Weather Master Course
A stand alone course for those who are seeking a comprehensive understanding of the factors involved in world meteorology and weather routing for long distance or ocean passages.
- Causes of wind
- Air masses
- Atmospheric pressure
- Air circulation
- Coriolis Effect
- Polar fronts
- Depressions
- Anti-cyclones
- Warm fronts
- Cold fronts
- Ridges, troughs, squalls
- Effect of jet stream
- High pressure/ low pressure systems
- Frontal depressions
- Cloud types
- Buy Ballots law
- Sea /land breezes
- Types of fog
- Thunder and lightning
- The Beaufort scale
- Effects of friction
- Barometric pressure
- Sources of weather forecasts
- Gale warnings
- General synopsis
- Sea area forecast
- International weather map systems
- Tropical revolving storms
- Understanding hurricanes
- Tropical waves, depressions and storms
- Navigable semicircle
- Dangerous quadrant
- Significant wave heights
- Radio warnings