Seminar Title
Modern Nautical Meteorology
Modern Marine Meteorology
Duration
Two days, 6 hours on the 1st day and 4 hours on the 2nd day.
Seminar Overview
On the 1st day of the seminar, the participating merchant marine bridge officers are trained in the basic principles of modern marine meteorology. The main subjects of the 1st day seminar are learning how to read the surface weather charts issued daily by the world's major meteorological services involved in ocean weather forecasting. These services are the United States Meteorological Service (NOAA/OPC), the Japanese (JMA) and the English (Metoffice). Also, the most modern weather routing techniques are taught with the aim of avoiding dangerous barometric systems and tropical cyclones.
On the 2nd day of the course the professional mariner learns the ways in which he can always have the official meteorological information on board, in any part of the world, whether or not he catches the facsimile, whether there are official or unofficial forecasts and regardless of whether the ship has broadband or not. Through a number of real examples and practical applications, this seminar opens new horizons for professional mariners in receiving meteorological information, as it focuses on all modern methods of receiving meteorological information developed for mariners. So the sailor learns how to use it e-mail of the ship, to receive official charts from the world's major meteorological services, warnings, advisories for tropical cyclones, metarea forecasts, observations from passing ships, satellite wind measurements from the A-SCAT satellite, Grib Files (Digital Weather Maps) . He also learns how to handle the most popular Grib Viewers, OPENCPN and how to ALWAYS have time on board.
The seminar was approved in July 2016 as a separate course, at frameworks of its certification DANAOS Assessment and Training Center as Lloyd's Register Approved Training Center.
Desired knowledge
Upon completion of the seminar, the participants:
- they will be able to read the meteorological charts issued by all the meteorological services of the world dealing with ocean weather forecasting.
- they will be able to identify on a surface map the dangerous areas for safe navigation.
- they will be able to predict the movement of a barometric low up to 120 hours ahead.
- they will be able to do their own course planning based on the surface map.
- They will learn about significant wave height and how it relates to maximum wave
- they will learn to receive by email all weather maps in excellent resolution and clarity.
- they will learn to work with Grib Files, the most modern and reliable in the field of weather information.
Contents of a 2-day seminar
- Categories of weather maps
- Surface map analysis
- analysis of wave height maps – significant wave height
- safe travel planning
- travel simulation with route planning and weather forecast
- FTP Mail Service by NOAA
- Saildocs
- WWW via Internet
- MailaSail
- BVS8, qtVlm & GribFiles
- OpenCPN, ASCAT WINDS
Cost
For seminars at our place: €190 per person. For Shipping Companies please get in touch with us.
Venue
Shipping companies – Modern classrooms in a hotel or training center.
Sign up for the individual seminars
The seminars are organized at regular intervals in modern classrooms. Two to three weeks before each seminar, an official announcement is made on the main page. If you want to know when our next seminar is scheduled, you can consult the seminar calendar by clicking here.
Organization
As part of the seminar, detailed notes are provided to all participants. The notes focus on the practical part of the presentation and are a reference point of the practical application that can be made in the workplace and especially on the ship's bridge when analyzing the weather.