Advanced Climate Analysis and Long Range Forecasting
Abstract
The major goal of this project is to improve the long range and climate support provided by the U.S. Naval Oceanography Enterprise (NOe) for planning, conducting, and assessing national security operations. The primary planning focus is on operational planning at intraseasonal to interannual lead times (e.g., weeks, months, several seasons, several years). The primary transition focus is on improving the long range and climate support capabilities of the Fleet Numerical Meteorology and Oceanography Center (FNMOC) and the Naval Oceanographic Office (NAVO). FNMOC is the lead organization within the NOe for providing this support. NAVO is a close partner with FNMOC on providing the ocean components of this support. The improved capabilities are focused on Battlespace on Demand (BonD) tiers 0-2 (environmental data sets, environmental analyses and forecasts, environmental impacts). However, we have more recently been developing an increased focus on BonD tier 3 (decision support). The environmental conditions on which we are focusing are physical atmospheric (mainly tropospheric and lower stratospheric), oceanic conditions (sea surface to sea floor), atmospheric electromagnetic (EM) propagation, and ocean acoustic propagation. The Tier 2 environmental impacts on which we are focusing are impacts of intraseasonal to interannual climate system variations on EM systems operating in the atmosphere (e.g., radar) and acoustic systems operating in the ocean (e.g., sonar).
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Sep 30, 2014
- Accession Number
- ADA616447
Entities
People
- Tom Murphree
Organizations
- Naval Postgraduate School