Simrad NSO, Operation Manual

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Weather symbology
Precipitation
Shades of color are used to show precipitation type and intensity. Darkest color indicates
highest intensity.
Precipitation type Color codes
Rain From light green (light rain) - yellow - orange - to dark red (heavy rain)
Snow Blue
Mixed Pink
Sea surface temperature (SST)
Can be shown as color shading or text.
When color coding is selected, the SST color bar will be shown on the left side of the
display.
You can define which temperature range that shall be color coded as described later in
this section.
Wave indication
Colors are used to indicate forecasted wave height. Dark red indicate the highest waves,
while blue are used for the lowest.
You can define which height range that shall be color coded as described later in this
section.
Wind symbols
Length and rotation of the barbs indicate wind direction and speed.
Adjusting the color shading
You can define the sea surface temperature range
and wave height color coding.
The temperature above warm and below cool values
will be displayed as progressively darker red and
darker blue.
Waves higher than the maximum value will be
indicated with progressively darker red. Waves lower
than the minimum value will not be color coded.
Weather icons
Several weather icons are available to show current or predicted weather conditions.
Icon Description
City forcast
Surface observation
Tropical storm tracking; past (grey) - present (red) - future (yellow)
Hurricane (category 1-5) tracking; past (grey) - present (red) -
future (yellow)
Tropical disturbance/depression tracking; past (grey) - present (red)
- future (yellow)
Storm attributes
Lightning
Watch box location and warning
Marine zone location
Direction D