THE PRACTICAL APPLICATION OF ONBOARD WEATHER ROUTEING

Development of a computerised weather routeing system currently fitted to several deep sea vessels is described. This takes advantage of recent rapid developments in microcomputers, and transmission of satellite meteorological and oceanographical data, facilitating the economical viability of Computerised Weather Routeing (CWR) system. The CWR system contains a number of sub-systems: a ship performance algorithm, an environmental data and interpolation routine and a route optimising algorithm, governed by an optimising controller, that breaks the route down into discrete segments. The ship performance for each of these segments is evaluated. The size and number evaluated has a direct impact on the accuracy and speed of computation. These factors need to be balanced to give acceptable results with reasonable response times. This paper concentrates on the algorithms that calculate the performance of the ship in any given environmental condition. A recent example of the application and benefit of weather routeing is included.

  • Supplemental Notes:
    • Intl Conf on Seakeeping and Weather; 28 Feb & 1 March 1995; London, UK. Pprs. Publ by RINA, London, UK. Ppr 4 [16 p, 26 ref, 11 fig]
  • Authors:
    • Evans, J E
    • Motte, R
    • Calvert, S
  • Publication Date: 1995

Language

  • English

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Filing Info

  • Accession Number: 00716989
  • Record Type: Publication
  • Source Agency: British Maritime Technology
  • Files: TRIS
  • Created Date: Mar 4 1996 12:00AM