U.S. Navy taps Microsoft Azure to enhance weather modeling

With two tropical storms headed for the Gulf Coast, a U.S. Navy team of leading engineers and scientists partnered with their Microsoft Federal counterparts over the Aug. 22–23 weekend to successfully deploy an enhanced weather model capable of rapidly scaling weather and ocean pattern predictions on demand. The Coupled Ocean/Atmosphere Mesoscale Prediction System, or COAMPS-TC, began running in a production-like Microsoft Azure environment on Aug. 23. The proof-of-concept results, posted on Twitter starting Aug. 24, confirm the potential of using our secure cloud to deliver faster, real-time and scalable tropical cyclone forecasts, which result in greater fleet safety and effectiveness and public benefits.