Meteorology for Mariners

Meteorology for Mariners
Author: Great Britain. Meteorological Office
Publisher:
Total Pages: 304
Release: 1978
Genre: 11 400311 4
ISBN:

Presenting the elementary theory of meteorology in a way that is suitable for Merchant Navy officers, this guide shows how a knowledge of the subject can be applied in a practical way. It should satisfactorily cover the meteorological syllabus for Certificates of Competency. It also serves as a comprehensive reference book for those who wish to maintain a good working knowledge of meteorology.

Weather for the Mariner

Weather for the Mariner
Author: William J. Kotsch
Publisher: US Naval Institute Press
Total Pages: 342
Release: 1983
Genre: History
ISBN:

A comprehensive weather guide in one easy-to-read volume.

Mariner's Weather

Mariner's Weather
Author: William P. Crawford
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Total Pages: 334
Release: 1992
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 9780393308846

The single most important fact of life to the racing yachtsman, cruiser, or merchant seaman is the weather. This book about the weather, written by a master mariner, sets out to fill the gap between instant knowledge books which prvide a veneer of jargon, and heavy texts requiring prior knowledge of meteorology. This book presents instead a seamanlike survey of the basics of weather, offering a foundation for practical observation and interpretation as well as a ground-work for advanced study. Basic information on the atmosphere, winds, heat and its consequences, clouds, fogs, fronts, tropical cyclones, ice, instruments and charts is provided here.

Meteorology for Seafarers

Meteorology for Seafarers
Author: C. R. Burgess
Publisher: Sheridan House Incorporated
Total Pages: 137
Release: 1988-01-01
Genre: Marine meteorology
ISBN: 9780851745305

A technical book which aims to explain the complexities of the atmosphere & provide the information needed for professional seafarers aspiring to first class certificates of competency.

Heavy Weather Avoidance and Route Design

Heavy Weather Avoidance and Route Design
Author: Mike Ma-Li Chen
Publisher: Paradise Cay Publications
Total Pages: 280
Release: 2008-10
Genre: Science
ISBN: 9780939837786

In Heavy Weather Avoidance, Chen and Chesneau merge the seamanship of a master mariner and the forecast expertise of a senior meteorologist, providing readers with double-barrel exposure to what actually goes on in the atmosphere and on the sea's surface. Mariners and recreational sailors are more concerned about the implications of volatile weather rather than its fluid dynamics. From start to finish the authors have cut to the chase, creating a readable text brimming with useful graphics. It's focused on the root cause of how and why bad weather develops and where it's likely to go. There's enough theory provided for a reader to get a feel for how air mass energy transfer works, but just as the theoretical aspect takes on a mission of its own, there's a shift to more practical self-forecasting and storm avoidance wisdom. Captain Ma-Li Chen shares his well-tested routing strategy and describes how it factors in the use of the 500 Mb chart.

Mariners Weather Log

Mariners Weather Log
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 100
Release: 2011
Genre: Marine meteorology
ISBN:

November issue includes abridged index to yearly volume, -1981.

Reeds Maritime Meteorology

Reeds Maritime Meteorology
Author: Elaine Ives
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 282
Release: 2019-06-13
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 1472964160

Written primarily for serving and trainee deck officers, those studying for certificates of competency in merchant shipping and fishermen, Reeds Maritime Meteorology analyses the elements and forces which contribute to maritime meteorology and the principles which govern them. Updated to include the latest developments in the use of satellite technology in forecasting, Navtext and the ramifications of GMDSS, the book examines: · cloud formation and development · precipitation and thunderstorms · atmospheric pressure and wind · ocean currents and swell · tropical revolving storms · the development and distribution of sea ice · weather routeing · passage planning · the management and care of cargo in heavy weather This revised edition covers significant developments in the variety of forecasts available for the seafarer, coverage of global warming and weather routing options, as well as updates throughout in line with technological advancements and research discoveries, and updates to the exam questions at the end of each chapter.

A Mariner's Miscellany

A Mariner's Miscellany
Author: Peter H. Spectre
Publisher: Sheridan House, Inc.
Total Pages: 308
Release: 2005
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 9781574091953

This book is both an engaging compendium of nautical knowledge and a random accounting of the ways of the sea. It is the product of Peter H. Spectre's lifelong fascination with the sea, a guide to the good, the bad, and the ugly of a way of life that is as old as civilization.

The Role of the Physical Environment in Ancient Greek Seafaring

The Role of the Physical Environment in Ancient Greek Seafaring
Author: Jamie Morton
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 422
Release: 2001
Genre: History
ISBN: 9789004117174

This study in environmental anthropology explores the physical geography and sailing conditions of ancient Greece and the Mediterranean region, the seafaring practices of the ancient Greeks, and, more generally, the interrelationships between human activity, technology and the physical environment.

The Weather Experiment

The Weather Experiment
Author: Peter Moore
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Total Pages: 417
Release: 2015-06-02
Genre: Science
ISBN: 0374711275

A history of weather forecasting, and an animated portrait of the nineteenth-century pioneers who made it possible By the 1800s, a century of feverish discovery had launched the major branches of science. Physics, chemistry, biology, geology, and astronomy made the natural world explicable through experiment, observation, and categorization. And yet one scientific field remained in its infancy. Despite millennia of observation, mankind still had no understanding of the forces behind the weather. A century after the death of Newton, the laws that governed the heavens were entirely unknown, and weather forecasting was the stuff of folklore and superstition. Peter Moore's The Weather Experiment is the account of a group of naturalists, engineers, and artists who conquered the elements. It describes their travels and experiments, their breakthroughs and bankruptcies, with picaresque vigor. It takes readers from Irish bogs to a thunderstorm in Guanabara Bay to the basket of a hydrogen balloon 8,500 feet over Paris. And it captures the particular bent of mind—combining the Romantic love of Nature and the Enlightenment love of Reason—that allowed humanity to finally decipher the skies.