METOC Data Assimilation and Mod
Abstract
The Meteorological and Oceanographic (METOC) Data Assimilation Project is a multi-faceted project that provides future mission capabilities for warfighters to characterize the physical environment within their battlespace. This project includes: 1) development, demonstration and validation of software associated with atmospheric and oceanographic data assimilation forecast models and database management systems for use in both mainframe and tactical scale computers. Included are numerical oceanographic and atmospheric models for the Large Scale Computers at the Navy Fleet Numerical Meteorology and Oceanography Center (FNMOC), Monterey, CA and the Naval Oceanographic Office (NAVO), Stennis Space Center, MS. These models, combined with a global communications network for data acquisition and distribution, form a prediction system which provides METOC data and products necessary to support naval operations worldwide in virtually every mission area; 2) other software models, which focus on ocean thermal structure and circulation, and surf and tide prediction; 3) software to process and manage satellite remotely-sensed environmental data at Oceanography Centers ashore and on ships equipped with the AN/SMQ-11 satellite receiver/recorder; 4) future METOC and environmental satellite data readiness and risk reduction preparations to develop hardware and software that will allow ground stations to receive, ingest and exploit satellite data including payload sensor data from the National Polar Orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System (NPOESS) Preparatory Project (NPP), the European Organization for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites (EUMETSAT) Polar Systems' Meteorological Operational satellites A & B (METOP-A & B), Joint Polar Satellite System (JPSS), and Defense Meteorological Satellite Program (DMSP). This software allows for the integration and tactical application of significant oceanographic and atmospheric data derived from satellite-borne sensors. Satellite and unmanned sensor data, combined with manned platform data are foundational to a robust numerical weather and oceanographic modeling capability that predicts battlespace conditions impacting fleet and adversary weapon and sensor performance. Included are software and algorithms for the processing of sensor measurements, conversion of raw signal data to geophysical information, analysis schemes encompassing Artificial Intelligence and Expert Systems, and other satellite data applications and field validation of end products; and, 5) a family of acoustic system performance models beginning with active system models and databases in the low-, mid-, and high-frequency regimes and culminating with high fidelity simulation products. As weapons and sensors become more sophisticated and complex, the marine environment has an increasingly significant impact on system performance. Operational limitations induced by the ocean and atmosphere must be understood, and the resulting constraints on mission effectiveness and system employment minimized. Hence, the operating forces require more accurate worldwide forecasts of METOC conditions with increased temporal and spatial resolution. An additional challenge is posed by the emergence of new satellite sensor data. In order to fully exploit this dynamic and massive volume of data, modern Data Base Management Systems are required, and must be tailored for individual computer configurations at both FNMOC and NAVO. Improved representation of smaller-scale phenomena, particularly in the littoral, is also an important consideration. Intelligence Preparation of the Environment Sensor R&D to meet Chief of Naval Operations and Commander, Fleet Forces Command requirements for remote autonomous, clandestine, littoral battlespace sensing in near shore areas in support of Sea Shield & Sea Basing. Major emphasis areas include the METOC Future Mission Capabilities (FMC), the METOC Space-Based Sensing Capabilities, and the Tactical Oceanographic Capabilities / Under Sea Warfare projects (TOC/USW). FY 2015 request provides for continued advanced software component development and prototype efforts associated with advanced data assimilation into environmental prediction systems (to include development of tactical decision aids and asset allocation tools software), the continued development of advanced oceanographic and atmospheric prediction systems software and architectures to provide improved forecasts and estimates of product accuracies, continued development of improved data fusion techniques, data quality control technologies and accelerate the automation prediction processes, and the development of data assimilation and fusion software technologies for tactical radars, remote sensing and undersea sensor systems. Begin research and development of data processing and data assimilation algorithms for the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES-R) launch. Develop Meteorological and Oceanographic (METOC) Decision Support & Predation Tools to improve Electromagnetic and Electro-optical (EM/EO) system performance. The Earth System Prediction Capability (ESPC) program provides a more accurate global ocean and atmospheric forecast system with longer skillful forecast times through integrating and coupling atmosphere, ocean, ice, land and near-space forecast models into a seamless prediction system that reduces errors in the current modeling suite. Additionally it will develop a national common modeling architecture to improve cross-agency collaboration, and a greatly more efficient computational architecture to allow for real-time operational prediction.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Project
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 2015
- Source ID
- 2342._0603207N_4_1319_PB_2015
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