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Reeds Maritime Meteorology is written primarily for serving and trainee deck officers, those studying for certificates of competency in merchant ships, and for fishermen.

The authors analyse the forces that contribute to maritime meteorolgy and the principles wich govern them in order to equip deep sea mariners with the knowledge needed to best deal with situations at sea.

Taking into account the latest developments in the use of satellite technology in forecasting, fax, Navtex and the ramifications of GMDSS, the book examines:
- Cloud formation and development
- Precipitation and thunderstorms
- Visibility
- Atmospheric pressure and wind
- Waves, sea and swell
- Fronts and frontal depressions
- Tropical revolving storms
- Ocean surface currents (including fold-out chart)
- The development
- Weather routeing

There is advice for the mariner on weather forecasting at sea, ocean passage planning and the management and care of cargo in heavy weather, including ventilation, cargo sweat and spontaneous combustion. Finally there is an extensive glossary and revision questions at the end of each chapter to test the student´s knowledge, together with website references.



Índice:

PREFACE

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

ABOUT THE AUTHORS

1. THE ATMOSPHERE
Composition
Vertical distribution
Variation of temperature and pressure with height

2. SOLAR RADIATION AND TEMPERATURE
Radiation as a form of heat transfer
Diurnal temperature range
Factors affecting the heating effect of solar radiation

3. HUMIDITY AND CONDENSATION
Water vapour
Satured and unsaturated air
Dew point
Absolute and relative humidity
Hygroscopic nuclei

4. CLASSIFICATION OF CLOUDS
Characteristics of cloud types
Associated height ranges
Descriptions and illustrations (photos 1 to 16)
Weather indicated by cloud types

5. CLOUD FORMATION AND DEVELOPMENT
Adiabatic heating and cooling
The physics of cloud formation
Lapse rates
Stability and instability
Causes of initial uplift of air

6. PRECIPITATION
Rain and drizzle
Types of rain
Snow, sleet, hail, frost, sea spray, dew and rime

7. THUNDERSTORMS
Causes
Lightning and thunder
Types of thunderstorm

8. VISIBILITY
Definitions
Types of fog
Advection, frontal, radiation, Arctic sea smoke
Mist, dust and haze
Sound signals
Use of radar

9. ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE AND WIND
Units of pressure
Cause of wind
Relationship between wind direction and force and isobars
Buys Ballot´s Law
Distinction between geostropic and gradient wind
Effect of heating upon pressure
Planetary system of pressure and winds
Prevailing winds of the oceans
Land and sea breezes
Local winds

10. SEA AND SWELL WAVES
Definitions
Characteristics
Formation of waves
Relationship between the period of a ship´s roll and the period of waves
Wave dimensions
Shallow water effects
Importance of observing and reporting wave data
The Beaufort scale
Illustrations

11. AIR MASSES AND ASSOCIATED WEATHER
Sources and characteristics
Classifications
Polar and tropical air masses and associated weather

12. ISOBARIC PATTERNS
Distinctive types
General characteristics and weather associated with depressions, antycyclones, secondary depressions, troughs, ridges of high pressure, cols and straight isobars

13. FRONTS AND FRONTAL DEPRESSIONS
Air mass boundaries
Main frontal zones
Frontal theory of formation of depressions
The sequence of cloud and weather at fronts
The process of occluding
The movement of depressions
Families of depressions

14. NON-FRONTAL DEPRESSIONS
Formation
Thermal, instability and orographic depressions

15. ANTICYCLONES
Formation and properties
Types
Associated weather

16. TROPICAL REVOLVING STORMS
Origins and life history
Tracks
Strengths of wind and sequence of likely weather
Storm tides
Seasons
Regional names and details

17. AVOIDANCE OF THE WORST EFFECTS OF A TRS
Natural warnings
Radar and radio warnings
Action required of masters
Practical rules of avoidance in both northern and southern hemispheres

18. WEATHER FORECASTING FOR THE SEAFARER
The synoptic map
Storm warnings
Radio bulletins and forecasts
Facsimile maps
International aspects
WMO
Selected Ship Scheme
Weather satellites
Global warming

19. FORECASTING THE MARINER´S OWN WEATHER
Movements of fronts
Rules for estimating
Development of anticyclones
Winds of the upper atmosphere
Upper air charts

20. OCEAN SURFACE CURRENTS
Causes
Characteristics
General surface circulation
Tabulated ocean currents

21. SEA ICE
Physics and formation
Development
Icebergs
Distribution and seasons
Practical warnings
Dangers of icing on deck

22. WEATHER ROUTEING
Climatological routeing
Synoptic routeing
Weather routeing from shore specialists

23. METEOROLOGICAL ASPECTS OF RADAR
Meteorological phenomena on radar
Wave clutter
Standard conditions
Non-standard conditions

24. METEOROLOGICAL FACTORS OF PLANNING AN OCEAN PASSAGE
General principles
Recommended references
Routeing charts

25. BRIEF NOTES ON OBSERVATIONS AND INSTRUMENTS
Importance of being observant
Logbook entries
Aneroid barometers
Barographs
Hygrometers
Sea thermometers
Wind and the Beaufort scale
Clouds
Visibility
Ocean currents

A. METEOROLOGICAL GLOSSARY

APPENDIX 1. METEOROLOGY AND CARE OF CARGO
Heavy weather
Ventilation
Hygroscopic and non-hygroscopic cargoes
Cargo sweat
Ship sweat
Spontaneous combusion
Meteorological factors affecting containers

APPENDIX 2. UNITS AND EQUIVALENT VALUES

INDEX

CHART OF OCEAN CURRENTS