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18 Aug 2014Martha Anderson
Director, Meteorology and Oceanography
Providing Meteorological Services to the Canadian Armed Forces
through Network-based Services
UNCLASSIFIED
Overview
The CF Weather and Oceanographic Service
Network-based weather services:
Interactive delivery Self-serve
Canadian Forces Weather & Oceanographic ServiceMISSION STATEMENT
The Canadian Forces Weather & Oceanographic Service (CFWOS) provides specialized meteorological & oceanographic (METOC) information for strategic, operational and tactical advantage on a global scale.
VISION
To be an integral component of CF Command & Control (C2) and Intelligence, Surveillance, Reconnaissance (ISR) initiatives, providing leading edge global METOC services to decision makers and operators.
Military MetOc Support Principles “one operation, one forecast”
Environment Canada, host nation or coalition lead nation forecasts to be used wherever possible
CF Weather Office web site provides common suite of information
Components of METOC Support for Operations / Exercises1. Climate data for planning 2. Daily support in-theatre
• weather observations • Weather forecasts and warnings• Information on impact of environment on capabilities• Advice to intelligence and targeting• Other environmental information (floods, forest fires, space weather)
3. Delivery / Dissemination • Remote weather briefing or on-site
CFWOS Services: Forecasting andBriefing
Gulf of Aden
Haiti
CFWOS Transformation Project Joint Met Centre – CFB Gagetown, NB
• Met Tech teams prepare for deployment• On-the-job training for briefing and forecasting• Centralized briefing • Centralized forecast production • Development work on products, techniques and tools
MetOc Centres – Halifax, NS and Esquimalt, BC• Briefing and forecasting, for fleet and regional
commanders• Oceanographic programme
Joint Met Center: Building Extension Completed 2013
Remote Brief Capability
Connects weather expert to users on three internal networks (unclassified and classified)
deliver interactive information via videoconference, web cams, webinars, teleconference, and chat.
Remote Briefing Capability
EC FORECASTS
GLOBAL
INFO
GLOBAL
INFO
Ongoing Intranet Service Initiatives
Google Earth MetOc layers
Download Capabilities
MetOc NWP datasets for classified decision support systems
NITES 2 Redesign (N2R) workstation from USN, to serve fields to the Global Command and Control System map, plus other METOC applications
Ongoing Intranet Service Initiatives
Under Consideration …
OGC web servicesMetOcIce Data WarehouseConnect DND users to CMC GeoMetEnsemble Prediction System
probability productsImproved Impact Matrix presentation
Impacted Resources 0800-1200 1200-1600 1600-2000 2000-0000 0000-0400 0400-0800
Vehicular Movement
Dismounted Movement
Artillery
Air Defense C C C C
Para Drop W W W W W W
Air (Fixed) TB TB TB TB TB TB
Air (Helo)
Tact Airlift (Fixed)
NBC Chemical W W W W W W
Intelligence C C C C C C
Weather Keys
V-Visibility T – Temperature C – Ceilings P – Precipitation W – Wind
W/C – Windchill SD – Snow Depth I – Icing TB – Turbulence
NO IMPACT Moderate
Impact
Effectiveness reduced
to 25% – 75%
Severe
Impact
Effectiveness reduced to 0-25%
ARMY / AIR NATO WEATHER IMPACT CHART
Area of Interest CFB KINGSTON
Valid Period (Next 48 hours) 130800Z APR 12 to 140800Z APR 12
User Perceptions and Practices
Generation gap on interactive and self- Intranet service adaptation levels
“pretty = accurate” even if the source is less credible
