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Prince William Sound Observing System
Alaska's Prince William Sound (PWS) includes over 6,000 km of shoreline surrounded by the Chugach National Forest, and contains the most extensive system of tidewater glaciers descending from the highest coastal mountain range in North America. The Trans Alaska Pipeline terminates at thePort of Valdez, making the pristine environment of the Sound highly vulnerable to oil spills, as evidenced by the 1989 Exxon Valdez spill. The Oil Spill Recovery Institute (OSRI) and its partner organizations conduct research in Prince William Sound to enable detection and prediction of oil-spill related impacts and subsequent recovery. This mission led to the development of a regional atmospheric circulation model coupled to an ocean circulation model. The modeling program is now rapidly evolving toward integration with the Alaska Ocean Observing System (AOOS) and to take better advantage of real-time data streams from satellites, weather stations, and an enhanced observational oceanography program consisting of permanent moored buoys and seasonal hydrographic transects.
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Data Access
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