# Presentation: 125494

## Ocean Observations: Present and Future

**Capitol Hill Oceans Week ****June 10, 2004**
**Brig. Gen. David L. Johnson, USAF (Ret.)** **NOAA Assistant Administrator for Weather Services**

## Ocean Observations: Present and Future

**Background**
**NOAA’s Ocean Observations**
**National Weather Service Operational Information Flow **
**NOAA’s Ocean Services**
**Integrated Ocean Observing System and ****National Water Quality Monitoring System**
**Conclusion**

## Increasing Global Pressures

**Increasing Global Pressures**

## How Do You Define Ocean?

**White Water to Blue Water is the ****Geographic Scope**

## NOAA’s Ocean Observations

## TAO Array

**Tropical Atmosphere Ocean Array**

**El Niño Forecasting **

## NOAA Satellites

**Imaging & Monitoring**
*Severe Weather Events*
*Iceberg Events*
*Ocean Events*
*Tropical Cyclones*
*Oil Spills *
*Sea Surface Temperature*
*Ocean Color and Chlorophyll Levels*
*Ocean Surface Winds*
*Coral Bleaching*
*Ocean Precipitation*

**GOES**

**POES**

## Additional Sources for NOAA Observations

**Voluntary Observing Ships**

**Marine Observations (MAROBs)**

**Partnerships**

## National Weather ServiceOperational Information Flow

**Weather Forecast Offices/****River Forecast Centers**

**Emergency Managers**

**Public**

**National ****Environmental Satellite, ****Data, and ****Information Service**

**National Weather Service****Operational Information Flow**

**National ****Centers for****Environmental ****Prediction**

**NWS Marine****Observing**** ****Network**

**Global ****Telecommunication ****System ****Operational ****Bulletins**

**DATA**

**DELIVERY**

**Gulf of Maine ****Observing System**

**Coastal Ocean****Monitoring & ****Prediction System**

**Texas Automated ****Buoy System**

## NOAA’s Ocean Services

**Marine Forecasts and Warnings for:**
*Coastal waters*
*Great Lakes*
*Offshore waters*
*High seas waters*
*Rip currents*
*Hurricanes*
*Tsunamis*
**Seasonal Outlooks**
*Hurricane Season*
*El Niño/La Niña*

## NOAA’s Ocean Services

**Coral Reef Conservation**
**International Collaboration**
**Marine Protected Areas**
**National Marine Sanctuaries**
**Ocean Exploration**
**Oil and Chemical Spills**

**Coastal Decision-making Tools**
**Coastal Ecosystem Science**
**Coastal Management**
**Coastal Monitoring and Observations**
**Contaminants in the Environment**
**Ecological Forecasting**
**National Estuarine Research Reserves**
**Natural Hazards Assessment**
**Natural Resource Restoration**
**Training and Capacity- building**

**Aerial Photography and Shoreline Mapping**
**Global Positioning**
**Marine Navigation**
**Tides and Currents**

## Ocean Commission Recommendations

**Integrated Ocean Observing System**
**National Water Quality Monitoring System**

## NOAA’s Vision of an Integrated Ocean Observing System 

**As part of NOAA’s integrated earth observing system, provide a sustained global to local ocean observation & data management/****communication system.**

## Integrated Ocean Management 

## Bringing It All Together 

**Bringing It All Together**** **

## IOOS Data Management & Communications (DMAC)

**DMAC Standards and Protocols**

**IOOS Data Management ****& Communications (DMAC)**

**Currently '07 Start**

**What is the Impact of a Climate Prediction Center Forecast for a Wetter Than Normal Summer on Chesapeake Bay Oystermen?**

- Seasonal Precipitation

- Above Normal

- Below Normal

## Water Quality Monitoring

- Nutrient Loading

- Oyster Mortality

- Salinity

- Turbidity

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**NUTRIENTS**
**+**

**-**
**TURBIDITY**
**+**

**-**
**MORTALITY**
**+**

**-**
**SALINITY**
**+**

## Enhanced ability to protect lives and property and expand economic opportunities, understanding climate variability, and promote healthy ecosystems.
More cost-effective use of infrastructures, knowledge, and expertise.
Rapid access to environmental data and information.
More timely detection and prediction of changes and events.
Broader application of data and information.
Increased funding for research and monitoring.

- Enhanced ability to protect lives and property and expand economic opportunities, understanding climate variability, and promote healthy ecosystems.
- More cost-effective use of infrastructures, knowledge, and expertise.
- Rapid access to environmental data and information.
- More timely detection and prediction of changes and events.
- Broader application of data and information.
- Increased funding for research and monitoring.

**Benefits of IOOS and a National Water Quality Monitoring System**

## Present Ocean Sensor?

**Future?**