Towards a Current Weather Criterion for Turkish Navy

Kerem Orçun

Yüksekdağ Graduate Student, Faculty of Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering,
Istanbul Technical University, Maslak, Istanbul, TURKEY
e-mail: k_orcun@hotmail.com

Alim Yıldız

Professor, Faculty of Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering,
Istanbul Technical University, Maslak, Istanbul, TURKEY
e-mail: yildizal@itu.edu.tr

Abstract

Defining national weather criteria for naval surface ships is a difficult problem. The purpose of this study is to discuss and compare the weather criteria of United States Navy, United Kingdom Navy and German Navy which are prepared and applied on same manner. In this paper, as an ultimate development, the weather criteria proposed by Brown&Deybach in 1997 is discussed. Finally, U.S. weather criteria, U.K. weather criteria, German weather criteria and Brown&Deybach's criteria approaches are applied to a 'G' class frigate which is still used in Turkish Navy. The results of the analyses are compared and evaluated. According to results and comparisons, a few proposals are made for Turkish Navy.