The Marine Forecasting Course is a distance learning course designed to train forecasters to improve the quality of marine forecasting and nowcasting through the better use of satellite and model data. This 5 week course will start at October 28 and will be composed of approximately 10 hours of lectures. The course is joint project from EUMeTrain, EUMETSAT and EUMETCAL, with the goal of preparing forecasters in the core skills related to marine nowcast and forecasts.