Weather handbook northern hemisphere
por Tibbs, Chris
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- Editorial: Royal Yachting Association
- ISBN: 978-1-905104-17-8
- Páginas: 109
- Dimensiones: 0 cm x 0 cm
- Encuadernación: Rústica
- Idiomas: Inglés
- Fecha de la edición: 2012
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Resumen del libro
To feeel safe and confident at sea, we all want to know what is likely to happen weather-wise over the next few hours and days around.The RYA Weather Handbook has been written to complement the RYA Day Skipper and RYA Coastal Skipper/RYA Yachmaster syllabi and is recommended reading for anyone taking one of these courses.
But whether you are following an RYA course of just want to understand weather a little better, this books is full of practical and useful advice on how to understand weather maps and improve your forecasting skills.
CONTENTS:
- Introduction
- Some theory
- Weather charts
- Clouds
- Depressions
- Depressions in practice
Anticyclones
- Predicting the Depressions
- Depressions in practice
- Anticyclones
- Predicting the wind
- Reality
- Effects of land on the wind
- All at sea
- Meteorological dangers
- Methodology
- New technology
- Hurricanes
- Around the world
- Southern Hemisphere
- Twelve top websites
- Glossary
-Index
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