Image Credit: Pedro Matos-Llavona 2010-2015 ACCOMPLISHMENTS PART 2
In situ Observations - Coastal and Moored
#Secoora15AnnualMee ng In situ Observa ons – Coastal and Moored
Principal Investigators:
UNCW CORMP: 7 buoys, 1 coastal Pier station Lynn Leonard (PI), Jennifer Dorton (Co-PI) USF COMPS: 3 surface buoys 2 subsurface moorings, 1 coastal tower Robert H. Weisberg (PI), Yonggang Liu (Co-PI) USF COMPS: 6 inshore stations Mark E. Luther (PI), Clifford R. Merz (Co-PI), Jeff Scudder (Co-PI) UGA: 1 Ocean Acidification Gray's Reef Buoy Scott Noakes (PI), Wei-Jun Cai (Co-PI) FIO: 7 SEAKEYs stations (discontinued after Year 1) Jyotika Virmani (PI)
#Secoora15AnnualMee ng In situ Observa ons – Coastal and Moored
Goal: Sustain moored and coastal sta ons and report observed data to SECOORA and NDBC.
Objec ves: !Maintain and operate moored and coastal sta ons. !Deliver observed data in near real- me to SECOORA, NDBC, IOOS, WFOS, and other stakeholders. !Deliver in situ data products integrated with other observa ons and model data via SECOORA website. !Support observa onal data and model comparison/evalua on, etc.
#Secoora15AnnualMee ng In situ Observa ons – UNCW CORMP
SUN2 OB27 LEJ3 ILM2* ILM3 OCP1 CAP2 FRP2 * ** Air Temp X X X X X X X Barometric Pressure X X X X X X X
Wind X X X X X X X
Humidity X X X X X X X Water Temperature X X X X X X X X Salinity X X X X X X X X Waves X X X Currents X X
* Waves provided by co-located Waverider buoys ** OB27 is a seafloor system that does not report in real- me (ADCP, CTD) Some stations since 2005
#Secoora15AnnualMee ng In situ Observa ons – Tropical Storm Ana
Significant Wave Height Atmospheric Pressure
Buoy reports: • Local media (print, television, radio) • NWS reports/forecasts • Other web-based weather providers
#Secoora15AnnualMee ng USF COMPS Moored Observa ons
USF Moorings
C10 C11 C12 C13 C15 C21
Air Temp X X X X
Barometric Pressure X X X X
Wind X X X X
Humidity X X X X
Water Temperature X X X X X X Radia on C11 & C15 are bo om mounted, non real me moorings. X (SWR & LWR) C21 is an experimental sta on. Hope to implement as a Temperature, salinity X X X permanent sta on in the future. Waves X X X Waves measurements on C11 & C15 are non-direc onal and availability is based on access to calibrated sensors. Currents (ADCP) X X X X X X
#Secoora15AnnualMee ng Observed Velocity Components in the Water Column
(Mooring C12, 40-h lowpass filtered)
#Secoora15AnnualMee ng Observed Subsurface Temperature & Salinity Data
Multiple-year time series
(Mooring C12)
#Secoora15AnnualMee ng USF Moored Observa ons: Data Return
Data Return (hours in water & percent good data) ADCP Temp Salinity Wind
27480 27496 27482 21464 99% 100% 99% 75%
27471 27481 27474 17516 74% 99% 99% 98%
34577 34578 34578 23582 87% 100% 99% 99%
31006 31006 65% 77%
31002 31002 59% 75%
#Secoora15AnnualMee ng USF COMPS Inshore Sta ons
• Con nues to operate and maintain water level and meteorological observing systems at Shell Point, Aripeka, Fred Howard Park (Tarpon Springs), Clam Bayou, Big Carlos Pass, and Northwest Florida Bay. • A test site is under construc on on the USF docks on Bayboro Harbor. • Sites at Egmont Key and Anna Maria Island have been decommissioned and are being consolidated into one nearby site at Mullet Key. • A full suite of water quality sensors was recently installed on the Clam Bayou site in partnership with YSI/Xylem.
Tropical Storm Debby
Aripeka Sta on
Storm surge of 1 meter or greater persisted from June 24 - 27, 2012 Mark Luther’s front yard – June 26, 2012
#Secoora15AnnualMee ng In situ Observa ons – GRNMS Mooring
Principle Inves gators: Sco Noakes – The University of Georgia Wei-Jun Cai – The University of Delaware
#Secoora15AnnualMee ng In situ Observa ons – GRNMS Mooring
pCO2 Changes at GRNMS
Seawater = +2.4%/year
Atmosphere = +0.789%/year Source Source 2
Seawater pCO2 CO Atmospheric pCO2
Seawater Temperature (C)
Seawater pCO2 Trend Sink 2
Atmospheric pCO2 Trend CO
Note: Lower pCO2 values during summer 2014 are related to equilibrator malfunc on.
