MAINTENANCE OF METEOROLOGICAL AND OCEANOGRAPHIC PUBLICATIONS

So far, we have discussed maintenance of files and directives. Two other administrative functions you may be asked to do are to maintain meteorological and oceanographic reference publications, and to maintain meteorological and oceanographic forms. Many of the NOC Centers and Facilities have a billet for an AG2 to be specifically designated as the Command Librarian or the Records Petty Officer. Maintenance of meteorological and oceanographic forms is a small task and is usually done by the operations assistant, sometimes an AG2.

As you have probably discovered, every Geophysics Office, whether aboard ship or ashore, has many different reference publications available for use. Some offices routinely receive and maintain specialized magazines dealing with the sciences of meteorology and oceanography, such as Weatherwise or Meteorological Society. Oceanographic Command activity and every ship-board

Geophysics Office was issued many different NAVAIR publications. These are books published by the government or civilian publishing companies that the Naval Air Systems Command determined to be useful for reference. Other publications you might have in your office are equipment technical manuals and operator manuals that were issued with various pieces of equipment or with equipment systems.

We can classify all the various types of publications into three groups: Required Publications, Allowed Publications, and useful publications.

Required Publications 

Required publications are the hard- or soft-covered books that you must have on hand, as

Table 7-1-2.-Required Publications for Meteorological and Oceanographic Support Activities

directed by proper authority. Required publica- tions for shore Navy and Marine Corps Meteor- ological or Oceanographic support activities are defined in NAVOCEANCOMINST 5605.2, Meteorological and Oceanographic Publications, Charts, and Forms; requirements and distribution. In addition, this instruction provides information on the source of each of the many different publications used by Aerographers; the agency responsible for updating the publication; and the agency that publishes and distributes each type of publication. The instruction also lists the meteorological and oceanographic forms that are stocked by the Naval Publications and Forms Center, Philadelphia. Table 7-1-2, extracted from the instruction, defines the few required publica-tions. The only publications directly addressed are NAVAIR publications, Air Field Summaries, SSMOs (Summaries of Synoptic Meteorological Observations), and Naval Oceanographic Office publications.

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