Abstract
The Caribbean Coastal Ocean Observing System (CariCOOS) is the observing arm of the Caribbean Regional Association for Integrated Coastal Ocean Observing (CaRA). This effort, funded by the NOAA Integrated Ocean Observing System (IOOS) office, is one of eleven coastal observing systems and regional associations which along with federal agencies constitute the national coastal component of the US Integrated Ocean Observing System. CariCOOS observational assets provide a real time network to monitor wind, waves and currents and consists of four ocean data buoys and thirteen hurricane-hardened land based weather stations, distributed along the coastal areas of Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands. In this paper we present a detailed description of our observational infrastructure and provide analysis of wind and wave observations during the passage of Hurricane Irene over Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands during August 21-22, 2011.
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