• Vital to understand the SAB role in ocean carbon uptake • Data collected almost con nuously from 2006 to present • The only representa ve of the carbon uptake for the SAB
#Secoora15AnnualMee ng Technical Improvements
UNCW: " Modularized instrumenta on: Technicians can swap individual sensors in situ instead of wai ng for the buoy turnaround. " Improved mooring communica ons: Switched from Iridium satellite communica ons to cell modems for 5 moorings. Cost savings of $17,500/year and reduc on in missed buoy dial-ins. " In-house sensor calibra on: Incorporated the same individual sensors used in Coastal Environmental WeatherPACS for 1/3 the cost. USF: " Data logger/transmi er redesign: u lizing off-the-shelf industry standard components, more robust and cost effec ve. " Designing/fabrica ng/assembling our own sensors (WND, RH/AT, BP); again systems engineering u lizing proven, off-the-shelf sensors and components. " Experimental Waves Sta on: transi oned from acous c modems to cabled system, more reliable and cost effec ve. UGA: " Be er biofouling prac ces: Use of copper when possible; Protec ve tape on wires and housings.
#Secoora15AnnualMee ng Data Management (Data Provider) o Each group provides observed data to DMAC o Each group maintains a DMAC infrastructure (real- me telemetry, data sever, etc) o Have local website providing data to local users o Development and implementa on of QARTOD real me current QA/QC protocols
#Secoora15AnnualMee ng In situ Observa ons – Coastal and Moored
Stakeholder/User Examples – Federal: USCG, NWS, USACE, MCB Camp Lejeune – State: NC Division of Coastal Management, Division of Marine Fisheries, FWRI – General Public: boaters, recrea onal and commercial fishermen
Value of Partnerships: FryingPanTower.com – example FryingPanTower.com scrapes CORMP mooring data and provides the data to their users. Per Dave Tilley, the site owner, individual buoys can receive over 32,000,000 “hits” annually.
#Secoora15AnnualMee ng In situ Observa ons – Coastal and Moored
Educa on and Outreach: o NOAA IOOS Internships o Canterbury High School and Sea Educa on Associa on: Plas cs in the ocean research o USF-FGCU Collabora on & UNCW BS Oceanography: undergraduate research cruise experiences and formal course training o Undergraduate and Graduate student research & applied learning o K-12 outreach engagements o Public lectures/workshops/seminars etc.
#Secoora15AnnualMee ng Leveraging
" SECOORA funding for observing is not sufficient to cover all opera onal costs. Crea ve leveraging opportuni es, such as vessel (e.g., NDBC, USCG, FIO) & diver support, joint sponsorship of pla orms and non-NOAA funding/dona ons: – UGA: GRNMS provides vessel and diver support to work on the buoy. An cipated con nued NOAA OAP support; Leveraged support from NOAA NDBC and USCG. – Crowd-source funding: Local fishing community, UNCW, and SECOORA worked together to raise over $16,000 to fund a replacement for buoy 41036. " Mul ple external proposals in review that leverage SECOORA funded assets.
#Secoora15AnnualMee ng In situ Observa ons – Coastal and Moored
Applica ons: – SECOORA’s Marine Weather Portal – NWS forecasts and weather products – USCG Search and Rescue applica ons – USACE Wave Informa on Study (WIS) – USC Beach Water Quality Modeling – Red de predic on, origin and transport – Larval grouper recruitment, solving the se lement and recruitment conundrum – Upwelling induced bo om current transport of oil onto the WFS – Numerical model veracity tes ng – Evalua on of satellite remote sensing (NASA & ESA) products – Comparison with HF radar measurements (WERA & CODAR) – COMPS portal for local boaters and users – SAB CO2 changes (sink in winter, source in summer, seawater pCO2 increases ~2.4%/yr)
#Secoora15AnnualMee ng Publica ons
! ~ 20 peer-reviewed publica ons since 2012 (List appended to presenta on)
! New publica on (including mul ple submissions from SECOORA PIs)
Liu, Y., H. Kerkering, and R.H. Weisberg (Editors) (2015) Coastal Ocean Observing Systems. ISBN 978-0-12-802022-7, Elsevier (in press).
#Secoora15AnnualMee ng In situ Observa ons – Coastal and Moored
Thank you!
