BRIEFING CLIMATOLOGICAL SUMMARIES OF TROPICAL CYCLONE STORM TRACKS

LEARNING OBJECTIVES: List the sources for obtaining climatological tropical cyclone storm track information.

There may be occasions when climatological data is required for an area for which your activity does not hold the necessary climatology publications. FNMOD Asheville prepares the publication, Atmospheric Climatic Publication, FLENUMMETOCDET ASHEVILLENOTE 3146, which contains a concise list of climatological publications, and the procedures for obtaining them.

Among those available to assist the Aerographer are:

. Marine Climatic Atlases of the World

. Global Tropical/Extrotropical Cyclone Climatic Atlases

Since 1990 FNMOD Asheville has been shifting away from climatic atlases in hard copy to compact disc-read only memory (CD-ROM).

We will now discuss a few Geophysics Fleet Mission Program Library (GFMPL) products used as aids in the event of evasive and/or sortie measures due to tropical cyclones.

BRIEFING OF TROPICAL CYCLONE EVASIVE/SORTIE RECOMMENDATIONS

LEARNING OBJECTIVES: Identify GFMPL products used as aids in assessing tropical cyclone evasive/sortie recommendations. Aerographers cant have too many METOC products at their disposal to assist them in their day-to-day duties. They must put all their experiences and learning to use, particularly when a tropical system is bearing down on an activity or unit. The Geophysics Fleet Mission Program Library (GFMPL) Summary, GFMPL-SUM-91-01, provides meteorological, oceanographic, electromagnetic, and acoustic software for use as aids in planning various operations.

The Warnings Plot program is composed of three primary functions: Tropical Cyclone Plot, High Winds Plot, and High Seas Plot. The Warnings Plot program provides the capability to enter Tropical Cyclone, High Winds, and High Seas warning messages and their subsequent forecasts or both. This product is available on GFMPL HP-9020.

Two additional programs available in GFMPL to assist the Aerographer with tropical cyclone preparation are Tropical Cyclone and Tropical Cyclone Applications Software System (TCASS).

GFMPL offers the program, TROPICAL CYCLONE, which plots tropical cyclone track and forecast information on a map background.

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