Pacific Region RCSD Data & Products (DAPS) Worksheet
This form is used to add or update a DAPS record into Piko (Worsheet Version June 2012)
Acronym
Name/Title
Pacific Sea Level Extremes Outlooks Products
Capability Area
Understanding Climate Variability and Change
Understanding Climate Impacts and Informing Adaptation
Focus Area
Fresh Water Resources and Drought
Coastal Inundation/Sea Level Rise, Extreme Weather, and Community Resilience
Marine and Terrestrial Ecosystems
Region/Locale
Central North Pacific
State of Hawaii
Northwestern Hawaiian Islands
Pacific Remote Islands
Western North Pacific
Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI)
Federated States of Micronesia (FSM)
Guam
Republic of Palau
Republic of Marshall Islands (RMI)
Other Western North Pacific
South Pacific
American Samoa
Australia
Cook Islands
Fiji
French Polynesia
Kiribati
New Zealand
Papua New Guinea (PNG)
Samoa
Solomon Islands
Tonga
Tuvalu
Vanuatu
Other South Pacific
Pacific Basin
Global
Data - Physical
Data - Physical
In-situ Observations
Satellite-Remote Observations
Model Results
Reanalysis Products
Bathymetry and Topography
Imagery
Essential Climate Variable - Data
Atmospheric (e.g., Air Temperature, Rainfall, Wind Speed and Direction)
Oceanic (e.g., Water Temperature, Salinity, Acidity, Sea Level, Wave Height)
Terrestrial (e.g., Groundwater, Soil Moisture)
Products - Physical
Products - Physical
Hindcasts (climatologies)
Outloooks (monthly to annual)
Impacts
Drought
Flooding/Inundation
Erosion
Bleaching
Spatial Scale
Region/Nation
Location/Site
Time Scale
Past
Current
Future
Methodology
Obs/In-situ
Obs/Remote
Model/Statistical
Model/Dynamical
Projections (intrannual to multi-decadal)
Guidance, including “Best Practices” Manuals, Toolkits, and Guides
Applications, including Visualization and Decision Support Tools
Essential Climate Variable - Products
Atmospheric (e.g., Air Temperature, Rainfall, Wind Speed and Direction)
Oceanic (e.g., Water Temperature, Salinity, Acidity, Sea Level, Wave Height)
Terrestrial (e.g., Groundwater, Soil Moisture)
Data, Products, and Tools - Non-physical
Data, Products, and Tools - Non-physical
Biological
Socio-economic
Cultural
Other
Sector
Public Health and Safety
Fresh Water Resources
Energy
Transportation/Communication and Commerce
Community Planning and Development
Social and Cultural Resources
Agriculture and Fisheries
Recreation and Tourism
Ecosystems
Other
Description
The objective of this effort is to build upon seasonal sea level outlooks currently provided by the NWS Pacific ENSO Applications Climate Center as well as similar types of information being provided by other agencies, institutions, and organizations in the Pacific Islands region. The goal is to provide information to planners, managers, and other decision-makers that affords them an opportunity to appropriately address risks from elevated water levels. Extreme water levels are experienced when seasonal high tides combine with intra-annual sea level variations associated with ocean processes (e.g., ENSO, mesoscale eddy events) and surge and/or high run-up due to wind, wave, and atmospheric forces associated with storms. Recent work suggest that not only can stations can be grouped regionally into those where high tides dictate extremes, where the combination of high tides and the nontidal residual is important, and where nontidal residual events are the primary cause of extreme levels, but by the combination of processes that contribute to the nontidal residual (e.g., tropical and extra-tropical storms, ocean mesoscale variability, and swell events from distant storms). This effort is exploring how this knowledge can be used, for example by establishing forecast skill through statistical relationships to teleconnections or other such indices, to create one to three month extreme water level outlooks that are specific to a particular location.
Url
Lead Agencies, Institutions and Organizations
NOAA/NCDC/Regional Climate Services
Contacts(names, emails)
John Marra, john.marra@noaa.gov
Keywords
Understanding Climate Variability and Change Coastal Inundation/Sea Level Rise, Extreme Weather, and Community Resilience Central North Pacific Western North Pacific South Pacific Pacific Basin Products - Physical Outloooks (monthly to annual) Impacts Flooding/Inundation Erosion Spatial Scale Location/Site Time Scale Future Methodology Model/Statistical Oceanic (e.g., Water Temperature, Salinity, Acidity, Sea Level, Wave Height) Public Health and Safety Community Planning and Development
Worksheet
DAP_SLEO.doc