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SOCD Status Brief

SOCD Status Brief. May 2006. Personnel. Current & Projected FTE Personnel. FY06 Strong retirement: Vacancy Announcement NESDIS-R&A-2006-0005 closed 03/03, establishing SME review Clark retirement: Awaiting HR draft Vacancy Announcement; expect this week

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SOCD Status Brief

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  1. SOCD Status Brief May 2006

  2. Personnel

  3. Current & Projected FTE Personnel • FY06 • Strong retirement: Vacancy Announcement NESDIS-R&A-2006-0005 closed 03/03, establishing SME review • Clark retirement: Awaiting HR draft Vacancy Announcement; expect this week • Chiariza retirement: Developing draft vacancy announcement • Fisher retirement: Draft vacancy announcement under review • Hovey retirement: Draft position description under development

  4. Personnel Notes • FTE • Maureen Chiarizia: Disability retirement approved and completed. • Walter Smith: 1-year detail to NOAA @ UNH • Postdoc / Visiting Scientists • CIRA postdocs • SST • Dr. Doreatha Ivanova (cal/val) • began her post-doc with the SST Team on November 17,2005. • accepted a faculty position and will be resigning from the postdoc July 1, 2006. • Replacement process begun; 10 candidates ranked; awaiting top candidate selection from CIRA. • MetOp SST CIRA postdoc • Dr. Prasanjit Dash commences his tenure on 20 March 2006. He will be involved in the development of improved unified skin SST algorithm from AVHRR for real-time and Stewardship processing. He will also serve as a radiative transfer modeling (RTM) SST expert and expert in physical SST retrieval using MODTRAN and OPTRAN. • Pending: • METOP ASCAT: replacement postdoc being sought, early departure of Daniel Esteban • MODIS ocean color • Ocean Surface Winds Team • Gordana Sindic-Rancic • Contractors • Pending • NDE ocean color • NPOESS IGS ocean color (possibly a postdoc) • VIIRS/POES IGS SST • GOES-R pending • SST (4) • Ocean Color (4)

  5. Travel / Leave

  6. Activities & Performance

  7. Elevated NESDIS Milestones

  8. STAR Level FY06 Milestones

  9. STAR Level FY06 Milestones cont’d…

  10. STAR Level FY06 Milestones cont’d…

  11. SOCD Performance Measures SUSTAIN (Master) • On an annual basis, sustain the determination, documentation, and correction of the quality of NOAA operational satellite ocean remote sensing products through regular calibration and validation activities, maintaining current assessments and adjustments to 100% of NOAA’s operational satellite ocean remote sensing data streams. • MOBY has completed eighth year as the primary vicarious calibration source for ocean color satellite data(10/05) • Two GOES and two POES SST sensors were calibrated and maintained (2/06). • On an annual basis, sustain 90% locally-controllable availability of experimental and selected non-NOAA satellite ocean remote sensing products for community use and evaluation. • TBD- Note from CoastWatch – Sathya is working on applicable PM for this (KH). BETTER (Improve) • On an annual basis, implement improvements in the methodology and/or quality of one to three NOAA operational and/or experimental algorithms and products. • Completed retracked altimetry data, improving marine gravity field; completed preliminary validation of QuikScat high wind speed model function; completed MOBY data reprocessing • Enhanced Coral Reef Watch’s Satellite Bleaching Alert system (3/06) • On an annual basis, improve the outreach, technology transfer, and education to/of users of satellite ocean remote sensing, as measured by a trend of increasing unique user and new education modules made available. • Established China CoastWatch and 2 OceanWatch nodes; Completed coral education module • Completed coral reef education module (3/06) • Conducted workshops in the Philippines, Mexico, Palau, and US Virgin Islands for coral reef managers (3/06) NEW (Create) • On an annual basis, develop one unique new (or new improvement to) operational or experimental technique, algorithm, product, or service for satellite ocean remote sensing. • Blended GOES-POES SST has been implemented (2/06) • Developed new high-resolution landmask for Coral Reef Watch products (3/06) • Launched Coral Reef Watch gridded data product suite (3/06) • Status: Launched Coral Reef Watch product suite in Google Earth format (4/06) FIRST (Invest) • On an annual basis, be the first to provide one new satellite ocean remote sensing algorithm, product, or service. • Completed transition of OSCAR ocean surface currents to operations (1/06)

