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• School: University of Southern Mindanao
• Department: Asian Studies
• Course: AGRI101

Document Summary

At the end of this module you must be able to : obtain and decipher weather and oceanographic information, apply weather and oceanographic data to safe navigation, maintain records of weather and oceanographic information and forecasts. After reading this information sheet you should be able to conform with the requirements contained in the international regulations for. Preventing collisions at sea and to instructions received. Weather forecasting is the application of science and technology to predict the conditions of the atmosphere for a given location and time. informally. People for millennia and formally since the 19th century. Weather forecasts are made by collecting quantitative data about the current state of the atmosphere at a given place and using meteorology to project how the atmosphere will change. the weather. Once calculated by hand based mainly upon changes in barometric pressure, current weather conditions, and sky condition or cloudcover, weather forecasting now relies on computer-based models that take many atmospheric factors into account.