Articles | Volume 9, issue 4
https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-9-1597-2016
https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-9-1597-2016
Model description paper
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02 May 2016
Model description paper |  | 02 May 2016

VISIR-I: small vessels – least-time nautical routes using wave forecasts

Gianandrea Mannarini, Nadia Pinardi, Giovanni Coppini, Paolo Oddo, and Alessandro Iafrati

Video supplement

An optimal route computed by VISIR-I - case study #1 of gmd-2015-167 G. Mannarini https://doi.org/10.5446/18087

An optimal route computed by VISIR-I - case study #2 of gmd-2015-167 G. Mannarini https://doi.org/10.5446/18088

An optimal route computed by VISIR-I - case study #3 of gmd-2015-167 G. Mannarini https://doi.org/10.5446/18089

Short summary
VISIR is a new numerical model for the computation of optimal ship routes from meteo-marine forecasts. VISIR offers the scientific community an open platform whereby various ideas and methods for ship route optimization can be shared, tested, and compared to each other.