The Python-coded ship weat
her routing model VISIR-2 has been documented in two peer-reviewed papers published this year.
The first, published in Geoscientific Model Development, provides a comprehensive overview of the model’s geometry, kinematics, vessel performance modelling, path optimisation procedures, and visualisation capabilities. The paper also assesses the model’s numerical performance and demonstrates its application by evaluating CO2 savings for a ferry in the western Mediterranean Sea and time savings for a sailing boat in the Aegean Sea.
The second paper, published as part of the MTEC-ICMASS 2024 conference proceedings, presents a case study involving a ferry in the Skagerrak, the sea between Norway and Denmark. This work offers a concise introduction to VISIR-2 and evaluates the potential CO2 savings achievable in the presence of waves and currents, while also discussing current model limitations and future improvements.
The VISIR-2 description is further complemented by introductory presentations for both the model and its source code, which are available on the Zenodo community page: https://zenodo.org/communities/visir2/.