Joint Metoc Handboo - IHMC Ontology and Policy Management
Joint Metoc Handboo - IHMC Ontology and Policy Management
Joint Metoc Handboo - IHMC Ontology and Policy Management
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7-Navy<br />
- Amphibious ships (or carriers when amphibious ship’s weather office is not<br />
available) provide amphibious objective area forecasts that include flight weather,<br />
surf conditions, <strong>and</strong> refractive conditions for the littoral area where amphibious<br />
operations will be conducted<br />
• OA Division:<br />
- Division Officer (1 x O-3/O-4)<br />
- Leading Chief (1 x E-7/E-8)<br />
- Forecasters (2-3 x E-6)<br />
- Enlisted Operators/Techs (7-10)<br />
- Equipment/software: Navy OA divisions use the Navy Integrated Tactical<br />
Environmental Subsystem (NITES), the SMQ-11 satellite receiver, Mini<br />
Rawinsonde System (MRS), HF radio receivers, modem dial-up on the "plain old<br />
telephone system" (POTS) or International Marine Satellite (INMARSAT) for the<br />
Naval Oceanographic Data Dissemination System (NODDS), <strong>and</strong> the Geophysics<br />
Fleet Mission Program Library (GFMPL) on desk top/lap top computer systems.<br />
Equipment <strong>and</strong> software descriptions are at paragraph 2.2.<br />
• Mobile Environmental Team:<br />
- Afloat or ashore<br />
- Officer <strong>and</strong>/or enlisted - typically 1-3 members<br />
- METOC communications limited at times. Will usually have NIPRNET/SIPRNET<br />
capability<br />
- HF receiver (fax <strong>and</strong>/or RATT)<br />
- 75 wpm AWN receive only<br />
- AUTODIN (or Defense Messaging System (DMS), when available)<br />
- Limited number of satellite receivers/INMARSAT sets<br />
- Lap tops with GFMPL <strong>and</strong> NODDS<br />
7.2 Navy METOC Equipment <strong>and</strong> Key Software<br />
• Hardware<br />
- Navy Integrated Tactical Environmental Subsystem (NITES) is a UNIX<br />
workstation based system that is connected to SIPRNET via ship’s router <strong>and</strong> SHF<br />
satellite communications. NITES provides a modular, interactive METOC analysis<br />
<strong>and</strong> forecasting system to receive, process, display, <strong>and</strong> disseminate METOC data.<br />
> NITES is installed at primary afloat sites, including 30 capital ships, which<br />
have an OA (Operations Aerographer, i.e., METOC) division embarked.<br />
Receives <strong>and</strong> processes onboard METOC sensor data (winds, temps, vis, etc.),<br />
AWN/MIST data, <strong>and</strong> AN/SMQ-11 imagery (including Defense<br />
Meteorological Satellite Program (DMSP), geostationary satellite, <strong>and</strong> TIROS<br />
data). The NITES/SMQ-11 interface is also used to display WEFAX products.<br />
Details on the software suite in NITES are contained in the user manual.<br />
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