Category Archives: New Tools

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New Ocean Circulation Forecast for Kāneʻohe

Posted May 21, 2018

PacIOOS’ Regional Ocean Modeling System (ROMS) now provides a new high-resolution grid for Kāneʻohe (approximately 100-m resolution) and the surrounding area along Oʻahu’s windward shore (1.5-km resolution). The model...

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New Online Archive for PacIOOS Coastal Forecasts

Posted April 25, 2018

In addition to the most recent PacIOOS wave run-up, six-day high sea level, and harbor surge forecasts, website users can now also view historical plots of the forecasts. The...

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Hawai‘i Sea Level Rise Viewer

Posted January 19, 2018

PacIOOS developed the Hawaiʻi Sea Level Rise Viewer as a companion to support the State of Hawaiʻi Sea Level Rise Vulnerability and Adaptation Report. The viewer provides easy access...

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Updated Turbidity Plume Forecast

Posted October 26, 2017

A revised version of the PacIOOS Turbidity Plume Forecast for the Ala Wai Canal, Oʻahu, is now live. The updated visualization features interactive controls to play, replay, and forward...

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New Voyager Area Statistics Tool

Posted October 17, 2017

Voyager now provides a utility for computing statistics over a user-selected area for gridded datasets, including satellite data, forecasts (weather, surf, tide, ocean), bathymetry, and land elevation. This tool...

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Dynamic Plots for Combined Wave Observations and Forecast

Posted February 15, 2017

In response to user feedback, PacIOOS is now featuring new dynamic data plots that combine PacIOOS’ wave buoy observations with wave forecast data (see example for Waimea Bay). Spectral...

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PacIOOS Water Quality Sensor Partnership Program

Posted October 26, 2016

The PacIOOS Water Quality Sensor Partnership Program (WQSPP) supports scientists and natural resource managers to collect water quality data in order to inform research, conservation, planning, and resource management...

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Kwajalein Wave Run-Up Forecast

Posted June 13, 2015

Due to the successful development and implementation of the wave run-up forecast for Majuro, Marshall Islands, PacIOOS also developed a forecast for Kwajalein Atoll. The new PacIOOS wave run-up...

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Did you know?

PacIOOS is the first regional association that was certified as a Regional Information Coordination Entity (RICE) by the U.S. Integrated Ocean Observing System (IOOS). Certification provides NOAA and its interagency partners a means to verify that a regional association’s organizational and operational practices, including data management, meet recognized and established standards set by NOAA.