Improvement of Marine Advisories and Optimum Track Ship Routings. Volume I.

摘要

The report covers the work of the SEA USE Marine Services Development Group undertaken to determine potential benefits that might be derived by the shipping community from improved marine forecasts and optimum track ship routings. It includes a cost/benefit analysis, a review of existing organizations and procedures with recommendations for improvement, a discussion of several procedures that might be pursued in investigating techniques for extending the range and validity of marine forecasts, a review of the need for improved synoptic weather reports from ships at sea including a suggestion for possible improvements and a review of the communication problems in the processing of weather reports and promulgation of forecasts.