1. Naval Oceanographic Office
Spring COPC Update
03-04 May 2016
CAPT Greg Ireton, Commanding Officer
Mr. Mark Jarrett, Technical Director
CAPT Nick Vincent, Executive Officer 1

2. Agenda Overview of NAVOCEANO’s missions Structure within Navy
Value of COPC and its related activities

3. NAVOCEANO Mission
To optimize sea power by applying relevant oceanographic knowledge in support of U.S. National Security
Our mission statement emphasizes that our reason for existence is to optimize sea power by applying relevant oceanographic knowledge in support of U.S. National Security.
The key word is relevant. We are not in the business of basic research and development. We are in the business of supplying operational ocean products. We have more of an applied use than our colleagues down the street at the Naval Research Lab. 3

4. Six survey ships deployed worldwide require 300+ FTE to operate
Highly Qualified, Scientific, & Motivated Military and Civilian Work Force
NAVOCEANO Civilian
Receives Award for
5000+ days of survey
Six survey ships deployed worldwide require 300+ FTE to operate
Civ/Mil Survey Team recognized for disaster 1st response.
Civilian scientists analyzing real-time MIW survey data
NAVOCEANO
Civilian 704
Contractor 60
Military 23
Total
Total Workforce:
~ 855
Fleet Survey Team provides rapid response to Fleet Rqmts
NAVOCEANO is proud of its highly skilled workforce. In fact, more oceanographers work at Stennis Space Center than any other place in the world. As you can see from the pie chart, 67% of our workforce falls in the scientific area. The box above the chart indicates the education levels of our employees. The box to the left shows a breakdown of the types of personnel employed by NAVOCEANO and its subordinate commands.
14%
Education % Total
Ph.D. 4 %
M.A./M.S. 19 %
B.A./B.S. 47 %
Assoc. Deg 12 %
Other 18 %
Fleet Survey Team
Civilian
Military
Total
17%
67%
Scientific Technical Prof
The Deep Bench for Warfighting

5. Tasking, Collection, Processing, Exploitation and Analysis, and Dissemination (TCPED)
STAFF BRIEFING MATERIAL
ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENTS
OPS PLANNING
AREA FAMILIARIZATION
Satellites
SST
SSH
NHFLUX
Ice
Exploitation and Analysis
TOFAs for MISSION PLANNING
ASW
MIW
EXW
POST OPS
R & A
LESSONS
LEARNED
DRIFT FORECASTS
LOST OBJECTS
OIL / CONTAMINANTS
RTDHS
Ships & Aircraft
XBTs
CTDs
BSPs
MVPs
TIDE TIME SERIES
Buoys
NODC
EARS
AUVs
Gliders
Profilers
Drifters
REMUS
Future Processing
COUPLED ATMOSPHERE–OCEAN–WAVE-ICE–LAND
COAMPS
ESPC
Processing
ENSEMBLES
REGIONAL NCOM
GLOBAL HYCOM
UNCERTAINTY
PROBABILISTIC
GLOBAL
CIRCULATION
HYCOM
REGIONAL
CIRCULATION
R-NCOM
Coupled COAMPS
WAVES
Multi-Scale WW3
SWAN, SURF
ASSIMILATION
Ocean QC
NCODA
ANALYSES
Fronts & Eddies
Ocean Color
Visibility
Arctic Cap Nowcast
Forecast System
FNMOC Atmospheric Forcing
NAVGEM
COAMPS
COASTAL CIRCULATION
C-NCOM
COAMPS
DELFT3D
PCTIDES
HYDROMAP
Approved for public release, distribution unlimited

6. Collection and Sensing Tools
+ Military Survey Ships (T-AGS)
+ Hydrographic Survey Launch (HSL)
+ Maritime Homeland Defense Mine Warfare SWATH Vessels
+ Airborne Coastal Survey (ACS)
+ Fleet Survey Team (FST)
+ Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs)
+ Profiling Floats, Buoys & Marine Mammals
+ Environmental Acoustic Recording System (EARS)
+ Naval Platforms (TTS)
+ Satellites
+ National and International Data Exchange Agreements
That brings us to our core business, what we do—the collection and processing of data.
We use a number of different assets, platforms and vehicles to collect data. Our most important capital assets are our ships. Currently, we use six T-AGS 60 multipurpose oceanographic survey ships to collect data. A new, state-of-the-art T-AGS 66 ship is scheduled to become operational in 2015.
There are numerous other ways we collect data such as airplanes that use light detection and ranging, or LIDAR, to map coastal areas and shallow water, unmanned underwater vehicles and satellite imagery.
Persistent & State of the Art

