A counterclockwise change in wind direction. Backing winds with height are indicative of cold air advection (CAA).

See ferrite.

Korean Register of Shipping (Class Society)

Electronic Chart System

The act if striking or collision of a moving vessel against a stationary object.

Gulf Of Mexico

Seaman's call to attract attention.

The water that is forced into a boiler to take the place of that which is evaporated in the generation of steam.

A recording anemoclinometer.

Designated Person Ashore.For the ISM Code, any member of the Owner's staff who is aware of the problem of the vessels, and who has a direct access to the top management.

Compartment in the stern of a vessel used for storage; a storage space below the deck in the cockpit.

A pallet so designed that the forks of a fork lift truck can be inserted from two sides only.

The process whereby a position on the scale of an instrument is identified with the magnitude of the signal (or input force) actuating the instrument.

Merchant Marine Personnel Advisory Committee

Occurs in the base metal adjacent to weldments due to high through-thickness strains introduced by weld metal shrinkage in highly restrained joints. Tearing occurs by decohesion and linking along the working direction of the base metal; cracks usually run ...

An instrument which determines the altitude of an object with respect to a fixed level. There are two general types of altimeters: (a) the pressure altimeter, which gives an approximate measure of altitude from a pressure measurement and an assumed standa ...

Inmarsat Mobile Number

A system of estimating and reporting wind speed, originally based on the effect of various wind speeds on the amount of canvas that a full-rigged nineteenth century frigate could carry.

A constant which describes the performance of a wind vane in response to a step change in wind direction. It is calculated from the relative amount of overshoot on two successive swings (half cycles) of a decaying oscillation. This specification is dimens ...

A compound of iron and carbon, known chemically as iron carbide and having the approximate chemical formula Fe3C. It is characterized by an orthorhombic crystal structure. When it occurs as a phase in steel, the chemical composition will be altered by the ...