Weather for Sailors
This is City Sailings NEW course giving you an insight to the dark art of the weather.
This course is provided by Simon Rowell a world class meteorologist ands sailor.
The syllabus is as follows:
Global Weather Patterns The Effect of Surface Temperature Differences – Thermal Wind Balance The Coriolis Effect The Ocean High Pressure Systems – How are they Formed? Mid-Latitude Weather Systems Air Masses Clouds – What are they and What do they Mean? The Life Cycle of a Mid-Latitude Depression General Summary of Conditions as a Low Pressure System Moves Overhead Case Study of a Depression High Pressure Systems and their Interaction with Low Pressure Systems The Interaction of Multiple Systems Some Localised Surface Phenomena Changing the Surface Friction as Wind blows over Land and Sea Being Headed or Lifted as You Sail Offshore Convergence and Divergence The Boundary Layer Sea Breeze Land Breeze Katabatic Winds Chinook or Fohn Winds Radiation (or Land) Fog Advection (or Sea) Fog Predicting Gusts Using Upper Level Information to help with Surface Forecasting Will it Snow or Rain? Will a Particular Low Deepen or Dissipate? Can We Predict the General Path of the Lows? Tropical Weather Systems The Inter-Tropical Convergence Zone Trade Winds and the Ocean Highs Tropical Waves, Squalls and Diurnal variation The Madden-Julian Oscillation El Nino and La Nina Acceleration Zones and the Effect of Islands Hurricanes – how they Start and Develop, and what Actions to take Modern Numerical Weather Forecasts Route Planning and Preparation Publications, charts and on-line information Passage Planning Case Study
This Weather Widget is provided by the Met Office
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