  12. Ocean Remote Sensing, May 31, 2006 FY06 MilestonesOct 1 to Apr 30 Milestones (Planned =6); Completed = 4 FY06 Corporate Performance Measures G G Green = Performance Met; Grey = no performance expected yet Green = Performance Met Yellow = Performance Discrepancy Blue = No Performance Expected Red = Performance Achieved Ahead of Schedule G G Budget / Funding FY2006 Key Issues / Risks / Variances Issues – Delay in transition for primary productivity research product online for public evaluation. Delay in processed next version NOAA WindSAT EDR’s release. Risks – Inability to BOP funds electronically is a significant speed bump for timely execution Variances – Unexpected data management expenditures.

  13. Ocean Remote Sensing (part 2) • Performance Measures • Annually, maintain the quality of NOAA operational satellite ocean remote sensing products for 100% of NOAA’s operational satellite ocean remote sensing data streams. • MOBY has completed eighth year as the primary vicarious calibration source for ocean color satellite data • Two GOES and two POES SST sensors were calibrated and maintained. • Annually, develop one new, or improved, technique, algorithm, product, service for satellite ocean remote sensing. • Developed new high-resolution landmask for Coral Reef Watch products (3/06) • Launched Coral Reef Watch gridded data product suite (3/06) • Milestones • Develop a more robust in-situ oceanic calibration capability. • Complete. On track with ongoing developmental work. • Release next version of NOAA WindSAT EDRs processed for the entire WindSAT Mission – In progress, delayed until June. • Error found in our ambiguity removal processing for WindSat.. Estimated to be resolved by the end of next week and restart the NRT WindSat processing and start reprocessing the entire WindSat mission data record. The reprocessing will take approximately a month utilizing existing computing resources. • Bring CoastWatch primary productivity research product online for public evaluation. • Transition to public website delayed. Estimated date April 30. • Still awaiting transition of Okeanos to operational status, new estimated online completion date of primary productivity product is September. Variance Funding (K) • Unexpected data management expenditures.

  14. Highlights

  15. CRW Highlights - April • Operations: CRW Google Earth Product Suite • In Development: New Collaborations • Outreach: BRIDGE Award • Outreach: Presentations & Training • Outreach: In the Press…

  16. Apr 2006 CRW Highlights In Development: New Collaborations • Integrated Coral Observing Network (ICON) Science Meeting, La Parguera, Puerto Rico (24-Apr-06) • Potential collaboration with NOAA AOML and academic partners to establish new carbon-based ecological observing station to support the development of Reef Metabolic Index (RMI) products • Proposal submitted to NASA-ROSES program • Cornell University (26-Apr-06) • Potential collaboration with Dr. Drew Harvell to develop coral disease outlooks based on NESDIS SST data • Princeton University and NOAA Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory (28-Apr-06) • Potential collaboration with Dr. Simon Donner and others to develop scenarios of future bleaching potential under different climate regimes BENEFIT: CRW satellite products provide managers tools to respond to coral bleaching events IMPACT: NESDIS provides improved tools to coastal managers to monitor and maintain coral reefs both domestically and internationally Coral Reef Watch website: http://coralreefwatch.noaa.gov/

  17. Apr 2006 CRW Highlights Outreach: New Curriculum Acclaimed • “Remote Sensing and Coral Reefs” • Set of 7 lesson plans on remote sensing and its application to monitoring coral reefs • Picked by the BRIDGE as a “Teacher’s Top Web Pick” • Online Ocean Sciences Education Center sponsored by Sea Grant, NOPP, NMEA • Selected for new student data activity on BRIDGE portal • Positive reviews from education and outreach stakeholders BENEFIT: CRW lesson plans are a valuable resource to teachers and students to learn applications of satellite data IMPACT: NESDIS provides outreach and education products for a variety of users Curriculum website: http://coralreefwatch.noaa.gov/satellite/education/reef_remote_sensing.html

