Welcome to the Urban Ocean Observatory!
The New York Harbor Observing and Prediction System (NYHOPS) was
established to permit an assessment of ocean, weather,
environmental, and vessel traffic conditions throughout the New York
Harbor and New Jersey Coast regions. The system is designed to provide a knowledge of
meteorological and oceanographic conditions both in real-time and
forecasted out to 48 hours in the Hudson River, the East River, NY/NJ
Estuary, Raritan Bay, Long Island Sound and the coastal waters of New
Jersey. In this web site you will see graphic images of: water level;
surface and bottom temperature; surface and bottom salinity; surface
and bottom currents; NOAA winds; coastal waves - height, period and direction;
CDOM (Chromophoric Dissolved Organic Matter).
DISCLAIMER: This observing and forecast system is a research product and is presently under detailed evaluation. No warranty is made, expressed
or implied at this stage, regarding the accuracy or validity of the model results, or regarding the suitability of the model output for any particular application.
The real-time analyses and forecasts are being produced under the guidance of
Prof. Michael S. Bruno and
Prof. Alan F. Blumberg.
The forecasts are being carried out at Stevens by
Nickitas Georgas.
Acquisition of the observations and their analyses are the responsibility of
Jeremy Turner.
Web development was done by Dov Kruger, Elena Zagrai & Dave Runnels.
Data administration and web development are handled by
Dave Runnels.
Stevens students Anne Pence, Joe Kilroy, Peter Stahley and Anthony
Gude have contributed to the success of the system.
Please direct your comments, suggestions or questions to any member of the team.
Support provided by: Office of Naval
Research and
New Jersey
Department of Transportation.
A special thank you goes to the
New York City Department of Environmental Protection and to
HydroQual, Inc.
for their permissions to use the extensively validated 3D circulation model
from which the NYHOPS model has evolved.
© 2006 Davidson Laboratory, Stevens Institute of Technology. All rights reserved.
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