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The Navy already does forecasting for the DoD. They have their own computing facility (called Fleet Numerical) in California and run their own models.
by __egb__ 2y ago
The Navy already does forecasting for the DoD. They have their own computing facility (called Fleet Numerical) in California and run their own models.
- tomjakubowski 2y agoCurious if they use NWS weather station data or if they collect their own.
- jandrewrogers 2y agoIt is pretty much an independent system. There are only a handful of organizations on the planet operating an independent global weather model. For historical reasons the US operates two of them. A good argument can be made that the European model is better than either, so it might make sense for the US to combine some of those global weather model resources.
- mistrial9 2y agounless "all private except certain secure friends" is not in the spirit of US Federal Science?
- mistrial9 2y agoIsn't it true that open methods beat closed expensive methods many times.. in the case of weather prediction, it is trivial to benchmark predictions.
- alfiedotwtf 2y agoFor how long? Like seriously, how long until that department/company/office is shut down