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Modern Marine Weather: From Time-honored Traditional Knowledge to the Latest Technology

A comprehensive text on how to take weather into account for the planning and navigation of voyages, local or global, using the latest technologies as well as the time-honored skills of maritime tradition, so that your time on the water remains as safe and efficient as possible. Covers practical applications of GRIB files, ASCAT wind measurements, and other modern resources.

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Modern Marine Weather: From Time-honored Traditional Knowledge to the Latest Technology

A comprehensive text on how to take weather into account for the planning and navigation of voyages, local or global, using the latest technologies as well as the time-honored skills of maritime tradition, so that your time on the water remains as safe and efficient as possible. Covers practical applications of GRIB files, ASCAT wind measurements, and other modern resources.

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Modern Marine Weather: From Time-honored Traditional Knowledge to the Latest Technology

Modern Marine Weather: From Time-honored Traditional Knowledge to the Latest Technology

Modern Marine Weather: From Time-honored Traditional Knowledge to the Latest Technology

Modern Marine Weather: From Time-honored Traditional Knowledge to the Latest Technology

Overview

A comprehensive text on how to take weather into account for the planning and navigation of voyages, local or global, using the latest technologies as well as the time-honored skills of maritime tradition, so that your time on the water remains as safe and efficient as possible. Covers practical applications of GRIB files, ASCAT wind measurements, and other modern resources.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780914025580
Publisher: Starpath Publications
Publication date: 03/30/2018
Edition description: 3rd ed.
Pages: 272
Sales rank: 944,842
Product dimensions: 8.40(w) x 10.90(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

David Burch is a Fellow of the Royal Institute of Navigation in London as well as a Fellow of the Institute of Navigation in Washington, DC, from which he received the Superior Achievement Award for outstanding performance as a practicing navigator. He has logged more than 70,000 miles at sea, including twelve transoceanic yacht races, with several first place victories and a passage record for boats under 36 feet that lasted 16 years. He also navigated the only American entry in the storm-ridden 1993 Sydney to Hobart Race. On the academic side, he is a former Fulbright Scholar with a PhD in physics. As Founding Director of Starpath School of Navigation in Seattle he has designed courses and taken part in the teaching of marine weather and navigation for more than 30 years. He continues to work on the development of online training materials, which are presented at starpath.com. Articles on special topics in navigation and weather appear at starpath.com/articles.

Table of Contents

Table of Contents

Prefaces

Acknowledgments

Foreword by Lee Chesneau

1. Introduction


1.1 Overview

1.2 Role of Marine Weather

1.3 Elements of Marine Weather

1.4 Terminology and Glossaries

1.5 Wind Terms and Symbols

1.6 Quick Look at Resources

1.7 Units and Time Conversions


2. Pressure and Wind



2.1 What Makes the Wind

2.2 Pressure and Barometers

2.3 Properties of Highs and Lows

2.4 Figuring Winds from Isobars

2.5 Apparent Wind to True Wind

2.6 Getting Started on GRIB Forecasts


3. Global Winds and Currents



3.1 Warm Air Rises

3.2 Hadley Cells and Global Winds

3.3 Winds Aloft

3.4 The Atmosphere, Air Masses, and Stability

3.5 Water—Fuel of the Atmosphere

3.6 Primary Ocean Currents

3.7 Ocean Current Models


4. Strong Wind Systems



4.1 Introduction to Strong Wind

4.2 Satellite Winds

4.3 Fronts and Low Formation

4.4 Types of Lows

4.5 Tropical Storms and Hurricanes

4.6 Squalls

4.7 Sides of a Tropical Storm

4.8 Storm Avoidance Maneuvering


5. Clouds, Fog, and Sea State



5.1 Cloud Notes for Mariners

5.2 Sample Cloud Pictures

5.3 Fog

5.4 Wave Notes of Mariners


6. Wind and Terrain



6.1 The Varied Effects of Land on Wind

6.2 Isobars Crossing Channels

6.3 Wind Forecasts Near Land


7. Working With Weather Maps



7.1 Overview of Weather Maps

7.2 Using Weather Maps

7.3 Practice Reading Weather Maps

7.4 Georeferencing Image Files

7.5 Global and Regional Models

7.6 Use of 500-mb Map

7.7 Ship Reports


8. Sources of Weather Data



8.1 Overview 240

8.2 Climatic Sources for Voyage Planning

8.3 Weather by Email

8.4 Real Time Obvservations

8.5 Weather Communications at Sea

8.6 Zone Forecasts by Email

8.7 Miscellaneous Sources


9. On-board Forecasting and Tactics



9.1 Instruments and Logbook Procedures

9.2 Onboard Forecasting

9.3 Onboard Forecasting of Tropical Storms

9.4 Old Sayings Explained

9.5 Mariner's Checklist


10. Special Topics



10.1 Southern Hemisphere Weather

10.2 Monsoons

10.3 Blocking Highs

10.4 Sailing Routes to Hawaii

10.5 Chen-Chesneau 500-mb Routing Zones

10.6 Modern Pilot Chart Data

10.7 Optimum Sailboat Routing


Appendix



A1 Abbreviations

A2 Standard Atmosphere

A3 Sea State Definitions

A4 Historical Notes on Barometers

A5 Baro Calibration

A6 Global Air Masses

A7 Notes on Rain

A8 National Blend of Models

A9 Nuances of True Wind

A10 Hurricane Profiles

A11 Present Weather Symbols


Index

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