Military meteorology

World War II brought great advances in meteorology as large-scale military land, sea, and air campaigns were highly dependent on weather, particularly forecasts provided by the Royal Navy, Met Office and USAAF for the Normandy landing and strategic bombing.

University meteorology departments grew rapidly as the military services sent cadets to be trained as weather officers.

Wartime technological developments such as radar also proved to be valuable meteorological observing systems.

More recently, the use of satellites in space has contributed extensively to military meteorology.

Enlisted meteorology and oceanography forecasters are called aerographer's mates.