FORECASTING THERMAL CONDITIONS FOR SOARING

Authors

  • Charles Lindsay

Keywords:

Meteorology, Atmospheric physics

Abstract

Convection in the atmosphere is genenally understood as buoyant air rising through a relatively cold environment. The details of these rising cuments, called thermals by the soaring pilot, are not easily predicted. There is no simple guide for forecasting their sizes, shapes, or their vertical motions in a qualitative way, or the altitude to which useful vertical motions in thermals will extend. An attempt at solving that proplem will be made here.  Also, the problem of the differences in vertical velocities, or lift, between dry thermals and thermals associated with convective clouds will be considened.

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Vol. 1 No. 3 (1972)

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