Gulf of Mexico Ocean Monitoring System
Abstract
The overall goal is to demonstrate improved efficiency in the process of oceanographic research through increased cooperation and collaboration both between our own participants within the Ocean Monitoring System (OMS) Program and also with other research efforts in the Gulf of Mexico whose interests were contiguous or overlapping. We began planning the program by identifying a large number of scientists, a total of nearly 20, who were well established practitioners of each of the disciplines necessary to address the program objectives. We enlisted their enthusiastic participation as Principal Investigators to work closely together to reach the program goals. Then, as the OMS Program evolved, each member of this group sought to establish relationships with productive individuals with common interests and external research programs with complementary objectives in order to save time and eliminate duplication of effort in our research. As a vehicle for demonstrating this increase in efficiency, the scientific goal of the program is to prepare the most complete possible analysis and summary of the prevailing oceanographic conditions in the Gulf of Mexico and make it available to interested parties in near-realtime over the Internet. The results will be a resource for both military and civilian users to draw upon, and will increase public awareness of, and dependence on, accurate and comprehensive ocean conditions. The data will also be a resource for other research programs in the Gulf which require oceanographic data as inputs or as boundary conditions. Finally, the resulting combination of data acquisition, analysis and model implementation will represent a relocatable nowcast/forecast system, whose capabilities have been demonstrated in the Gulf, but which is equally applicable anywhere in the world.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Jan 01, 1998
- Accession Number
- ADA544817
Entities
People
- Frank J. Kelly
- George H. Born
- George L. Mellor
- Gregg A. Jacobs
- H. J. Herring
- John P. Blaha
- Norman L. Guinasso Jr.
- P. P. Niiler
- Robert D. Martin Jr.
- Robert R. Leben