NOAA’s National Ocean Service (NOS) is partnering with the Oceanic and Atmospheric Research (OAR), National Weather Service (NWS) and coastal ocean modeling community to develop its next generation coastal ocean coupling infrastructure for integration into the NOAA Unified Forecast System portfolio.
We will share our roadmap and the current status of the development of ufs-coastal-model (i.e. forked from ufs-weather-model) coupling infrastructure and its downstream applications (ufs-coastal-app). The current development team consists of developers from the ESMF/NUOPC team at NCAR and the NOS Storm Surge Modeling Team at the Office of Coast Survey. Substantial support is also provided by coastal ocean model developers (ROMS, ADCIRC, SCHISM and FVCOM) as well as support from the WaveWatchIII team at NOAA Environmental Modeling Center and US Army Corps of Engineers. In this presentation, we will introduce some of the ongoing and planned ufs-coastal applications.
After completion of his PhD in 2005, Dr. Saeed Moghimi spent four years on an assistant professor position in the Department of Civil Engineering of Arak University. In 2009, he was awarded an Alexander von Humboldt fellowship in Physical Oceanography at the Institute for Baltic Sea Research, Germany. His scientific research on model coupling, water column turbulence and mixing, wave modeling, coastal ocean circulation modeling, wave-current interaction and the use of data assimilation methods for predicting coastal ocean geophysical variables made him one of the few people with this caliber and expertise for tackling coastal modeling related problems.
Currently he serves as the NOAA’s National Ocean Service Storm Surge Modeling Team Lead at the Coastal Marine Modeling Branch at CSDL/OCS/NOS/NOAA. He is leading all related efforts concerning the operational storm surge and tide forecast system capabilities such as: 1) research and development; 2)research-to-operation (R2O); 3) operational support; 4) regular upgrades and maintenance; and 5) skill assessment and dissemination. He is also leading the development of the next generation NOS’ Coastal Ocean Modeling infrastructure (UFS-Coastal) following the NOAA Unified Forecast System.
