User:Heritage.john/Books/Weather conditions

For the noob paraglider

 * Aerodynamics
 * Dynamic soaring
 * Eddy (fluid dynamics)
 * Vortex


 * Formations that show thermal activity is present, but perhaps in strange patterns that may be less easily utilised than regular cumulus
 * Wave cloud
 * Lee wave
 * Lenticular cloud


 * Indicators that a cumulus may soon transform to conditions that require soon if not immediate landing
 * Cumulus congestus cloud
 * Pileus (meteorology)


 * Clouds that indicate storm or supercell activity is approaching (you 100% shouldn't be airborne)
 * Cumulonimbus velum
 * Cumulonimbus cloud
 * Cumulonimbus calvus
 * Cumulonimbus incus
 * Virga
 * Scud (cloud)
 * Squall
 * Wall cloud
 * Arcus cloud
 * Supercell
 * Mesovortices
 * Funnel cloud
 * Mesocyclone


 * General weather terminology
 * Microscale meteorology
 * Mesoscale meteorology
 * Synoptic scale meteorology
 * Troposphere
 * Cold front
 * Warm front
 * Stationary front
 * Vertical draft
 * Thermal
 * Wind shear
 * Inversion (meteorology)
 * Microburst
 * Downburst
 * Planetary boundary layer
 * Ekman spiral


 * Clouds that display little or no thermal activity, what is often called overcasting. This section goes from uniquitous grey to formations that begin approaching the thermal activity of cumulus
 * Cirrostratus cloud
 * Altostratus cloud
 * Stratus cloud
 * Nimbostratus cloud
 * Fractus cloud
 * Actinoform cloud
 * Cirrus spissatus cloud
 * Cirrus cloud
 * Cirrocumulus cloud
 * Altocumulus cloud
 * Stratocumulus cloud


 * Clouds that begin to display harder to control or unstable thermal conditions
 * Cumulus cloud
 * Cumulus humilis cloud
 * Cumulus mediocris cloud
 * Altocumulus castellanus cloud