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Naval Oceanography Leverages Better Science, Communications to Deliver Better Results
From Naval Meteorology and Oceanogra- phy Command Public Aff airs Offi ce
NORFOLK (NNS) -- The U.S. Navy faces numerous strategic challenges and the Naval Oceanography community is leveraging better science and communications to de- liver better results for maintaining maritime superiority. This was the message Capt. Keith Wil-
liams, commanding offi cer of Fleet Weather Center Norfolk, delivered to members of the National Weather Association in a keynote address at their annual meeting, Sept. 15. “Some of the biggest global strategic
drivers are those that we in meteorology and oceanography know well, such as extreme drought, tropical cyclone intensifi cation, regional El Nino and La Nina impacts and a potentially seasonally ice-free Arctic,” Williams said. Three evolving areas have contributed
greatly to maritime superiority: environ- mental sensing capabilities, numerical mod- eling and tactical decision aids. Williams specifi cally cited Naval Oceanography’s two decades of experience with unmanned systems, as well as high-performance computing which has enabled coupled modeling and allowed the Joint Typhoon Warning Center (JTWC) to make signifi cant improvements to the accuracy of their track forecasts over the last fi ve years. “In resource protection terms, a 26
percent reduction in mean track error at fi ve days can mean the diff erence between getting the fl eet underway or not,” Williams said. “Getting this recommendation right translates to tens of millions of dollars in cost savings every year.”
He further noted that knowing the track
and intensity of a tropical cyclone can pro- vide tactical advantages as well. “Our tactical decision aids translate
measured and derived weather parameters into a composite understanding of how the physical environment may impact particular operations,” he added. “Apart from im- proved model physics the greatest advances in tactical decision aids will be realized through collaboration across the Navy’s warfare communities to deliver the models, databases and observations these decision aids require.” In the future, he said, collaborative
modeling solutions will achieve even more accurate and longer range forecasting. An example is the Earth System Prediction Capability or ESPC, a multi-agency next generation global ensemble capability that will fully couple atmosphere, sea, ice and land interfaces in a numerical model. The goal is to achieve time-scales ranging from hours to 90 days. The National ESPC Project leverages
the expertise of the entire U.S. weather community, including the Department of Defense, National Oceanic and Atmospher- ic Administration, NASA, the Department of Energy and the National Science Founda- tion, to accelerate research to operations of the U.S. National environmental capability. Within the next year, Williams said
that the Navy will leverage the National Weather Service’s (NWS) 20 years of tech- nological advances and collaboration with the community of interest, when NMOC’s Fleet Weather Centers and JTWC migrate their forecast applications and processing to NWS’ Advanced Weather Interactive Processing System II. Commander, Naval Meteorology and
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Secretary of the Navy Names Next Fleet Replenishment Oiler in Honor of Robert F. Kennedy
From Secretary of the Navy Public Aff airs WASHINGTON (NNS) -- Secretary of the Navy (SECNAV) Ray Mabus announced to- day that the next ship of the next generation of fl eet replenishment oilers will be named USNS Robert F. Kennedy (T-AO 208). A ceremony marking the announce-
ment was held at the John F. Kennedy Pres- idential Library in Boston.
T-AO 208 is part of the John Lew-
is-class of ships named in honor of U.S. civil and human rights heroes. “This class of ships would be incom-
plete absent the name Robert F. Kennedy,” said Mabus. “He was a Navy man, a U.S. attorney general, a senator, and a leader who committed, and ultimately sacrifi ced, his life to pursuing justice, equality and freedom.” Robert F. Kennedy, a U.S. Navy veter-
an, served as the U.S. attorney general from 1961 to 1964 and as a U.S. senator from New York from 1965 to 1968. A graduate of Harvard University and the University of Virginia School of Law, Kennedy was appointed attorney general after his brother John F. Kennedy was elected president in 1960.
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organized crime and fought for civil rights for African Americans. He also served as a close advisor to the president. As a senator, he was a committed advo-
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