NATIONAL UNIFIED OPERATIONAL PREDICTION CAPABILITY INITIATIVE

3 Providing customer-oriented products through the development of a marketing infrastructure with associated research to assess user needs, quantify value, and present and improve products is a major gap in both research and operations. 4 There is a need for increased emphasis on research to support decision making, including use of forecast information, communicating forecast uncertainty with probabilistic forecasts, propagating quantitative uncertainty into downstream applications, and developing common decision support tools. Steve Payne from Commander Naval Meteorology and Oceanography Center (CNMOC)-the parent organization of FNMOC- briefed the U.S. Navy's mission requirements, which were extremely broad but focused on improving coastal ocean forecasting; supporting improved speed of response decision making, asset protection, and optimal ship routing; and improving prediction of climate change impacts on the Arctic.