Introduction to Weather Operational Effects

Weather Operational Effects can be used to quickly understand the impact of weather on military operations.

Weather Operational Effects applies doctrinal operational thresholds against weather forecast data to determine the weather effects on specific types of operations and equipment. The resulting tactical decision aids—such as charts, dashboards, and overlays—enable planners and leadership to see weather effects over space, maximize operational effectiveness, and reduce operational risk.

The Weather Operational Effects solution delivers a set of capabilities that help you to understand weather conditions within an area of responsibility, analyze potential operational effects of weather, and share information among staff and leadership.

Deploy the solution

This solution can be deployed in your ArcGIS organization.

Deploy the solution

See Deploying a solution for more information.

Requirements

Weather Operational Effects requires the following:

• ArcGIS Online
  • ArcGIS Image for ArcGIS Online
• ArcGIS Pro 3.1 or later or ArcGIS AllSource 1.3 or later

Information products

Weather Operational Effects includes the following information products:

Item	Description	Minimum user type
Weather Operational Effects Project	A zipped file with an ArcGIS Pro project and supporting files used by intelligence staff to compile and analyze weather data	Professional Plus
Weather Operational Effects Center	An ArcGIS Experience Builder app used by intelligence staff, operations staff, and leadership to review weather data, forecasts, and effects	Viewer
Climate Station Dashboard	An ArcGIS Dashboards app used by operations staff and leadership to view climate station data	Viewer
Current Weather Dashboard	An ArcGIS Dashboards app used by operations staff and leadership to view current weather conditions	Viewer
Forecast Dashboard	An ArcGIS Dashboards app used by operations staff and leadership to view forecasted weather and effects	Viewer

When you deploy this solution in your ArcGIS organization, you also get a solution item that organizes the key information products and summarizes all the ArcGIS items (applications, forms, projects, maps, feature layers, feature layer views, and so on) included with the solution. The solution item also illustrates any dependencies items have on each other.

Release notes

The following are the release notes:

Version	Description
2.0 (June 2024)	The Weather Operational Effects toolbox has been updated to include a streamlined forecast processing tool, which supports both imperial and metric units, and an astronomical data tool. The Weather Operational Effects Project now provides imperial and metric operational threshold tables and raster function templates. The Weather Operational Effects Center now includes both imperial and metric unit dashboards. The Forecast Operational Effects Overlays app has been reconfigured into an Instant Apps app.
1.1 (Mar 2023)	Minor updates to tools in the Weather Operational Effects Project Minor updates to Arcade in theForecast Dashboard
1.0 (Nov 2022)	First release of Weather Operational Effects