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depth profiles; bottom sediments and topography; ocean 

 wave characteristics; special oceanographic forecasts; 

 internal waves; ocean currents; surface and subsurface 

 thermal structure; heat exchange between sea and atmos- 

 phere; ice physics; ice reconnaissance and prediction; 

 submarine oceanographic observations (temperature, 

 salinity, bottom pressure, sound velocity, ambient light, 

 relative waterflow, etc.); microbathymetry survey tech- 

 niques; biological fouling; flushing and dispersion of 

 contaminants in marine aresPs; correlating environmental 

 phenomena associated with harbors; visibility; acoustic 

 reflectivity; bioluminescence; ambient noise; and unusual 

 phenomena. 



Geophysics: Airborne and shipboard geomagnetic surveys 

 and gravity measurements. 



U. S. NAVAL WEATHER SERVICE COMMAND 



Operational oceanographic support has been added as a task for 

 many of the shore activities of the Naval Weather Service Com- 

 mand in order to meet the requirements for short-term 

 environmental forecasting services. Some 33 activities, ranging 

 from the highly automated Fleet Numerical Weather Facility with 

 its data processing center at Monterey, California, to the smaller 

 Naval Weather Service Environmental Detachments, are involved 

 in producing operational oceanographic services. The Fleet 

 Numerical Weather Facility (FNWF), Monterey, with 10 Naval 

 officers and professional grade civilians committed to the 

 oceanographic program, is the hub of the Naval Environmental 

 Data Network (NEDN) which extends from the Philippines and 

 Japan across the Pacific Ocean and the United States to England 

 and Spain. The network links the computer installations that are 

 used for both meteorological and oceanographic data processing 

 and forecast production. 



The three general classes of weather/oceanographic support 

 activities are: Fleet Weather Centrals, Weather Facilities, and 

 Environmental Detachments. Each collects various types of data 

 which are relayed via high speed data link for processing and use 

 in various programs developed to meet many of the Fleet require- 



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