NASA Biodiversity and Ecological Forecasting Team Meeting 29 – 31 August 2005 Washington, DC Fig.2 We are: NASA GRT # NNG04GM64G “Pacific climate variability and its impact on ecosystems and fisheries: a multi-scale modeling and data assimilation approach for nowcasting and forecasting.” My name is Dick Barber ([email protected])
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NASA Biodiversity and Ecological Forecasting Team Meeting29 – 31 August 2005 Washington, DC Fig.2
We are:
NASA GRT # NNG04GM64G
“Pacific climate variability and its impact on ecosystems and fisheries: a multi-scale
modeling and data assimilation approach for nowcasting and forecasting.”
NASA Biodiversity and Ecological Forecasting Team Meeting29 – 31 August 2005 Washington, DC Fig. 3
Dick Barber – Duke University Fei Chai - University of Maine Yi Chao - Jet Propulsion Lab of Cal Tech
Francisco Chavez - Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute Joaquim Goes - Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences Michael Alexander -
NOAA Climate Diagnostics Center
NASA Biodiversity and Ecological Forecasting Team Meeting29 – 31 August 2005 Washington, DC Fig.4
Goal:
Deliver forecasts of circulation and ecosystem function in the Pacific Ocean which can force fish population models to make forecasts of fish abundance with 6 to 9 months lead-time.
NASA Biodiversity and Ecological Forecasting Team Meeting29 – 31 August 2005 Washington, DC
30 years ago (1975) we had an NSF project,Coastal Upwelling Ecosystems Analysis (CUEA),
based on the premise that:
“Prediction of the response of the coastal upwelling ecosystem to natural variations, man-made environmental perturbations or to different harvesting strategies is possible from knowledge of a few biological, physical and meteorological variables...”
NASA Biodiversity and Ecological Forecasting Team Meeting29 – 31 August 2005 Washington, DC
“The goal of the Coastal Upwelling Ecosystems Analysis Program is to understand the coastal upwelling ecosystem well enough to predict its response far enough in advance to be useful to mankind.”
Written in May 1975
Little did we know…………
NASA Biodiversity and Ecological Forecasting Team Meeting29 – 31 August 2005 Washington, DC
CUEA was successful by NSF’s basic research criteria, but the goal was never achieved …... the technology, vision and science of 30 years ago was simply inadequate:
- undersampling in time and space- omission of remote forcing in the CU paradigm- complete unawareness of decadal variability
- over-simplified linear food web theory- limited to 2D and uncoupled modeling
1. Two conceptual advances in ocean ecological theory:
1a. two-path food web (need for picophytoplankton and micrograzers)
1b. role of Fe in ocean ecosystems
NASA Biodiversity and Ecological Forecasting Team Meeting29 – 31 August 2005 Washington, DC
What has changed ?
The ecology of 1975 was pretty good, only two conceptual advances in ocean ecological theory:
1a. two-path food web (need for picophytoplankton and micrograzers)
1b. role of Fe in ocean ecosystems
NASA Biodiversity and Ecological Forecasting Team Meeting29 – 31 August 2005 Washington, DC
PhysicalModel
Nitrate[NO3]
Advection& Mixing
SmallPhytoplankton
[P1]NO3
Uptake
Micro-Zooplankton
[Z1]
Grazing
Ammonium[NH4]
Excretion
NH4Uptake
Detritus-N[DN]
FecalPellet
Sinking Silicate[Si(OH)4]
Diatoms[P2]
Si-Uptake
N-UptakeMeso-zooplankton
[Z2]
Sinking
Detritus-Si[DSi]
GrazingFecalPellet
Sinking
Predation
Lost
Total CO2[TCO2]
BiologicalUptake
Air-Sea Exchange
Dissolution
Carbon, Silicate, Nitrogen Ecosystem ModelCoSiNE, Chai et al. 2002; Dugdale et al. 2002
Chai et al., DSR 1996
Iron
Iron
Iron
NASA Biodiversity and Ecological Forecasting Team Meeting29 – 31 August 2005 Washington, DC
NASA Biodiversity and Ecological Forecasting Team Meeting29 – 31 August 2005 Washington, DC
But the big change is: 2. A revolution in observing systems in mode, resolution & quantity. 3. An even more profound revolution in computational power.
NASA Biodiversity and Ecological Forecasting Team Meeting29 – 31 August 2005 Washington, DC
2. The observational revolution (satellites and moorings) gives continuous access to the time and space scales of variability forcing ocean ecosystems.
NASA Biodiversity and Ecological Forecasting Team Meeting29 – 31 August 2005 Washington, DC
3. The computational revolution makes possible and enormous increases in both time and space resolution (physical) and model complexity (ecology).
Project Columbia and ROMS at NASA Ames
Computer at NASA Advanced Supercomputing Facility: 20 interconnected SGI® Altix® 512-processor systems
a total of 10,240 Intel Itanium 2 processorsPacific basin-scale ROMS: (1520x1088x30)