Data and Products
Ocean observing data for the Pacific Islands region will be integrated and presented through this PacIOOS website as it becomes available. The current focus is on four categories of data and information: coastal ocean-state and forecasting, coastal resiliency, water quality, and ecosystem stewardship.
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Coastal Resiliency is focused on improving community preparedness for marine hazards and the impacts of climate change. A major problem facing island communities is inundation by high water levels associated with extreme tides, high waves, storm surge and tsunami, and rising sea level. Resiliency products will include: frequently updated maps of specific beach safety conditions (see hawaiibeachsafety.org for an early example); coastal inundation and erosion alerts; and vulnerability projections related to sea-level rise, chronic erosion, and high wave and water level events. Resiliency products are designed to improve community development, disaster mitigation planning, and transportation logistics. |
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Marine Ecosystem Stewardship will expand existing fish tracking and cetacean monitoring arrays. Stewardship products will include fishing and marine mammal forecasts. The intent is to provide data to support forecasts of environmental fluctuation and long-term climate change on living marine resources. |
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Coastal Ocean-State and Forecast is focused on the needs of shipping, tourism, coastal management, ocean safety, pollution control, and search and rescue operations. Utilizing an array of high frequency radars along with gliders, wave buoys, coastal cameras, and numerical models this project will monitor, model, and predict channel and nearshore circulation, waves, coastal run-up, and water levels. |
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Automated Water Quality Sensing is expanding and implementing modifications of existing coastal water quality monitoring. Data and products will mitigate the problem caused by delays between the initial identification of potential water quality altering events, sampling and implementation of water quality alerts. In the case of sewage or oil-spills, these delays can lead to unnecessary closure of uncontaminated beaches or failure to promptly close those that are contaminated. |
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Development of a database and web interface to access real-time and historical datasets for the PacIOOS pilot project, the Hawai‘i Ocean Observing System (HiOOS), is currently underway. New! Regional Data Links
For specific subregional data links, return to the Homepage and click on the subregion of interest. | |
