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SAROPS
EDS
Environmental
. Data Server
Art Allen
United States Coast Guard – Office of
Search & Rescue
Eoin (Owen) Howlett
ASA
USCG Area of SAR
Responsibility
CG wide SAR Statistics
FY
Cases
Lives
Saved
‘05
29,780
5,648
’06
28,323
5,290
’07
27,090
5,175
Search & Rescue Problem
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Create a SAR case when alerted
Search & Rescue Problem
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Create a SAR case when alerted
Gather information about case
Search & Rescue Problem
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Create a SAR case when alerted
Gather information about case
Get environmental data & uncertainties
Search & Rescue Problem
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Create a SAR case when alerted
Gather information about case
Get environmental data & uncertainties
Use model to determine search area
Search & Rescue Problem
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Create a SAR case when alerted
Gather information about case
Get environmental data & uncertainties
Use model to determine search area
Estimate resource availability and
capability
Search & Rescue Problem
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Create a SAR case when alerted
Gather information about case
Get environmental data & uncertainties
Use model to determine search area
Estimate resource availability and
capability
Plan, promulgate & perform the next
search
Search & Rescue Problem
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
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Create a SAR case when alerted
Gather information about case
Get environmental data & uncertainties
Use model to determine search area
Estimate resource availability and
capability
Plan, promulgate & perform the next
search
Evaluate the completed search
Search & Rescue Problem
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
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Create a SAR case when alerted
Gather information about case
Get environmental data & uncertainties
Use model to determine search area
Estimate resource availability and
capability
Plan, promulgate & perform the next
search
Evaluate the completed search
Repeat above until survivors
are found and rescued
USCG Data Parameters
Oceanographic
Purpose:
Search and Rescue Planning
Purpose:
Search Object Drift and
survival prediction parameters
Water level - tides and
meteorological
Currents
Sea Surface
Currents - -Sea
Wave - Direction (sea/swell)
Wave - Maximum height
Surface/Subsurface
Wave - Peak period (sea/swell)
Turbulent dispersion
coefficient
Wave - Significant height
(sea/swell)
Turbulent kinetic energy
White cap probability
Turbulent velocity variance
Ice Cover
Ice Type
Temperature - Sea
Surface/Subsurface
Ice Thickness
River discharge
Turbidity
Salinity
USCG Data Parameters
Atmospheric
Purpose:
Search and Rescue Planning
Surface Wind
speed
/ gusts(10m)
Surface
Wind
Speed
Wind stress
Wind turbulent kinetic energy
Dew point temperature
Wind chill
Icing potential
Precipitation type/rate
Relative humidity
Atmospheric pressure
Visibility
Ceiling altitude
Surface air temperature
Total Cloud Cover
Air temperature daily max/min
Cloud Layers
Area forecast information
Winds aloft (Altitudes of 5000 ft
and greater)
Most recent summary of current
conditions
Icing/Freezing layer
Weather Type
Electromagnetic refractive index
(ERI)
Environmental Data
Server (EDS)
•Access to global/regional current and wind data
• Data from NOAA, NAVY, Regional Associations,
Universities and commercial providers
•Aggregation Services (temporal and spatial)
•Redundancy and Backup
•Objective Analysis Tools
•Web Services Protocols
SAROPS EDS Data
•Operational Forecast Model Data
•Observation Data (NDBC buoys, satellite,
drifters, Sea Surface Radar, etc.)
