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  • Delta IV launch successful

    A Delta IV evolved expendable launch vehicle carrying a Defense Meteorological Satellite Program satellite was launched from the Space Launch Complex-6 here Nov. 4 at 5:53 a.m. "I'm extremely proud of the precision with which the base and Vandenberg launch team planned and executed this Delta IV

  • Interactive Grid Analysis and Display System; Gets praise from the field

    Customers are singing the praises of one of the Joint Air Force and Army Weather Information Network's most powerful and cost-effective tools. The Interactive Grid Analysis and Display System, known as IGrADS, offers the on- demand weather information that assists warfighters in making life-or-death

  • Delivering weather forecasts, faster

    Net-Centric Weather Integration was one of the many important initiatives being tested during the Joint Expeditionary Force Experiment 2006 at Nellis AFB, Nev. Sponsored by the Air Force Weather Agency, NCWI demonstrates the capability to provide critical, time- sensitive weather information to

  • Agency employs new computer forecast model

    In July, the Air Force Weather Agency, headquartered at Offutt AFB, Neb. took the first steps to utilize the new Weather Research and Forecasting model, known as WRF, for operational forecasts. This WRF model, the first new worldwide fine-scale computer forecasting program in nearly a decade, was

  • Weather Forecasters Aid Mission Planning

    Asking about the weather is not a casual question in the Combined Air Operations Center at a desert airbase. In fact, it is one of the key questions asked during every phase of the air tasking order, or ATO, cycle. "Most systems we have are weather sensitive, so weather predictions must be

  • New Cloud Depiction System Goes Online

    The Air Force Weather Agency launched its new global cloud analysis and forecasting capability with the operational implementation of the Cloud Depiction and Forecasting System II June 24. CDFSII processes data from a variety of satellites on an hourly schedule to produce high-resolution cloud