Topic 1. Achieve and Sustain an Integrated Ocean Observing System (IOOS)

U.S. GODAE: Global Ocean Prediction with the HYbrid Coordinate Ocean Model (HYCOM)

Lead PI: Eric P. Chassignet

A broad partnership of institutions proposes to collaborate in developing and demonstrating the performance and application of eddy-resolving, real-time global and basin-scale ocean prediction systems using the HYbrid Coordinate Ocean Model (HYCOM). These systems will be transitioned for operational use by the U.S. Navy at both the Naval Oceanographic Office (NAVOCEANO), Stennis Space Center, MS, and the Fleet Numerical Meteorology and Oceanography Center (FNMOC), Monterey, CA, and by NOAA at the National Centers for Environmental Prediction (NCEP), Washington, D.C. The systems will run efficiently on a variety of massively parallel computers and will include sophisticated, but relatively inexpensive, data assimilation techniques for assimilation of satellite altimeter sea surface height (SSH) and sea surface temperature (SST) as well as in-situ temperature, salinity, and float displacement. The Partnership will address the Global Ocean Data Assimilation Experiment (GODAE) goals of threedimensional (3D) depiction of the ocean state at fine resolution in real-time and provision of boundary conditions for coastal and regional models. It will also provide the ocean component and oceanic boundary conditions for a global coupled ocean-atmosphere prediction model. It will make these results available to the GODAE modeling community and general users on a 24/7 operational basis via a comprehensive data management strategy.

Number of Years: 5

Requested Funds: $11,875,760

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