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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
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CMCC, Centro Euro–Mediterraneo sui Cambiamenti Climatici, via Augusto
Imperatore 16, 73100 Lecce, Italy
Nadia Pinardi
CMCC, Centro Euro–Mediterraneo sui Cambiamenti Climatici, via Augusto
Imperatore 16, 73100 Lecce, Italy
Università di Bologna, viale Berti-Pichat, 40126 Bologna, Italy
Giovanni Coppini
CMCC, Centro Euro–Mediterraneo sui Cambiamenti Climatici, via Augusto
Imperatore 16, 73100 Lecce, Italy
Paolo Oddo
INGV, Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica
e Vulcanologia, Via Donato Creti 12, 40128 Bologna, Italy
presently at: NATO Science and Technology Organisation – Centre
for Maritime Research and Experimentation, Viale San Bartolomeo
400, 19126 La Spezia, Italy
Alessandro Iafrati
CNR-INSEAN, Istituto Nazionale per Studi ed Esperienze di Architettura Navale, Via di Vallerano 139, 00128 Rome, Italy
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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.
VISIR is a new numerical model for the computation of optimal ship routes from meteo-marine...
