GEOPHYSICS FLEET MISSION PROGRAM LIBRARY (GFMPL)

Table 2-2.—OAML Data Bases OCEAN DATA BASES METEOROLOGICAL DATA BASES Geophysical Data Base Surface Marine Gridded Climatology (SMGC) Data Ocean Floor Depth Digital Bathymetric Data Base Base Variable Resolution (DBDB-V) Icecap Data Base Upper Air Gridded Climatology (UAGC) Data Base Global Tropical Cyclone Tracks (GTCT) Data base Ocean Floor Depth Digital Bathymetric Data Base One- Northern Hemisphere Extratropical Cyclone Tracks Half Minute Resolution (DBDB-0.5) (NHECT) Data Base ACOUSTIC DATA BASES ELECTROMAGNETIC DATA BASES High-Frequency Bottom-Loss (HFBL) Data Base Historical Electromagnetic Propagation Conditions Low-Frequency Bottom-Loss (LFBL) Data Base Generalized Digital Environmental Model (GDEM) (HEPC) Data Base Data Base Shipping Noise (SN) Data Base Wind And Residual Noise (WRN) Data Base Historical Temporal Shipping (HITS) Data Base GDEM Province Subset (GDEMPS) Data Base Volume Scattering Strength (VSS) Data Base Vertical Line Array DIFAR (VLAD) Noise Gain Data Base GEOPHYSICS FLEET MISSION PROGRAM LIBRARY (GFMPL) LEARNING OBJECTIVES: Recognize how the Geophysics Fleet Mission Program Library (GFMPL) relates to the environmental analysis and prediction systems in use. Identify the different versions of GFMPL and associated publications. Describe the functions of GFMPL. Identify the major environmental software programs of GFMPL. to collect, evaluate, and incorporate new software developments for any meteorological or oceanographic application. Basic guidance on the software evaluation program is contained in NAVMETOCCOMINST 5232.1, Geophysics Fleet Mission Program Library (GFMPL). GFMPL contains software designed for use on many different types of desktop computer systems, including TESS, IMOSS, and MIDDS. Currently, there are three major versions of GFMPL. The GFMPL NT is the latest version and is distributed on CD-ROM. It is designed to work with the Windows NT operating system by using a Windows-type graphical user (GFMPL) is a collection of atmospheric and The Geophysics Fleet Mission Program Library oceanographic software applications similar to OAML. It provides meteorological, electromagnetic, oceanographic, hazard avoidance, and acoustic software for fleet air, surface, amphibious, and undersea warfare (USW) operations. Other than being a collection of software, GFMPL is also a program sponsored and directed by the Commander, Naval Meteorology and Oceanography Command (CNMOC) NT is contained in the Geophysics Fleet Mission Program Library New Technology (GFMPLNT) User’s interface. Information describing the use of GFMPL Manual, published by NAVO. A second version, known as GFMPL PC, is designed to run on DOS-based PC systems. It is distributed in both floppy diskette and CD-ROM. A users manual is provided with the disks. The latest and final version of GFMPL PC was released in January 1998. In addition to the NT and PC versions of GFMPL, a Unix-based version has been integrated 2-3