Meteorologia e importância das previsões meteorológicas para a a navegação

Abstract

Over the years, the Meteorology has developed as a science of fundamental importance to human activitiessuch as agriculture, civil aviation and shipping. Technological advents enabled increasingly accurate interpretations and more comprehensive field study of atmospheric sciences. This work will be given greater importance to the interests inherent to maritime activity. The weather forecast is a indispensable device for the realization of safe navigation, it provides in an advance to the navigator, information on regions of bad weather or restricted visibility, for example.In order to form a good sailor, extensive knowledge about the atmosphere, its features and phenomena are indispensable. Daily on board a number of documents on the weather conditions are taken that must be understood correctly. For this, in this study, meteorological elements will be presented that interfere with the climate conditions of a particular area, such as atmospheric pressure, air temperature and the sea surface, solar radiation and humidity. The behavior of these parameters will determine the occurrence of phenomena who may compromise the safety of navigation, such as: the fog, strong winds, tropical cyclones, etc ...This work shows when the maritime's instinct should join with the study of natural science. Knowing the physical principles governing the atmosphere and knowing how to interpret the instruments and publications accurately is too important to safety of life at sea.