Alaska Ocean Observing System

Welcome

Port Valdez by Arny Blanchard 2003
Port Valdez photo (c) Arny Blanchard 2003

Data Feature

Nowcast for ROMS using AOOS data on JPL OurOcean site
Just like NOAA HF Radar National Server and Architect Prjoject pulled and used HF Radar as part of their demonstration, JPL displays near real time imagery of AOOS WRF winds.

CALENDAR

July 1, 2009
PWSFE PI meeting 9am. Use call in number from before.

July 9, 2009
AOOS Board Meeting in Anchorage at AOOS offices. *Details provided to participants via email.

July 28, 2009
Save the date! Coming events on the Sound Predictions 2009. Meeting held in Valdez.

July 21- August 3, 2009
Near real time field experiment begins with live data flows from research field into AOOS data management system. Learn more.

2009 Prince William Sound Field Experiment

The Field Experiment is a demonstration of AOOS capabilities in Prince William Sound, from observations to models to direct application by users.

See who is involved, read about the region, view an example of the data in use. A User's Guide to Entering the Portal is on the way.

Observe, Forecast, Use

The navigation in the Sound Predictions 2009 pages explains the components of the observing system: stations, buoys, radar, forecasts and models.

get the pdfLearn More: download the Sound Predictions 2009 flyer and timeline


National Oceans Month!

June 12, 2009 President Obama declares June 2009 as National Oceans Month; read proclamation and see memorandum establishing and outlining duties of an Interagency Ocean Policy Task Force.


Our Successes

June 5, 2009 Dr. Mark Johnson, Principal Investigator for AOOS Data Management and Communications Group (DMAC) details recent successes in the June 2009 Newsletter. Get PDF or word doc now. This document includes:

  • Statewide and National accomplishments
  • Select upcoming plans


Please Welcome

Darcy Dugan to the AOOS team. She grew up in Girdwood and graduated from Dimond High School then went on to get her B.S. from Stanford and her Masters from Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies. Darcy's first efforts focus on outreach for the Prince William Sound Field Experiment and then she'll turn her efforts toward Cook Inlet and the Arctic.

surface currents collected by hf radar buoyData Journey

It is a thrill to see our HF Radar data take a journey. Last month Rachel Potter, Hank Statscewich and Steve Sweet traveled to Cook Inlet to set up monitoring equipment for surface currents. Now the AOOS data is being fed directly to the National Data Buoy Center.

You can see it via the 'demonstration of the NOAA HF Radar National Server and Architecture Project' at http://hfradar.ndbc.noaa.gov/. Learn more: HF-radar and surface currents and National Data Buoy Center

Data collection for Cook Inlet is complete. HF Radar data and Google interface view of materials will remain active through June 2009.


chlorophyll Southeast AlaskaYour Pages: Southeast Alaska

Folks accessing the data stored in the AOOS warehouse are from various backgrounds. A Southeast fisherman recently contacted us with questions about our online tools. From our interaction with him we created a new 'Your Pages for Southeast Alaska specificically showing sea surface temperature and chlorophyll. Learn more at Your Pages

 

Data Elements

AOOS has collections data in the warehouse including but not limited to Oceanographic: weather buoy, CTD, Mooring, Cruise data sets; bathymetric, satellite, sea surface temperature; Weather data: National Weather Service, AVHRR, QuikScat, Weather Forcast. See data products list