New Methods of Getting Weather Information on Board

 Saturday, 10 October 2015 – Piraeus

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Seminar Description

Learn the ways in which you will always have official meteorological information on board, wherever you are in the world, regardless of whether the facsimile works or not, regardless of whether there are official or unofficial forecasts, and regardless of whether you have broadband or not.

Through a multitude of real-world examples and practical applications, this seminar will open new horizons in the acquisition of meteorological information, educating you in all the modern methods of acquiring meteorological information that have been developed for mariners. You will also learn what Grib Files are and how exactly they are used in the main weather routing software used in navigation, such as SPOS and Bon Voyage.

Learn how you can using e-mail of the ship, receive official charts from the world's largest meteorological services, warnings, advisories for tropical cyclones, metaarea forecasts, observations from passing ships, satellite measurements for wind from the A-SCAT satellite, Grib Files (Digital weather charts). Learn how to use the most popular Grib Viewers and how to ALWAYS have weather on board for FREE at the level of digital charts from the most reliable weather forecast models. Also, special mention will be made to the popular program OPENCPN.

Target Audience

The seminar is aimed at bridge officers of ocean-going ships, of any rank, as well as office executives of shipping companies.

Seminar contents

FTP Mail Service by NOAA, Saildocs, WWW via Internet, MailaSail, Zygrib, GribFiles, OpenCPN, qtVLM.

Where and When

The seminar will be held on Saturday, October 10, 2015, time: 1000 – 1500, at 57 Kefallinias and Dodekanisou streets, in Piraeus at the modern facilities of EIMFor the map of the area click here.

Cost

The participation cost is €120. A discount of 30% is offered for AEN/KESEN students and the price is €84. This price includes the course materials, coffee breaks and the certificate of participation.

Registrations

For more information contact us and to register click here.

Reporter

The seminar speaker is Dr. Nikos Mazarakis, Physicist – Meteorologist, Professor of Marine Meteorology – Scientific associate of the National Observatory of Athens, with over 4500 hours of teaching in Nautical Meteorology to sailors, executives shipping companies, sailing clubs and individuals (for a CV click here).

Modern Marine Meteorology Seminar-Saturday 10/10

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