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OCSC's Weather series: Mariner's Weather
This in depth, six-session weather course provides experienced sailors with a solid theoretical grounding in meteorology. Students will come out of the course able to demystify weather prediction using technology and their own observations of the environment. After taking this course, sailors will be better equipped to plan for weekend cruises and long coastal passages and to make sound mid-voyage decisions.
Topics covered:
- Introduction to the physical laws governing atmospheric processes
- Effects of planetary, regional and local geographic features on weather in a given location (with special attention on climate patterns and their effects on cruising or sailing decisions)
- Forecasting based on 500 millibar charts, surface analysis maps and satellite products as well as educated observations of clouds, humidity, wind direction and temperature changes
- Weather phenomena associated with San Francisco Bay, California and the North American west coast in general
- Oceanographic/meteorological relationships - waves, swells, effects of wind and current, effects of large geographic currents on climate and weather makers
Text included: - Mariner's Weather, by William Crawford
Good to know:
Be sure to review the session descriptions, additional resources and bibliography at the top of this Web page for a wealth of additional weather information.
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