Carolinas Coastal Ocean Observing and Prediction System (Caro-COOPS) Unknown Unknown See Southeast Atlantic Coastal Ocean Observing System (SEA-COOS) (http://www.seacoos.org/) web site for additional data output from Caro-COOPS. http://www.caro-coops.org The Carolinas Coastal Ocean Observing and Prediction System (Caro-COOPS) initiative is based upon an instrumented array of coastal and offshore moorings, which are being deployed off of the coast of the Carolinas. The information from this observing system will be used to monitor and model estuarine and coastal ocean conditions, as well as develop predictive tools and ultimately forecasts for coastal managers. The initial product of Caro-COOPS will be an advanced, integrated storm surge model, based on real-time monitoring of hydrologic and meteorological conditions and processed by state-of-the-art computer models. Future applications of Caro-COOPS information will include water quality and transport of pollutants, sediment transport and shoreline stability, and the state of the fisheries. Caro-COOPS also include a sophisticated information management infrastructure designed to process and deliver information to a variety of public users, as well as to model applications. The central goal of Caro-COOPS is prediction of coastal ocean processes. It will establish an extensive array of instrumented moorings in the South Atlantic Bight, which currently receives extremely sparse coverage compared with other significant coastal regions, such as the Gulf of Mexico, New England coast, and the Chesapeake Bay. These efforts will include the development of a comprehensive data management system, essential for access to, and integration of, high quality, real-time data. The data management system will be designed to maximize flexibility and utility, with a view towards serving as a model and/or support for other coastal ocean observing systems, and will incorporate an advanced suite of integrated models that will markedly improve the predictive capacities of real-time physical data from coastal ocean instrumentation. 20030728 Unknown Observed In Work Continually -82.900914357143 -88.568371357143 42.0458356477326 36.7652357808384 None sea surface temperature, bottom temperature, salinity, sea surface height, currents, air temperature, barometric pressure, coastal winds, storm surge model None North Carolina, South Carolina, South Atlantic Bight, Atlantic Ocean, Gulf Stream None 2003 The dataset enclosed within this package/transmission are only as good as the quality assurance and quality control procedures outlined by the enclosed metadata reporting statement. The user bears all responsibility for its subsequent use/misuse in any further analyses or comparisons. The United States Federal Government and Caro-COOPS associated partners do not assume liability to the Recipient or third persons, nor will the Federal Government and Caro-COOPS associated partners indemnify the Recipient for its liability due to any losses resulting in any way from the use of this dataset. This dataset was provided under the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration supported Carolinas Coastal Ocean and Observing Systems initiative. The principal investigator (PI) and/or institution listed in the enclosed metadata reporting statement retains the right to be fully credited for having collected and processed the data. Following academic courtesy standards, the PI/institution and the Caro-COOPS initiative should be fully acknowledged in any subsequent publications in which any part of this dataset is used. Pursuant to Federal guidance, manuscripts resulting from this federally-supported research and data collection effort that are produced for publication in open literature, including refereed scientific journals, shall acknowledge that the research was conducted under an award from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration grant NA16RP2543 White David Mailing Address

Belle W. Baruch Institute for Marine and Coastal University of South Carolina

Columbia SC 29208 USA 803-777-8814 803-777-8769 dwhite@carocoops.org 0900 to 1700 Caro-COOPS is a partnership among the University of South Carolina, North Carolina State University, and the University of North Carolina at Wilmington. It is funded by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Currently, salinity, currents, water Temperature, and air temperature are quality controlled. The QA/QC procedure is as follows: 1) Reported values are tested for an expected data range. The defined range levels follow: a. Salinity: 30.0 ppt to 36.7 ppt; b. Currents: 0 cm/sec to 225 cm/sec; c. Water temperatures: 6.7 degrees C to 30.0 degrees C; d. Air temperature: 0 to 41 degrees C. 2) Data are then flagged as to the results from range tests. The following is the flagging scheme: a. Data which are within the accepted range limit = 1; b. Data which are below the accepted range limit = 2; c. Data which are above the accepted range limit = 3. Variable data has been truncated after the 4th decimal space. All ADCP measurements are 15 minutes prior to the recorded field 'measurement_date'. The value substitution for missing data is the character string '9999'. The initial set of variables that are measured and assimilated in real time include sea level, water temperature and salinity, vector currents, surface waves, air temperature, barometric pressure, and winds. In addition to these variables, measurements of chlorophyll fluorescence dissolved inorganic nutrients (NO3- and Br-) are made at an outermost mooring in the Sunset line (SUN4). The measurement platforms include offshore moorings instrumented for surface wave field, current speed and direction at multiple levels, temperature, salinity, pressure, and a limited number of platforms are/will be equipped with fluorescence/chlorophyll and dissolved inorganic nutrients (NO3- and Br-). Telemetry is using the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) LEO Iridium Cellular technology, which was made available to Caro-COOPS, via NCSU, through the Ocean.US Iridium Project. In addition, data are stored on instrumentation and downloaded during maintenance and retrieval operations that are scheduled to occur every 6 months. Caro-COOPS is employing two Aanderaa Coastal Monitoring Buoys CMB4280, which measure average and maximum (gusts) wind speed, wind direction, barometric pressure, relative humidity, solar and sky radiation, and air and water temperature. Initially, data will be transmitted through the ORBCOMM Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellites network. In addition, data are stored on instrumentation and downloaded during maintenance and retrieval operations that are scheduled to occur every 6 months. The Caro-COOPS Water Level Stations are Sutron Corporation NOS G3 Water Level Stations, equipped with primary and backup water level sensors and ancillary sensors to measure oceanographic and meteorological variables, in addition to water levels. USC has developed a Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) with the NOAA National Ocean Service Center for Operational Oceanographic Products and Services (CO-OPS), which operates and maintains the NWLON, to ensure that the installation and operation of the Caro-COOPS stations meet NOAA standards and the Caro-COOPS data can become part of the national database. Data from the coastal water level and meteorological stations are transmitted in near real-time by cellular telephone systems to the Caro-COOPS data center at USC and every three hours via GOES, NOAA's suit of Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites, to the NOAA CO-OPS data center. Not Complete Unknown The operational area for the Caro-COOPS observing network extends from the coast of the Carolinas, offshore past the shelf break, which is located along the 100 m isobath, to depths up to 300 m. Vector Point 1 sea level, water temperature, air temperature, salinity, pressure, vector currents, surface waves, wave height, chlorophyll, fluorescence dissolved inorganic nutrients (NO3- and Br-), air temperature, barometric pressure, wind speed, wind direction, relative humidity, solar and sky radiation No published standards for entity definitions were used to define the entities used in this data set. However, some of the entity type definitions are standard for the field of meteorology and oceanography. White David Mailing Address

Belle W. Baruch Institute for Marine and Coastal University of South Carolina

Columbia SC 29208 USA 803-777-8814 803-777-8769 dwhite@carocoops.org 0900 to 1700 Data Liability and Access Policies for the Carolinas Coastal Ocean Observing and Prediction System (Caro-COOPS). The protocols for data ownership, custodial liability, data submission and data access have been developed in accordance with known Federal guidelines and/or standards for environmental data collection activities. Ascii File, Formatted For Text Attributes, Declared Format (ASCII) 2KB Caro-COOPS data portal (www.caro-coops.org) none 20040220 White David Mailing Address

Belle W. Baruch Institute for Marine and Coastal University of South Carolina

Columbia SC 29208 USA 803-777-8814 803-777-8769 dwhite@carocoops.org 0900 to 1700 Content Standards for National Biological Information Infrastructure Metadata FGDC-STD-001-1998