Voyage planning and weather

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Voyage planning and weather

autor: Czesław DYRCZ

Akademia Marynarki Wojennej

The main purpose of this monograph is to illustrate the modern voyage planning process implemented using paper or electronic navigation charts and to show the location of the weather at all stages of the voyage planning process. The monograph contains four chapters, of which the first generally deals with the voyage planning process, while the next three chapters focus on and legal recommendations of the process, sources of weather information, weather and ice conditions in the planning process and weather in voyage stages. The process of voyage planning has been illustrated with many figures showing the author’s own studies and these have no references (from the Introduction).

CONTENS

CONTENS … 3

ABBREVIATIONS …. 5

INTRODUCTION ….. 9

VOYAGE (PASSAGE) PLANNING PROCESS …. 11

1.1. Voyage (passage) plan .. 12

1.2. Sources of information in the voyage planning … 25

1.3. Coastal and restricted waters ….. 31

1.4. Ocean and deep seas waters …. 34

1.5. Offshore Navigation ….37

1.6. Bridge team management (BTM) … 39

LEGAL BASIS OF THE VOYAGE PLANNING AND WEATHER INFORMATION

SOURCES .. 51

2.1. SOLAS Convention ….. 52

2.2. STCW Convention …. 54

2.3. IMO Resolution 893(21) …. 57

2.4. Collection and analysis of weather information….. 60

2.5. Nautical publications containing weather information ….. 61

WEATHER AND ICE CONDITIONS IN THE VOYAGE PLANNING PROCESS .. 71

3.1. Hydrometeorological conditions limiting the ship’s route selection .. 72

3.2. Ice navigation … 81

3.3. Icing of ships …. 109

WEATHER IN VOYAGE PLANNING STAGES ….. 123

4.1. Weather routing services ….. 123

4.2. Weather in planning stages ….. 131

SUMMARY……. 137

BIBLIOGRAPHY .. 139

INDEX OF FIGURES … 143

INDEX OF TABLES …. 147