  18. Apr 2006 CRW Highlights Outreach: Presentations & Training • National Science Teachers Association (NSTA) Meeting (7-Apr-06) • Presented lectures to teachers • General coral reef ecology and bleaching • Satellites and coral reef observing products • Led training activity on the 2005 Caribbean bleaching event • World Wildlife Fund’s “Climate Camp” (24-Apr-06) • Presented on the 2005 Caribbean bleaching event • Led training activity on satellite products for coral reef conservation BENEFIT: CRW activities have attracted national attention to a basin-wide bleaching event IMPACT: NESDIS provides outreach and education products for a variety of users to promote and enhance environmental literacy Coral Reef Watch website: http://coralreefwatch.noaa.gov/

  19. Apr 2006 CRW Highlights Outreach: In the Press… • NBC’s Nightly News with Brian Williams: Two-minute feature story on coral bleaching, featuring animation of NESDIS Coral Reef Watch data developed by the NESDIS Environmental Visualization Program (16-Apr-06) • Interviews on the 2005 Caribbean bleaching event: • Reuters America • The New York Times • National Geographic • Premiere Radio Networks • NBC News BENEFIT: CRW activities have attracted national attention to a basin-wide bleaching event IMPACT: NESDIS provided key warnings and is leading an international effort to fully document the extent of this bleaching event Coral Reef Watch website: http://coralreefwatch.noaa.gov/

  20. Key Projects • SciTech • SciTech contract selection being finalized • Undergoing final legal review • Awarded. • GOES-R AWG / R3 • Algorithm teams mostly formulated • Budgets being developed • Contract personnel being determined • ** Space issue • NDE • Project plans under development • Funded contractors / visiting scientists • Project plans being revised • Ocean Color: 1 person FY06 and FY07 • SST: 1 person FY07 • MOBY Plan • Draft completed • Web Page Redesign • In progress • STAR S&T Roadmap • Final draft available

  21. Operational Transitions • GOES-POES blended SST • Code completed transition to SOCD: December 05 • Validation match-up data base commenced January 06 • Initial validation expected by March 06 • Transition POES-GOES BLENDED To Pre-Operations – moved to January 07      - *OSDPD has just started porting the  software code on the Tethys to their         operational machines       - Validation System still needs to be set up (in progress)       - documentation needs to be written for the system       - High Density CLAVR-X SSTs need to be operational not just experimental            (in progress) • GOES L2P • Documentation required • Planned release 31 March 06 • NASA – NOAA Research to OPS • FY05: Updated status reports provided to Stan Wilson 2/16/06 • FY06: NESDIS process still being defined • Awaiting call for projects; project drafts developed • FY07 O&M funding gap (~$2M) for MOBY

  22. Ground Systems Update

  23. Significant Pending Actions • S&T Roadmap • Final review of STAR S&T Roadmap • PPBES • FY06 • Executing • Unable to transfer funds (BOP, etc) yet • FY09 • Planning phase in progress. SSV and CEO data calls being met. Final submittal date is May 11. • R2O ($4M) • Developing FY06 NESDIS process • Performance Plans/Reviews • FY05 complete • FY06 plans being modified to address project management • FY06 Mid-term reviews scheduled for completion by 15 Apr 06

  24. Budget

  25. Other Variances • ORS Total • Total vs Obligated - 63.5% $2383 K • Total vs Committed - 74.1% $2780 K Obligated  Committed  • Contracts: - 100% - 93.6% • Grants: 0% 0% • Equipment: - 83.8% - 38.7% • Travel: - 52.3% 2.45% • Supplies: - 92.0% - 86.5%

