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AEROGRAPHER'S MATE (AG)


Note: Below are listed responsibilities for grades E-4 (3) and E-7 (c) for this job. Paygrades E-1 through E-3 assist in these tasks


AG3

A. ENVIRONMENTAL PREDICTION SYSTEMS AND SERVICES

A4.001 IDENTIFY MAJOR OCEAN CURRENTS AND OCEAN BOTTOM FEATURES

A4.002 EVALUATE AND RECORD SEA STATE AND SURFACE WAVE DATA

A4.003 DECODE SURF OBSERVATIONS

A4.004 COMPUTE MODIFIED SURF INDEXES (MSI)

A4.005 ENCODE AND TRANSMIT BATHYTHERMOGRAPH DATA

A4.006 GENERATE AUTOMATED UNDERSEA WARFARE SUPPORT PRODUCTS

A4.007 DECODE DRIFTING BUOY DATA

A4.008 IDENTIFY BASIC PHYSICAL PROPERITIES OF THE ATMOSPHERE

A4.009 IDENTIFY THE GENERAL CIRCULATION OF THE ATMOSPHERE

A4.010 IDENTIFY SYNOPTIC SCALE FEATURES ON METEOROLOGICAL CHARTS

A4.011 IDENTIFY POTENTIAL SEVERE WEATHER AREAS FROM DOPPLER RADAR

A4.012 ENCODE AND DECODE RUNWAY CONDITION DATA

A4.013 EVALUATE STATE OF THE SKY

A4.014 OBSERVE, COMPUTE, AND RECORD ENVIRONMENTAL ELEMENTS

A4.015 ENCODE AND TRANSMIT OPTIMUM PATH AIRCRAFT ROUTING SYSTEM (OPARS) INFORMATION

A4.016 PREPARE AND TRANSMIT METEOROLOGICAL AVIATION WEATHER REPORTS (METAR)

A4.017 ENCODE AND TRANSMIT SYNOPTIC OBSERVATIONS

A4.018 ENCODE PILOT REPORTS (PIREPS)

A4.019 DECODE TERMINAL AERODROME FORECASTS (TAFS)

A4.020 PREPARE FLIGHT WEATHER FOLDERS

A4.021 PLOT SKEW-T, LOG P DIAGRAM

A4.022 PLOT SHIP AND SURFACE SYNOPTIC DATA

A4.023 PLOT UPPER LEVEL SYNOPTIC DATA

A4.024 PLOT IN-FLIGHT WEATHER ADVISORY DATA

A4.025 PLOT WEATHER WARNING AND WATCH AREAS

A4.026 PREPARE AND BRIEF TROPICAL CYCLONE WARNING DATA

A4.027 ACQUIRE ENVIRONMENTAL INFORMATION FROM SMOOS/ASOS

A4.028 OPERATE TACTICAL ENVIRONMENTAL SUPPORT SYSTEM (TESS)

A4.029 GENERATE AUTOMATED TACTICAL SUPPORT PRODUCTS

A4.030 ACQUIRE SATELLITE IMAGERY DATA

A4.031 IDENTIFY SIGNIFICANT METEOROLOGICAL FEATURES FROM SATELLITE IMAGERY

A4.032 OBTAIN UPPER AIR DATA UTILIZING MINI-RAWINSONDE SYSTEM (MRS)

