Providing meteorological services to the Canadian Armed
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Providing Meteorological Services to
the Canadian Armed Forces through
Network-based Services
18 Aug 2014
Martha Anderson
Director, Meteorology and Oceanography
UNCLASSIFIED
Overview
The CF Weather and Oceanographic Service
Network-based weather services:
Interactive delivery
Self-serve
Canadian Forces Weather &
Oceanographic Service
MISSION 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 / Exercises
1.
Climate data for planning
2.
Daily support in-theatre
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3.
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)
Delivery / Dissemination
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Remote weather briefing or on-site
CFWOS Services:
Forecasting and
Briefing
Haiti
Gulf of Aden
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
Ongoing Intranet
Service Initiatives
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
Under Consideration …
OGC web services
MetOcIce Data Warehouse
Connect DND users to CMC GeoMet
Ensemble Prediction System probability
products
Improved Impact Matrix presentation
ARMY / AIR
NATO WEATHER IMPACT CHART
Area of Interest
CFB KINGSTON
Valid Period (Next 48 hours)
130800Z APR 12 to 140800Z APR 12
Impacted Resources
0800-1200
1200-1600
1600-2000
2000-0000
0000-0400
0400-0800
Air Defense
C
C
C
C
Para Drop
W
W
W
W
W
W
Air (Fixed)
TB
TB
TB
TB
TB
TB
NBC Chemical
W
W
W
W
W
W
Intelligence
C
C
C
C
C
C
Vehicular Movement
Dismounted Movement
Artillery
Air (Helo)
Tact Airlift (Fixed)
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%
User Perceptions and Practices
Generation gap on interactive and selfIntranet service adaptation levels
“pretty = accurate” even if the source
is less credible
Questions?
Martha Anderson
Director Meteorology and Oceanography
[email protected]
613-996-3648