OSO Theme 1: Redefining the Operational Paradigm...Summary up front (1 of 2) Focus on value chain,...

Redefining the Operational Paradigm

VERONICA LANCE1,2 AND PAUL DIGIACOMO1

1NOAA/NESDIS/STAR/SOCD and NOAA CoastWatch/OceanWatch/PolarWatch Program

2Cooperative Institute for Climate and Satellites, Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center, University of Maryland

OSO Theme 1:

Operational Satellite Oceanography

Questions:

Where do you (OSO community, intermediate users and others) see gaps in operational ocean data or data products?

◦ At NOAA?

◦ Across all agencies/providers?

What barriers to access and use do stakeholders perceive?

What are the challenges we face to best serve our stakeholders?

How can we fill these gaps, bridge these barriers and overcome these challenges?

OPERATIONAL: Routine and sustained provision of mature, fit for purpose quality data and products in support of both near real time and delayed mode research, applications and services...

18-20 June 2019 1ST INT'L OPERATIONAL SATELLITE OCEANOGRAPHY SYMPOSIUM, COLLEGE PARK, MD USA 2

Summary up front (1 of 2)◦ Focus on value chain, users and applications: From observations to knowledge

◦ New paradigm of “Operational”

◦ Parameter (not mission) -based science teams: Multi-mission, sensor agnostic, ocean/aquatic satellite data products (SST, OC, Altimetry, winds, SAR, salinity, sea ice)

◦ Serve cross-NOAA line office mission support (e.g., through CoastWatch Nodes, etc.) as well as external patrons (e.g., governments, NGOs, managers, researchers, commercial users, and international partners, etc.)

◦ Global to regional to coastal and inland (not only “CoastWatch” any more)

◦ Facilitate getting ocean/aquatic satellite data and data products into downstream “operational” applications and decision-making tools


Summary up front (2 of 2)Gaps, challenges, future directions:

◦ International and cross NOAA collaboration to develop consistent, scientifically validated, long term time series (with quantified uncertainties)

◦ Improving quality for coastal, nearshore and inland waters through R&D and leveraging international partnerships

◦ Bridging barriers (perceived and real) for users through new products and services and through training, education, communication, and outreach


Value Chain: Data, Products, Information, Knowledge• Satellite Ocean Data (~from bytes to geophysical parameters)

• Satellite Ocean Data Products (~from swath/granule to merged, mapped, anomalies, etc.)

• Information (such as combine data types, outside information, get the full picture)

•Knowledge (to inform actions)

•Coral Reef Watch example


Environmental Intelligence

Observations Monitoring Assessment Modeling Tools & Services

User needs

Data

Products

Information

Knowledge


Coral –specific

Sea Surface Temperature

SST Anomaly

HotSpot

Degree Heating WeekBleaching Alert Area

From Mark EakinNOAA Coral Reef Watch5-km Satellite-Based Products


NOAA Coral Reef WatchSatellite-Based Products

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Global Isoprene

(April 2014)

Isoprene into

model domains

From Daniel Tong: VIIRS Isoprene applications National and regional air quality forecasting


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Global Isoprene

(April 2014)

Isoprene into

model domains

Since June 2018, VIIRS Isoprene product has been incorporated

into ARL emission data to support NWS NAQFC operation.

VIIRS marine isoprene is complementary to terrestrial and anthropogenic emissions currently used in NAQFC.

From Daniel Tong: VIIRS Isoprene applications: National and regional air quality forecasting


Despite maturity and availability, challenges (real and perceived) remain to achieving more-routine, effective, and sustained uses of satellite oceanographic data.

One Challenge: Changing Perceptions about what “operational” actually means

Operational only if = Near Real-Time?= 99.99 operational availability 24x7?= 24x7 human in the loop operations= COOP capability for 30 days= High impact IT security

Changing the “Operational” paradigm

1118-20 June 2019 1ST INT'L OPERATIONAL SATELLITE OCEANOGRAPHY SYMPOSIUM, COLLEGE PARK, MD USA



Operational only if = Near Real-Time?= 99.99 operational availability 24x7?= 24x7 human in the loop operations= COOP capability for 30 days= High impact IT security





Operational=


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⮚ Routine and sustained provision of accurate, consistent and fit for purpose quality, well-described and discoverable oceanographic satellite observations spanning different time-scales (i.e., NRT to climate) for multiple users (e.g., research, applications and services)

⮚ Can be high assurance/high-service, or moderate assurance/moderate-service


Definitions of terms: Agree or Amend


End Users:Science end-users who undertake research activities that rely in whole or in part on sustained measurement and observation of the oceans;

Operational end-users who make use of ocean data and information to support operational needs related to safety, economic efficiency and protection of the environment.

Public end-users who have a general interest in the ocean or make use of ocean data and information in support of their leisure activities or recreational pursuits.

