The White Falcon - 26.02.1988, Side 6

NOCF following the fronts
(Top photo) A63 Lee P. Anderson makes
changes to the upper level wind Indicators
for Weathervision on Channel 2 after
receiving changes over a teleprinter.
(Photo at top right) A61 B. ‘Willy* Williams
takes the most recent synoptic data received
and plots isobars on a surface weather chart
for use in preparing his weather briefings.
(Bottom photo) AG3 Patricia A. Burns types a
request for weather information on a tele-
typewriter as more information comes up on
the teleprinter. (Photos by J03 Andrew Karalis)
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between the eastern coast of Canada and the Unit
States,' said AGC Calvin L. Gar man, Command Chi
and Operations Officer for NOCF. “In the states you
have so many reporting stations that you can
normally track a system and watch its charac-
teristics. But once that thing leaves the east coast
of North America you have very little data. The
only data you actually have over the ocean area is
the information that comes in from a few coastal
places in Greenland, the ships at sea, and weather
buoys."
Even though NOCF lacks weather data coming
across the Atlantic, “We can forecast the weather
24 to 36 hours with reasonable accuracy and give
outlooks that are pretty reasonable up to about 96
hours," said AGC Garman.
Recent improvements for NOCF include some new
equipment, but most have been in the way of ASW
oceanography. The improvements in new equipment
headed to the weather side of NOCF will greatly
improve their service to customers. One machine
that is coming in will replace a few of the older
machines and give them weather information they
need almost instantly. This equipment could be
used in the case of a commercial pilot requesting
weather information from the duty forecaster vi
radio for a particular area he's flying into.
The Weather Office will also install some n
equipment on the airfield called a seilometer. It
measures the cloud base height, which is very

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