METEOROLOGICAL AND OCEANOGRAPHIC PRODUCTS AND THEIR INTERPRETATION

Todays Aerographers Mates use vast amounts of meteorological and oceanographic charts and messages. All of these products contain valuable information. The charted products display information with numbers, symbols, lines, and shaded areas on a map background. Messages may either present information in plain language, abbreviated language, code, or alpha-numeric plots. As an Airman, you learned how to decode, or interpret, many different types of observation messages while studying to become a Meteorological Technician (Observer/Plotter). As an Aerographers Mate Second Class, performing the duties of an Analyst/Forecaster Assistant, and later as an Analyst/Forecaster, you will be required to interpret information presented in many different types of charts and messages. In this unit, we will present information that will help you to interpret the meteorological and oceanographic messages and charts most frequently used by Navy Analyst/Forecasters.

In Lesson 1 we will discuss the meteorological and oceanographic models used by the computers at the Fleet Numerical Oceanography Center (FNOC), Monterey, California. In Lesson 2, we will discuss the major meteorological and oceanographic products available from the FNOC computers. The major numerical models in use by the National Weather Service (NWS) and the products available from NWS are discussed in Lesson 3. Lesson 4 addresses the Terminal Aerodrome Forecast Code (TAF). In lesson 5 we discuss products available from the Tactical Environmental Software System (TESS), and the Optimum Path Aircraft Routing System (OPARS) products are discussed in Lesson 6.

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