Policy end-users who require sustained ocean data and information to support policy formulation, monitoring of policy compliance, and assessment of policy effectiveness;

And I would add: Commercial end-users

Active in International Community OrganizationsProviders of observing system infrastructure; *

Producers of ocean observations; *

Intermediate users who tailor ocean data or information for a specific end-use (from all sectors)

Souce: personal communication Ralph Rayner

Definitions of terms: Product Levels


For example, see Anne O’Carroll’s GHRSST presentation

Is there a need to label and define more complex products(e.g.: What to call a data product derived from multiple satellite parameter inputs; What is “fusion”) -----------------------------Potential Outcome of OSO (at least for my benefit/education)◦ Is there support and agreement on the need for common terms and

definitions?◦ Which terms have potential for being commonly defined; Are we already

there for some terms? Borrow from broader satellite obs and from broader ocean obs…

◦ Is there a need to formalize a path to do this? At what stage are we jumping in (e.g., working group, socialize, acceptance, finalize, adopt internally, communicate broadly, externally)?


9-13 December 2019, San FranciscoSession ID: 82635

Session Title: . Oceanography from Space: Applications for

Satellite-based Ocean ObservationsSection: Ocean Sciences

View Session Details: https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm19/gateway.cgi

Session ID: 82733

Session Title: . NOAA Ocean Satellite Data Products

for Science and ApplicationsSection: Town Hall

View Session Details: https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm19/gateway.cgi

https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm19/gateway.cgi

https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm19/gateway.cgi

Thank you.

Questions?


NOAA CoastWatch/ OceanWatch/PolarWatch

VERONICA LANCE1,2 AND PAUL DIGIACOMO1

With contributions from theNOAA CoastWatch/OceanWatch/PolarWatch team 1NOAA/NESDIS/STAR/SOCD and

NOAA CoastWatch/OceanWatch/PolarWatch Program2Cooperative Institute for Climate and Satellites, Earth System

Science Interdisciplinary Center, University of Maryland

From satellite ocean data to information and applications:

Ocean Parameters from SPACE

Temperature (SST)

Sea Level Anomaly

Ocean Surface

VectorWind

s

Sea Ice

Ocean Color

Surface Salinity

Imagery

SAR(“roughness

” e.g., ice, winds, oil

spills, etc.)


NOAA CoastWatch/OceanWatch/PolarWatch


Facilitate the use of ocean /aquatic satellite data along the value chain from observations to decision-making

CoastWatch.NOAA.gov

• Data Discovery and Access• Value added product distribution• Outreach and education• User engagement, feedback to science

https://coastwatch.noaa.gov/


CW Central

NOAA/NESDIS/

STAR

NESDIS(Satellites and Data)

Commercial

Academia

International

State Agencies

NMFS(Fisheries)

OAR(Research)

NOS(OceanService)

Public

Federal Agencies

NWS(National

Weather Service)

NOAA Users

External Users

Great Lakes OAR

East Coast NOS

Atlantic OceanWatch

OAR

Gulf of Mexico

OAR

Pacific OceanWatch

NMFS

West Coast NMFS

PolarWatch NMFS/NESDIS

NOAA CoastWatch/OceanWatch/PolarWatch Program

“HUB and SPOKES”


Role of NOAA CoastWatch/OceanWatch/PolarWatch

• Science research• Algorithm/product development• Cal/Val• Quality assessment and monitoring• Reanalysis, reprocessing• Satellite application development & support

NESDIS/STAR(Oceans/SOCD)

• Cross-NOAA program and data framework• Interface between development, users of all

levels and applications• Measurement (vice) mission-based approach

to multi-sensor satellite data• Processing and customization of pre-and/or

post-operational products; “value-added” for CoastWatch users

• NRT & science quality time-series data service• Global and user regions of interest• Quality monitoring• Multiple pathways to data discovery• Intermediate repository• Help desk, project assistance, public outreach• Best effort, 8/5 support

NOAA CoastWatch/OceanWatch

•Data stewardship •Determine archive-worthiness; identify storage requirements• Ensure robust metadata• Data archive; long term storage• Discovery of and access to archived data• Support for users

NESDIS/NCEI

•Routine, robust, operational production and distribution, especially to NOAA users• Dedicated support (8x5 or 24x7 depending upon specific product)

NESDIS/OSPO

•USERS


Timeline of Satellite Oceanographic Dataat CoastWatch

1987 1998 2001 2005 2012 2016 2020

pss pss

Typical Product Lifecycle


Experimental Pre-operational/Developmental Operational

Reanalysis

Archive Worthy

Data Access by USERS

Example “Snapshot”

Today

2 Jan 2012 1 May 2016

MSL12 NRT

Science-Quality Data replaces 15-day old NRT data

IDPS operational SDRGFS Model

Improved SDR by OC TeamGDAS

NRT

ScienceQuality

2 Weeks Ago

* Reprocessed V1Forward

Stream V1

*Early mission data are not routinely distributed due to quality issues. They can be specially requested but will come with a quality warning.

