Application of an Integrated Monitoring and Modeling System to Narragansett Bay and Adjacent Waters Incorporating Internet Based Technology

摘要

The University of Rhode Island (URI) and Drexel University are leading a multi-institution partnership to develop a globally re-locatable, integrated system for real time observation, modeling, and data distribution for shelf, coastal sea, and estuarine waters. The system is an extension of the integrated environmental monitoring, modeling and management system (COASTMAP) originally developed by University of Rhode Island, Ocean Engineering scientists. The project, funded by the United States National Ocean Partnership Program (NOPP), seeks to integrate Global Ocean Data Assimilation Experiment (GODAE) data and other global and ocean basin scale data products within the COASTMAP framework. Integration of alternate data sources provides increased spatial coverage, resolution and forecasts of offshore environmental conditions thereby providing the means to enhance COASTMAP's modeling capabilities. The system has been applied to Narragansett Bay and Rhode Island coastal waters as a demonstration of the practical use of the system and to conduct a comparative study to determine the accuracy of various model predictions using different GODAE data sets for boundary forcing. The present paper provides an overview of the project objectives, a description of the system architecture for the data management and presentation system, and it's application to Narragansett Bay. Integration, management, and distribution of external data, using COASTMAP, are described and the presentation and analysis capabilities of the system illustrated. Linkage of the system to tidal hydrodynamic model predictions for the study area, presented in a companion paper by Ward and Spaulding (2001) in these conference proceedings, is illustrated.