environmental monitoring

    This includes the threat of global climate change.

    From Joint Publication 3-14, Space Operations, 10 April 2018:

7. Environmental Monitoring

    a. Terrestrial Environmental Monitoring. Terrestrial environmental monitoring provides information on meteorological and oceanographic (METOC) factors in the maritime, land, and air domains that affect military operations. Space-based environmental sensing supports the development of METOC forecasts and assessments of environmental impacts on both friendly and threat military systems and operations. Environmental monitoring information includes data provided by non-DOD satellites, such as National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) operational weather and NASA research satellites, as well as foreign satellites such as the European and Japanese geostationary weather satellites. This information is used by the 557th Weather Wing, the Fleet Numerical Meteorology and Oceanography Center, and the Naval Oceanographic Office to support joint forces and Services, as well as by individual forecasters in the field, supporting local units. A prime advantage of environmental satellites is their ability to gather data in remote or hostile areas, where little or no data is available via surface reporting stations. For example, space-based environmental data is critical over most oceanic regions, where terrestrially observed data is often sparse.

    b. Space Environmental Monitoring. Space environmental monitoring provides data that supports forecasts, alerts, and warnings for the space environment that may affect space assets, space operations, and their terrestrial users. Space-based monitoring of the space domain provides the ability to detect and mitigate the impacts of space weather on satellites, manned spaceflight, and communications to, from, and through space. Detection of solar events and measurement of the radiation environment allow operators to protect resources and deduce likely causes of spacecraft anomalies.

    c. Environmental Monitoring Support. Environmental monitoring support to joint operations gives the JFC awareness of the OE. This support is normally provided by METOC forces assigned to one or more of the participating components. When two or more units are involved in a joint operation, coordination of their support is normally accomplished by the joint METOC coordination cell.

See JP 3-59, Meteorological and Oceanographic Operations, for more information on the organization of METOC forces.

—Joint Publication 3-14, Space Operations, 10 April 2018

    Isaac Arthur’s Weather Control and Geoengineering:

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2. response to criticism of Space Force
3. space situational awareness
4. space control
5. protecting satellites
6. space debris
7. navigation warfare
8. surveillance
9. satellite communications
10. environmental monitoring
11. missile warning
12. nuclear detonation detection
13. drones
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15. space academy
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19. first contact
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