A4.033 PLOT HAZARD AREAS FROM CHEMICAL, BIOLOGICAL, RADIOLOGICAL (CBR) EFFECTIVE DOWNWIND MESSAGE (EDM) DATA

A4.034 RETRIEVE/TRANSMIT DATA ON ENVIRONMENTAL NETWORKS

B. MANAGEMENT AND SUPERVISION

B4.001 VERIFY ACCURACY OF ENVIRONMENTAL DATA

C. METOC EQUIPMENT OPERATIONS

C4.001 IDENTIFY ALTERNATE METHODS OF DATA RETRIEVAL DURING EQUIPMENT OUTAGES

C4.002 IDENTIFY ALTERNATE METHODS OF DATA TRANMISSION DURING EQUIPMENT OUTAGES

C4.003 COMPLETE OPERATIONAL CHECKS ON METOC EQUIPMENT

C4.004 MAINTAIN UNIT COMMUNICATIONS STATUS BOARDS

D. ADMINISTRATION

D4.001 PERFORM GENERAL ADMINISTRATIVE PROCEDURES

AG2

A. ENVIRONMENTAL PREDICTION SYSTEMS AND SERVICES

A5.001 BRIEF RUNWAY CONDITIONS

A5.002 BRIEF INFORMATION FROM HORZIONTIAL WEATHER DEPICTION (HWD) CHART

A5.003 BRIEF DD 175-1 ENVIRONMENTAL INFORMATION UNDER SUPERVISION

A5.004 BRIEF INFORMATION FROM TAF

A5.005 BRIEF COMPUTER GENERATED SAR INFORMATION

A5.006 BRIEF SYNOPTIC FEATURES FROM METEOROLOGICAL CHARTS

A5.007 BRIEF SEVERE WEATHER WARNINGS AND ADVISORIES

A5.008 BRIEF DOPPLER RADAR PRODUCTS

A5.009 BRIEF NON-ACOUSTIC METHODS OF SUBMARINE DETECTION

A5.010 PREPARE ENVIRONMENTAL BRIEF FROM CLIMATOLOGICAL DATA

A5.011 ANALYZE SATELLITE IMAGERY

A5.012 ANALYZE STREAMLINE CHART DATA

A5.013 ANALYZE TROPICAL METEOROLOGICAL FEATURES

A5.014 ANALYZE METEOROLOGICAL ELEMENTS FROM A SKEW-T,

LOG P DIAGRAM

A5.015 ANALYZE SST INFORMATION

A5.016 ANALYZE COMPUTER GENERATED ACOUSTIC INFORMATION

A5.017 ANALYZE SURFACE CHARTS

A5.018 ANALYZE UPPER LEVEL CHARTS

A5.019 ANALYZE COMPUTER GENERATED ELECTROMAGNETIC PROPAGATION INFORMATION

B. MANAGEMENT AND SUPERVISION

B5.001 VERIFY ACCURACY OF ENVIRONMENTAL DATA

C. METOC EQUIPMENT OPERATIONS

C5.001 MONITOR METOC EQUIPMENT OPERATION

C5.002 REVIEW EQUIPMENT CONTINGENCY PLANS

D. ADMINISTRATION

D5.001 MAINTAIN ADMINISTRATIVE FILES

D5.002 MAINTAIN ADMINISTRATIVE PUBLICATIONS

D5.003 PREPARE MONTHLY METEOROLOGICAL REPORTS

AG1

A. ENVIRONMENTAL PREDICTION SYSTEMS AND SERVICES

A6.001 CONDUCT TROPICAL CYCLONE EVASION/SORTIE BRIEF

A6.002 CONDUCT WARFARE OPERATIONS ENVIRONMENTAL BRIEF

A6.003 CONDUCT PREDEPLOYMENT BRIEF

A6.004 CONDUCT STAFF WEATHER BRIEF

A6.005 PREPARE AND BRIEF ENVIRONMENTAL INFORMATION FROM DD 175-1

A6.006 ANALYZE SAR PRODUCTS AND INFORMATION

A6.007 PREPARE TAF

A6.008 ANALYZE DOPPLER RADAR FEATURES

A6.009 FORECAST ENVIRONMENTAL EFFECTS ON WEAPONS, SENSORS, AND PLATFORMS

A6.010 FORECAST AVIATION WEATHER PARAMETERS

A6.011 FORECAST DESTRUCTIVE/SEVERE WEATHER ELEMENTS

A6.012 FORECAST METEOROLOGICAL ELEMENTS

A6.013 FORECAST SURFACE WAVE DIRECTION AND HEIGHT

A6.014 FORECAST MOVEMENT AND INTENSITY OF SYNOPTIC SCALE FEATURES

A6.015 FORECAST ACOUSTIC PROPAGATION CONDITIONS

A6.016 FORECAST EFFECTIVE CHEMICAL AND RADFO DOWNWIND DATA

A6.017 FORECAST ELECTROMAGNETIC PROPAGATION CONDITIONS

A6.018 FORECAST JET STREAM POSITIONS

A6.019 ASSESS METOC FORECASTING MODEL STRENGTHS & WEAKNESSES

A6.020 IDENTIFY ACOUSTIC SENSOR OPERATIONAL LIMITATIONS

A6.021 IDENTIFY BEST EVASION AND DETECTION DEPTHS

A6.022 PREPARE METEOROLOGICAL PROGNOSTIC CHARTS

A6.023 PREPARE WEATHER WARNINGS

A6.024 PREPARE HWD CHARTS

A6.025 PREPARE LOCAL AREAS FORECASTS

A6.026 PREPARE SHIP MOVEMENT AND OPAREA FORECASTS

B. MANAGEMENT AND SUPERVISION

B6.001 VERIFY ACCURACY OF METOC DATA

C. METOC EQUIPMENT OPERATIONS

C6.001 PERFORM DIAL UP DATA ON WSR-88 PRINCIPAL USER PROCESSORS (PUPS)

C6.002 MONITOR MAINTENANCE SCHEDULE OF METOC EQUIPMENT

C6.003 MONITOR EQUIPMENT CONTINGENCY PLANS

D. ADMINISTRATION

D6.001 REVIEW FLEET OPERATIONAL ORDERS (OPORDS)

D6.002 REVIEW METOC OPERATIONS TASKING (OPTASK)

D6.003 DRAFT AND RELEASE WEATHER WARNING MESSAGES

AGC

B. MANAGEMENT AND SUPERVISION

B7.001 MAINTAIN METOC EQUIPMENT AND COMMUNICATIONS CONTINGENCY REQUIREMENTS

B7.002 MAINTAIN LESSONS LEARNED INTEGRATION RECOMMENDATIONS

B7.003 ESTABLISH AND MONITOR QUALITY CONTROL REQUIREMENTS

B7.004 ASSESS METOC SERVICE REQUIREMENTS

B7.005 CONDUCT METOC SERVICES AVAILABILITY BRIEFS

D. ADMINISTRATION

D7.001 PREPARE ANNUAL METEOROLOGICAL STATION AND DESCRIPTION REPORTS

D7.002 PREPARE METOC OPTASK MESSAGES

D7.003 REVIEW METOC SUPPORT MANUALS

D7.004 MAINTAIN PREDEPLOYMENT AND LONG RANGE PLANNING CLIMATOLOGICAL DATA

D7.005 MAINTAIN COMPLIANCE WITH COMNAVMETOCCOM INSPECTION REQUIREMENTS

D7.006 MAINTAIN METOC MC & G REQUIREMENTS


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