Coastal Services Center

Cross Regional Activities

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The SURA Coastal Ocean Observing and Prediction (SCOOP) Program

Date project initiated: September 1, 2007

Principal Investigator:
Dr. Jerry Draayer
Southeastern Universities Research Association (SURA)
1201 New York Ave, NW, Suite 430
Washington, DC 20005
(202) 408-7872
draayer@sura.org

Brief project summary:
Sustained data flow from a coordinated system of ocean observations, and the predictions enabled by those data, will provide the U.S. with the capability to protect life and property, to respond effectively to natural disasters, to manage resources, and to address economic and societal needs now and in the future. The Southeastern Universities Research Association (SURA) is advancing the SURA Coastal Ocean Observing and Prediction (SCOOP) program as a multi-institution and multi-state collaboration to design and test a modular, distributed system for real-time prediction and visualization of the impacts from extreme atmospheric events, including hurricanes and waves. The SCOOP program goals include data integration and interoperability and support key objectives of the Integrated Ocean Observing System (IOOS).
The objective of the ongoing program in the coming year is to create, consolidate and document a set of standard software examples from the existing SCOOP infrastructure components (these include various numerical models, a metadata catalog, archives, web-service interfaces, representative data sets, etc.). These will serve as concrete examples to help others implement their own versions of similar components, for their own uses and/or for contribution to the community infrastructure. These software examples (in the form of a shared source-code) will be held in an openly accessible software repository. SCOOP will also maintain working end-to-end prototypes of these examples. This will achieve sustained value to the IOOS community by creating an open-access community cyber infrastructure that can leverage other projects and grow in an incremental fashion.

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