Soaringmeteo.ch: Meteorology for alpine soaring's pilots

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Author of the website: Jean Oberson, paragliding pilot and instructor.

Here you will find free weather models to predict thermal soaring flight conditions (paragliders, sailplane and deltawing) on the Alps. There are also many original documents to understand the weather conditions and the use of the tools in this website. The concept of convective boundary layer , also called diurnal planetary boundary layer, usually not taught in pilot training course is here omnipresent.

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