Atmosphere and Space Sciences
Abstract
Effective Naval operations depend upon accurately understanding the maritime and littoral 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: Battlespace Environments, Marine Meteorology and Prediction and Space Research. These efforts support basic research on physical process studies, fundamental observations, data discovery, and modeling and forecasting of the atmosphere and space with the goal of improving the ability to predict the battlespace environment of the Navy and Marine Corps, anywhere on the globe. Emphasis is placed on the marine atmosphere, the tropics, polar regions, the upper atmosphere and 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 up 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 signal propagation in the marine atmosphere and near space domains. Research results provide the foundation for improved global and regional forecasts of the operational environment and for development of next-generation, fully coupled, high resolution prediction systems. Research areas evolve in response to priorities of the Oceanographer of the Navy.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Accomplishment
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 2025
- Source ID
- f143ce9d6d223aea4b37f1c2fd1ae7aa