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Speed Trial - Weather Correction (ISO 15016)

Apply wind and wave corrections to measured trial speed per ISO 15016:2015 - the contract speed verification method.

TrialISO 15016Weather
Wind correction
-0.60kn
Wave correction
-0.78kn
Calm-water speed
15.58kn
Formula, assumptions, and limits

Simplified example; full ISO 15016 uses spectral analysis of waves and thrust-fraction corrections. For contract acceptance use the full procedure.

Symbol legend

SymbolMeaningUnitSource
Measured over-ground speedknGPS/DGPS
Wind correctionknISO 15016
Wave correctionknSTAwave-2