Development of a Relocatable Coastal Forecast System for the US Navy

Abstract

A system to rapidly and automatically assess the performance of numerical ocean modeling systems was developed by the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL). This includes the calculation of quantitative, objective metrics of the accuracy of ocean forecasts. We will present results from this system, including metrics of surface and subsurface analysis and forecast fields. This work supports the U.S. Naval Oceanographic Office (NAVOCEANO), which provides oceanographic products in response to requests for environmental support for Navy operations. The development of a comprehensive automated system that provides model performance information is expected to increase the consistency of results, reduce errors, and reduce time required to generate oceanographic products.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 20, 2010
Accession Number
ADA513166

Entities

People

  • Cheryl A. Blain
  • Philip Chu
  • Robert S. Linzell

Organizations

  • United States Naval Research Laboratory

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Acquisition
  • Boundaries
  • Coastal Regions
  • Control Systems
  • Data Acquisition
  • Databases
  • Errors
  • Geographic Regions
  • Graphical User Interface
  • High Resolution
  • Military Research
  • Oceans
  • Shell Scripts
  • Software Development
  • Standards
  • Three Dimensional
  • Yellow Sea

Fields of Study

  • Environmental science

Readers

  • Atmospheric Science/Meteorology
  • Computational Modeling and Simulation