  26. Grants

  27. Grants Status • ORS competitive grant process • ORS FY06 AO for the NOAA omnibus submitted May 05 • NOAA omnibus AO published 30 June 05 • ORS call for proposals closed Oct 05 • Reviews completed Jan 06 • Selection complete March 06 • Grant packages reviewed by FALD and sent to GMD in April 06. • CIOSS • GOES-R3 supplemental review and recommendations complete • Year-4 award pending final review • Directed research • CIMSS • Split-year funding pending CIMSS omnibus submission • Pass-throughs • MISST NOPP • Awaiting FY06 funding determination; no action by Stan Wilson yet • Just received delayed FY05 funding ($100K)

  28. Proposals

  29. Proposals • AOs • Education Mini-grants • Gulf Coast Cooperative Institute • IPO/IGS A. Ignatov “NPOESS/VIIRS SST: Pre-launch performance and option improvement development” , FY06-08 • LOI • Submitted NASA ROSES; ocean vector winds and coral reef ecosystems • Proposals • GOES-R AWG • SST • Ocean Color • GOES-R3 • Ocean Color • MOBY • Monterey Field Experiment • NOAA IOOS • 5 proposals submitted, none accepted

  30. Safety Status • NOAA Safety Inspection of WWB 01/31/06 • Room 102: Bug infestation • Investigating • NESDIS Computer room: 102 • Wires hanging down in front and back of equipment needs to be removed. Caution tape and signs needed. No fire detection system in the 1st floor computer room. GSA criteria for protecting information technology equipment recommends Halon fire extinguisher in computer room (Halon 1 Model 5H8 NFPA 75, Section 6-3) • Rewiring in progress • Halon requirement questioned; CFC banned • Room 104: Cables/wires were hanging out of ceiling. Boxes/equipment being stored in Susie Brock’s area. • Field equipment moved; flight experiment in progress, no field equipment assembly area • Cables have been rerouted in redesigned space • Room 104/105 (Paul Chang’s area): General housekeeping • Noted, will correct upon return from field experiment

  31. CoastWatch / OceanWatch Performance Measures • Performance Measure 1:Maintain and improve CoastWatch/OceanWatch readiness • Performance Measure 2:Increase numbers of new validated products • Add blended GOES/POES to distributed CoastWatch product suite in pre operational status – Work delayed due to late delivery of code from science contractor – Rescheduled for 06/06. • Performance Measure 3: NOAA specific EOS product processing system operational • Working w/ OSDPD to transition to Operational • Performance Measure 4:Increase areal coverage of NOAA OceanWatch - completed in FY05 • Add limited South Pacific coverage to OceanWatch distributed product suite – Completed see MODIS coverage images • OceanWatch Pacific Basin – Established at Central Pacific Node (OceanWatch Node) Completed June 2005 • Performance Measure 5:Improve customer access and utilization opportunities • Establish Gulf of Mexico as OceanWatch demonstration – Project on hold • Establish one additional OceanWatch demonstration – Established in Pacific, HI, CA. • Establish preliminary climate observational capability within OceanWatch (Ocean Carbon Watch collaboration with AOML and PMEL); Ocean Carbon Dioxide Watch established with AOML — In progress • Establish China CoastWatch – In progress, on track • Exploring additional International CoastWatch opportunities, including Europe and S. America.

