The Impact of Typhoons on the Ocean in the Pacific (ITOP) Field and Data Management Support

Abstract

The ITOP (The Impact of Typhoons on the Ocean in the Pacific) Field Campaign in 2010 studied the interaction between typhoons and the underlying ocean with specific regard to the 4-dimensional response of the ocean underneath and behind the storm. This project involved instrumented aircraft and ships from the United States and Taiwan as well as ship-deployed instruments including floats, gliders, drifters, and moorings. The complexity of the observational campaign and proposed measurement strategies necessitated a dry run experiment in October of 2009 to develop effective sampling strategies for 2010. The Earth Observing Laboratory/Computing Data and Software Facility EOL/CDS) supported the ITOP Dry Run with the development and deployment of a field catalog. The ITOP Field Catalog hosted a complete set of operational and model products and was accessible to all investigators via the world-wide-web. These catalog products contained imagery and data plots of atmospheric and ocean conditions in the project area as well as conditions in and around typhoons of opportunity that occurred.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Dec 16, 2011
Accession Number
ADA553786

Entities

People

  • James E. Moore

Organizations

  • University Corporation for Atmospheric Research

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Abstracts
  • Aircrafts
  • Contracts
  • Corporations
  • Data Management
  • Department Of Defense
  • Deployment
  • Measurement
  • Remote Sensing
  • Research Facilities
  • Sampling
  • United States
  • Vehicles
  • World Wide Web

Fields of Study

  • Environmental science

Readers

  • Geospatial Intelligence and Artificial Intelligence Analytics
  • Ocean-Atmosphere Mesoscale Modeling, Data Assimilation, and Flux Boundary Layers
  • Oceanography.

Technology Areas

  • Autonomy