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További 69 részletes térkép ábrázolja a javasolt óceáni útvonalakat, melyek segítségével az óceáni vitorlázók könnyebben dönthetnek az adott évszakban követendő útvonalakról, az időjárási körülmények mellett figyelembe véve az óceáni áramlások irányát és sebességét is. A térképek az elmúlt 20 év meteorológiai műholdjai által összegyűjtött adatai segítségével és Jimmy Cornell hatalmas gyakorlati tapasztalainak felhasználásával készült, így a globális felmelegedés hatásainak figyelembe vétele mellett készült, és a legújabb időjárási és klimatológiai trendeket mutatja. A Cornell's Ocean Atlas a 2011-es Párizsi Hajókiállításon, 2011. december 3-án jelent meg. A Sail World cikke az Atlaszról: Book of the Week: 'Cornell's Ocean Atlas' new from Jimmy Cornell (2011. december 22.)
Pilot charts, also referred to as routing charts, have been the most important passage planning tool since the middle of the nineteenth century. The first systematic study of ships’ sailing routes, and the weather conditions that affect them, was undertaken in the 19th century by Lieutenant Maury of the US Navy with the aid of shipmasters’ logbooks. Much of the information contained in the pilot charts that are in use today is still based on those observations and, although they have been updated at regular intervals, the scarcity of reliable sources, inaccuracy of the observations, or the climate changes that have occurred over the years, have rendered some of the information shown on those charts to be now inaccurate. To present as true a picture as possible of the actual conditions which prevail in today’s oceans, the charts in Cornell’s Ocean Atlas are based on extensive data collected by meteorological satellites from 1987 to the present. This data was processed by Ivan Cornell, whose programming experience has made both noonsite.com and this atlas possible. Sailors who have consulted advance copies of the atlas are describing it as ground-breaking for its content, but also for its organization and layout, which reflect Jimmy Cornell’s unmatched world voyaging experience. The scale and range of charts are carefully chosen so that sailors can see all the relevant information and plan their passages on a single chart. As one world cruiser stated, on seeing the format and detail of the atlas “This is a game-changer. It should be hidden away and kept a secret so that it is as hard for future cruisers as it was for us.” As Jimmy Cornell says “Our main objective has been to create the kind of publication we would have greatly appreciated if it had been available when we sailed on any of the five circumnavigations of the globe which we share between us.” |
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