Real-Time Meteorological Battlespace Characterization in Support of Sea Power 21
Abstract
LONG-TERM GOALS. This project is a coordinated effort with the Naval Strike and Air Warfare Center (NSAWC) and the Naval Pacific Meteorology and Oceanography (METOC) Detachment (NPMOD) at Naval Air Station (NAS) Fallon, NV to create a shore test and development site to demonstrate enhanced weather support for strike warfare using a combination of the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) Coupled Ocean/Atmosphere Mesoscale Prediction System On Scene (COAMPS-OS ) and NOWCAST capabilities. The NOWCAST system is a network-centric data-fusion system that continuously updates a local environmental database with highly perishable, on-scene environmental data, accesses COAMPS-OS model data, creates fused products to provide a consistent, integrated, web-enabled picture of the current, near real-time METOC impacts within the current operational context, and makes these relevant products available to end users via a web browser, allowing warfighters to automatically maintain a common situational awareness picture of the three-dimensional battlespace environment. This system will benefit the warfighter by providing a capability to help monitor and characterize the impact of rapidly changing, operationally significant weather situations that can be accessed directly over the Global Information Grid (GIG) by decision makers whenever they need to evaluate their missions for environmental dependencies within a common situational awareness framework. This commonality should help to improve coordination and efficiency on the battlefield.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Sep 30, 2006
- Accession Number
- ADA631425
Entities
People
- John W. Cook
Organizations
- United States Naval Research Laboratory