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IOOS Modeling Community of Practice Models and Products
IOOS® data comes from a variety of instruments that are part of the nationwide observing system, including buoys, high frequency radar systems, water level sensors and gliders. Understanding the current and future state of our Nation’s coasts, oceans, and Great Lakes from these disparate and complex data sets is a challenge.
The IOOS® Regional Associations, academic, industry, and local and state government partners use models and tailored model products to understand and communicate current marine conditions, and forecast future marine conditions. Multiple user focused applications and products are often developed from one model, making the IOOS® Modeling Community of Practice model portfolio efficient and specifically tailored to stakeholder needs in their respective regions. IOOS® delivers and disseminates these models, forecasts, and products so that decision-makers can take action to improve safety, enhance the economy, and protect the environment.
Often, models developed by IOOS® partners are transitioned to NOAA for operational use; these are not included in the IOOS® modeling catalog, but are included in NOAA’s Operational Forecast Systems and Harmful Algal Bloom (HAB) forecasts. Additional model outputs from IOOS® partners can also be visualized in the IOOS® Model Viewer.
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WHY USE MODELS?
IOOS uses models to understand current marine conditions, and forecast and predict future marine conditions.
Data Models organize and standardize data elements to understand how they relate to one another and to ocean, coastal, and Great Lakes properties
Model Applications translate and visualize modeling outputs to make data easier to see and understand.
Catalog of Models and Products
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NorthEast Coastal Ocean Forecast System (NECOFS)
The NorthEast Coastal Ocean Forecast System (NECOFS) is an integrated regional atmosphere/surface wave/ocean forecast model system covering the Delaware Shelf to the eastern end of the Scotian Shelf, including a high-resolution nested model for Massachusetts Bay.
Chesapeake Bay Environmental Forecasting System (CBEFS)
Daily real-time nowcasts and 48-hour forecasts of environmental conditions in the Chesapeake Bay including forecasts of waves, currents, salinity, water temperature, heatwaves, pH, aragonite saturation state, alkalinity, dissolved oxygen, and Harmful Algal Bloom forecasts of P. minimum of bloom likelihood.
- Chesapeake Bay Hypoxia Forecast
- Real-time Estimates of Hypoxic Water Volume
- Salinity Forecast
- Temperature Forecast
- Acidification Forecasts
- Marine Heatwave Forecast
- Harmful Algal Bloom Encounter Forecast
- Prorocentrum minimum Forecast
- Pathogen Forecast (Vibrio)
- Percent Chance of Encountering Sea Nettles
- Water Clarity Forecast
- Wave Forecasts
PacIOOS Ocean Circulation Model: O'ahu Kane-ohe
PacIOOS’ Regional Ocean Modeling System (ROMS) provides a 3-day, hourly forecast for the region surrounding Kāneʻohe Bay along the windward (eastern) shore of Oʻahu in the State of Hawaiʻi at approximately 100-m to 1.5-km resolution. Outputs a current forecast, temperature forecast, and salinity forecast.
PacIOOS Ocean Circulation Model: Western North Pacific
PacIOOS’ Regional Ocean Modeling System (ROMS) provides a 7-day, 3-hourly forecast for the region surrounding the Western North Pacific, including Guam and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI), the Republic of Palau, and the western half of the Federated States of Micronesia (FSM) at approximately 8-km (5-mile) resolution. Outputs a current forecast, temperature forecast, and salinity forecast.
PacIOOS Ocean Circulation Model: Samoa
PacIOOS’ Regional Ocean Modeling System (ROMS) provides a 7-day, 3-hourly forecast for the region surrounding the islands of Samoa at approximately 3-km (1.9-mile) resolution. Outputs a current forecast, temperature forecast, and salinity forecast.
PacIOOS Ocean Circulation Model: Mariana Islands
PacIOOS’ Regional Ocean Modeling System (ROMS) provides a 6-day, 3-hourly forecast for the region surrounding the Mariana Islands, including Guam and the main islands of the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI), at approximately 2-km (1.2-mile) resolution. Outputs a current forecast, temperature forecast, and salinity forecast.
