Impact of Typhoons on the Ocean in the Pacific (ITOP) Field and Data Management Support

摘要

The ITOP (The Impact of Typhoons on the Ocean in the Pacific) Field Campaign in 2010 studied the interaction between typhoons and the underlying ocean with specific regard to the 4-dimensional response of the ocean underneath and behind the storm. This project involved instrumented aircraft and ships from the United States and Taiwan as well as ship-deployed instruments including floats, gliders, drifters, and moorings. The complexity of the observational campaign and proposed measurement strategies necessitated a dry run experiment in October of 2009 to develop effective sampling strategies for 2010. The Earth Observing Laboratory/Computing Data and Software Facility EOL/CDS supported the ITOP Dry Run with the development and deployment of a field catalog. The ITOP Field Catalog hosted a complete set of operational and model products and was accessible to all investigators via the world-wide-web. These catalog products contained imagery and data plots of atmospheric and ocean conditions in the project area as well as conditions in and around typhoons of opportunity that occurred.