B. SURA and SCOOP
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Southeastern Universities Research Association (SURA)
SURA is a consortium of over sixty universities across the U.S. that seeks to promote collaboration among its member institutions in science and engineering.
- Go to the SURA Website (to open this as a separate page, hold shift and click the link)
- Under the About tab, click on About Overview
- Read the Background
B1. What year was SURA established?
- Click on the little house in the top right to go home
- Look at what universities make up SURA
- Look at the map and scroll over the different states to see how many universities make up SURA
B2. How many universities are members of SURA in Texas?
SURA Coastal Ocean Observing and Prediction (SCOOP) Program
SCOOP is a SURA program designed to advance coastal modeling and prediction capabilities through collaborative and standardized methods.
- Go to the SCOOP Website
- Read the information on the home page
- Pay close attention to the Objective
- In summary, the objective of SCOOP is to allow scientists to share oceanographic data and numerical models easily through a common network for the purpose of disseminating that information to interested parties.
- Look through the SCOOP website
- Click on the About Us link on the left side of the page
- Look through this page for information about the SCOOP program
Science Scenarios
There are various scenarios listed on the SCOOP website that describe the capabilities of the SCOOP program. The following are summaries of the scenarios. Once you have read through these, you can go to the SCOOP website and read the full descriptions.
Real-time Ensemble Prediction - A central focus of the SCOOP program, uses information from the NOAA NHC to create real-time water level predictions for the purpose of rapid emergency response.
Retrospective Analysis - Uses documented historical events to analyze and verify current models. The challenge is to make the abundance of heterogeneous historical data accessible and compatible with the SCOOP architecture.
Continuous Forecasts - Used on a 24/7/365 basis. Examples include accurate port and harbor water level forecasts for ship clearances, as well as coastal water velocity forecasts for Coast Guard search and rescue operations.
Multi-disciplinary Inundation Modeling - Combines data from a variety of models (ie surge, waves, precipitation and terrestrial hydrology) to provide a comprehensive inundation forecast.
- On the SCOOP Website, click on Science Scenarios at the top of the page
- Read through this page
B3. Why are all relevant and available observations aggregated and compared with predictions?
- Look at step 5 which explains openIOOS
OpenIOOS (Integrated Ocean Observing System)
OpenIOOS is a collection of the provisional information products currently produced by the SCOOP program.
- Click on the link for OpenIOOS at the top of the SCOOP page
- Read the paragraph at the top of the page explaining what OpenIOOS is
- Look through this website
- Click on the Katrina map in the Storm Forecast Products box on the right hand side
- This shows the track of Katrina
- Look at the map and figure out what all the symbols mean
B4. Near what city does Katrina change from a tropical storm to a hurricane?
- Continue to look through the forecasts and maps on this web page
- Notice the Site Contributors on the bottom left hand side of the page; most of the organizations have acronyms for names
OOSTethys
OOSTethys is a provider-to-user data system framework that provides a community-developed set of software tools and guidance documents. This is part of the Marine Metadata Interoperability (MMI) project, funded mostly by NSF, and is coordinated by the SCOOP program.
- Go to OOSTethys and read the information provided on the home page
B5. What is the overall goal of OOSTethys?
Acronym Look-Up
Using the acronym look-up, you can find what most acronyms associated with SCOOP stand for.
- Go back to the SCOOP Website
- Click on Data at the top of the page
- Click on the Acronym look-up on the left side of the page
- Look up acronyms. Once you look up one, you must press the reset button before you can look up another.
B6. What does GoMOOS mean? B7. What is the context of WW3?
Models
This is a list of the many different SCOOP models used to process and display data.
- Click on Models at the top of the SCOOP page
- Click on some of the models and read about them
- Click on the Usage link next to WAM
B8. What two schools have collections of data listed for WAM?
- Go back to the Models page
- Click on the Usage link next to NAM
- Click on the first collection: NOAA NCEP NAM AWIP 12 (wnoancp12)
B9. What type of data does this model display? B10. In what type of units is the data measured?
- Go back to the Models page
- Click on the Usage link next to CH3D
- Click on the first collection: University of Florida CH3D01 Surge Model (CH3D only) Charlotte Harbor Output
B11. Who is the first person you can contact for more information?
Documents
Publications
- If you are not already there, go to the SCOOP Website
- Click on Documents at the top of the page
- Click on Publications
- Click on the second publication: "Architecture of a community infrastructure for predicting and analyzing coastal inundation"
- Look through this publication for information about what the SCOOP project is and how it functions between universities
B12. On page 55 (3 of 9), how many days of forecast models are there?
Presentations
- Go back to the Documents page
- Click on Presentations
- Look through these presentations and pick one or two titles of interest
Other Documents
- Go back to Documents
- Look through the rest of the links
- These include Posters, Student Theses, Web Services
Further Information Available on SCOOP
- Notice that there are other links that have not been explored on the SCOOP website
- These include: Grid Computing, Partners, Important Links, etc.
- Look through these links for more information
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