RASP = Regional Atmospheric Soaring Prediction.    BL = (convective) Boundary Layer.    Z = GMT = UTC = Universal Time (Greenwich time).    CET = Central European Time (winter) = Z+1.   CEST = Central European Summer Time = Z+2.

Developped by Dr. John W. (Jack) Glendening, meteorologist - Implemented by J. Oberson (soaringmeteo.ch) for the Alps (january 2010). It is not guarantee that this model will be operational every day. The model software runs on a quadriprocessor 2.83GHz computer on Ubuntu-Linux environment and uses the US macroscale GFS model analysis as start reference data. I take no responsibility in the event of flight mishaps due to a wrong interpretation of these free predictions ! It needs about 1:20 h (each forecast day) to carry out all the processes until the display on the website. Remarks, bugs reports, suggestions are welcome : info at soaringmeteo dot ch

Presentation and help from Dr Jack :    Dr Jack Home page    RASP around the world    Description of parameters    Detailed description of parameters    About weather models    Tips about CBL and sounding analysis

Presentation and help in english from myself :    About weather models    About RASP    About the convective boundary layer - CBL    About BlipMaps - RASP weather charts    About RASP sounding

Presentation and help in french/german (SwissGlider journal) from myself :  *  Macro- Meso- ou Micro-echelles / Makro- Meso oder Mikro-Skala ?  *  La couche convective limite / Atmosphärisch konvektive Grenzschicht  *  Structure de la couche convective alpine / Struktur der konvektiven Schicht in den Alpen   *  RASP, un modèle libre pour la prévision des thermiques / RASP, ein freies Modell für die Thermikprognose  *  Interprétation pratique du sondage RASP / Die Interpretation der RASP-Sondierung  *  Température, humidité et flottabilité d'un thermique / Temperatur, Feuchtigkeit und Auftrieb einer Thermik