•s # 14 Group B SYNERGISTIC MONITORING OF MULTI-SENSOR AND MULTIPLE OCEAN PARAMETERS: SST, SALINITY, HEIGHT, WIND AND COLOR Prasanjit Dash1,2, Paul DiGiacomo1, Veronica Lance1,3, Heng Gu1,4 , Michael Soracco1,4 1NOAA STAR SOCD, College Park, MD, USA 2CIRA, Colorado State Univ ; 3CICS, Univ of MD ; 4RIVA Solutions, Inc. Fig. 1: A monitoring framework for satellite-based all ocean parameters for the CoastWatch/OceanWatch program of NOAA/STAR/SOCD. Monitoring is performed in Global and 19 additional Regions of Interest (RoI) for simultaneous analyses of SST, SSS, SSH, SSW and OC from different sensors. The objective is to comprehensively evaluate the products and steps beyond conventional validation approaches in an interactive web-interface useful for users, producers and scientists. Most of the diagnostics provided online can also be numerically (data in ASCII) accessed by the web-users. The users can interactively perform a variety of operations on time series plots and export the output to raster images. Wish to see a first-hand demo? Catch me during the breaks. 2. Diagnostics in OceanWatch Monitor 3. A future Ocean Viewer: The SOCD OceanView (OV) mock-up The 20th International GHRSST Science Team Meeting (GHRSST XX) – ESA ESRIN, Frascati, Italy – 3rd to 7th June 2019. Contact: prasanjit.dash@noaa.gov • This OceanWatch Monitor (OM) is a continuing effort to set a comprehensive monitoring tool for NOAA SOCD CoastWatch/OceanWatch products. The initial list of EDRs include: SST, Salinity, Surface height, Surface winds and Ocean Color. All diagnostics are made available online. • Currently, products are compared against Level-4 fields and model output. Routine validation against in situ data will be undertaken in the future. • A modern visualization tool is being conceptualized for a year 2021 release or earlier. 4. Summary and Outlook • P. Dash, S. Baker-Yeboah, V. P. Lance, S. Ramachandran, H Gu, P. DiGiacomo (2018), Towards an enterprise monitor for simultaneous monitoring of multiple ocean parameters: SST, SALINITY, HEIGHT, WIND AND COLOR, The 19th GHRSST Science Team Meeting, 4-8 June, 2018, EUMETSAT HQ, Darmstadt, Germany. • P. Dash, A. Ignatov, Y. Kihai, J. Sapper (2010), The SST Quality Monitor (SQUAM) , J. of Atm. & Oceanic Tech, 27(11), 1899-1917. https://www.star.nesdis.noaa.gov/sod/sst/squam/ References Collaborating partners and product team leads at NOAA NESDIS STAR SOCD Acknowledgments •The OceanWatch Monitor (OM) is designed for monitoring and validation of satellite-based CoastWatch/OceanWatch (CW/OW) ocean products and make the diagnostics available at: https://www.star.nesdis.noaa.gov/socd/om/. •Currently, the monitor is a standalone system but serves as a companion site to the NOAA CW/OW main web-page: https://coastwatch.noaa.gov/. In the future, efforts will be made to integrate the most relevant features of this monitor into the CoastWatch web-interface. •This monitor aims at providing an easy way to the CW/OW users to assess the state of the available products under one URL. The scope includes: • Assisting users/producers to remain aware of the state of the data they use/generate (data monitoring) • Providing a framework for synergistic ocean studies (scientific application), and • Bridging the gap between the satellite community and the modeling community (retrieval and model intercomparison). •The OM performs both Global and pre-defined Regional analyses. Currently, 20 oceanic regions of interest (ROI) are pre-selected (Fig. 1), and this can be expanded as required. •The current capability includes monitoring of five different environmental data records (EDRs): Ocean Color (OC) Chlorophyll-a, Sea Surface Height (SSH), Sea Surface Salinity (SSS), Sea Surface Temperature (SST) and Sea Surface Wind (SSW). The system is Scalable and Flexible for including other types of EDR and more product types for a given EDR. For example, considerations are being made at the NOAA STAR Satellite Oceanography and Climatolog