Abstract: The U.S. Navy has plans to develop an automated system to analyze satellite imagery aboard its ships at sea. Lack of time for training, in combination with frequent personnel rotations, precludes the building of extensive ...

Abstract: Prediction of tropical cyclone motion in terms of cross-track (CT) and along-track (AT) components is proposed as an alternative to geographic (zonal and meridional) components. Since the CT and AT components are defined ...

Abstract: Official and objective forecast aids for tropical cyclone tracks in the western North Pacific during 1979?83 are evaluated in terms of cross-track (CT) and along-track (AT) components relative to an extrapolated track based ...

Abstract: A number of tropical cyclone track forecast aids are available to the forecasters at the Joint Typhoon Warning Center (JTWC) at Guam. These aids typically provide conflicting guidance and no single aid provides consistently ...

Abstract: A significant task in the automated interpretation of cloud features on satellite imagery is the segmentation of the image into separate cloud features to be identified. A new technique, hierarchical threshold segmentation ...

Abstract: The Navy Nested Tropical Cyclone Model (NTCM) is evaluated for performance on Southern Hemisphere storms near Australia. East of 135°E the model exhibits mean forecast errors of 246, 467, and 694 km at 24, 48, and 72 h, ...

Abstract: An Expert system for Shipboard Obscuration Prediction (AESOP), an artificial intelligence approach to forecasting maritime visibility obscurations, has been designed, developed, and tested. The problem-solving model for ...

Abstract: In recent years, the field of artificial intelligence has contributed significantly to the science of meteorology, most notably in the now familiar form of expert systems. Expert systems have focused on rules or heuristics ...

Abstract: The authors have developed error mechanism conceptual models with characteristic track departures and anomalous wind or sea level pressure patterns for dynamical tropical cyclone track predictions primarily occurring in ...

Abstract: Tropical wind fields from the U.S. Navy Global Band Analyses (GBA) are studied to depict the synoptic flow surrounding tropical cyclones. The composite fields of the zonal and meridional wind components on a grid centered ...