LEADER 03814nam 2200637Ia 450 001 9910809209503321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-4081-2721-0 035 $a(CKB)2670000000398286 035 $a(EBL)1334456 035 $a(OCoLC)855504363 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000481345 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11310618 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000481345 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10484275 035 $a(PQKB)11264678 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1334456 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1334456 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10739199 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL604155 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3003375 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3003375 035 $a(OCoLC)928192152 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000398286 100 $a20130808d2013 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$a50 ways to improve your weather forecasting /$fDag Pike 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aLondon $cBloomsbury Publishing$d2013 215 $a1 online resource (97 p.) 225 1 $a50 ways 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-7136-8268-X 327 $aCover; Copyright; Contents; WEATHER FORECASTS; 1 When to go to sea; 2 Negotiating with the weather; 3 Weather in the fourth dimension; 4 The limitations of forecasts; 5 Questioning the forecast; 6 Evolving weather; 7 You get what you pay for; 8 Weather from coast stations; INTERPRETING THE FORECASTS; 9 Recording the weather; 10 Reading between the lines; 11 The meaning of 'later'; 12 The speed of the weather; 13 Pinning down the wind strength; 14 The language of forecasters; 15 Forecasting wave height; FINE-TUNING THE FORECAST; 16 Fine-tuning factors; 17 Inconsistencies in the forecast 327 $a18 When the airflow is broken19 When the wind is off the land; 20 Winds around and over islands; 21 Winds parallel to the shore; 22 Sea breezes; THE WIND AND THE SEA; 23 The Beaufort Scale; 24 The effect of wind on the tides; 25 Tides and waves; 26 Wave refraction; 27 Wave heights; 28 The effect of depth on sea conditions; 29 Identifying dangerous sea conditions; 30 What makes a wave break; 31 Fetch and time; LOCAL WEATHER CONDITIONS; 32 Radiation fog; 33 Advection fog; 34 When will the fog clear?; 35 Drizzle; 36 Gusts; 37 Squalls; 38 Thunderstorms; 39 Avoiding thunderstorms 327 $a40 Line squalls and waterspouts41 The message from the clouds; 42 Clouds in a warm front; TACTICS AND SHORT-TERM CHANGES; 43 Deepening depressions; 44 Secondary lows; 45 Using satellite information; 46 Running for shelter; 47 Weather tactics; 48 Coastal tactics; 49 Weather routing; 50 Weather lore 330 $aThis is a book about practical weather forecasting, and it starts where most other books finish. Weather forecasts give you a lot of information about the weather to come but they often leave out a lot of the detail, and the timing of changes can also be vague. In this book, Dag Pike shows how to translate the basics into practical weather forecasts so that you can work out what it will be like in your area and along your proposed route. Sailors will be able to make better use of the available wind and avoid difficult areas, whilst powerboat drivers more interested in the sea conditions will b 410 0$a50 ways series. 517 3 $aFifty ways to improve your weather forecasting 606 $aWeather forecasting 606 $aMarine meteorology 615 0$aWeather forecasting. 615 0$aMarine meteorology. 676 $a551.65162 700 $aPike$b Dag$029806 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910809209503321 996 $a50 ways to improve your weather forecasting$94108577 997 $aUNINA