  32. Coral Reef Watch

  33. CRW Performance Measures • Task 1: Maintain and Improve Operational Products for Reef Managers Goal: Increase number of Satellite Bleaching Alert system users Indicator: Identified unique users Unit of Measure: Number Baseline: FY05 - 20 FY06: 157 Target: 25 per year Status: As of April 2006, there are 157 users (added 10 this month) Goal: Increase number of Index Sites Indicator: Operational 50-km Index Sites Unit of Measure: Number Baseline: FY05 - 24 FY06: 24 Target: FY06 - 36 Status: Draft sites prepared for Australia and the Caribbean; on target for new Caribbean sites in Q4 - Ongoing Goal: Train managers in the use of CRW products Indicator: Workshops conducted, or user training courses/modules prepared Unit of Measure: Number Baseline: FY05 - 1 FY06: 6 Target: 3 per year Status: Completed coral education module Status: Conducted workshops in the Philippines, Mexico, Palau, and US Virgin Islands - Ongoing • Task 2: Develop New and Enhanced Products for Reef Managers Goal: Operationally implement new and enhanced CRW products to help improve management of coral reefs. Indicator: CRW products for reef managers Unit of Measure: Number Baseline: FY05 - 4 FY06: 6 Target: 2 per year Status: Completed the gridded data product suite in HDF and Google Earth formats Status: Developed new high-resolution landmask for Coral Reef Watch products Status: Enhanced 50-km product suite – Delayed to Q4, Ongoing

  34. Sea Ice

  35. Sea Ice Performance Measures • Tasks 1 and 3 - Sea Ice Product and Research Development and National Ice Center Polar Research. Products are evaluated using model, buoy data and observations using NOAA as well as other ships and aircraft resources of opportunity. Product evaluation and feedback by present and new users is sought after. The number of new and updated experimental products, transitioned products, and new users will be followed. In addition, where appropriate skill scores will be developed to determine product performance. • Status: Increasing number of active users and products under both tasks including USCG (for sea ice and iceberg monitoring off Alaska, and USGS for sea ice Marginal Ice Zone in the Bering Sea under task 1) and the NWS and NESDIS (for customized sea ice edge products under task 3). • New USGS project on Walrus population assessment in the Bering Sea making use of SAR-derived sea ice cover shapefiles for tactical decision. Increased amount of Envisat ASAR imagery is now accessible to the NIC from the ESA rolling archive. • Task 2 - Sea Ice Altimetry Research. For altimetry Cal/Val, a decrease in the amplitude of error in estimated sea-ice freeboard from approximately 1.0 m to 15 cm by 2006 along CryoSat ground tracks and wavelength of freeboard error to 0.5 km. For altimetry climate - establish first year of sea-ice mass time series (monthly intervals) by end 2007. • Status: Airborne activities conducted on March 2006, in spite of the launch failure of CryoSAT, coincident with Envisat and IceSat observations. • Initial processing of the data from the NASA Airborne Topographic Mapping (ATM) altimeter will take until June or July 2006.

  36. Sea Surface Temperature

  37. Sea Surface Temperature cont’d…

  38. Sea Surface Temperature Performance Measures: 1 of 4 Overarching Performance Measure: Sustain, improve and demonstrate applications for a number of well validated and quality-controlled real-time and climate SST products derived from the past, current, and future POES and GOES platforms Task Performance Measures: Task 1. SST Environmental Data Records (EDRs) 1.1. POES Infrared Goal: Sustain and improve SST from NOAA/AVHRR; Get ready for NPOESS/VIIRS; Use MODIS for VIIRS risk reduction Indicator: Full utilization of sensor SST potential; SST improvements; Recognition in SST community Unit of Measure: # of heritage/New SST products/Peer-reviewed pub/Funded proposals Baseline: FY05– 4/0/0/1 Target: FY06 – 4/0/1/2 Status: Ongoing 1.2. GOES Infrared Goal: Sustain and improve SST from GOES; Generate SST from non-NOAA operated geostationary satellites; Get ready for GOES-R/ABI; Use MSG/SEVIRI and EOS/MODIS & AIRS for risk reduction. Indicator: Full utilization of sensor SST potential; SST improvements; Recognition in SST community Unit of Measure: # of current/New SST products generated from GOES satellites/Funded proposals/ #peer-reviewed publications Baseline: FY06 Target: FY07– Status: New Bayesian Cloud Mask Enhancement approved for implementation into operational products June 1, 2006 1.3. POES Microwave Goal: Indicator: . Unit of Measure: Percent Baseline: FY06 – 95% Target: FY06 – 98% Status: Ongoing

