Weather on Target

Abstract

The long term goal of this project is to develop tools for the automated analysis and nowcasting of conventional and remotely-sensed meteorological data, primarily for use at regional forecast centers, and aboard ship. In contrast to predicting weather out to several days (the purpose of numerical weather prediction, NWP), our purpose is to assess current weather conditions at scales below the grid spacing of conventional NWP. There is an emphasis here on the recognition and analysis of clouds, and determining their locations and heights using output from regional NWP models. Improved nowcasts of types and levels of cloudiness in the battlegroup area will provide an augmented capability for Navy operations, specifically, and for command and control, in general.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 30, 1998
Accession Number
ADA532495

Entities

People

  • Paul M. Tag

Organizations

  • United States Naval Research Laboratory

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Engineered Resilient Systems
  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Command And Control
  • Computer Vision
  • Data Mining
  • Expert Systems
  • High Resolution
  • Identification
  • Information Operations
  • Information Science
  • Lessons Learned
  • Meteorological Data
  • Military Research
  • Observation
  • Recognition
  • Satellite Imaging
  • Weather
  • Weather Forecasting

Fields of Study

  • Environmental science

Readers

  • Atmospheric Science/Meteorology
  • Maritime and Naval Warfare Studies
  • Ocean-Atmosphere Mesoscale Modeling, Data Assimilation, and Flux Boundary Layers

Technology Areas

  • Fully Networked C3
  • Fully Networked C3 - Command and Control
  • Space