National Oceanographic Partnership Program (NOPP)
Abstract
This activity focuses on US Navy investments in the NOPP. NOPP, established by the US Congress (Public Law 104-201) in Fiscal Year 1997, is a unique collaboration among 15 federal agencies involved in conducting, funding, or utilizing results of ocean research. NOPP's value to the Navy derives from the capacity of the partnership to enable and ensure multi-agency efforts where such collaboration enhances efficiency or effectiveness, and/or reduces costs. Major areas of investment by NOPP include: development of an integrated coastal ocean observation system and development of sensors, communications and data acquisition, storage and processing tools required to affect it, modernization of ocean research and observation infrastructure, and marine mammal-related research. Funding increase from FY 2013 to FY 2014 due to the initiation for the Arctic Remote Sensing program and the Advancing Air/Ocean/Land/ Ice global Coupled Prediction on Emerging Computational Architectures program. Funding increase from FY 2014 to FY 2015 due to an effort to develop a significantly improved capability to simulate and predict the coupled global air-ocean-wave-land-sea ice system at eddy-resolving spatial scales in a computationally efficient, massively parallel architecture towards real-time operational environmental prediction. Focus is on mathematical reformulation and computational software re-engineering of geophysical fluid dynamical systems to gain better scalability without loss of accuracy on heterogeneous petaflop architectures.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Accomplishment
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 2015
- Source ID
- d4300029ec34b3feec05beb66350fc06