Establishing a NOAA Operational Data Center for Surface Currents Derived from Satellite Altimeters and Scatterometers; Pilot Study for the Tropical Pacific Including the Hawaiian Islands and US Territorial Islands

Abstract

This project, which now has a working name OSCAR (Ocean Surface Currents Analysis Realtime), develops a processing system and data center to provide operational ocean surface velocity fields from satellite altimeter and vector wind data. The regional focus is the tropical Pacific, where the value of this data is demonstrated for a variety of uses, specifically fisheries management and recruitment, monitoring debris drift, larvae drift, oil spills, fronts and eddies, as well as large scale climate diagnostics and prediction. The end product will be to leave in place a turnkey system running at NOAA/NESDIS, with an established user clientele and easy internet data access.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 2010
Accession Number
ADA539141

Entities

People

  • Gary S. Lagerloef
  • Gary T. Mitchum
  • Gregg A. Jacobs
  • Jeffrey Polovina
  • Mark Bourassa
  • Richard Legeckis
  • Robert Cheney

Organizations

  • United States Naval Research Laboratory

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Altimeters
  • Artificial Satellites
  • Data Centers
  • Electronic Mail
  • Environment
  • Monitoring
  • National Security
  • Ocean Currents
  • Oceanography
  • Oceans
  • Oil Spills
  • Pacific Ocean
  • Pilot Studies
  • Resource Management
  • Scatterometers
  • Sea Surface Temperature
  • Surface Temperature

Fields of Study

  • Environmental science

Readers

  • Database Systems and Applications
  • Ocean-Atmosphere Mesoscale Modeling, Data Assimilation, and Flux Boundary Layers

Technology Areas

  • Space