  39. Sea Surface Temperature Performance Measures: 2 of 4 Overarching Performance Measure: Sustain, improve and demonstrate applications for a number of well validated and quality-controlled real-time and climate SST products derived from the past, current, and future POES and GOES platforms Task Performance Measures: Task 2. SST Climate Data Records (CDR s) 1.1. POES Infrared (NOAA/AVHRR) Goal: Contribute to AVHRR Stewardship by maintaining SST/Aerosol reprocessing capability from NOAA/AVHRR Indicator: Full utilization of AVHRR SST long-term potential; Recognition in SST climate community Unit of Measure: % advance SST-Aerosol Stewardship system/ # of peer-reviewed publications/Funded proposals Baseline: FY05-10%0/1 Target: FY06 – 20%/1/1 Status: Ongoing 1.2. GOES Infrared (NOAA/GOES-Imager) Goal: Reprocess climate quality GOES-SST data records from 1994 to present and beyond. Indicator: validation and approval by climate community Unit of Measure: recognition in climate community/ # of peer-reviewed publications Baseline: FY05-100% Target: FY07 Status: Reprocessed four months of 2005 data in the process of validating/plan to characterize data and run 1994-present on NCDC system. 1.3. Conventional SST Climatologies Goal: Have an expected state for SST & variability for QC & Reference state for climate analyses. Indicator: Consistency with available SST climatologies; Consistency with satellite observations; Recognition in climate community Unit of Measure: % accomplishment/ # of peer-reviewed publications Baseline: FY05 - 0%/0 Target: FY07 – 15%/0 Status: Ongoing

  40. Sea Surface Temperature Performance Measures: 3 of 4 Overarching Performance Measure: Sustain, improve and demonstrate applications for a number of well validated and quality-controlled real-time and climate SST derived products from the past, current, and future POES and GOES platforms Task Performance Measures: Task 3. SST Cal/Val/QC/QA 3.1. Cal/Val against buoys Goal: Sustain/Improve SST Cal/Val; Develop QC of buoy/NCEP SST; Use as diagnostic Indicator: Buoy SST quality-controlled; Cal/Val against buoy and NCEP Analyses automated Unit of Measure: Peer-reviewed publications/Funded proposals Baseline: FY05 – 0/0 Target: FY06 – 1/0 Status: Ongoing 3.2. Global Consistency Checks Goal: Develop global QC/QA and automate Indicator: Improved SST based on global QC/QA; % QC/QA automated. Unit of Measure: % automation/Peer-reviewed publications/Funded proposals Baseline: FY06 – 30%/0/0 Target: FY06 – 40%/1/1 Status: Ongoing

  41. Sea Surface Temperature Performance Measures: 4 of 4 Overarching Performance Measure: Sustain, improve and demonstrate applications for a number of well validated and quality-controlled real-time and climate SST derived products from the past, current, and future POES and GOES platforms Task 4. SST Applications 4.1. Coral Reef Watch Goal: Indicator: Unit of Measure: Baseline: FY05 - 95% Target: FY06 – 98% Status: Ongoing 4.2. Coast Watch Goal: Indicator: . Unit of Measure: Baseline: FY06 – 95% Target: FY06 – 98% Status: Ongoing 4.3. Ocean Dynamics Goal: Indicator: . Unit of Measure: Baseline: FY06 – 95% Target: FY06 – 98% Status: Ongoing

