VIRTUAL MEETING | Forecasting for dinghy regattas
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TITLE | Forecasting for dinghy regattas - trying to give sailors a useful forecast at the sub-grid scale
SPEAKER | Simon Rowell, Meteorologist, British Sailing Team
BIOGRAPHY | Simon Rowell started his working life as an engineer on oil rigs in various usually insalubrious parts of the world which gave him a thorough grasp of the many and varied uses of both gaffer and self-amalgamating tape, and of how to find a machine shop that can cut a 1 inch left hand thread in Brazil on a Sunday.
He has been a yachting professional since 1997, starting off as an instructor before working for Clipper Ventures both as a round the world race skipper on the winning boat in the 2002 race and as assistant race director in charge of the day to day operations and all the skipper and crew training for the 2005 race.
He is an RYA Ocean Yachtmaster Examiner and spent two years as Chief Instructor at UKSA in Cowes before going back to university in 2009 to study meteorology at the University of Reading, finishing the MSc course in 2010 with a distinction and a dissertation investigating aspects of how tropical waves evolve into hurricanes in the North Atlantic.
Simon has been the forecaster for the Clipper Round the World Race since 2011, with other clients ranging from ocean rowers to TV production companies. Since 2015 he has been the meteorologist for the British Sailing Team, forecasting for the 2016 Olympics & Paralympics and hoping to go back out to Tokyo next year.
ABSTRACT | The high quality forecasts available around the world from agencies such as the Met Office & NOAA make getting a synoptic level forecast for any typical regatta location reasonably straightforward. It's also possible to apply post-processing at a higher resolution to produce forecasts that almost, but not quite, take into account land features such as hills & valleys. The job of a regatta forecaster is to think sub-grid & to try & draw more information out of the forecast that will help sailors make better on the water decisions, and this talk aims to go through some of these processes.
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TITLE | Forecasting for dinghy regattas - trying to give sailors a useful forecast at the sub-grid scale
SPEAKER | Simon Rowell, Meteorologist, British Sailing Team
BIOGRAPHY | Simon Rowell started his working life as an engineer on oil rigs in various usually insalubrious parts of the world which gave him a thorough grasp of the many and varied uses of both gaffer and self-amalgamating tape, and of how to find a machine shop that can cut a 1 inch left hand thread in Brazil on a Sunday.
He has been a yachting professional since 1997, starting off as an instructor before working for Clipper Ventures both as a round the world race skipper on the winning boat in the 2002 race and as assistant race director in charge of the day to day operations and all the skipper and crew training for the 2005 race.
He is an RYA Ocean Yachtmaster Examiner and spent two years as Chief Instructor at UKSA in Cowes before going back to university in 2009 to study meteorology at the University of Reading, finishing the MSc course in 2010 with a distinction and a dissertation investigating aspects of how tropical waves evolve into hurricanes in the North Atlantic.
Simon has been the forecaster for the Clipper Round the World Race since 2011, with other clients ranging from ocean rowers to TV production companies. Since 2015 he has been the meteorologist for the British Sailing Team, forecasting for the 2016 Olympics & Paralympics and hoping to go back out to Tokyo next year.
ABSTRACT | The high quality forecasts available around the world from agencies such as the Met Office & NOAA make getting a synoptic level forecast for any typical regatta location reasonably straightforward. It's also possible to apply post-processing at a higher resolution to produce forecasts that almost, but not quite, take into account land features such as hills & valleys. The job of a regatta forecaster is to think sub-grid & to try & draw more information out of the forecast that will help sailors make better on the water decisions, and this talk aims to go through some of these processes.
Please note registration for this webinar has now closed. If you would like to register for this event, please email conferences@rmets.org.
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