Extended Range Forecasting and Advanced Climate Applications Decision Support System

To fully exploit the state of climate science, though, requires that we expand and improve ACAF capabilities to better meet the BonD strategy. This requires a more robust, scalable supporting framework that can easily add new data resources; transform these data into actionable information with uncertainty estimates in the operators and planners decision space; and distribute effectively the computational and network burden among operational and tactical environments. Extending ACAF with these capabilities will significantly improve METOC support to the field, and better extend decision superiority to Fleet and DoD forces. The overarching goal of this research effort is to put more, and more effective, climate-based decision-support tools in to the hands of METOC personnel, mission planners and warfighters.