#Secoora15AnnualMee ng Publica ons
! Arnott, K. D., A. Valle-Levinson, and M. E. Luther(2012) Friction-dominated exchange in a Florida estuary. Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science, 113, 248-258. ! Liu, Y., and R.H. Weisberg (2012) Seasonal variability on the West Florida shelf, Progr. Oceanogr.104, 80-98. ! Liu, Y., RH Weisberg, S Vignudelli, L Roblou, CR Merz (2012) Comparison of the X-TRACK altimetry estimated currents with moored ADCP and HF radar observations on the West Florida Shelf, Adv. Space Res., 50 (8), 1085-1098.
! Meyers, S., A. J. Linville, and M. E. Luther (2013) Alteration of residual circulation due to large-scale infrastructure in a drowned riverbed estuary. Estuaries and Coasts, doi:10.1007/s12237-013-9691-3. ! Luther, M. E., G. Meadows, E. Buckley, S. A. Gilbert, H. Purcell, and M. Tamburri (2013) Verification of Wave Measurement Systems. J. Mar. Tech., 47(5), 104-116.
! Liu, Y., R.H. Weisberg, and C.R. Merz (2014) Assessment of CODAR and WERA HF radars in mapping currents on the West Florida Shelf. J. Atmos. Oceanic Technol., 31, 1363-1382, doi:10.1175/JTECH-D-13-00107.1. ! Liu, Y., R.H. Weisberg, S. Vignudelli, and G.T. Mitchum (2014) Evaluation of altimetry-derived surface current products using Lagrangian drifter trajectories in the eastern Gulf of Mexico. J. Geophys. Res., 119, 2827-2842, doi:10.1002/2013JC009710. ! Meyers, S.D. and M.E. Luther (2014) Real-Time Oceanographic Data : From Safety to Science. Eos, Trans. AGU, 95: 305-306. ! Pan, C., L. Zheng, R.H. Weisberg, and Y. Liu, and C.E. Lembke (2014) Comparisons of different ensemble schemes for glider data assimilation on West Florida Shelf, Ocean Modelling, 81, 13-24. ! Wahl, T., F. M. Calafat, and M. E. Luther (2014) Rapid changes in the seasonal sea level cycle along the US Gulf coast from the late 20th century. Geophys. Res. Lett., 41, doi:10.1002/2013GL058777. ! Weisberg, R.H., L. Zheng, Y. Liu, C. Lembke, J.M. Lenes, and J.J. Walsh (2014) Why a red tide was not observed on the West Florida Continental Shelf in 2010, Harmful Algae, 38, 119-126. ! Weisberg, R.H., Zheng, L., and Peebles, E. (2014), Gag grouper larvae pathways on the West Florida Shelf, Cont. Shelf Res., 88,11-23, doi.10.1016/j.csr.2014.06.003. ! Wilson, M. C., S. D. Meyers, and M. E. Luther (2014) Synoptic volumetric variations and flushing of the Tampa Bay estuary. Climate Dynamics, doi:10.1007/s00382-013-1926-2.
#Secoora15AnnualMee ng Publica ons
! Liu, Y., R.H. Weisberg, and C. Lembke (2015) Glider salinity correction for unpumped CTD sensors across a sharp thermocline. In Coastal Ocean Observing Systems, Elsevier (in press). ! Liu, Y., H. Kerkering, and R.H. Weisberg (Editors) (2015) Coastal Ocean Observing Systems. ISBN 978-0-12-802022-7, Elsevier (in press). ! Meyers, S., M. C. Wilson, and M. E. Luther (2015) Observations of Hysteresis in the Annual Exchange Circulation of a Large Micro-Tidal Estuary. J. Geophys. A new book: Res. (in press) ! Torres, H., F. Muller-Karger, D. Keys, H. Thornton, M. Luther, and K. Alsharif (2015) Whither the U.S. National Ocean Policy Implementation Plan? J. Mar. Policy (2015), pp. 198-212, 10.1016/j.marpol.2014.11.013 ! Weisberg, R.H., L. Zheng, Y. Liu, S. Murawski, C. Hu, and J. Paul (2015) Did Deepwater Horizon hydrocarbons transit to the west Florida continental shelf? Deep-Sea Res., II, doi:10.1016/j.dsr2.2014.02.002 (in press). ! Weisberg, R.H., L. Zheng, and Y. Liu (2015) Basic tenets for coastal ocean ecosystems monitoring: A West Florida perspective. In Coastal Ocean Observing Systems, Elsevier (in press).
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