To fully exploit the state of climate science, though, requires that we expand and improve ACAF capabilities to better meet the BonD strategy. This requires a more robust, scalable supporting framework that can easily add new data resources; transform these data into actionable information with uncertainty estimates in the operators and planners decision space; and distribute effectively the computational and network burden among operational and tactical environments. Extending ACAF with these capabilities will significantly improve METOC support to the field, and better extend decision superiority to Fleet and DoD forces. The overarching goal of this research effort is to put more, and more effective, climate-based decision-support tools in to the hands of METOC personnel, mission planners and warfighters.
Benefit: State-of-the-science climate forecasts can deliver useful predictions at lead times of weeks to months, and these products are available from many Government and international sources. Transforming these predictions in to operationally useful information to operational criteria, and the task of rendering the decision-support products in a form immediately useful to Command, Control, Communications, Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (C4ISR) systems, can move planners, decision-makers and warfighters from cope-and-avoid to a strategic or operational perspective that anticipates and exploits the weather.
Keywords: Environmental data visualization, Environmental data visualization, climate and weather services and planning
