Hi
On the evening of Tuesday 2 November I am giving a GQ lecture entitled
"Meteorology for Glider Pilots". This is a huge subject and I would like
to get some idea from people the sorts of thing they want to hear about.
I have the whole evening (2 hours with a break in the middle) (which is
a bit daunting both as a speaker and quite probably for the audience
too) and there will definitely be Q&A in both sessions.
So far, this is the list of topics I have pulled together from my own
observation of the things I am asked about and also from "requests" I
have already received.
*Understanding Queensland weather systems*
* The summer & winter patterns
* An introduction to the Southern Oscillation Index (SOI) and Indian
Ocean Dipole (IOD)
* Maritime influence and local geography
*Reading surface and altitude charts from BoM*
* Isobars, fronts and troughs and their weather
* Wind direction
* Jet streams and their importance
*Getting and reading a forecast atmospheric sounding (SkewT/LogP)
*
* The NOAA site
* Average temperature variation (lapse rates)
* Thermals as adiabatic (unmixed) processes
* Calculating dry convection, cloud base, temperature for first cloud
* Over development
* high cloud
*Understanding and using RASP
*
* How RASP works - and its limitations
* The basic parameters
* Cloud and over development
*Thunderstorms*
* Predictor cloud
* The SkewT/LogP diagram
* Convective Available Potential Energy (CAPE) Index
* Standard Lifted Index (SLI)
* Microbursts
*Planning a task using weather information
*
* When to plan
* When to start
* Where to go
* When to finish
Suggestions for additions (and removal) most welcome!
--
Robert Hart [email protected]
+61 (0)438 385 533 http://www.hart.wattle.id.au
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