Professional Diploma in Route and Sea Condition Forecasting

This professional diploma focuses on the short- and medium-term forecasting that decides whether, when and how a vessel sails a given route. You will study the foundations of voyage planning and operational forecasting; meteorology and oceanography for route planning, from pressure systems and fronts to significant wave height, swell, currents and tides; charts, hydrography and navigational constraints such as under-keel clearance, traffic separation schemes and restricted areas; numerical weather, wave and ocean models, ensemble forecasts and model validation; route optimization and weather routing with isochrones, graph algorithms and multi-criteria optimization; maritime data, machine learning and digital twins for advanced forecasting; and risk management and decision-making en route.

What sets this professional diploma apart: it is about operational forecasting for a specific voyage rather than long-term climate, combining atmosphere, ocean, hydrography and traffic in a single route decision; a critical approach to numerical models, with deterministic and probabilistic outputs, bias, reliability and uncertainty; hands-on weather routing methods, from isochrones to dynamic replanning, refuge ports and passage windows; data science applied to AIS, buoys, satellites and onboard sensors; an in-depth structure of eight modules; and a final applied project in which you plan, monitor and defend a complete route with alternatives and contingency rules.