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Reading the weather : modern techniques for yachtsmen / Alan Watts.

By: Watts, Alan, 1925- [author.].
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: London : Adlard Coles Ltd., [1987]Copyright date: ©1987Description: 208 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0229117740 (hardback).Subject(s): Marine meteorology | Yachts | YachtingDDC classification: 551.50247971
Contents:
Part One: Significant weather -- Prognosis -- Winds above the earth -- Upper winds and temperature -- Looking for bad weather -- Case of a breakaway low -- Charting the next twelve hours -- Using cirrus to read the upper winds -- Finding the gradient wind -- Frontal systems -- About warm fronts and occlusions -- About cold fronts -- Cyclonic winds and weather -- Heavy weather -- About showery airstreams -- Sea temperatures -- Wave height -- Light winds -- Moderate winds -- Off a seabreeze coast -- Tropical meteorology -- Thunderstorms -- Satellite cloud images -- A pattern for personal forecasting -- Part Two: Explanations of weather words and phrases.
List(s) this item appears in: Dr. Raymond Fielding Collection
Holdings
Item type Current library Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode Item holds
General Lending MTU Bishopstown Library Lending 551.50247971 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 00024799
General Lending MTU National Maritime College of Ireland Library Lending 551.50247971 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 00180827
Total holds: 0

Bibliography: (page 199) and index.

Part One: Significant weather -- Prognosis -- Winds above the earth -- Upper winds and temperature -- Looking for bad weather -- Case of a breakaway low -- Charting the next twelve hours -- Using cirrus to read the upper winds -- Finding the gradient wind -- Frontal systems -- About warm fronts and occlusions -- About cold fronts -- Cyclonic winds and weather -- Heavy weather -- About showery airstreams -- Sea temperatures -- Wave height -- Light winds -- Moderate winds -- Off a seabreeze coast -- Tropical meteorology -- Thunderstorms -- Satellite cloud images -- A pattern for personal forecasting -- Part Two: Explanations of weather words and phrases.

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