Wind and Wave Forecasting Distance Learning Course 

Description

This self-paced online course begins with a Webcast by Troy Nicolini in which he introduces forecasters to typical marine forecast customers and their particular wind and wave concerns. The second module discusses the basic traits of waves and how they change once they become swell. It serves as building block to the subsequent modules on wave generation, propagation, and dispersion. The Wave Life Cycle I: Generation module examines how wind creates waves and the inter-relationships between wind speed, wind duration, and fetch length. Following that module, Wave Life Cycle II: Propagation & Dispersion, teaches marine forecasters to manually predict how wave height and period change as waves leave their generation area, become swell, and then propagate and disperse into coastal waters. The final element of the course is a resource guide primarily intended for experienced forecasters that may be new to marine forecast responsibilities. The guide highlights differences between the marine boundary layer and terrestrial boundary layer winds.

WMO Competency Framework:
Marine weather forecasters

Format:
Online lesson/guide
Webcast

Language:
English
French
Spanish

Link to resource: https://www.meted.ucar.edu/education_training/course/8
Author of resource: The COMET Program
Copyright: 
Copyright 2023, UCAR
Contact: info@comet.ucar.edu

Added by ParrishPatrick
on 22 11月 2023 (last modified on 29 11月 2023)