  42. Sea Surface Height

  43. Sea Surface Height Task 1: Altimeter Data Sets Goal: Improve GFO GDR sea surface height accuracy using Topex/Poseidon and Jason-1 as the standard. Indicator: GDR sea surface height accuracy Unit of Measure: resolution –cm Baseline: FY04 – 5 cm Target: FY06 – 4cm Status: In progress Task 2: Ocean Dynamics. Goal: Increase percentage of ocean area covered by OSCAR analysis. Indicator: OSCAR analysis ocean area coverage Unit of Measure: percent Baseline: FY04 – ~20% Target: FY06 - ~50%; FY08– ~80% Status: Oscar-2 contract to be awarded end of FY05 Goal: Decrease turn-around time for OSCAR product. Indicator: turn-around time of product Unit of measure: time Baseline: FY04 – 10 days Target: FY06 – 1 week Status: In progress Task 3: Marine Gravity & Bathymetry. Goal: Decrease error in marine gravity. Indicator: marine gravity error Unit of Measure: mGal Baseline: FY05 – 7mGal Target: FY08 – 5mGal Status: Completed Goal: Improve global G&B resolution. Indicator: global gravity and bathymetry resolution Unit of Measure: resolution –km Baseline: FY05 – 30km Target: FY08 – 20 km Status: In progress Task 4: Climate. Goal: Increase confidence in historical global sea level rise value. Indicator: confidence in global sea level rise Unit of measure: rate –mm/yr Baseline: FY04 -±0.5 mm/yr Target: FY08 - ±0.3 mm/yr Status: In progress

  44. Ocean Surface Winds

  45. Ocean Surface Winds Performance Measures Task 1: Scatterometry • Full utilization of QuikSCAT scatterometer data by the operational weather community. • Status:complete – products available in AWIPS, NAWIPS and web page • Implementation of an improved high wind speed model function for QuikSCAT based on aircraft experiment data. • Status: complete – implemented in 12.5km processing on web page • Quantification of rain impacts on scatterometer wind vector retrievals • Status: ongoing • Validation and implementation of a reduced landmask to allow use of QuikSCAT winds closer to the coast • Status: ongoing • Full readiness to support operationally utilization of ASCAT, which is currently scheduled for a December 2005 launch. • Status: ongoing – launch delayed to June 30, 2006 Task 2: Radiometry • A full evaluation of the capabilities and limitations of ocean vector wind retrievals from WindSat • Status: ongoing • A comparison of WindSat and QuikSCAT wind vector retrievals • Status: ongoing Task 3: Applications • An operational demonstration of a global ocean upwelling index product running in near real-time. • Status: ongoing Update in Progress

  46. Ocean Color

  47. Ocean Color Performance Measures Overarching Performance Measure: Develop and maintain the capability to produce climate quality Ocean Color derived products. Task Performance Measures: Task 1. Marine Optical BuoY (MOBY) Goal: Sustain and improve vicarious calibration of all ocean color satellite sensors. Indicator: Days Normalized Water-Leaving Radiance measured by MOBY corresponding to Ocean Color Satellite overpasses. Unit of Measure: Percent Baseline: FY05 – 95% Target: FY06 – 98% Status: Ongoing Task 2. Marine Optical Characterization Experiment (MOCE) Goal: Maintain and reduce uncertainties in Normalized-Water Leaving Radiance measurements for use in vicarious calibration by MOBY. Indicator: Uncertainty in Normalized Water-Leaving Radiance measurements by MOBY. Unit of Measure: Percent Baseline: FY05 – ±7% Target: FY06 – ±5% Status: Ongoing Task 3. Ocean Color Validation Goal: Operational validation of the ocean color data stream using the MODIS Quality Assurance Browse Imagery quality assurance system. Indicator: Implementation of MQABI Unit of Measure: Percent Completion Baseline: FY05 – Not begun. Target: FY06 – 50% Status: MQABI Installed for internal evaluation Task 4. Ocean Color Applications Goal: The development and improvement of Ocean Color Product Algorithms. Indicator: Ocean Color Product Algorithms developed or improved Unit of Measure: Number Baseline: FY05 – 5 Target: FY06 – 7 Status: Ongoing- Began optical measurements in Chesapeake Bay for regional algorithm development Task 5. Optical Water Mass Applications Goal: Demonstrate feasibility of NRL developed Optical Water Mass Classification Technique. Indicator: Implementation of Classification of Coastal Water Mass Features. Unit of Measure: Percent Completion Baseline: FY05 – Not begun. Target: FY06 – 50% Status: Started.

  48. Sea Surface Roughness

  49. Sea Surface Roughness

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