•Seasonal data
•Tidal databases (harmonic databases)
EDS Services
Global Product
SLDMB’s
Coastal Product
Aggregated Product
Regional Product
Surface Radar
EDS Services
Global Product
Coastal Product
SLDMB’s
Aggregated Product
Regional Product
Surface Radar
NAVY Global NCOM Served
via EDS Data Service
EDS Services
Global Product
Coastal Product
SLDMB’s
Aggregated Product
Regional Product
Surface Radar
Tidal AdCIRC served
via EDS Data Service
EDS Services
Global Product
Coastal Product
SLDMB’s
Aggregated Product
Regional Product
Surface Radar
Global NCOM and ADCIRC
via EDS Aggregation
Service
EDS Services
Global Product
Coastal Product
SLDMB’s
Aggregated Product
Regional Product
Surface Radar
Great Lakes Regional Model
EDS Services
Global Product
SLDMB’s
Coastal Product
Aggregated Product
Aggregation of
short and long
range CODAR
Regional Product
Surface Radar
EDS Services
Global Product
SLDMB’s
Coastal Product
Aggregated Product
Regional Product
Objective Analysis
on Drifting Buoy
Surface Radar
Data
Example EDS Data Sources
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Winds
• FNMOC NOGAPS
• FNMOC COAMPS
• NOAA NCEP NAM
• NOAA NCEP GFS
• NOAA NDFD*
• NOAA NDBC
• Regional Models (e.g GLERL)
Other… commercial
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Currents
• NAVO Global NCOM
• NOAA NCEP HYCOM
• NOS Regional
• ADCIRC
• CODAR
• Regional Models
Other… Bluelink, Satellite Data (AOML), commercial
Winds
Currents
Catalog Server
Drifters
Weather
Catalog DB
THREDDS
EDS
OPeNDAP
Winds
Currents
Catalog Server
Drifters
Weather
THREDDS
EDS
OPeNDAP
Catalog DB
Internet
SAROPS Client
Web Client
Winds
Currents
Catalog Server
Drifters
THREDDS
EDS
OPeNDAP
Catalog DB
Weather
Web Services
Web Service XML Request
Internet
SAROPS Client
Web Client
Winds
Currents
Catalog Server
Drifters
Weather
EDS
•Data Service
THREDDS
•Spatial Aggregation Service
OPeNDAP
•Temporal Aggregation Service
•Objective Analysis
Catalog DB
Web Services
NetCDF Data
Internet
SAROPS Client
Web Client
Winds
Currents
Catalog Server
Drifters
Weather
THREDDS
EDS
OPeNDAP
Catalog DB
Web Services
OGC
WMS/WFS/SOS/WCS
Internet
SAROPS Client
Web Client
Winds
Currents
Catalog Server
Drifters
Weather
THREDDS
EDS
OPeNDAP
Catalog DB
Web Services
JMBL
Internet
SAROPS Client
Web Client
Decision Status
Months 0-12
Month 18
Month 24
Month 36
Integration
Transport
Test &
Evaluation
Benchmarked
Temp
Salinity
Currents
Level
Color
Winds
Waves
D
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C
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N
T
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N
T
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T
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scheduled
Feb 2008
actual 14 November 2007
May 2008
NWS
NDBC
NOS
CO-OPS
NESDIS
Coastwatch
O
G
C
W
F
S
W
C
S
W
M
S
CO-OPS
E. GOM
HABS
BULLETIN
PACOOS
IEA
Color
Currents
Winds
All 7
NHC
SLOSH
CI MODEL
Winds
Waves
Level
HIF
PROGRAM
Temp
Winds
Waves
Metrics
•Efficiency
•Speed
•Resolution
•Accuracy
•Length
•Economics
GML/CSML & NetCDF
Aug 2008
Feb 2009
Feb 2010
Aug 2008
Feb 2009
Feb 2010
Davis/ CODE drifter
Self-Locating Datum
Marker Buoys (SLDMB)
30 minute GPS positions via Argos
SLDMB Deployments
1 Jan 2006 – 31 Dec 2007
EDS Uncertainties (knots)
Product
σu
kts
Гu
hrs
σv
kts
Гv
hrs
HR Radar Std
0.27
1.5
0.23
1.4
HR Radar LR
0.20
4.1
0.25
3.7
ADCIRC
0.19
2.7
0.21
3.1
ADCIRC/NCOM
0.24
2.5
0.20
2.7
GLERL
0.26
2.2
0.26
2.2
FLDA
0.40
3.2
0.40
5.2
Mariano
0.34
4.3
0.34
4.6
HYCOM
0.40
4.0
0.42
4.0
NCOM
0.35
4.2
0.36
4.2
EDS Oil Spill Use
Conclusions
•SAROPS - operational in the USCG since January 2007
•Use of open standards allows for interoperability
•Adding improved regional coastal data
•Need for uncertainty measurements and dispersion coeff’s
•Researching new Lagrangian techniques
Questions
Art Allen
[email protected]
Eoin Howlett
[email protected]