Operational
Transitions
Much of the Marine Meteorology Division's applied research is focused on developing and transitioning products that are used by operational customers to support the DOD mission.
Numerical Weather
Prediction Systems
Operational systems developed by NRL Monterey include the global,
regional, and local data assimilation and numerical weather prediction
systems that are run operationally at Fleet Numerical Meteorology and
Oceanography Center (FNMOC) in Monterey, California and at some regional
Navy Meteorology and Oceanography Centers. Graphical displays of real-time
operational products from some of these NRL systems can be viewed on the
FNMOC public web site.
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Digital data output from some of these modeling
systems can be obtained through several sources.
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Tropical Cyclone Forecasting
Aids
Other operational systems have been
developed specifically to support the operators and duty officers responsible
for forecasting tropical cyclones around the globe. Those systems include
the Automated Tropical Cyclone Forecast (ATCF) system, an interactive
forecasting tool widely used by operational Navy and NOAA tropical forecasters,
and the Tropical Cyclone Web Page, a comprehensive collection of tropical
satellite and ATCF products that has been developed by NRL and transitioned
to FNMOC.
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Satellite Products
Because of the Navy's global mission,
NRL uses data streams from 5 geostationary and 13 polar orbiting satellites
to provide a multi-sensor, multi-platform data fusion approach to developing
satellite products for global support of DOD. The Navy Meteorology and
Oceanography Centers and some of the Navy ships are able to capture, process,
and share satellite data streams. Algorithms developed by NRL Monterey
are transitioned to various locations to provide global and local capability
for product display and development. Some of these NRL-developed products
may be displayed on the following web sites (may require .mil address
to access).
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Warfighter Products
NRL Monterey also develops products
that are targeted at Navy operators outside of the meteorology and oceanography
community. These products include a number of handbooks (port studies,
hurricane havens guides, tactical applications guides) that are used directly
by ships' captains and other mariners; environmental databases for use
by the Modeling and Simulation (wargaming and mission rehearsal) community;
and the Target Acquisition Weapons Software (TAWS), a software system
supporting strike warfare that is jointly supported by the Navy, Air Force,
and Army.
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