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While
the majority of time spent by Oceanweather's (OWI) research team is on proprietary
Joint Industry Projects and dedicated hindcast studies,
the research work performed for the U.S. and foreign governments
and universities can be disclosed. While not a complete
list of Oceanweather public projects, the brief
project descriptions detailed here provide a sample
of the activities in which OWI are involved. Many of the projects
described here are included on the Recent
Publications page or detailed in public documents.
U.S.
Corps of Engineers
- Integral
part of the Wave Information System (WIS) providing wind,
pressure and sea ice historical data for U.S. East, West
Gulf of Mexico, Alaska and Great Lakes domains
- Developed/maintain
MORPHOS Tropical Model (OWI TropPBL) applied by the Army Corps of Engineers
- Numerous
regional studies including Kenai River (Alaska), North Atlantic
Coast Comprehensive Study, South Atlantic Coast Comprehensive
Study, Texas Coast Study, others
- Member
of Interagency Performance Evaluation Test (IPET) group
post-Katrina
Environment
Canada
- Development
of AES40 (1998) and later MSC50 (present) long-term hindcasts
for the North Atlantic and Canadian coastal waters
- MSCBFort
– Canadian Beaufort wind, wave, ice, water level and
current database
- Davis
Strait/Baffin Bay long term wind and wave climatology
- Joint
work on development of extremes from general circulation
models
Federal
Emergency Management Agency
Worked
with various groups (STARR, Baker, AECOM, URS, Dewberry,
RAMPP, Atkins, others) in the development of wind and wave
forcing in tropical and extra-tropical conditions for use
in ADCIRC water level modeling. Virtually every study of
the FEMA flood mapping regions (U.S. East and West Coasts,
Gulf of Mexico) applied data and analysis performed by Oceanweather
Inc.
Others
- Member
of the NSCAT and QUIKSCAT scatterometer science teams working
with the Jet Propulsion Lab of NASA
- Work
with foreign institutes such as Korea Ocean Research and
Development Institute (KORDI) in tropical modeling
- Team
with universities on such topics as tropical model analysis,
joint probability method for tropical extremes, development
of real-time storm surge forecasting system, smart climatology
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