J-SCOPE forecast results for the simulation beginning in February of 2015 are shown through a series of figures below. The first figure depicts a series of maps of bottom oxygen concentrations (ml/l) as two-month averages for the region, averaged over all three model runs of the ensemble. The lower panels depict the relative uncertainty from the ensemble for the same time period. From the maps, the shallow Oregon shelf experiences hypoxia first, in June (shown by the white contour). The relative uncertainty ranges from 10% or less in February through April. The relative uncertainty gets higher on the shelf later in the summer (up to ~35% in August). A time series from the bottom on the coast near one of the OCNMS moorings sited at Cape Elizabeth is shown from each member of the ensemble. The model forecasts that hypoxia will most likely develop at this location in late July of 2015, but may develop earlier. Finally, the climatological cross-section from the Newport Line from Pierce et al, 2012 is compared to the forecasted average of the ensemble members. The forecast projects that the oxygen concentration in the source waters for the upwelling season of 2015 will be lower than the climatology.

On the Washington shelf, hypoxia is predicted to emerge along the Cape Elizabeth line of the OCNMS moorings in July. The emergence in anoxia in the model is caused by a bias associated with the lack of relaxations in the winds (found to be important in a paper by Adams et al, 2013) in CFS as well as a bias in the short wave radiation (see 2013, Year in Review). The model does have skill in predicting the emergence and severity of hypoxia, while it is biased low for these reasons. Given the difficulty in predicting the fall transition in 2013 (see 2013, Year in Review), the forecast for low oxygen levels forecasted well into September is uncertain.