P.F.J. Lermusiaux, P.J. Haley, S. Jana, C. Mirabito, W. Ali, A. Gupta Massachusetts Institute of Technology Center for Ocean Engineering Mechanical Engineering Cambridge, Massachusetts

E. Dorfman, M. Goldsmith, A. Kofford, A. Laferriere, G. Shepard Raytheon BBN Technologies K. Heaney, J. Boyle OASIS, Inc. L. Freitag, A. Morozov Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

Real-time modeling Data sources

POSYDON-POINT Project Main Page

The POSYDON Sea Exercise 2017 occurs in the Middle Atlantic - New York Bight Region for January-February-March 2017. In collaboration with the POINT team, our objectives are to utilize the MIT MSEAS system to: (i) forecast the probability of high-resolution ocean fields using our ESSE methodology; (ii) transfer the corresponding distribution of the sound speed field to three-dimensional underwater sound propagation uncertainties; (iii) collect sufficient data to evaluate the accuracy of the Bayesian tomographic inversion and of its posterior estimates of range between transducers and sound velocity profiles (SVPs). We thank the POINT team members for their collaboration, the HYCOM team for their real-time ocean fields, and the NCEP HIRESW 5km, NCEP GFSp25, NAVGEM 0p5, and COAMPS NWATL NCEP teams for their real-time atmospheric flux forecasts.

This research is sponsored by DARPA.

Real-time MSEAS Ensemble Forecasting

• MSEAS ocean ensemble ESSE forecasts

  Real-Time Estimates of 8 Mar 0000Z Environmental Conditions
  Sec. 1 (Mooring AL2 to Mooring AL1)		Sec. 2 (Mooring R3 to Mooring AL1)		Sec. 3 (Mooring R3 to Mooring R2)
  Sound Speed	Sound Speed Uncertainty	Sound Speed	Sound Speed Uncertainty	Sound Speed	Sound Speed Uncertainty

  Nowcast and Forecast Products with dynamics and uncertainty descriptions

  Analyses and Forecasts Issued On

  Jan

  February

  March

  30

  31

  1

  2

  3

  4

  5

  6

  7

  8

  9

  10

  11

  12

  13

  22

  23

  24

  25

  26

  27

  28

  1

  2

  3

  4

  5

  6

  Ocean Physics

  Horizontal Maps

  Central Forecast

  X

  X

  X

  X

  X

  X

  X

  X

  X

  X

  X

  X

  X

  X

  X

  X

  X

  X

  X

  X

  X

  X

  X

  X

  X

  X

  X

  X

  Mean and Uncertainty

  X

  X

  X

  X

  X

  X

  X

  X

  X

  X

  X

  X

  X

  X

  X

  X

  X

  X

  X

  X

  X

  X

  X

  X

  X

  X

  X

  X

  Operational Vertical Sections

  Central Forecast

  X

  X

  X

  X

  X

  X

  X

  X

  X

  X

  X

  X

  X

  X

  X

  X

  X

  X

  X

  X

  X

  X

  X

  X

  X

  X

  X

  X

  Mean and Uncertainty

  X

  X

  X

  X

  X

  X

  X

  X

  X

  X

  X

  X

  X

  X

  X

  X

  X

  X

  X

  X

  X

  X

  X

  X

  X

  X

  X

  X

  Reanalysis Products with dynamics and uncertainty descriptions

  Reanalyses for

  February

  March

  22

  23

  24

  25

  26

  27

  28

  1

  2

  3

  4

  5

  6

  Ocean Physics

  Horizontal Maps

  Central Reanalysis

  X

  X

  X

  X

  X

  Mean and Uncertainty

  X

  X

  X

  X

  X

  Operational Vertical Sections

  Central Reanalysis

  X

  X

  X

  X

  X

  Mean and Uncertainty

  X

  X

  X

  X

  X

 

• Four MSEAS-processed atmospheric forcing flux forecasts:
  

  NCEP HIRESW 5km	NCEP GFSp25	NAVGEM 0p5	COAMPS NWATL
  Jan/Feb/Mar 2017 S M T W T F S 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11	Jan/Feb/Mar 2017 S M T W T F S 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11	Jan/Feb/Mar 2017 S M T W T F S 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11	Jan/Feb/Mar 2017 S M T W T F S 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11
  Daily average wind stress, E-P, heat flux, and SW Radiation	Daily average wind stress, E-P, heat flux, and SW Radiation	Daily average wind stress, E-P, heat flux, and SW Radiation	Daily average wind stress, E-P, heat flux, and SW Radiation

 

• Marine Weather Forecasts:
  • New York/New England Marine Forecast (Weather Underground)
  • Mid-Atlantic Marine Forecast (Weather Underground)
  • NOAA Graphical Forecasts - Northeast Metro Area

 

• SST Images
  • NOAA Satellite, JHU APL (January 22 to March 15, 2017)

Top of page

Data sources

• Ocean synoptic
  • The Global Temperature and Salinity Profile Programme (GTSPP)
    • Data Access
      • Real-Time Data
  • National Data Buoy Center Real-Time & historical data from moored buoy & C-MAN stations
  • SST Images
    • Satellite Oceanography Data Lab, University of Maine
    • Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab
• Ocean historical/climatological
  • NOAA/NOS tidal elevation stations
  • CO-OPS current station data (historical)
  • The Global Temperature and Salinity Profile Programme (GTSPP)
    • Data Access
      • Best-Copy Data
  • Data sets & products NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information
    • World Ocean Database (WOD)
  • Northeast Fisheries Science Center Ecosystem Processes Division Oceanography Branch NMFS. Includes data from CTDs, fish hauls, hull-mounted sensors, eMOLT moorings, drifters, etc.
    • Hydrographic Conditions of the Northeast Continental Shelf Northeast Fisheries Science Center Oceanography Branch
      • yearly data files
    • Data/Mapping Interface Northeast Fisheries Science Center, Oceanography Branch
• Atmospheric forcing
  • Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) Model Real-Time Forecasts
  • National Centers for Environmental Prediction (NCEP) products:
    • High-Resolution Window (HIRESW) (5 km resolution):
      • High-Resolution Window (HIRESW) Forecast System products
      • wgrib2 online documentation
      • Index of HIRESW GRIB records
    • Global Forecast System Model: version 4 (GFS), at 0.5 degree resolution (GFSp5) and also at 0.25 degree resolution (GFSp25)
      • Direct link to GFSp5/GFSp25 data
      • NOMADS - NOAA Operational Model Archive and Distribution System (main page)
      • General information about the GFS model
      • Index of GFSp5/GFSp25 GRIB records
  • The European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF) ERA Intrim (global Re-Analysis)
    • General information
    • Data access
  • ESSO - Indian National Centre for Ocean Information Services (TropFlux project):
    • Main page
    • Additional TropFlux links
  • Coupled Ocean / Atmosphere Mesoscale Prediction System (COAMPS)
    • File naming convention
    • Variables
  • Navy Global Environmental Model (NAVGEM) products:
    • Real-time data
    • NAVGEM 0.5: Real-time and historical data

Top of page