Operational Oceanography in the U.S. Navy: A GODAE Perspective

Abstract

Operational oceanography, throughout its long history, has continually evolved in order to remain relevant to the changing operational needs of the U.S. Navy. This transformation continues today as operational oceanography plays a key role in the rapidly shrinking tactical decision timelines of the naval warfighter. Understanding the warfighter's tactical questions and translating the information available from the ocean sciences into tactically useful answers is key to this transformation. Appreciating and applying advances in oceanography, such as those provided by the international Global Ocean Data Assimilation Experiment (GODAE), assures the highest technical quality of these answers. We address these transformation and translation processes and the nature of U.S. Navy operational oceanography today with specific emphasis on its interaction with GODAE.

Southern African Wave Model Sensitivities and Accuracies

“…The altimeter data used in the WW3 model data assimilation and model performance evaluations were processed through an application from the Navy Coupled Ocean Data Assimilation (NCODA) [30] software. The global WW3 model (used as the source of the fully spectral boundary conditions in the present study) validation results is known as Ocean Quality Control (OCNQC) and these results are made available on the Global Ocean Data Assimilation Experiment (USGODAE) server (https://usgodae.org) [31].…”