7. Approved for Public Release, Distribution Unlimited
USNS MAURY (T-AGS 66)
We currently have six T-AGS 60 class ships: Pathfinder, Sumner, Bowditch, Henson, Heezen and Sears. Their namesakes all made important contributions to Naval oceanography and ocean exploration.
Here is a diagram of the T-AGS-60, or Pathfinder, class ship. Each is about 100 meters long or 329 feet, and is equipped with state-of-the-art facilities in terms of oceanographic data collection.
Some of the systems on board are illustrated here:
Multibeam echosounders collect bathymetric data.
Towed high-resolution side-scan sonar collects imagery about the bottom.
Over-the-side instruments are used to provide water column information.
Dynamic positioning systems provide pinpoint accuracy to ensure all geospatial data are completely reliable.
Approved for Public Release,
Distribution Unlimited

8. Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs)
Deep Water Surf Zone
Littoral
Full Ocean M M M Shore Line
Capabilities
Side Scan Sonar
Sub-Bottom Profiler
Camera
CTD
ADCP
GPS
Iridium, Freewave, & Acoustic Comms
REMUS 6000
REMUS 2500
LBS AUV REMUS 600
REMUS 100
Over a Decade of Full Ocean Depth AUV Expertise

9. LBS-Glider System Contracting Office: SPAWAR, PEO-C4I
Mission: Persistent autonomous oceanographic data collection.
Description:
Unsophisticated deployment
Long-duration 4-6 mos on-station
Iridium Comms
Piloted 24/7 by NAVO Glider Operations Center
Optimize ocean feature characterization for tactical and operational products for ASW, MIW, AMW, and Special Ops.
Current Inventory: 50 Operational
Endstate: 150 gliders by end of FY 15 (50/50/50 plan)
Platforms:
T-AGS 60 Class (5 per  10 per)
USS vessels of opportunity
Coalition forces assets
Range patrol craft
GPS and Iridium antenna in fin
No propeller or other external moving parts
Nose down orientation at surface provides robust communications
Wings for forward propulsion
LBSF&I Overview: The LBS Fusion and Integration (LBSF&I) capability is the Department of the Navy‘s principal persistent Oceanographic data collection, processing, and data/product dissemination and is considered a key component of Battlespace Awareness through 2020 and beyond.
Full Rate Production Award: 31 May 2011 by RADM Burroughs, PEO for C4ISR
FRP2 Follow-on Awarded 12 April 2012 (34 Gliders)
FRP 3 Follow-on Awarded 20 December 2012 (6 Shallow)/1 July 2013 (26 Deep)
Initial Operational Capability (IOC) declared 5 July 2011
Full Operational Capability (FOC) declared 25 July 2012
Inventory Objective: 4 Prototype / 150 Production
Contracting Office: SPAWAR, PEO-C4I
Period of Performance: 4 March August 2015 (All Options)
Total Contract Value of all LRIP/FRP Options: ~$53M
Teledyne Brown Engineering (TBE): Prime Contractor
Teledyne Benthos dba Teledyne Webb Research (TWR) - Glider Developer
Hydroid, Inc. - Launch and Recovery system (work complete)
Rutgers University - QA for CTD data and Training Package (work complete)
University of Washington/Applied Physics Lab - Glider Control Software Development (LBS-G work completed, but under contract to NAVOCEANO for other related tasks)
Weight 132 lb
Hull Dia. 22 cm
Length 1.5 m
Speed knots
Max Depth 1000 m
Endurance 4-5 months
Range km
Energy Lithium
Comms Iridium

10. Application of Ocean Gliders
Persistent sampling with gliders in the Physical Battlespace leads to...
Predictive Physical Battlespace Awareness for decision superiority in the maritime domain
Ocean currents – unmanned systems, mine/debris drift models, SAR
SST – sound velocity profiles, acoustic propagation, beam attenuation
Fronts and eddies & sonic layer depth – environmental exploitation
Ocean optics – vertical and horizontal visibility, asset vulnerability

11. Other in situ Measurements
Profiling Floats
Profiling Floats
Drifter vs. RNCOM
iSPHERE Drifter
Davis Drifter
WOCE Drifter
Marine Mammals
Expanded use of Iridium Profiling Floats
Marine Mammals
Decisions on where to deploy, and the priorities, are based on four factors :
Does NAVOCEANO have an operational regional/coastal ocean model in the area?
Is there real-world significance or existing naval requirement?
Is the area used for exercises / training by US Naval Forces?
Do other countries deploy in the area and do they make their data readily available?

