Melanie Abecassis

Joint Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Research, University of Hawaii

Melanie.Abecassis@noaa.gov

Evan Howell

NOAA/NMFS/Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center

https://oceanwatch.pifsc.noaa.gov/

OceanWatchCentral Pacific

Satellite Oceanography Products & Applications

Objective: Provide ocean satellite data products to users from the US and the territories

NOAA CoastWatch/OceanWatch/PolarWatch - CoastWatch.NOAA.gov

Objective: Provide ocean satellite data products to users from the US and the territories

NOAA CoastWatch/OceanWatch/PolarWatch - CoastWatch.NOAA.gov

Fisheries

Fisheries

Research

Research

Ocean/coastal service

Geographic Scope of the NOAA Fisheries Pacific Islands Region

• Need for basin-scale or

global datasets

• Need high-resolution data

in coastal areas

Data offerings can be overwhelming

A short list of data servers

NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory PO.DAAC

NASA Ocean Biology (OB.DAAC)

NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

NOAA Center for Satellite Applications and Res.

NOAA CoastWatch Central Operations

NOAA Office of Satellite and Products

NOAA National Centers for Environmental Info.

NOAA Comprehensive Large Array-data Stewardship System

European Space Agency

Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency

OceanWatch makes the link between satellite data providers and users of varied needs and

technical skills

OceanWatch makes the link between satellite data providers and users of varied needs and

technical skills

https://oceanwatch.pifsc.noaa.gov

NOAA OceanWatch – Central PacificData Discovery

NOAA OceanWatch – Central PacificData Discovery

Data offerings can be overwhelming

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NOAA OceanWatch – Central PacificData Discovery

Based on identified users and user needs, OceanWatch serves a curated list of datasets.

• long-term global datasets for fisheries and ecosystem research

• near-real-time SST for daily monitoring of fishing conditions and bycatch mitigation.

• For each parameter: longest possible time-series of consistent observations or climate data records (CDR) to enable users to examine temporal trends.

• When available, gap-filled or reanalyzed level 4 data.

NOAA OceanWatch – Central PacificData Discovery

• SST

• Ocean color : chlor-a, Kd490, PAR

• Altimetry: SLA, geostrophic currents

• Wind

• Salinity

• L3 or L4

OceanWatch makes the link between satellite data providers and users of varied needs and

technical skills

Data Visualization - Voyager

http://www.pacioos.hawaii.edu/voyager/oceanwatch.html

Data Visualization - Voyager

http://www.pacioos.hawaii.edu/voyager/oceanwatch.html

Data Visualization - Voyager

http://www.pacioos.hawaii.edu/voyager/oceanwatch.html

Data Visualization - Voyager

http://www.pacioos.hawaii.edu/voyager/oceanwatch.html

OceanWatch makes the link between satellite data providers and users of varied needs and

technical skills

What is easy and useful? - ERDDAP

• ERDDAP is a data server that gives users a simple, consistent way to download subsets of

scientific datasets in common file formats and make graphs and maps.

• ERDDAP unifies the different types of data servers so users have a consistent way to get

the subset of data they want, in the format they want.

• Users can use ERDDAP’s web page to request data or use ERDDAP's RESTful web

services directly from any computer program (Matlab, R, e.g.).

• It’s possible to create several catalogs of ERDDAP datasets from a single ERDDAP server

to customize offerings for different audiences

bob.simons@noaa.gov

NOAA OceanWatch – Central PacificData Access

CENTERED ON THE PACIFIC! Longitudes between 0 – 360º

NOAA OceanWatch – Central PacificData Access

CENTERED ON THE PACIFIC! Longitudes between 0 – 360º

NOAA OceanWatch – Central PacificData Access

CENTERED ON THE PACIFIC! Longitudes between 0 – 360º

NOAA OceanWatch – Central PacificData Access

CENTERED ON THE PACIFIC! Longitudes between 0 – 360º

NOAA OceanWatch – Central PacificData Access

CENTERED ON THE PACIFIC! Longitudes between 0 – 360º

2 extra steps ….

Fit for purpose??

NOAA OceanWatch – Central PacificData Access

CENTERED ON THE PACIFIC! Longitudes between 0 – 360º

PROSCONS

• Extra work

• Can’t just relink

datasets from

other ERDDAPs

• Takes more disk

space

• Data tailored to

users

• Faster access

since files are

stored locally

OceanWatch makes the link between satellite data providers and users of varied needs and

technical skills

Training/Capacity building

•3-day (free!) course aimed at NOAA participants who want to learn how to access & use satellite

data

•The course was developed by Cara Wilson and the late Dave Foley, both at NMFS/SWFSC/ERD,

in conjunction with Ted Strub at the Cooperative Institute for Oceanographic Satellite Studies

(CIOSS) at Oregon State University in Corvallis, OR.

•The course was initiated by funding from NOAA’s R&O project at CoastWatch’s West Coast Node

in 2006. The course was conducted with no funding support 2007-2012, some funding has been

obtained for the courses since 2013.

•Since 2018, the course goes viral through the East Coast CoastWatch Node and the Pacific

OceanWatch Node!

https://oceanwatch.pifsc.noaa.gov/course.html

• Lectures

• Remote sensing basics

• Applications of satellite data

• SST

• ocean color

• wind, salinity, altimetry

• Tools

• Tutorials on Voyager, ERDDAP, ArcGIS, NetCDF/Panoply

• R scripts

Soon: Python, Matlab

Training/Capacity building

Example application - TurtleWatch

SST :

NOAA geopolar

blended

Daily product

Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center (PIFSC):

- Ecosystem-Based Fisheries Management (EBFM) project

Risk contours of interactions for different species of interest

Siders et al, in prep

Example application – EBFM project

Full product suite:

pCO2, pH, Total Alkalinity, AragoniteSaturation State

Derived from satellite SST and mid-tropospheric CO2, and SSS fromHYCOM using in-situ data to build themodel.

Example application – “pH from space”

Barriers

• Product comparison :

Which primary productivity product to choose?

• Long-term sensor-less ocean color : OC-CCI not updated routinely –

about 6-month delay

Questions?

Melanie.abecassis@noaa.gov