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15WX Weather and Environmental Sciences Officer

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Overview

A weather and environmental sciences officer performs, manages, and directs weather operations while integrating current and forecast atmospheric and space weather conditions into military operations and planning. The officer also develops, directs, and coordinates meteorological studies and research.

Minimum clearance: Top Secret

Core Skills

  • Atmospheric and space weather integration into operational planning
  • Applied meteorological and geophysical research coordination

Civilian Career Paths

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Atmospheric and Space Scientists

Experience integrating atmospheric and space weather into operational planning and coordinating applied meteorological research aligns with civilian forecasting and atmospheric research.

How to prepare: Create a civilian forecasting case study using weather maps and environmental data, showing the forecast and its implications for an operational decision.

What the civilian work involves
  • Develop or use mathematical or computer models for weather forecasting.
  • Interpret data, reports, maps, photographs, or charts to predict long- or short-range weather conditions, using computer models and knowledge of climate theory, physics, and mathematics.
  • Conduct meteorological research into the processes or determinants of atmospheric phenomena, weather, or climate.
Civilian tools and software (examples)
  • IBM SPSS Statistics
  • Microsoft Excel

Notes & Sources

Evidence for this guidance (2 documents)
  1. DAFOCD, 30 Apr 26: WEATHER AND ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES (15WX)

    [1] Specialty Summary section "WEATHER AND ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES"; normalized cached text lines 3277-3301; family-level section (15W4, 15W3, 15W1)

    Supports: Atmospheric and space weather integration into operational planning, Applied meteorological and geophysical research coordination, Atmospheric and Space Scientists (O*NET 19-2021.00)

  2. O*NET: Atmospheric and Space Scientists

    [2] O*NET 30.3 occupational data

    Supports: Atmospheric and Space Scientists (O*NET 19-2021.00)

Defense contractor jobs for 15WX

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