A importância da previsão meteorológica de tempo e clima para navegação

Abstract

The weather forecast is essential for the seafarers as they can come across the most varied climatic conditions in different parts of the planet, these conditions may be unfavorable for safe navigation. It is essential to the understanding of atmospheric to understand the behavior of the atmosphere, climate and its change and how these phenomenaset directly influences the lives of people and especially the work of seafarers, in which the base is the sea.The need of the seafarers have general knowledge of meteorology is in many cases a matter of survival. Meteorological phenomena that occur in tropical areas, especially hurricanes, will require basic knowledge of meteorology from the seafarers in relation to wind, sky cover, cloud types, etc. The officer may have knowledge of the time in various forms and sources, such as synoptic maps and satellite images.It is important to remember that atmospheric environment is constantly changing and so it takes a daily observation of phenomena to have a prediction of what might occur in a certain place. In this work will be explained some basic concepts concerning the weather as well as its importance for the long-range navigation.Themain objective of this work is not only to teach the atmospheric phenomena that exist or how they influence thewheater change, but besides knowing the phenomena, their formation, i.e., the theory of meteorology as a whole,we must know how to act in various situations along with all the knowledge we have studied.