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.

The full catalog of IOOS® Regional models and products can be found here. 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:
Forecast (48 hour), Reanalysis
Outputs:
Circulation, Currents, Hydrodynamic, Salinity, Temperature
Model Component:
ROMS

Stevens Flood Advisory System at Davidson Laboratory

The fully-automated, ensemble-based flood advisory system produces street scale flood forecasts over urban terrain in the Greater NY/NJ Metropolitan region

Region:
Atlantic
Time Range:
108-Hour Forecast
Outputs:
Water Levels

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, Forecast (72 hour)
Outputs:
Water Levels, Waves, Winds
Model Component:
ROMS

Mariner's Dashboard

The Mariner's Dashboard provides mariner's with high-quality, timely data from a network of buoys and sensors that includes integrated wind and wave forecasts and 12-hour histories for station across the region.

Region:
Atlantic
Time Range:
Forecast (12 hour), Nowcast, Forecast (7 day)
Outputs:
Waves, Winds
Model Component:
FVCOM, WW3

ROMS Modeled Ocean Surface Currents (OSU)

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

Region:
Pacific
Time Range:
Nowcast, Forecast (72 hour)
Outputs:
Currents, Ocean Circulation, Salinity, Temperature
Model Component:
ROMS

NANOOS Visualization System (NVS) Tuna Fishers

Data and forecasts customized for safe tuna fishing.

Region:
Pacific
Time Range:
Nowcast, Forecast (1 month)
Outputs:
Chlorophyll, Currents, Fishing, Sea Surface Temperature, Tuna