Abstract
The advancement of Coastal Ocean Forecasting Systems (COFS) requires the support of continuous scientific progress addressing: (a) the primary mechanisms driving coastal circulation; (b) methods to achieve fully integrated coastal systems (observations and models), that are dynamically embedded in larger scale systems; and (c) methods to adequately represent air-sea and biophysical interactions. Issues of downscaling, data assimilation, atmosphere-wave-ocean couplings and ecosystem dynamics in the coastal ocean are discussed. These science topics are fundamental for successful COFS, which are connected to evolving downstream applications, dictated by the socioeconomic needs of rapidly increasing coastal populations.
Highlights
The development and evolution of Coastal Ocean Forecasting Systems (COFS) are largely dependent on both technological and scientific advances, as well as on user needs
Within GODAE OceanView, the Coastal Ocean and Shelf Seas Task Team (COSS-TT) promotes international collaboration in addressing all scientific issues related to COFS needs and downstream applications, aiming to promote a seamless framework of observations and data assimilative models from the global to the coastal/littoral scale
A primary science topic is downscaling from larger scale models, toward the development of appropriate nesting procedures
Summary
H.; De Mey, P.; Staneva, J.; Ayoub, N.; Barth, A.; and Weisberg, Robert H., "Coastal Ocean Forecasting: Science Foundation and User Benefits" (2015). This article is available at Scholar Commons: https://scholarcommons.usf.edu/msc_facpub/408. ISSN: 1755-876X (Print) 1755-8778 (Online) Journal homepage: https://www.tandfonline.com/loi/tjoo. A. van der Westhuysen & R.H. Weisberg. Data assimilation, atmosphere-wave-ocean couplings and ecosystem dynamics in the coastal ocean are discussed. These science topics are fundamental for successful COFS, which are connected to evolving downstream applications, dictated by the socioeconomic needs of rapidly increasing coastal populations
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