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Regional
Atmospheric Soaring Prediction
Boundary Layer Information Prediction MAP
The Netherlands, North Belgium and Northwest Germany
The atmospheric Boundary Layer (BL) is the vertical region above the surface
within which air has been mixed by thermal or windshear eddies, i.e. the region
where gliders, hanggliders and paragliders normally fly. The RASP BLIPMAP model
is developed by Dr. John W. (Jack)
Glendening and is a WRF
model specifically adapted for these gliders. The basic parameters are
described here
and all parameters here.
A description of all parameters in German can be found
here. If you have any
remarks or questions, please email
rasp@blipmaps.nl.
The results are available
for today at 08:30 local time, for tomorrow at 09:30 and for the day after
tomorrow at 10:30 at the latest and depending on the weather sometimes up till
30 minutes earlier. Animations have only been made for those parameters of
which the legenda doesn't change througout the day. After midnight all results
are copied to one day earlier. Due to this until 10:30 no results are available
for the day after tomorrow. How actual the forecast is can be derived from the
number of hours that is noted in each picture before the text "hrFcst@". This
is the difference between the model starttime and the time at which the
forecast is valid. If you have difficulties distinguishing colors then
thishelps.
Other areas for which RASP BLIPMAP predictions are available on this server: North- and Central France
Overview of areas for which RASP BLIPMAP predictions are available world-wide
