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Background Information on the Narragansett Bay NOPP Project
The implementation of NOAA's LAPS for the Narragansett Bay region is being conducted by the National Ocean Service's Coast Survey Development Laboratory in partnership with the NOAA Air Resources Laboratory, the National Weather Service Forecast Offices in Taunton, MA, Upton, NY, and Sterling, VA along with NOAA's Forecast System Laboratory. It is one component of a project funded by the National Oceanographic Partnership Program. A brief summary of the NOPP project for Narragansett Bay is given below.
Title of Project:
Application of an Integrated Monitoring and Modeling System to Narragansett Bay and Adjacent Waters Incorporating Internet-Based-Technology
Purpose of Project:
Drexel University and The University of Rhode Island are leading a mult-institution partnership to develop a globally re-locatable, integrated system for real time observations, modeling, and data distribution for shelf, coastal sea, and estuarine waters. The models would be forced by input from the Global Ocean Data Assimilation Experiments (GODAE) products or similar global or shelf scale modeling systems. It is proposed to apply the system to Narragansett Bay and RI coastal waters (Block Island and Rhode Island Sounds) as a demonstration of the practical use of the system to support environmental monitoring, marine pollutant transport and fate, marine transportation, and search and rescue operations and to provide a foundation to advance our understanding of and predictive capabilities for the bay. The proposed study will make use of COASTMAP, an integrated modeling and data analysis and distribution system, developed by URI, that combines data collecting, data analysis, numerical modeling, and post processing features that are ideally suited for the task. A generalized data base system for data collection, archiving, visualization, and distribution will also be developed. This system will be based on platform independent Internet/Web technology (Java) and will make data collected via telemetry, remote sensing, GODAE, and output from numerical models for oceanographic and atmospheric processes available to the use community at large.
Partners:
Project Period:
August 2000 to August 2003
Additional information:
More detail information on this NOPP project and the partners can be found at http://nopp.cae.drexel.edu.
