Nowcast for the Next Generation Navy
Abstract
ONR provided start-up funding to develop a technical approach for the Nowcast for the Next Generation Navy system (called NOWCAST in this report). The goal is to develop a high-resolution, highly perishable weather hazard information system primarily for the Navy aircraft carrier Battlegroup to improve carrier flight operations, strike capabilities, cruise missile weaponeering, and anti-air warfare in the ship s defense. Designed to be housed in the carrier METOC facility, and in compliance with NITES architecture, NOWCAST will combine or fuse data from a variety of sources to provide the warfighter (end-user) direct access to automatic weather products. These data include three-dimensional winds in the planetary boundary layer, radar imagery from the SPY-1 weather radar obtained from the Aegis cruiser, weather from denied areas obtained from the Weather Web project of the Undersecretary of Defense for Science and Technology, MORIAH data from other ships in the Battlegroup, from-shore and direct readout satellite data, various vertical soundings of the atmosphere, and from-shore numerical weather prediction model output. Products will be web-based and warfighter-defined for easy use to avoid or exploit weather conditions that are pertinent to obtaining a full weather situational awareness of the battlespace environment.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Sep 30, 1999
- Accession Number
- ADA630746
Entities
People
- John McCarthy
Organizations
- United States Naval Research Laboratory