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I don't sail across the ocean but this might help
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Canada has used various sound models in the past, and is working on selecting/developing a newer version for the future. Back end stuff like this never makes the headlines, even in the CAF publications, but Director Meteorology and Oceanography (D Met Oc) is always working with national and international partners on these sorts of things behind the scenes.
Weather (including Space Weather and Oceanography) doesn't matter, until it really matters. The CAF has allowed too much of our capability to wither, but there is a hard push to get back into reasonable shape in these fields.
Weather (including Space Weather and Oceanography) doesn't matter, until it really matters. The CAF has allowed too much of our capability to wither, but there is a hard push to get back into reasonable shape in these fields.
We've been working with the Met folks to develop a Space Weather capability. Apart from just pulling data from the US.
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Yes like getting caught in a spring snow storm - the ones that soak you and freeze you at the same time.
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Space shmace... when are we going to get onboard with that 'weaponizing the weather' thing?
I mean, imagine if we could project Wainwright weather to defeat our enemies before we even got there
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Not as fast as I'd like. But since all the crap started with the US, there's at least more awareness of the need to develop sovereign capabilities. Capacity building is always slow in new areas. But at least there's interest and funding and we can send promising young Met Techs to get trained.
It was interesting to me that weather analysis from met techs is equipment based. "Matrix is red for trucks tomorrow because you said trucks can only drive in 2 inches of mud.". Developing this idea for space systems is new work on our side. But understanding this kind of stuff only happens when you stop just putting up matrices from the Americans.
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Back in '08 we started with very surface level Space Wx training, but there was zero appetite for more depth from the end users at the time, so it never really progressed past that. Belgium and the US both offer more advanced Space Wx courses that we have sent people on over the course of the last decade or so, but it has always been at the wrong rank(WO and MWO), and with no real plan to use the training when they return.
I know on the Met Tech side of things that is changing, as we go through a rewrite of CONOPS for Met support to the CAF. With 3 CSD now around to champion the Space Wx side of things, I expect it won't fall off the radar again.
Not the Div. But at the Wing level we pushed to fund and get Met Techs trained. We also pushed to have a plan to eventually post in Met Techs.
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