Robert, this would be one of those lectures that should be recorded via video and put up on the GFA website or other suitable area/s. I am sure that there are a lot of people interested in this subject. Is there someone that could help you setting it up - so you only have to concentrate on the subject of meteorology instead of IT issues? ..always enjoy reading your forecasts on-line as well as the forecasts during comps. Keep up the good work! .. Erich
On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 23:20, Robert Hart <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > > > _______________________________________________ > Aus-soaring mailing list > [email protected] > To check or change subscription details, visit: > http://lists.internode.on.net/mailman/listinfo/aus-soaring >
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