Willis

Director, US IOOS Program OfficePresented to the GROOM General Assembly – 5 June 2013

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U.S. IOOS: Program Overview

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WHO

WHY: 7 Societal Goals, 1 System Predictions of climate change and weatherSafety and efficiency of maritime operationsForecasts of natural hazardsImprove homeland security Minimize public health risks Protect and restore healthy coastal ecosystemsSustain living marine resources

WHATObservationData ManagementModeling & AnalysisResearch & DevelopmentEducation

WHEREGlobal Coastal (EEZ to tidal waters)

US Efforts

• Navy: 150 Gliders Operational; Glider Operation Center, Naval Oceanographic Office

• Office of Naval Research: Research efforts through University partners: Rutgers, Scripps, University of Washington

• NOAA: 2 offices (NCCOS, Climate Observation Division) fund university partners; Scripps, MOTE, USF

• US IOOS Program Office (in NOAA); funding data management effort, national glider plan, and IOOS Regional Associations

• NSF: Ocean Observatory Initiative and other University Partners, primarily WHOI and University of Washington

• Environmental Protection Agency: Funding US IOOS- MARACOOS

• NASA: Calibration of Aquarius satellite; university partners• BOEM: Supports US-IOOS AOOS/University of Alaska glider

operations; also some Gulf of Mexico work

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Why IOOS: A Growing Enterprise

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Summary of Glider Days for 2008-2012

Year

Glider-days of data collected annually by glider operators. (Glider-day = 1 glider in the water collecting data for 1 day)

Glider-days completed outside of the EEZ

Glider-days supported by IOOS PO

2008 4007 890 349

2009 4739 1132 337

2010 4944 1329 990

2011 5740 1663 772

2012 6292 1793 715

2008 – 2012 Totals 25722 6807 3163

* Glider Days provided with support from Federal Agencies including NSF, ONR, NOAA, EPA, state and local governments and private foundations.

Glider Missions

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Climate/Ecosystem/Fisheries Management/Water Quality

Hurricane Forecasting Response to Oil Spill

The SoCal Niño IndexCalCOFI Fish Tracking

HAB

Deep Water Horizon Alaska

National Science Foundation – Ocean Observatories Initiative

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Gliders

Coastal Node

Rutgers Plan for the Challenger Mission: International Education Program for Sustained at-Sea Robotic Global Omni-Presence

HMS Challenger Mission

Slibo – DrifterChallenger – back in action

Rutgers University/IOOS Partner

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National Glider Network

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V1 Comments being Adjudicated

Where are Gliders deployed today!

Data Management

• Will stand up a DAC in 2013

• National standards to ease exchange of data from regional glider operators

• Real-time distribution• Quality control• Archiving

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Data Management Efforts

• NetCDF file format:– GROOM/EGO; IMOS;IOOS - similar completely harmonizing is achievable– IOOS optimized for web services distribution via THREDDS Data Server – Trajectory CF Discrete Sampling Geometry – a must for IOOS baseline– IOOS is also working TrajectoryProfile Discrete Sampling Geometry.

• Proposal: Volunteers from each of the major groups to harmonize the file formats where possible

• GTS Distribution– IOOS formed working group to address a BUFR template– Funding NDBC to write encoding software for GTS distribution in two phases: 1)

netCDF to TESAC (the older Traditional ASCII Code form which is set to expire 2014) 2) BUFR based on a TBD template created by the JCOMM Task Team on Table Driven Codes

– Derrick is a member of TT-TDC and has asked the Chair, Dave Berry from Southampton Oceanography Centre to consider Gliders as a top priority.

– Bob Keeley, former head of JCOMM Data Management Programme Area and TT-TDC is on contract to NOAA/CPO/COD and COD has agreed to lending some of Bob’s time for consultation and advice

• Proposal: Request commitment to this effort and participation. Require interfacing the IMOS/GROOM/IOOS and the GTS responsible nodes at the national weather services (BoM/UKMET/NDBC respectively).

Glider Integration is Possible

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Opportunity to forge a new path by harmonizing our data efforts

“Around here, however, we don’t look backwards for very long. We keep moving forward, opening new doors and doing new things … and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.”