Royal Australian Navy Meteorology and Oceanography Operations Research Report

Abstract

This report documents the results of a study of Royal Australian Navy weather forecasters. The results replicate and extend the accomplishments of the ONR-funded Meteorology and Oceanography (METOC) Human Systems Interaction Improvement (HSII) Project. The objective was to map information usage of U.S. Navy (USN) METOC forecasters to visualization tools, and compare that mapping to mappings employed by another group of forecasters, located In a very different geographic region, employing different tools, and with different patterns of staffing and training. Data collected at two Royal Australian Navy (RAN) facilities replicated the principal findings of HSII in terms of workflow and extraction from complex visualizations. They extended the findings by documenting how forecasters assess the associated uncertainties in models and data.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 25, 2002
Accession Number
ADA401311

Entities

People

  • Susan S. Kirschenbaum

Organizations

  • Naval Undersea Warfare Center

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical
  • Ground and Sea Platforms
  • Human Systems
  • Sensors
  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Cognition
  • Cognitive Workload
  • Computer Programming
  • Data Analysis
  • Geographic Regions
  • Human Systems Integration
  • Human-Computer Interaction
  • Information Processing
  • International Organizations
  • Meteorology
  • Operations Research
  • Probability
  • Psychology
  • Tactical Decision Aids
  • Training
  • Visualizations
  • Weather Forecasting

Fields of Study

  • Environmental science

Readers

  • Computational Modeling and Simulation
  • Maritime and Naval Warfare Studies
  • Ocean-Atmosphere Mesoscale Modeling, Data Assimilation, and Flux Boundary Layers