The United States Coast Guard (USCG) does include meteorology as part of its licensing and certification exams for mariners. The meteorology exam is typically a component of the "Deck General and Navigation General" module for individuals seeking a deck officer license.
The USCG Meteorology exam assesses a mariner's knowledge of meteorological principles, weather patterns, weather hazards, and their ability to interpret weather information for safe navigation. Some of the topics that may be covered in the exam include:
Basic meteorological principles: Understanding weather systems, air masses, fronts, pressure systems, and atmospheric circulation patterns.
Weather hazards: Recognition and response to weather-related hazards such as storms, squalls, fog, hurricanes, and tropical cyclones.
Weather forecasting: Interpretation of weather forecasts, synoptic charts, weather reports, and weather routing information.
Meteorological instruments: Familiarity with meteorological instruments used for onboard weather observation and forecasting.
Meteorological terminology: Understanding and using meteorological terminology and abbreviations.
Practical applications: Applying meteorological knowledge to make informed decisions for safe navigation and route planning.
Exam trial is divided into 13 parts, each of which has more than 30 questions
Application features :
- Includes charts and diagrams that can be zoomed in/out to make it easier to answer related questions
- Multiple-choice exercise
- There are 2 hints (Hint or Knowledge, Add TIME for answering)
- More than 30 questions in one part.
- Review the answers for the topic's learning materials.
- Pause the answering timer by touching it.
- Setting delay time to answer the questions and it can be on/off.
- Setting for the total number of questions that will appear per topic/ exam, the actual number of questions will be selected by the system if it is less than what has been set.
- It can be running Offline.
- On the topic selection screen, you can see the progress percentage of the exam per topic