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 remote littoral regions in which the Navy operates. In contrast to predicting weather out to several days (the purpose of numerical weather prediction), the purpose here is to assess current weather conditions at scales smaller than the grid spacing that limits numerical weather products. There is an emphasis on the recognition and analysis of clouds, and determining their locations and heights using both remote sensing and by calibrating output from regional weather prediction models. Improved nowcasts of parameters such as wind, visibility, and 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, 1997
Accession Number
ADA629037

Entities

People

  • Paul M. Tag

Organizations

  • United States Naval Research Laboratory

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Engineered Resilient Systems
  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Air Force Facilities
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Artificial Satellites
  • Classification
  • Command And Control
  • Computer Programs
  • Computer Vision
  • Data Mining
  • Expert Systems
  • High Resolution
  • Information Science
  • Machine Learning
  • Recognition
  • Remote Sensing
  • Robotics
  • Weather Forecasting

Fields of Study

  • Environmental science

Readers

  • Climatology
  • Computational Modeling and Simulation
  • Ocean-Atmosphere Mesoscale Modeling, Data Assimilation, and Flux Boundary Layers

Technology Areas

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