What’s a Testbed?

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Funded Title:

Super-Regional Testbed to Improve Models of Environmental Processes for the US Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico Coasts

Translated Title:

Make Computer Models that Simulate Processes in Coastal Waters Easier to Use.

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1Yr - $4 m earmark through NOAA/IOOS to SURA

Program Calendar – May 2010 to May 2011

64 individuals from 20 Universities & 2 Companies

Multi-Agency involvement and benefit

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What is the Testbed?

Less about the models than the process.

Consensus process for Transition to Ops

Value Added… Enable Modeling and Analysis IOOS Subsystem Portfolio

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What are the goals of this Testbed?

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The Testbed Teams

Doug Levin, IOOSLiz Smith, SURA

Coastal Inundation waves + tides + barometric pressure

High Water Marks

Atlantic & Gulf Coasts

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Hypoxia models will advise better land use practices and waste water treatment plant improvements.

A Proxy for Comparing Hydrodynamic Models

Estuarine HypoxiaChesapeake

Shelf Hypoxia

Gulf of Mexico

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Transform data Skill Assessment

Mine and Combine (All Star)

Standardize Displays

Collaborative Website

Cyber Infrastructure What is in the Cyber Toolbox?

Linking the Effort

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Different Data Format In.. DIF

Universal Format Out

Cyber Toolbox – Making Data Universally Usable

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Cyber Tool Box – Standardize the Output

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IMEDS – Interactive Model Evaluation & Diagnostic System

Target Analysis

Cyber Tool Box - Model Skill Assessment

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Testbed Advisory

Evaluation Group

Review

Suggest

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Cyber Tool Box for Model Analysis and Comparison

One-Stop-URL - Testing, Visualization, Communication

Consensus Process for Transition to Operations

The Year 1 Leave Behinds – May, 2011

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What’s in the Testbed Future?

Expand - more regions & issues

Fill the Cyber Tool box

Educate present and potential users

Sustain the Testbed

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Questions?

www.testbed.sura.org

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