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The Center for Ocean-Atmospheric Prediction Studies (COAPS) is a NOAA Applied Research Center and collaborates with a number of centers and consortiums.

COAPS is home to the Research Vessel Surface Meteorology Data Center which provides high-quality meteorological observations for validation of satellite and model derived products. The center also is the project office for the Shipboard Automated Meteorological and Oceanographic System (SAMOS) initiative.

COAPS houses the Florida Climate Center and the Florida State Climatologist, David Zierden. The Florida Climate Center can access all previously archived weather data and advises the public and private sectors on climate variability. Typical questions received by the Center are: Will El Niño affect the hurricane season? When will the drought end? What is the wild fire forecast? And, how much sea level rise can Florida expect?

In late 2006, COAPS became a founding member of the Northern Gulf of Mexico Cooperative Institute. The institute will work with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to study the physics and ecosystem dynamics of the northern Gulf of Mexico. COAPS is also a member of the HYCOM consortium, a multi-institutional effort funded by the National Ocean Partnership Program (NOPP) as part of the U. S. Global Ocean Data Assimilation Experiment (GODAE), to develop and evaluate a data-assimilative hybrid isopycnal-sigma-pressure (generalized) coordinate ocean model (called HYbrid Coordinate Ocean Model or HYCOM).