Interpretação de informações meteorológicas: apresentação do acidente do Titanic

Abstract

The maiden voyage of the Titanic was a sensation at the time and is one of the most studied and researched today tragedies, what has been portrayed in literature and played on the big screen. The Titanic, which was titled as "the ship that does not sink" also raises questions even after more than a century of his tragedy which led to investigations and theories of researchers and scientists through synoptic maps, the analysis of time, route of travel and, more recently, the influence of the stars. To be able to analyze the accident, numerous meteorological information was interpreted as Synoptic Cards, Map of Anomaly Temperature Surface Air plus Notices of Icebergs. For the analysis of weatherconditions on the day of the accident the vessel, concepts that encompass Meteorology and Oceanography indicated.In the Meteorology concepts of Solar Radiation, Air Temperature, Sea Surface Temperature (SST), Atmospheric Pressure, Air Circulation in the High Pressure and Low Pressure, Feature Ocean Circulation in the Northern Hemisphere, Air Masses and Fronts were presented, Important Aspects of Frontal Systems Analysis and Synoptic Charts. Still, the concepts of Tides, Currents and Ocean Navigation in Ice part in these important concepts of Oceanography in order that it has a greater foundation were addressed. From the analyzes, it was concluded that the weather conditions that day were not the causes of the tragedy, but the neglect of the interpretation of weather information.