"Modern Marine Weather" by David Burch
Second Edition
A comprehensive text on how to take weather into account for the planning and navigation of voyages, local or global. This publication uses the latest technologies, as well as the time-honored skills of maritime tradition, so that your time on the water remains as safe and efficient as possible. Covers practical applications of GRIB files, ASCAT wind measurements, and other modern resources.
David Burch is a Fellow of both the Royal Institute of Navigation and the U.S. Institute of Navigation, from whom he received the Superior Achievement Award for outstanding performance as a practicing navigator. With more than 70,000 miles at sea, he has navigated record-setting Victoria to Maui yacht races and received awards and citations for transpacific and transatlantic weather routing. His sailing experience ranges from New York to Panama in the Atlantic and from the Arctic ice edge to Australia and Tahiti in the Pacific. He is the author of ten books on marine navigation, including Radar for Mariners, Emergency Navigation, The Barometer Handbook and Fundamentals of Kayak Navigation. He has a Ph.D. in physics and has taught practical marine weather and navigation for more than 20 years as Director of the Starpath School of Navigation in Seattle.