SYMPOSIUM MINISYMPOSIA

MINISYMPOSIUM ABSTRACT

The Master Environmental Library (MEL) provides access to real-time, scenario, historical and climatological data to support training, analysis, and acquisition for the DoD Modeling and Simulation effort. The MEL (http://mel.dmso.mil) is an Internet based data discovery and retrieval system providing access to atmospheric, oceanographic, terrain and near-space databases residing in geographically distributed resource sites. MEL provides access to an expanding archive of Fleet Numerical Meteorological and Oceanographic (FNMOC) model output including the Navy Operational Global Atmospheric Prediction System (NOGAPS), Navy Operational Regional Atmospheric Prediction System (NORAPS), global/regional wave model output etc. Global hourly surface and upper-air observations from the Air Force Weather Agency and the Air Force Combat Climatology Center are also accessible through MEL. Digital Terrain Elevation Data (DTED), Vector Map Level 0 (Digital Chart of the World) and other products are available on-line from the National Imagery and Mapping Agency (NIMA). The National Geophysical Data Center provides access to space related data such as geomagnetic, cosmic ray and ionospheric data. Additional data from other MEL resource sites include high-resolution bathymetry, and remote sensing imagery. Data can be delivered locally via ftp, or can be picked up via anonymous ftp at the resource site. MEL can also send data to the user by "subscription" during a live exercise or field test. This presentation will discuss the types of data available through MEL and how that data can be used to support modeling and simulation.

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