1. Gulf of Maine / Scituate Harbor - Extratropical Domain Shelf Hypoxia ChesROMS Long & Hood UMCES Estuarine Hypoxia Inundation Cyber Infrastructure IOOS COASTAL OCEAN MODELING TESTBED (http://testbed.ioos.us)

2. U.S. IOOS Coastal Ocean Ecosystem Modeling Testbed Coastal Inundation Rick Leuttich, UNC-CH FY2011 Accomplishments: Reduced model run time, hypoxia data sharing, salinity distribution findings, single term hypoxia results, unstructured grid sharing, evaluation tools FY2012 Goal: Operational & Sustainable US IOOS Modeling Testbed Serves coastal ocean & Great Lakes ecosystems Run by a non-Federal consortium Supported by other Federal agencies Anchored at NOAA-NCEP Less about models than process Focus is on stable infrastructure (testing environment, tools, standard obs) and transition to operations Gulf & Atlantic Coast Shelf Hypoxia John Harding, USM Katja Fennel, UD Gulf of Mexico Estuarine Hypoxia Carl Friedrichs, VIMS Marjy Friedrichs, VIMS Chesapeake Bay Cyber Infrastructure Eoin Howlett, ASA Testbed Advisory Rich Signell, USGS Evaluation Group

3. 1.Develop skill metrics and assess models in three different regions and dynamical regimes 2.Build a common infrastructure for access, analysis and visualization of all ocean model data produced by the Federal Backbone and the IOOS Regions 3.Transition models, tools, toolkits and other capabilities to federal operational facilities 4.Build stronger relationships between academia and operational centers through collaboration (improve R2O and O2R) Original Testbed Goals

4. Looking Ahead Teams are finalizing products for consideration or transferring models, tools and toolkits to federal operational centers Cyber infrastructure team will continue developing tools to advance data repository and search features as well as comparison tools for data and models Management team is building framework for sustainability to include: –Defining and gathering broad agreement to structure and CONOPS of long term Testbed –Ensuring funding support for future Testbed study areas

5. BACKUP SLIDES Additional Information about the Testbed goals and priorities Individual team updates provided for background, but these will be included in the IOOS update as well.

6. Improving Forecasts of Coastal Environmental Processes Factors: Open boundary conditions, met and river forcing conditions, physics vs. parameterizations, data assimilation approach, amount of data assimilated, numerics, vertical and horizontal resolution, model coupling. “Which model is better?” is often not the right question. What factors in the simulation resulted in a better solution? How much better? At what cost? Improving cyberinfrastructure leads to greater access by more people, and leads to faster improvements

7. The Pathway from Research to Operations and Applications Actively manage these interfaces, through community modeling partnerships Research and Development Academia, IOOS Regional Associations, Research components of NOAA & other Fed Agencies Private Sector Evaluation and Testing, Development, Transition to Operations Operations Value Added Product Development

8. Development of common Testbed infrastructure Data Archiving Model development/ Enhancement HPC Time Skill Analysis Surge, Waves and Inundation Team Results Gulf of Maine / Scituate Harbor - Extratropical Domain

9. Improving Collaboratio n Improving Data Model Developmen t Supporting Operations Shelf Hypoxia Team Results NOAA CSDL planned coastal physical model implementations (nGOM shelf domain above currently planned for 2nd Qtr FY 12 initial NGOFS coastal ocean forecast operational capability)

10. Transitioning information to federal agencies Model Comparison Conducting sensitivity experiments New, single term hypoxia model Estuarine Hypoxia Results CH3D Cerco & Wang USACE ChesROMS Long & Hood UMCES UMCES-ROMS Li & Li UMCES CBOFS (ROMS) Lanerolle & Xu NOAA EFDC Shen VIMS Five Hydrodynamic Models Configured for the Chesapeake Bay

11. Interactive Model and Observation Explorer: browse model results, view model grid data, side by side comparisons, and MUCH MORE Unstructured Grid Support: Time series extraction completed for FVCOM, SELFE, ELCIRC, ADCIRC. Matlab Toolbox: standardized data transformations, new methods for comparing data (including unit conversion). Coordination with OOI-CI Matlab as a Web Service: Matlab processes - no desktop license required. Skill Assessment Tools: Measure the degree of correlation between model prediction and observations Collaborative Web Site: public/private access to portal, content organization with internal/external tools. Cyber Infrastructure Team Results

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14. Shelf Hypoxia ChesROMS Long & Hood UMCES Estuarine Hypoxia Inundation Cyber Infrastructure IOOS COASTAL OCEAN MODELING TESTBED

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