Joint Metoc Handboo - IHMC Ontology and Policy Management

5 - The Senior METOC Officer
current Annex Hotel for OPLANs, CONPLANs, Functional Plans, OPORDs, and
any applicable standard operating procedures (SOPs)
- Review/understand the Deliberate Planning and Crisis Action Planning processes
as the planning processes apply to your CINC. Use Joint Staff Officer's Guide,
Joint Pub 5-0, and your CINC's instructions. Know your responsibilities to the
CINC when a crisis response cell (CRC) or Crisis Action Team (CAT) is stood up
- Know your manning reserves and augmentation personnel. Obtain/review copy of
your Joint Table of Distribution (JTD) and Joint Table of Mobilization Distribution
(JTMD)
- Know your available communications and systems; e.g., GCCS, SIPRNET,
NIPRNET, GBS, AFWIN, AWDS, and SAFWIN. Liaison with your J6 and
component command METOC Officers to understand available communication
paths, compatibility of component communications, and viable methods to
interface component METOC forces in joint operations. Learn the various
communication pathways to obtain METOC data via homepage or bulletin boards
within your division and at the command center. Learn to display METOC
products in GCCS
- Have a basic understanding of the effects on military operations of space weather
and the space weather support infrastructure
- Review/learn the climatology of your area of responsibility (AOR). Develop and
maintain climatology for your OPLANs and CONPLANs. Maintain climatology
reference publications for AOR. Use AFCCC, Navy METOC Det Asheville,
Commander, Naval METOC Command (CNMOC), and NAVOCEANO as
necessary
- Review/learn METOC software applications available from all Services. Obtain
the necessary hardware to support the various software applications. Some of the
software you may need at the CINC level are Joint METOC Viewer (JMV), CD-
ROM library from Asheville and NAVOCEANO, a solar/lunar program (e.g.,
NiteLight), Night Vision Goggles (NVG) data, Joint METOC Viewer, MRCAT,
SatTrack (Satellite Tracking Program), a tropical storm tracking program, and the
Geophysics Fleet Mission Program Library (GFMPL). AFCCC has a publication
catalog and CNMOC publishes a list of available software
- Review the universal list of METOC equipment. Refer to the Office of the Federal
Coordinator for Meteorology (OFCM) weather equipment manual. Know what is
available for an operation and what Service needs to be tasked to provide
- Have a broad knowledge of Time Phased Force and Deployment Data
(TPFDD)/List (TPFDL) and some of the key personnel/equipment Unit Type
Codes (UTCs) by service. See Appendix A for further discussion of Service
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