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IOOS Regional Models and Applications
IOOS data comes from a variety of technologies and data collection systems across United States waters, including buoys, high frequency radar systems 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 model applications to understand and communicate current marine conditions, and forecast and predict future marine conditions. IOOS® delivers and disseminates these models, model outputs, and model-based applications so that decision-makers can take action to improve safety, enhance the economy, and protect the environment.
The full catalog of IOOS® Regional models can be found here. Often, models developed by IOOS® partners are transitioned to NOAA to run; 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 models by IOOS partners can also be visualized in the IOOS® Model Viewer.
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 Applications
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ROMS Modeled Ocean Surface Currents (OSU)
Experimental nowcast and forecast fields showing Oregon coastal ocean circulation parameters (water temperature, surface current speed and direction)
NANOOS Visualization System (NVS) Tuna Fishers
Data and forecasts customized for safe tuna fishing.
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.
OSU WWIII Climate
J-SCOPE (JISAO’s Seasonal Coastal Ocean Prediction of the Ecosystem)
Provide experimental seasonal forecasts of upper ocean properties and dynamical downscaling with a high-resolution version of ROMS that includes a biogeochemical module.
LiveOcean
LiveOcean is a realistic numerical model of ocean circulation and biogeochemistry for the coastal and estuarine waters of the northern California Current System.
