Aloha from PacIOOS,

PacIOOS Six-Day High Sea Level Forecasts help take the guesswork and anxiety out of high sea level events. These forecasts provide advanced notice of high sea levels throughout the Pacific Region. 

PacIOOS proudly presents an new Six-Day High Sea Level Forecast in and around Malakal, Palau. The Malakal forecast shows observed sea levels for the past three days, predicted sea levels for the next six days, and an indication of whether a "high sea level" threshold (red line based on historical records) will be reached. The forecast can be found on the PacIOOS website, or in PacIOOS Voyager.

PacIOOS team celebrates a successful re-deployment of the 'Kalo' wave buoy off Majuro, Marshall Islands.

With the help of local partners, PacIOOS successfully re-deployed the wave buoy off Majuro, Marshall Islands in early July.  The buoy provides near real-time data on wave height, wave direction, wave period and sea surface temperature.

Data streaming is made possible though long-term partnerships between PacIOOS, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, and the Coastal Data Information Program (CDIP) at Scripps Institution of Oceanography.  View near real-time data on PacIOOS Voyager or visit the PacIOOS website for wave directional spectra, comparison plots, and much more!

PacIOOS Data Sets Now Searchable!

PacIOOS Data Search, powered by pyscw, makes searching for data sets much easier.

Want to look for a particular data set within PacIOOS?  Use keywords in our new data search tool featured on the PacIOOS website.

Found under the "Data and Products" tab, the Data Search explores common search terms with just a click.  Powered by pyscw, the data search browses available PacIOOS metadata through the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) Catalog Service for the Web (CSW). 

 

We are excited to announce several new members to our PacIOOS Governing Council: 

The  CNMI Bureau of Environmental and Coastal Quality was created through Governor's Executive Order 2013-24 to reorganize the Coastal Resources Management Office and the Division of Environmental Quality in the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands

Assaf Azouri, Physical Oceanography Graduate Student at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, applies data analysis to various PacIOOS data sets of pressure and surface currents and plans instrument deployments in harbors and coastal regions.  Since joining PacIOOS in 2009, Assaf developed a new Harbor Surge Forecast in Hale'iwa, O'ahu, relating the harbor's infragravity response to various strengths of offshore swell forcing. This forecast may be valuable to harbor users as it provides a threshold level for potentially damaging surge currents in the harbor that result from large swell events.  Assaf plans to establish future surge forecasts for other Hawaiian harbors such as Barbers Point, Kahului, Hilo, and Kaumalapau. 

Assaf holds a Master's Degree in Physics.  He is currently working on a PhD in Physical Oceanography, with the PacIOOS Harbor Surge Forecast research being part of it.