Peter Purdie wrote:
My understanding is that the models today are more refined, but
still are nowhere near matching the complex reality where topographic
effects and a mixture of airmass trajectories have large effects on the
behaviour. Trying to explain observed effects assuming a homogenous
airmass over a uniform surface (or even one varying regularly) are
interesting to mathematicians but almost totally irrelevant to soaring
pilots.

And yet, the Blipmap cumulus forecasts for cloud location, cloudbase,
and cumulus potential are relevant and useful to soaring pilots. Don't
these values come from the models?

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