12. Ocean Circulation Modeling
Global Regional Local
3.7 km
9 km
500 m
60 m 5
We run a series of nested, higher and higher resolution ocean models (Navy Coastal Ocean Model -NCOM) around the world. These are data assimilating, three dimensional, full physics forecast models. Each day the ocean models assimilate millions of sea surface temperature and sea surface height (altimetry) data points from satellite sources. Thousands of real-time temperature and salinity profiles come in every day from ships, aircraft, profiling floats and ocean gliders. Atmospheric models from FNMOC provide surface forcing conditions.
The global models provide boundary conditions to regional models that provide boundary conditions to local models. In this stepwise fashion, higher and higher resolution features and processes are resolved to match the forecast requirements of operations occurring at the local level.
A number of these Regional NCOM domains are running around the world in areas of Navy interest. In addition to the US East coast NCOM shown here, we have domains running off the southern California coast, around Hawaii and in the Gulf of Mexico / Caribbean region. Nested into the regional domains are higher resolution Coastal NCOMs as shown by the Groton NCOM here. This is running at a 500 meter resolution. This kind of domain supports near coastal operations and approaches to Ports and Harbors. Special very high resolution Port models using Delft3D are setup to support port and harbor scale operations.
From the ocean models come forecasts of currents, temperature, salinity and water height. From these fundamental parameters we calculate object drift and sound speed. The sound speed fields are used to calculate other Anti Submarine Warfare type properties and are used in acoustic modeling. Object drift calculations are used to hind-cast and forecast the movement of objects of concern to the Navy; they also help with Search and Rescue type operations.
Groton
Delft3D
Groton NCOM
Global HYCOM
Currents
Temperature
Salinity
Wave Height
Object Drift
Sound speed
US-East NCOM
3D full physics, Data assimilating, Forecast models

13. Ocean Forecasting System
Observations Ocean Models Forecasting
Global – Regional – Coastal – Port
Satellite & In situ
9 km km m m
Oceanographers
- Configure models
- Interpret forecasts & observations
- Evaluate uncertainty
- Tailor analysis to Navy mission
- 3D Full Physics
- Assimilation
Forecasts to 7 days
Nesting / Boundary
Civilian – Military Forecasting Teams
NAVGEM / COAMPS
US-East
NCOM
HYCOM
Groton
Delft3D
Groton NCOM
Super Computers – Networks – Servers – Workstations

14. CNMOC Modeling Roadmap
National Earth Systems Prediction Capability (ESPC) is the future of NWP and METOC guidance fields
“Bridge” strategy provides a pathway to the future ESPC from the current infrastructure and model suites

15. High Performance Computing
DoD Supercomputing Resource Center (DSRC)
+ Among the top supercomputing centers in the world
 + Peak computing capability of 777 Teraflops
Petascale Data Storage and Mgmt
+ Top Tier of Nation’s secure and scalable data management and archival facilities
Cutting-edge Networking Connectivity
+ Stennis designated DISA C2 Mega-site
+ Resilient, multi-GB connectivity via Defense Research & Engineering Network (DREN) to all major nationwide gov’t, industrial, and academic networks
The Navy DoD Supercomputing Resource Center, or Navy DSRC, one of five Department of Defense supercomputing sites, is located in NAVOCEANO spaces and managed by CNMOC.
NAVOCEANO is in the data management business and stores very large amounts of data. NAVOCEANO uses much of the data it collects to numerically model the ocean. The physical models that are run computationally require inordinate amounts of computing power. The large numerical models at NAVO are run at the Navy DSRC. Through an agreement with the DOD High Performance Computing Modernization Program, CNMOC reserves up to 15 percent of its computing power to use for operations. The remaining 85% is used by Army, Navy, Air Force, and Defense agency research and development users.
We also use peta-scale storage to store massive amounts of modeling output. A petabyte is 1,000 terabytes. A terabyte is 1,000 gigabytes. To give you an idea of a peta-scale architecture, one petabyte is the equivalent of roughly 6.7 billion digital photos.

