Atmosphere and Space Sciences
Abstract
Effective Naval operations depend upon accurately understanding the maritime operating environment and predicting its characteristics at high spatial and temporal resolution in areas that may be inaccessible. Understanding atmospheric phenomena and their impact on the electromagnetic spectrum from the sea surface to space provides a significant warfighting advantage. Efforts include: Marine Meteorology and Prediction and Space Sciences. These efforts support basic research on process studies, fundamental observations, data discovery, and modeling in the atmosphere and space with the goal of improving the ability to predict the battlespace environment anywhere on the globe. Emphasis is placed on the marine atmosphere, the tropics, polar regions, the ionosphere and other areas where new understanding is needed in order to overcome predictability barriers that limit the accuracy of current forecast models. Efforts are underway to understand the interactions of physics between the atmosphere, space, land, ocean and ice, represent these coupled processes in models, and extend them across scales from local to planetary, with the goal of extending the skill of predictions to seasonal and interannual timescales. Recent efforts have also focused on the processes that control tropical cyclone formation, structure and intensity changes and phenomena that affect electromagnetic and electro-optic propagation in the marine atmosphere. Research results provide the foundation for improved global and regional forecasts of the operational environment and for development of next-generation coupled prediction systems. Research areas evolve in response to priorities of the Oceanographer of the Navy.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Accomplishment
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 2021
- Source ID
- ecc36ba9c033d0c95313c7e30239782b