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waters, data is initially received, processed, disseminated, and archived in local
servers, and subsequently retrieved from these servers and reprocessed, disseminated,
and archived by the Coastal Observing Research and Development Center (CORDC)
at the University of California San Diego and by NOAA.
The geographic location of Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands makes them particularly vulnerable to the impact of Atlantic Hurricanes, but prediction of hurricane
intensity is hampered by lack of real-time data concerning upper ocean heat content,
the driver of cyclone intensification. Accordingly, in 2015, CariCOOS entered into
an agreement with the NOAA Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological
Laboratory to deploy ocean gliders performing transects north and south of Puerto
Rico with the object of generating detailed data on upper water mass structure in the
path of oncoming hurricanes and in their wake for assimilation into coupled oceanatmosphere models. Results reported by Goni et al. (2017) revealed a 50% improvement in wind intensity forecasts for Hurricane Gonzalo traversing the WTA with
data assimilation from the glider there deployed. These results strengthen the argument for deployment of an expanded, dedicated, operational network of gliders in
the region to improve hurricane intensity forecasts.
Another early effort in the collaboration with the Mid-Atlantic Regional Coastal
Ocean Observing System to explore occupation of the Caribbean Time Series
Station (CaTS – a precursor to CariCOOS) by means of autonomous vehicles
allowed the discovery of a train of 40 m amplitude internal waves exiting the Mona
Passage following the deployment of a glider controlled and operated at RU COOL
(Corredor 2008). Reassuringly, the glider, deployed days earlier, was observed to
surface and dive again as planned alongside a research vessel concurrently occupying CaTS in deep offshore water.
References
Corredor JE. Development and propagation of internal waves in the Mona Passage. Sea Tech.
2008;49(10):48–50.
Corredor JE, Amador A, Canals M, Rivera S, Capella JE, Morell JM, Glenn S, Handel E, Rivera
E, Roarty H. Optimizing and validating high frequency radar surface current measurements in
the Mona passage. Mar Technol Soc J. 2011;45(3):49–58.
Goni GJ, Todd RE, Jayne SR, Halliwell G, Glenn S, Dong J, Curry R, Domingues R, Bringas F,
Centurioni L, DiMarco SF, Miles T, Morell J, Pomales L, Kim H-S, Robbins PE, Gawarkiewicz
GG, Wilkins J, Heiderich J, Baltes B, Clone JJ, Seroka G, Knee K, Sanabria RR. Autonomous
and Lagrangian Ocean observations for Atlantic tropical cyclone studies and forecasts.
Oceanography. 2017;30(2):92–103. https://doi.org/10.5670/oceanog.2017.227.
Grey SEC, De Grandpre MD, Langdon C, Corredor JE. Short-term and seasonal pH, pCO2
and saturation state variability in a coral-reef ecosystem. Global Biogeochem Cycles.
2012;26:GB3012. https://doi.org/10.1029/2011GB004114.
Snyder RM. Buoys and buoy bystems. In: Myers JJ, Holm CH, McAllister RF, editors. Handbook
of ocean and underwater engineering. New York: Copyright by North American Rockwell
Corporation, McGraw-Hill; 1969. 1969; 9-81-9-115.
8 Planning, Implementation, and Operation of Coastal Ocean Observing Systems
waters, data is initially received, processed, disseminated, and archived in local
servers, and subsequently retrieved from these servers and reprocessed, disseminated,
and archived by the Coastal Observing Research and Development Center (CORDC)
at the University of California San Diego and by NOAA.
The geographic location of Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands makes them particularly vulnerable to the impact of Atlantic Hurricanes, but prediction of hurricane
intensity is hampered by lack of real-time data concerning upper ocean heat content,
the driver of cyclone intensification. Accordingly, in 2015, CariCOOS entered into
an agreement with the NOAA Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological
Laboratory to deploy ocean gliders performing transects north and south of Puerto
Rico with the object of generating detailed data on upper water mass structure in the
path of oncoming hurricanes and in their wake for assimilation into coupled oceanatmosphere models. Results reported by Goni et al. (2017) revealed a 50% improvement in wind intensity forecasts for Hurricane Gonzalo traversing the WTA with
data assimilation from the glider there deployed. These results strengthen the argument for deployment of an expanded, dedicated, operational network of gliders in
the region to improve hurricane intensity forecasts.
Another early effort in the collaboration with the Mid-Atlantic Regional Coastal
Ocean Observing System to explore occupation of the Caribbean Time Series
Station (CaTS – a precursor to CariCOOS) by means of autonomous vehicles
allowed the discovery of a train of 40 m amplitude internal waves exiting the Mona
Passage following the deployment of a glider controlled and operated at RU COOL
(Corredor 2008). Reassuringly, the glider, deployed days earlier, was observed to
surface and dive again as planned alongside a research vessel concurrently occupying CaTS in deep offshore water.
References
Corredor JE. Development and propagation of internal waves in the Mona Passage. Sea Tech.
2008;49(10):48–50.
Corredor JE, Amador A, Canals M, Rivera S, Capella JE, Morell JM, Glenn S, Handel E, Rivera
E, Roarty H. Optimizing and validating high frequency radar surface current measurements in
the Mona passage. Mar Technol Soc J. 2011;45(3):49–58.
Goni GJ, Todd RE, Jayne SR, Halliwell G, Glenn S, Dong J, Curry R, Domingues R, Bringas F,
Centurioni L, DiMarco SF, Miles T, Morell J, Pomales L, Kim H-S, Robbins PE, Gawarkiewicz
GG, Wilkins J, Heiderich J, Baltes B, Clone JJ, Seroka G, Knee K, Sanabria RR. Autonomous
and Lagrangian Ocean observations for Atlantic tropical cyclone studies and forecasts.
Oceanography. 2017;30(2):92–103. https://doi.org/10.5670/oceanog.2017.227.
Grey SEC, De Grandpre MD, Langdon C, Corredor JE. Short-term and seasonal pH, pCO2
and saturation state variability in a coral-reef ecosystem. Global Biogeochem Cycles.
2012;26:GB3012. https://doi.org/10.1029/2011GB004114.
Snyder RM. Buoys and buoy bystems. In: Myers JJ, Holm CH, McAllister RF, editors. Handbook
of ocean and underwater engineering. New York: Copyright by North American Rockwell
Corporation, McGraw-Hill; 1969. 1969; 9-81-9-115.
8 Planning, Implementation, and Operation of Coastal Ocean Observing Systems