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Launch

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1ST INT'L OPERATIONAL SATELLITE OCEANOGRAPHY SYMPOSIUM, COLLEGE PARK, MD USA


Consistent NRT & Science QualityExample from NOAA MSL12 VIIRS Ocean Color

Attribute Near-Real Time Delayed-Mode/Science-Quality

Latency:Best effort, as soon as possible (~12-

24h)Best effort, on a 2-week delay

Processing System:MSL12

(v1.01; will transition to v1.2x)MSL12 (v1.2x)

SDR: IDPS Operational SDR OC-improved SDR

Ancillary Data: Global Forecast System (GFS) Model Science quality (assimilated; GDAS) from NCEP

Spatial Coverage: May be gaps due to various issues Complete global coverage

Processed by: OSPO (operational) NOAA/STAR

Distributed by: CoastWatch , OSPO CoastWatch, NCEI

Archive Plans: Yes, from OSPO to NCEI Yes, from CoastWatch to NCEI

Full Mission Reprocessing: No Yes, every ~2-3 years or as needed

CoastWatch “Value Added” VIIRS Hi-Res Sectors Co-Located for Ocean Color and SST



CoastWatch “Value Added” Hi-Res Sectors for OLCI S3 (=VIIRS x9)

CoastWatch Data Access and Monitoring Online Tools



Data Portal

Single mapping interface in responsive design◦ NRT Search

◦ Granule Locator

◦ Spatial Search

◦ Unified Shopping cart

◦ Dynamic subsetting of NetCDF data or URL

Metadata and Discovery◦ THREDDS v5.0

◦ ERDDAP

◦ WAF folder

◦ Improved integration with NOAA.gov / Data.gov

◦ Machine-ready query/download


Ocean Monitor


Data Performance Tracking

In situ Ocean Color Database

Selection Criteria

Data List (criteria based)

Dynamic Map Display (with polygon option)Download Files



CoastWatch.NOAA.gov

[email protected]

Help Desk:

Web Site Home:

NOAA CoastWatch/OceanWatch/PolarWatch

http://coastwatch.noaa.gov/cw_html/index.html

mailto:[email protected]

Thank you.

Questions?



MOBYat NOAA

on CoastWatch,NOAA.gov

https://coastwatch.noaa.gov/cw_html/MOBY.html

CoastWatch Data Access -- DirectWebsite: https://coastwatch.noaa.gov◦ Satellite Data Products include ‘Data Access’

HTTPS Server◦ https://coastwatch.noaa.gov/data

FTP Servers◦ ftp://ftp.star.nesdis.noaa.gov/pub/

◦ ftp://ftpcoastwatch.noaa.gov/pub/

THREDDS◦ https://coastwatch.noaa.gov/thredds/catalog.html

ERDDAP

Regional Node data access

Queries can be automated for routine download


https://coastwatch.noaa.gov/thredds/catalog.html

“ALL-in-ONE”Single mapping interface in responsive design◦ NRT Search

◦ Granule Locator

◦ Spatial Search

◦ Unified Shopping cart

◦ Dynamic subsetting of NetCDF data or URL

Metadata and Discovery◦ THREDDS v5.0

◦ ERDDAP

◦ WAF folder

◦ Improved integration with NOAA.gov / Data.gov

◦ Machine-ready query/download


Data Access ToolsGranule Selector


Data Access ToolsGranule Search


Data Access ToolsSpatial Search


Data Access Tools NRT Data Search



Ocean Satellite Data Parametersat NOAA/NESDIS/STARSatellite Oceanography and Climatology Division

Sea Surface Temperature


Leads:

Alexander Ignatov (ACSPO physical SST retrievals)

Eileen Maturi (L4 blended analysis products)

Enterprise processing: Advanced Clear Sky Processing for Ocean (ACSPO)

◦ GHRSST conventions/formats

Ocean Color Radiometry


Lead: Menghua Wang

Enterprise processing: Multi-sensor Level 1 to Level 2 processing system (MSL12)

◦ Radiances

◦ Chlorophyll

◦ Kd490, KdPAR

◦ QA Score

OCView

Laboratory for Satellite Altimetry


Sea Surface Topography/AltimetryLead: Eric Leuliette

Enterprise processing: Radar Altimeter Database System (RADS)

Global sea level anomaly analysisAlong-track, wave height, wind

Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR)


Sea Surface Roughness / Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR)

Lead: Sean Helfrich

Enterprise processing: SAR Ocean Products Systems (SAROPS)

• Normalized radar crossections • Derived products (e.g., winds, oil

spills, ice, ship detection, whale detection?)

Ocean Surface Vector Winds


Lead: Paul Chang

Sea Ice


Lead: Sinead Farrell

Sea Surface Salinity


CoastWatch in collaboration with NWS/CPC/OMB

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