New Methods of Getting Weather Information on Board

27 September 2014 – Athens

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Seminar Description

Take your laptop, your tablet and your mobile phone and come 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 examples and practical applications, this seminar will open new horizons for you in receiving meteorological information, training you in all the modern methods of receiving meteorological information that have been developed for sailors.

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 wind measurements from the A-SCAT satellite, Grib Files (Digital weather maps). Learn how to use the most popular Grib Viewers and how to ALWAYS have weather on board. There will also be a special mention of the popular program SPOS and in 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.

Where and when

The seminar will be held on Saturday, September 27, 2014, Time: 1000 – 1500, at 15-17 Thiseos Street, Syntagma, in the modern facilities of City Unity CollegeFor the map of the area click here.

Cost

The participation cost is 120€ but for AEN/KESEN students there is a discount of 30% and the participation is set at 84€. This price includes the monitoring material with printed notes as well as coffee breaks.

Registrations

For more information get in touch with us while to register click here.

Reporter

The seminar speaker is Dr. Nikos Mazarakis, Physicist – Meteorologist, Professor of Marine Meteorology KESEN – Scientific associate of the National Observatory of Athens (for CV click here).

New Methods of Getting Weather Information on Board – 27 September 2014

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