Frenzie Mae V.

Rivera BSMT 4AN

26 November 2012 Assignment in Elective

Pressure Systems
A High Pressure is a pressure surrounded by low pressures. It is also referred to as an anticyclone an approximately circular portion of the atmosphere having a relatively high atmospheric pressure and is characterized by good weather. Opposite to it is the Low Pressure, which is a pressure surrounded by high pressures and is referred to as a cyclone.

Movements of Pressure Systems

NORTHERN HEMISPHERE SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE

L
LOW PRESSURE (CYCLONE) Counterclockwise With winds blowing slightly inwards across the isobars at an angle of around 10-20 degrees

L
Clockwise With Converging Air

H
HIGH PRESSURE (ANTICYCLONE) Clockwise With winds blowing slightly outwards across the isobars at an angle of around 15-20 degrees

Counterclockwise With Diverging Air

Buys Ballots Law

This is named after Dutch Meteorologist C.H.D. Buys Ballot who published it in 1857. This rule is useful in locating the center of cyclones and anticyclones. It states that...

FACING AWAY from the wind in the NORTHERN

HEMISPHERE, the LOW lies to the LEFT (90-135 degrees) and the HIGH to the RIGHT

FACING AWAY from the wind in the SOUTHERN

HEMISPHERE, the LOW lies to the RIGHT (90-135 degrees) and the HIGH to the LEFT

Determining your vessels position with respect to a storm center

VEERING WIND Wind shifts CLOCKWISE

BACKING WIND Wind shifts ANTICLOCKWISE

Vessels Position WIND Northern Hemisphere

Veering Backing Steady Wind, Increasing Velocity Steady Wind, Diminishing Velocity Dangerous semicircle Navigable semicircle

Southern Hemisphere
Navigable Semicircle Dangerous Semicircle

Vessel is in the path and is directly AHEAD of the storm center Vessel is in the path and is directly BEHIND of the storm center

Storm/ Hurricane Manoeuvers

When Vessel is...

NORTHERN HEMISPHERE Place the TRUE WIND on your STBD BOW, hold on that course, make as much headway as possible

SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE Place the TRUE WIND on your PORT BOW, hold on that course, make as much headway as possible

In the Dangerous Semi-Circle

In the Navigable Semi-Circle

Place the TRUE WIND on your STBD QTR, hold on that course, make as much headway as possible

Place the TRUE WIND on your PORT QTR, hold on that course, make as much headway as possible

In the Path, Ahead of the Center

Place the TRUE WIND on 2 pts ABAFT the STBD QTR

Place the TRUE WIND on 2 pts ABAFT the PORT QTR