Robert If you are attending the Narromine Cup, I’m sure that there are lots of pilots who would appreciate a repeat of that lecture...
Cheers Derek 人生は短いです：一日をつかむ From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Robert Hart Sent: Tuesday, 19 October 2010 11:20 PM To: DDSC Chat; cgc list; aus Soaring Subject: [Aus-soaring] GQ Lecture on 2 November 2010 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]<mailto:[email protected]> +61 (0)438 385 533 http://www.hart.wattle.id.au
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