16. Agenda Overview of NAVOCEANO’s missions Structure within Navy
Value of COPC and its related activities

17. Fleet Alignment Chief of Naval Operations (CNO) Washington, DC
Commander, Fleet Forces Command
(USFF)
Norfolk, VA
Commander, Naval Meteorology
and Oceanography Command
(CNMOC)
Stennis Space Center, MS
Naval Information Forces,
(NAVIFOR)
Suffolk, VA
Man, Train, Equip
Readiness
Ops
Naval Oceanographic Office
(NAVOCEANO)
SSC, MS
Fleet Numerical Meteorology
And Oceanography Center
(FNMOC)
Monterey, CA
This is the higher level organizational concept of NAVOCEANO. We report to CNMOC, located right here at Stennis Space Center. They report to USFF in Norfolk, Virginia, who reports to the Chief of Naval Operations.
Our sister commands are Fleet Numerical Meteorology and Oceanography Center, the Naval Observatory, the Naval Meteorology and Oceanography Professional Development Center, and the Naval Oceanography Operations Command, who controls all the regional centers, or the dispersed footprint of naval oceanography.
NAVOCEANO’s two subordinate commands are Fleet Survey Team located at Stennis Space Center, Miss., and the Naval Ice Center in Washington, D.C. I’ll explain more about them in a few minutes.
U.S. Naval Observatory
(USNO)
Washington, DC
Naval Oceanography
Operations Command
(NOOC)
SSC, MS
Fleet Weather Center
(FWC-SD)
San Diego. CA
Fleet Weather Center
(FWC-N)
Norfolk, VA
Naval Meteorology And
Oceanography Professional
Development Center (NMOPDC)
Gulfport, MS 17

18. Agenda Overview of NAVOCEANO’s missions Structure within Navy
Value of COPC and its related activities

19. In-situ Data Inputs & Impacts
Products
BUFR
Character Code
COPC OPCs
FNMOC
Numerical Weather Prediction
NWS/NCWCP
NAVOCEANO
Ocean Forecast Capability
Data Providers Data Type NCO/SS CTDs, Gliders, Profiling Floats, XBTs, Marine Mammals, Moored Buoys, Fixed Stations, Ship Reports, Drifting Buoys 557th WW(DoD OTN) CTDs, Gliders, FNMOC CTDs, XBTs, Ship Reports, Drifting Buoys, Moored Buoys, Fixed Stations NAVO CTDs, Gliders, XBTs, Profiling Floats, Ship Reports, Drifting Buoys CLS America/ARGOS Academia
NAVO Specific
Profiling Floats
and Drifters
COPC partners are highlighted in red. All In-situ inputs, COPC and Non-COPC contributors, are included in NAVO products which are distributed to OPCs.
NAVO products impact NWP and Ocean forecast capabilities (where applicable).
NOTE: NAVO products to NCEP are NAVO “specific” profiling floats and drifters. Other OPCs already have their own.

20. Satellite Data Inputs & Impacts
Satellite Inputs
Data Providers Data Type
NOAA/NESDIS MetOp (A&B),
(COPC OTN) N-18, N-19,
MTSAT SST
Jason- 2, Cryosat-2
Jason-3, AltiKa
JPL/IFREMER GHRSST MSG SST
Windsat SST
FMQ-17(NAVO) GOES E&W
557th WW (DoD OTN) S-NPP
NASA MODIS AQUA
KORDI COMS-1 GOCI
FNMOC (DoD OTN) SSM/I, SSM/IS EDR
JAXA AMSR2
Products
SST
IR Imagery
Ocean Feature Analysis
Annotated AVHRR/VIIRS
Altimetry
SSHA/SWH/WS
Ocean Optics
Visibility & Attenuation
Visible Imagery
Ice Characterization
COPC OPCs
FNMOC
Numerical Weather Prediction
NWS/NCWCP
NESDIS/OSPO
Ocean Heat Content
NAVOCEANO
Ocean Forecast Capability
~ 64 M obs/day
~ 450K obs/day
This includes both operational and non-operational datasets but is basically all of the datasets we’re currently (soon to be) processing.
COPC partners are highlighted in red. All satellite inputs, COPC and Non-COPC contributors, are included in NAVO products which are distributed to OPCs.
NAVO products impact NWP and Ocean forecast capabilities (where applicable) and are color coded to distinguish product type and impact for each OPC.
~ 11 M obs/day

21. NAVO JAG/CCM Related Circuit Actions
Upgraded NAVO to NWS Suitland, MD circuit from 28 to 400 Mbps
COPC 2nd Connection
DISA implemented circuit from Buckley AFB to Boulder, CO OC-48 (2 Gbps)
Will establish alternate comms pathway
NAVO’s Boulder circuit pending implementation; ECD April 2016
NIPRNET Federated Gateway/Mission Partner Gateway (NFG/MPG)
Joint Regional Security Stack / Joint Information Environment (JRSS/JIE)
Stennis DISN upgrades
Implemented diverse OC-192 circuits, provides survivability to Stennis DoD customers
Working path (south bound route) to Keesler AFB
Protect path (north bound route) to Eglin AFB

22. Summary COPC partnerships enable:
Access to full range of satellite data
Access to observational data
Sharing of model data
Coordination of standards
Networks to efficiently and safely move METOC information among the partners
Impact: Naval forces get the relevant and timely environmental data to support operations around the globe

23. Questions?