IOOS Regional 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 use models and tailored model products to understand and communicate current marine conditions, and forecast future marine conditions. Multiple user focused products are often developed from one model, making the IOOS® Regional Association 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 IOOS Regional Models and Products

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DOPPIO

A ROMS-based regional ocean circulation model of the northeastern continental shelf of North America

Region:
Atlantic
Time Range:
48-hour forecast; reanalysis
Model Component:
ROMS
Outputs:
Circulation, Currents, Salinity, Temperature, Hydrodynamic
Products:

New York Harbor Observing and Prediction System (NYHOPS)

NYHOPS provides a real-time assessment of ocean, weather, and environmental conditions throughout the waters of New York, New Jersey and Long Island Sound.

Region:
Atlantic
Time Range:
Nowcast; 72-hour forecast
Model Component:
ECOMSED/POM
Outputs:
Water Level, Surface Temperature, Surface And Bottom Temperature, Surface Salinity, Surface And Bottom Salinity, Currents, Winds, Waves, Hydrodynamic
Products:

OSU Coastal Ocean Forecast Model (OSU ROMS)

Experimental nowcast and forecast fields showing Oregon coastal ocean circulation parameters (water temperature, surface current speed and direction)

Region:
Pacific
Time Range:
Nowcast; 72-hour forecast
Model Component:
ROMS
Outputs:
Ocean Circulation, Currents, Salinity, Temperature
Products:

Coastal Margin Observation and Prediction (CMOP) Virtual Columbia River

Runs as daily forecasts, 20-year historical simulations, and scenario simulations such as sea level rise, channel deepening, for pre-development bathymetry, of use in creaing indexes describing the estuary and plume, climatology maps of salinity and temperature, estimates of potential juvenile salmon habitat, and used in individual based modeling of juvenile salmon migration.

Region:
Pacific
Time Range:
72-hour forecast, nowcast, 20 year hindcasts
Model Component:
SCHISM
Outputs:
Temperature, Salinity
Products:

J-SCOPE (JISAO’s Seasonal Coastal Ocean Prediction of the Ecosystem)

Provides experimental seasonal forecasts of upper ocean properties and dynamical downscaling with a high-resolution version of ROMS that includes a biogeochemical module.

Region:
Pacific
Time Range:
6-9 month forecast
Model Component:
ROMS
Outputs:
Chlorophyll, Sea Surface Temperature, Sardines, Hake, Oxygen, pH, Ocean Acidification, Upwelling, ENSO Index
Products:

LiveOcean (UW)

LiveOcean is a realistic numerical model of ocean circulation and biogeochemistry for the coastal and estuarine waters of the northern California Current System, including high-resolution sub-domains for Wallapa Bay and Grays Harbor providing forecasts of aragonite saturation. salinity, and temperature, and the South Puget Sound.

Region:
Pacific
Time Range:
72-hour forecasts; reanalysis
Model Component:
ROMS
Outputs:
Circulation, Biogeochemistry, BGC, Salinity, Temperature, Phytoplankton, pH, Oxygen, Nitrate, Aragonite
Products: