A Regional Atmospheric Soaring Predictor for Southern California

Plots generated using the RASP software made available by Dr. Jack Glendening

Grid 4 Km 1.3 Km - - - THERMAL PARAMETERS - - - Thermal Updraft Velocity & B/S Ratio Thermal Updraft Velocity (W*) Buoyancy/Shear Ratio Height of Critical Updraft Strength (Hcrit) Depth of Critical Updraft Strength (AGL Hcrit) BL Top BL Depth Thermal Height Uncertainty MSL Height of max/min Wbl Sfc.Heating Normalized Sfc. Sun Sfc.Temperature Sfc.Dewpoint - - - WIND PARAMETERS - - - Sfc.Wind BL Avg. Wind Wind at BL Top BL Wind Shear BL Max. Up/Down (Convergence) - - - CLOUD PARAMETERS - - - Cu Potential Cu Cloudbase (Sfc.LCL) MSL Cu Cloudbase where CuPotential>0 OD Potential OD Cloudbase (BL CL) MSL OD Cloudbase where ODpotential>0 BL Explicitly-predicted CloudWater BL Cloud Cover CAPE - - - WAVE/UPPER-LEVEL PARAMETERS - - - Vertical Velocity at 850mb Vertical Velocity at 700mb Vertical Velocity at 500mb Vert.Velocity Slice at Vert.Vel.Max Introduction      Read Introduction above for usage instructions. (clicking image changes times / parameters)