Publisher's Synopsis
NASA's Earth Science Applications Directorate evaluated the potential of NASA remote sensing data and modeling products to enhance the General NOAA Oil Modeling Environment (GNOME) decision support tool. NOAA's Office of Response and Restoration (OR&R) Hazardous Materials (HAZMAT) Response Division is interested in enhancing GNOME with near-realtime (NRT) NASA remote sensing products on oceanic winds and ocean circulation. The NASA SeaWinds sea surface wind and Jason-1 sea surface height NRT products have potential, as do sea surface temperature and reflectance products from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer and sea surface reflectance products from Landsat and the Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflectance Radiometer. HAZMAT is also interested in the Advanced Circulation model and the Ocean General Circulation Model. Certain issues must be considered, including lack of data continuity, marginal data redundancy, and data formatting problems. Spatial resolution is an issue for near-shore GNOME applications. Additional work will be needed to incorporate NASA inputs into GNOME, including verification and validation of data products, algorithms, models, and NRT data.Spruce, Joseph P. and Hall, Callie and Zanoni, Vicki and Blonski, Slawomir and D'Sa, Eurico and Estep, Lee and Holland, Donald and Moore, Roxzana F. and Pagnutti, Mary and Terrie, GregoryStennis Space CenterOILS; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS; NOAA SATELLITES; EARTH SCIENCES; REMOTE SENSING; ATMOSPHERIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODELS; HAZARDOUS MATERIALS; REAL TIME OPERATION; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SYSTEMS ENGINEERING; TERRA SPACECRAFT; TOPEX; POSEIDON SATELLITE; THERMAL EMISSION; GROUND WIND
