National Data Buoy Center Cooperative Relations Presentation For NGI Annual Conference May 23, 2012 Landry Bernard
National Data Buoy Center Operational Mission To provide a real-time, end-to-end capability beginning with the collection of marine atmospheric and oceanographic data and ending with its transmission, quality control and distribution. NDBC & other NOAA observations Oil & Gas Platforms IOOS Partners Platforms NDBC Mission Control Center 24 / 7 / 365 Tsunami Warning Centers NWS Global Telecommunication System (GTS) Operational Bulletins Emergency Managers Weather Forecast Offices/ River Forecast Centers National Centers for Environmental Prediction HF Radars DATA COLLECTION Public National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service (NCDC, NODC, NGDC) DATA DELIVERY Electrolyte to Satellite to Website
National Data Buoy Center Buoy repair, refurbishment, fabrication, integration, testing, and calibration Field service planning, shipping, worldwide logistics, & inventory management Observations ingest, processing, quality control, analysis, & dissemination Buoy deployment, retrieval, topside servicing, & exchange System validation, analysis, evaluation technology refresh, prototype testing
NDBC s Ocean Observing Network 109 met/ocean WX buoys added 30 buoys through 2009 51 C-MAN stations 39 Tsunami Monitoring stations added in 2008 55 Climate Monitoring buoys + 4 current profiler moorings added in 2006
Field & At-Sea Maintenance A Typical Year Weather DART TAO Total Buoys Replaced 38 15 59 112 Buoys Serviced 75 19 21 115 Ship Days at Sea 250 269 239 758
Growth of NDBC Observing Systems 300 250 200 1999 to 2009 - The Era of Explosive Growth Katrina Tsunami 150 100 50 0 1980 1990 2000 2002 2004 2006 2008 2010 Wx/ Ocean Buoys TAO DART C-MAN 51 CMAN Stations 50 Weather Buoys 101 Observing Systems 2 system Types with similar sensors ~ 12 % in Severe Environments USCG Provided all Ship Days 51 CMAN Stations 109 Weather/Ocean Buoys 55 Climate Buoys 39 Tsunami Systems 259 Observing Systems 4 System Types with diverse sensors ~ 25 % in Severe Environments Challenge Obtaining Ship Days
Growth of Mission Control Center Million of Observations 14 12 10 8 6 4 2 0 Total Observations flowing through DAC 11.3M Obs in FY11 FY03 FY04 FY05 FY06 FY07 FY08 FY09 FY10 FY11 60 50 40 30 20 10 0 Not Reporting Reporting Active reimbursable partners National Marine Sanctuary Program Army Corps of Engineers EPA Gulf of Mexico Program NASA Kennedy Space Center Goddard Space Flight Center U.S. Coast Guard 50% 22% 25% 3% Mission Reimbursable NWLON IOOS Partners NOS/NWLON and other NOAA Obs Independent IOOS observing partners Gulf of Maine Ocean Observing System Stevens Institute (NJ) International SeaKeepers Society Long Island Ferry Boat University of South Florida Louisiana State University Texas General Land Office University of Connecticut Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium UNC and UNC-W Skidaway Institute of Oceanography Caro-COOPS Scripps Institution of Oceanography Forrest Oil Chesapeake Bay Observing System Shell Oil Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Inst Oregon State University University of Southern Mississippi Petrobras
NDBC Vision for the Near Future 1999-2009 - The Era of Explosive NDBC Expansion 2010-2015 - The Era of Explosive NDBC Improvement NDBC Vision for the Far Future 2015-2025 - The Era of Expanded Integrated Global Ocean Observations in Support of Forecasts, Warnings, and Planetary Climate Change Monitoring, Understanding, and Mitigation AND BEYOND
Looking Toward the Future Innovation to Find Efficiencies Multi-mission common ocean area-based operations - Scenario Development - Mission Support for Field Testing - ISO-9001 - Six Sigma Mix of moored buoys and long-endurance unmanned systems - Integration & Operation (i.e. buoys & gliders) Standard modular multi-mission moored buoy platforms - Design and Reliability Analysis - Life Cycle Support ISO container standardized logistics, deployment & maintenance - Design & Integration - Workflow Management NASA-Like Mission Control Center for ocean observations - Data Analysis - Algorithm Development Real-time 24/7/365 situational awareness of NOAA Ocean Operations - Real-time Data Analysis
NDBC Vision for the Far Future Containerized Deployment Packages Glider Based Rapid & Reconfigurable Deployment Packages Multi-Mission Sensors on Standard Buoy Platforms WX Shipboard & Forward-Based Mobile Maintenance Labs DART Climate Principles QC Applied to all Data TAO Data Assembly Center Becomes Mission Operations Center For Ocean Observations
NOARC Within the Context of a Broader Regional Teaming Construct A Collaborative Science Team Serving our Customers NAVY EPA NDBC NWS NCDDC NESDIS SE Fisheries Science Center NMFS Gulf Coast Services Center NOS N. Gulf Institute OAR + + + + Ocean MSP & DSS Ecosystem Education Technology Observations Tools Analysis Tools & Outreach Transition + BOEM NASA Industry GOM
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